Here is my conversation with Austin Griffith about his continued journey as a builder/educator, and learnings from onboarding thousands of developers onto Ethereum.
Austin is a friend and someone I've had the good fortune of working with extensively in our shared time at the Ethereum foundation. In this conversation, we take a tour through the different projects he's worked on over the last two years — starting with ETH.build (the graphical interface for working with smart contracts), moving to scaffold-eth (his development starter kit that has really taken off and been used by thousands of developers), and then moving onto the BUIDL GUIDL and the Moonshot Collective (DAO-like collections of developers who work on prototyping interesting new ideas). We also go down a few fun tangents around Loot, the Doge NFT, DAO tooling, and we get to hear a walkthrough of Austin's curriculum for bringing a new developer into the space.
I consider Austin to be a gem of the ecosystem, and feel lucky that we have him here. I hope you enjoy the conversation.
Timestamps:
0:00 intro
1:48 a curriculum for web3 devs
9:08 the cron job example
14:55 NFTs, SVGs, and Loot
24:54 a mental model for learning Solidity
40:02 shortening the ‘tour of duty’ for web2 devs
44:30 BUIDL GUIDL
49:55 the first quadratic freelancer
58:48 inspirations for becoming an educator
1:01:27 The Moonshot Collective
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