Today we welcome Chuck Carpenter aka Charles The 3rd, co-host at Whiskey Web and Whatnot.
As two content creators in the tech scene, we discuss if and how celebrity developers and tech influencers are a good thing for the community, how we should be careful when choosing technologies based on influencers’ opinions, why so many people nowadays want to speedrun their whole career and how that could be self-sabotage, and a lot more!
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Charles' X/Twitter: https://x.com/charleswthe3rd)
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:27 Does Charles listen to his own podcast episodes?
03:33 Are celebrity developers a good thing?
09:11 Podcasts are usually centered around a business
10:06 We are essentially entertainers
14:04 Tech choices being influenced by creators
17:37 Why ThePrimeagen stood out from other tech influencers
20:26 Career speedrunning
23:44 The biggest miss when starting something
24:51 What is wrong with Full-Stack application frameworks?
29:03 How Frankenstein is the Boot.dev web application stack
37:41 Rolling your own stuff vs using a provider
46:01 It's easy to screw up your architecture
50:53 What is Charles building with in 2024 and what is his preferred stack
56:39 Does it seem like people don't talk about security anymore?
01:00:30 Accessibility
01:02:02 The amount of people that are "kinda" interested in cybersecurity
01:11:03 Have some patience
01:11:37 Where to find Charles
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