Today's episode is with database educator, PHP enthusiast, and all-around good guy Aaron Francis.
Aaron is one of the best out there at delivering high-quality educational content. Somehow, he's managed to have three different video courses sell over $100k in wildly different fields -- a college corporate accounting class aide, video screencasting, and high-performance SQLite.
In this episode, we talked about a lot of things, including:
Why (and when!) to use SQLite
What courses he's looking at next
How to stay sharp when doing educational content
His origin story as a programmer
Getting kids to be high agency
How PHP became classy.
Links
https://www.epicweb.dev/why-you-should-probably-be-using-sqlite
https://highperformancesqlite.com/
Timestamps
Intro 01:41
Why SQLite 03:31
When to use SQLite 09:14
SQLite Creators 14:20
Holy smokes 17:29
jsonb Indexing? 22:07
SQLite Course 23:54
Vendor Specific Courses? 26:17
Postgres Course Timing 30:26
Nights and Weekends 30:46
Getting into Databases 35:38
Going back to Programming 39:22
In 20 years 40:48
Kids 42:08
Making money is a skill? 47:52
Balancing Video Creation and Programming 50:43
Sustainable Business 54:23
Doing SaaS 56:13
Working for someone else 57:38
Secret Sauce for Video Content 58:34
PHP 01:05:56
Taylor and Laravel 01:13:31
Vue 01:18:39
Warp-up 01:20:41