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@thedevdad_ @ChShersh skill issue 😂

@ChShersh Mongo is so trash I rewrote an app one year into to use sql which took 3 months to convert

I worked at a startup that used MongoDB. Eventually, all backend engineers left the company.

@blakeandersonw Me and a buddy were bummed to find the stream offline but you haven't failed, just changed the rules of the game. Keep crushing it, can't wait for you to hit the goal! Dropped a follow too 🔥

I fail more than I succeed, but I will never stop trying. I don't care about social ridicule. "Failure is irrelevant unless it is catastrophic."

@TheCoppinger That was a year ago?! Damn, time flies. Congrats on the new role - letsgoooooooo! 🔥

Christmas Day last year I got up at 5:30 to cycle 14km to my office to finish off an application for a role at Gumroad It wasn't meant to be Last week I accepted an offer as Founding Designer & Head of Product at an LA-based livestreaming startup Merry Christmas homies 🫡

@ryanwinchester You guys have errors?

neovim users do you just ignore all the screaming error messages every time you open? or do you do like me and google them all to get no results and go back to ignoring them?

@imPenny2x "Yeah, family tight, I keep small circle like eyelet" 🎵 Connor Price is awesome 🔥

Feeling so tall I could give a high 5 to the pilot 🇺🇸

Vox Populi, Vox Dei

@TheCoppinger Achievement unlocked: 2m! To unlock 3m, please purchase the "360 no scope package"

I would like to share the exciting news that I can now see further than 1 meter away 👓 It’s wonderful. p.s. please go and vote

@ossia Happy Birthday! I owe my entire career to @freeCodeCamp & to this day recommend it to anyone who asks how to get into programming or web dev. I still remember working through the OG curriculum back in 2015😅 Congrats @ossia - you're an absolute legend 🔥

I'm thrilled to share that this week, freeCodeCamp turned 10 years old. Happy birthday to the community! Over the past 10 years, we've built: 🏛 An interactive 3,000-hour core curriculum that teaches Math, Programming, and Computer Science 📚 A library of more than 12,000 programming tutorials – and dozens of full-length books – on our publication 📺 A YouTube channel with more than 1,000 free full-length courses. We just hit 10 million subscribers a few days ago. 👐 The kindest, most supportive programming forum on the planet. And we have a similarly kind Discord server, too. I've prepared this document sharing many of the major curriculum improvements we're working on, and I'd value any thoughts you all have, or questions you may have about it: freecodecamp.org/news/freecodec… If I get some good questions from you all, I can add them and answers to them to the article. Thanks and happy coding!

@TheCoppinger I'm more interested in Spank 2024 😂

@Dennis_E_Taylor I NEED BOOK 6 😂

@thedevdad_ Late to the party - but alway 1 in chat

1 in the chat if I’ll get a car in the garage tn

@tim_munch92 Hope you're getting your habits in! 🔥

This weekend we are in Wales ! It also is unbelievably lovely!

@TheCoppinger @_MaxBlade @marclou @whitep4nth3r @trshpuppy @BenKaluza I hope you continue this vlog/series. You inspire me brother, proud of you 🔥

Okay, here goes 🎬 No more waiting until I feel like my video ideas are good enough, or putting too much pressure on myself to make them trendy Shoutout to the following homies who inspire me with their content: @_MaxBlade @marclou @whitep4nth3r @trshpuppy @BenKaluza

@TheCoppinger Looks dope! Does this mean the resurgence of the Charlie Vlogs? 😅

After 6 weeks in hotels and hostels, I've finally sorted out a sub-lease on an apartment in Amsterdam East Let's cook 🫡

@TheCoppinger Even the baby was telling you to go draw rectangles 😅 Super wholesome dude

It’s been six years since I’ve had the chance to see my family My heart is whole again

one will see you later and the other will see you in a while

@TheCoppinger "Rectangles in Paris", the highly anticipated sequel track by Kanye & Jay Z feat. DJ Supabased dropping soon 🔥

Rectangles à Paris 🫡

@TheCoppinger All the luck dude, you're gonna kill it! Can't wait to see whats next! Take it easy....but take it 🫡

I’ve said goodbye to my friends, bid adieu to my enemies, sold my fancy setup and headed for the airport I think I’m quite ready for another adventure!

@TheCoppinger What a journey dude, glad I could be here for part of the ride - here's to the next 6 years brother 🔥

Today marks my 6th year of being a Twitch affiliate Six years of doing it live! One morning last week, I took some time to write out the story of what lead me to start streaming It's long, and a little heavy, but it felt very cathartic to get it all down as I close the page on this chapter of my life If you're at all curious where this journey began for me, here it is: Six years ago, in May of 2018, I received a phone call My father had suffered a massive stroke, was in a coma, and was about to die Sadly, all hospitals capable of treating him were full, and so that night, on a buzzing, beeping ward, we lost him The memory of holding his hand, while my brother held his other, will stay with me until the day I die After 40 years of serving his community as a surgeon, he fulfilled his final wish—his organs were donated, such that even in death the he was able to help a few more folks on their journeys My father left a massive mark on me. We had our issues, and sometimes struggled to communicate, but his kindness and values had been deeply ingrained within me When he passed, despite being 23, I was still a child. I had not learned how to be an adult—far from it. A bittersweet sadness I will forever hold is the fact that, despite knowing that he’d be proud of the man I've become, that the Charlie he knew when he passed would have been very difficult to be proud of in any capacity—I wish I could have honoured him within his lifetime by giving him the gift of watching his troubled son become a resilient man Alas, it wasn't meant to be. Life! If I’d been lost and in the dark before he slipped away, I suddenly found myself completely alone, numbingly cold and in a dark cave, that until that point, I hadn’t known existed For a couple of weeks, I barely left the house. I was jobless, living at my then girlfriends house and seemingly incapable of escaping the hole I’d become trapped in Then, something happened Scrolling through my laptop one morning, looking at my endless projects folder, I realized something First, if I was to become unstuck, it would require me to try and do so And second, sitting around on my own, overthinking projects and succumbing to my crippling perfectionism was getting me nowhere I finally had a plan Instead of repeating the cycle, I was going to try something crazy: I was going to stream on Twitch At the time, I was greatly inspired by watching @levelsio build and ship Hoodmaps, live on YouTube, in 24 hours So, I decided I was going to stream ‘The Charlie Starts-up Show—launching a startup in 7 days’ I had about $20 to my name, along with a laptop and a pair of headphones on my girlfriends kitchen table in her tiny apartment I went down to the local art store, and, using all of my funds, bought 8 pieces of thick green paper and some blue-tack I blue-tacked them to my wall in a grid, downloaded OBS, watched a couple of setup videos, and fired everything up And just like that, I was doing it live What unfolded superseded my expectations in every imaginable way Going into it, I still felt alone, cold and in the dark, lost within my cave But now, I had lit a candle, and although dim, it was a beacon of sorts—one that drew in a small but beautiful group of kindhearted folks who wanted to help me get back on my feet and pursue my dreams Not only was I able to start engaging with the world again, but excitement and optimism had found their way back to my soul, and I pressed onwards Those early days were remarkable. Within a week, through the stream, I was able to talk to the likes of Pieter Levels, Julian Shapiro (@Julian) and Vlad (@callmevlad), the CEO of Webflow, who went as far as to give me a free 1 year pro membership, and act of kindness that touched me deeply Out of nowhere, a month later, I saw an ad for a job at Shopify, who were opening a division in New Zealand. I had been working on an ecommerce tool on my stream, so I attached that and hit apply. Unbelievably to me at the time, I got the job, and with it, I got back on my feet. Within a few years, I’d gone from a dish washer with no degree, to working at a top tech company, and then as a self taught developer Streaming hasn’t just been a part of my journey over the last 6 years, for me, in many ways it’s been my journey It’s invited so much beauty, serendipity and chaos into my life, and I can’t imagine where I would have ended up without it—or more accurately, without the community that helped me back onto my feet and spurred me to keep going To that community, then and now, I will forever be indebted, and any attempt at capturing the magnitude of my gratitude would be in vain, so to you, my dear friends, I simply say; thank you Over the years, I’ve done my best to record my streams, in the hope that one day the footage would serve to inspire others—not because of hockey stick growth, or life changing exits, but rather so that if anyone else is alone and cold, in the darkness of their own cave, that they know that they can light a candle, too Right now I’m going through a lot of change; almost as much as I was 6 years ago. I find myself sleeping on the floor of my office, with a few weeks until I board a one way flight to Europe, with no plans but to hoist my sail and see where the wind takes me Whatever happens, I trust that as long as I plot my course and set out with a kind heart and my values held tight, I’ll make it through whatever tempest’s lay ahead, and what’s more, I’ll have adventures to tell of when I’m old Thank you, for listening to my story. I’m writing this on my phone, sat in the locker room of the gym I have my shower in each morning, and despite the dim rumble of a God awful playlist of blown out pop music in the background, I feel I have released a part of me in getting this chapter of my life down into words, just before I close the page and turn to write the next one To finish, I’d like to share a poem with you, one that I return to in moments like this One that has lead me to meet many wonderful people, and share incredible memories with them One that lead me to booking my one way flight with no plans The one that drove me to share this story with you Ithaka, C.P. Cavafy As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: you’ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a rare excitement stirs your spirit and your body. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them unless you bring them along inside your soul, unless your soul sets them up in front of you. Hope your road is a long one. May there be many summer mornings when, with what pleasure, what joy, you enter harbors you’re seeing for the first time; may you stop at Phoenician trading stations to buy fine things, mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony, sensual perfume of every kind— as many sensual perfumes as you can; and may you visit many Egyptian cities to learn and go on learning from their scholars. Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you’re destined for. But don’t hurry the journey at all. Better if it lasts for years, so you’re old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way, not expecting Ithaka to make you rich. Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey. Without her you wouldn't have set out. She has nothing left to give you now. And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you. Wise as you will have become, so full of experience, you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean. ✌️ #buildinpublic #twitch

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The honorable crusader @ryanwinchester going on a holy war for @elixirlang in my stream chat, circa 2024, colorized