Content, Community, and DevRel with James Q Quick

Episode Description

James Q Quick discusses becoming a full-time creator, monetizing developer content, building communities, using Twitter, and exploring web development and Web3.

Episode Summary

Anthony Campolo interviews James Q Quick shortly after James leaves PlanetScale to pursue full-time content creation. James explains his path from Microsoft technical evangelist to developer advocate and creator, and why video, teaching, courses, sponsorships, and community work fit his strengths. He discusses his 2021 outside income, YouTube sponsorships, Udemy and Podia courses, and plans to develop larger educational products. The conversation then turns to global and local communities, including James’s Learn, Build, Teach Discord, merged community spaces, Memphis meetups, and his advice to participate consistently on Twitter. James describes his interest in React, Remix, SvelteKit, Supabase, and related full-stack tools, while acknowledging that he had not yet worked with Web3. He and Anthony consider how James might begin with a smart contract, then discuss upcoming conference talks on SvelteKit, serverless applications, and databases before closing with James’s channels and podcast.

Speakers

Anthony Campolo
James Q Quick
CryptoBac (audience participant)

Chapters

00:00:00 - James’s Career Shift to Full-Time Content

Anthony introduces James as an experienced developer-relations professional and asks about his recent career change. James says his first day as a full-time content creator was only a few days earlier, following a layoff from PlanetScale’s marketing team. He had been considering the move for years and decided to use his savings and runway to test it rather than immediately accept another role.

James traces his career to a surprising Microsoft hiring path: after missing out on software developer and technical account manager roles, he was offered a technical evangelist position. That work included content, conference speaking, workshops, and community engagement. After a software development period at FedEx, he returned to developer advocacy and eventually chose to make content his primary focus.

00:03:13 - Choosing Formats and Building a Sustainable Creator Business

James explains that he works across video, blogs, Twitter, TikTok, courses, podcasts, and other formats, but video remains his favorite because recording feels more natural than writing. He describes himself as someone who often gets a project most of the way finished and collaborates with others on detail work. His guiding principle is to teach what he is genuinely excited to learn, rather than force content around subjects that do not hold his interest.

Anthony asks how that enthusiasm can become a full-time income. James says he earned roughly $60,000 outside his job in 2021 through teaching and related work, giving him confidence to experiment for several months. His revenue sources include YouTube advertising, sponsored videos, courses, and in-person teaching, with sponsorships providing the strongest return on his time.

00:07:26 - Courses, Pricing, and the Value of Evergreen Content

James describes his past course work and the tradeoffs of using established marketplaces. His Visual Studio Code course on Udemy earns about $1,000 per month with little ongoing effort, although Udemy controls its pricing and James receives only a small amount per sale. He presents that recurring income as evidence that well-timed educational content can keep producing value after publication.

He also discusses courses hosted through Podia, free YouTube material, and an Advent of CSS and JavaScript course made with Amy Dutton, which generated several thousand dollars. James sees full-time work as an opportunity to revisit and improve older material, turning larger pieces of content into more useful resources while also creating more dependable income.

00:08:48 - Global Audiences and Local Learning Communities

An audience speaker expresses hope that James can help develop communities internationally. James responds that digital formats already make that possible: Twitter Spaces, podcasts, videos, and articles can reach people across countries. He points to his Learn, Build, Teach Discord as a global community, while clarifying that he is not planning a tour of local meetups or geographically distributed chapters.

Instead, James participates in meetups near Memphis and hosts informal Code Together gatherings at coffee shops. He says returning to in-person events has been especially rewarding because participants bring different experience levels, including people preparing for career transitions through courses and online content. Supporting those learning journeys is one of the parts of community work that motivates him most.

00:11:45 - Learn, Build, Teach and Shared Discord Spaces

James explains the meaning behind his Learn, Build, Teach motto. Developers need to keep learning, apply that knowledge by building projects, and teach others, with teaching also reinforcing the teacher’s own understanding. He compares software practice with woodworking: watching tutorials helps, but making things is what develops ability. His Discord was created to support all three activities and includes members from around the world.

The community later absorbed another group when its moderator no longer had time to run it. James also describes a role-based arrangement with Coding Cat and Perfect Dev, allowing members to opt into additional channels rather than face an overwhelming server structure. Personal content, podcast material, and partner communities can therefore coexist while remaining selectively accessible.

00:14:22 - Twitter as Consistent Participation and Networking

James recommends approaching developer communities through product and framework Discords or Slack groups, while also highlighting Hashnode and Twitter. He says Twitter helped him receive support and discover potential opportunities after announcing his career change, although many contacts were introductions rather than direct job offers. For him, the platform’s value comes from relationships built over time rather than from passive posting.

His central Twitter advice is to “be there”: follow people working on subjects you care about, respond meaningfully, share what you are learning, and describe projects in progress. James argues that consistent participation creates a curated network and can lead to genuine friendships, including strong connections with people he first knew online and later met at conferences.

00:18:10 - Framework Preferences and Full-Stack Learning

Asked what he might build as a newly independent creator, James describes his background with React, Gatsby, and Next.js, along with growing interest in Remix. He is also enthusiastic about Svelte and SvelteKit, and says he and Amy Dutton are preparing an Everything Svelte course involving SvelteKit, Supabase, Stripe, and Tailwind. The freedom of full-time content gives him more room to explore tools that previously competed for limited time.

James explains Supabase by comparing it with Firebase: both provide database access and related services through client libraries, while Supabase is positioned as an open-source alternative. He also mentions Appwrite and other similar platforms. Rather than using a traditional ORM, his examples interact with the database through SDK calls, making the client library the main interface for the application.

00:20:36 - A Possible Entry Point into Web3

Anthony asks whether James has worked with blockchains or crypto wallets. James says he has no practical Web3 experience and knows only a few terms, comparing the barrier to starting a new video game: it takes an initial investment before the activity becomes enjoyable. He also notes that many people who contacted him about opportunities were connected to web-related work, making the area worth considering from a career perspective.

Anthony argues that deploying a first smart contract can make the technology feel less foreign, and offers to guide James through a simple starting project. James is interested but explains that his immediate schedule includes configuring a new computer, preparing for travel, and delivering two conference talks. He expects to have more time afterward to decide what subjects to pursue.

00:22:32 - Conference Talks and Complementary Technical Skills

James previews two talks at That Conference in Wisconsin Dells. One demonstrates a random wand generator built with SvelteKit, serverless techniques, and PlanetScale, using API endpoints, server-side rendering, and database interaction to show a complete application. The other covers database considerations in a serverless environment. He notes that the event is family-oriented and part of a broader conference series.

Reflecting on his past jobs, James says experience with authentication and identity at one company and databases at PlanetScale gave him complementary knowledge that he might not have pursued independently. Anthony makes a similar point about GraphQL: even if it is not a current specialization, prior exposure remains useful in conversations, community settings, and future hiring discussions.

00:25:31 - Where to Find James and Closing Remarks

James gives listeners several ways to find his work: he uses James Q Quick across Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube, where he publishes web development videos. He also points to Compressed FM, his podcast with Amy Dutton, and the Learn, Build, Teach Discord. Anthony praises James’s combination of technical exploration and community building, and recommends that listeners check out those spaces and his other content.

James thanks Anthony and invites follow-up questions. Anthony closes the weekly QuickNode Twitter Space by explaining that the series returns on Wednesdays at noon Central time, then thanks everyone for attending. The exchange closes with an invitation to keep learning through James’s videos, podcast, and community and to join future QuickNode conversations.

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Transcript

This automatic transcript retains the original timestamps and wording apart from clear name corrections. It may contain transcription errors or turns that combine speakers.

00:00:00 - Anthony Campolo

There we go. Let me just drop this in some discords real quick.

00:00:10 - James Q Quick

Rally all the truth.

00:00:12 - Anthony Campolo

Oh, yeah. Yeah, this is gonna be fun. You're actually someone from my, non Web3 circle that we're getting on here for, for a Twitter space. So very excited. But, like you are, you are, to me, one of the more experienced Deveraux people I know. So I really enjoy getting to to follow your work and now get to to know you and kind of chat with you about stuff because like you are been you've been at this for a very long time. So why don't you go ahead and like let our listeners, the people in the crowd know who you are and and what you do? You've had a recent career shift, so feel free to give as much context as you want.

00:00:48 - James Q Quick

Yeah, sure. yeah. So as of, this Monday, this past Monday, a few days ago was my first day as a full time content creator, which has been a dream of mine for years, and I've always kind of had it in the back of my mind, and I came from an unfortunate reason.

00:01:04 - James Q Quick

So I was working at Planet Scale. I was a developer advocate, and, I was part of, about half of the marketing team that got let go. so at that point, I, I knew I was going to, like, take my time to be really patient, to look at job opportunities and be really selective and make sure that whatever was next, I was incredibly excited about. And I've been thinking about doing content full time for a long time, and I've got some savings and runway to comfortably do that, at least for a few months, and then just kind of see where I am. So, focusing on full, full time content. I do YouTube, pretty active on Twitter, have courses and a few other things, including a podcast. And I'll be doing more and more of that type of stuff in the next few months. But I've been doing general type activities now for almost ten years, which is kind of kind of hard to believe. So where did.

00:01:54 - Anthony Campolo

You first get your start in devra like, and how did you realize it was even a job at all that you could do.

00:02:00 - James Q Quick

Yeah. Super. Super random. so I was applying for jobs at Microsoft coming out of college, applied for a software developer job that I didn't get applied for a Tamm role, a technical account manager that I also didn't get really, like awkward because I went to all the way to to DC for in-person interviews and everybody that got rejected, got sent back to the hotel in a limo, which was real weird, but, they liked me enough to then ask me about a third job, which was the technical evangelist, and I'd never heard of it. Seems ridiculous, just kind of like it does now title wise. But I was like, yeah, this Microsoft, I'm definitely interested in exploring it. And it ended up getting the job and that was doing all the all the same type of things that we're talking about here, creating content, speaking in conferences, doing workshops, being in the community, all those things. And so I did that for three years, and then I moved back home and did software development at Fedex and realized I was kind of missing that stuff.

00:02:56 - James Q Quick

Like I had enjoyed doing it so much I missed it. I started doing it again on my own, and then realized I would much rather have somebody pay for me to do this full time. And that was when I joined ozone row was there for a couple of years before Planet Scale and then now doing content full time.

00:03:13 - Anthony Campolo

Yeah. So when you think about content and how to create content, are there some mediums that you tend to like start with and then build others on top, or is there something you just enjoy doing more, or do you feel like you do a little bit of everything now?

00:03:27 - James Q Quick

I do a lot of different things, but there's definitely things that I enjoy more. I think, like this comes into play a little bit, but like, I'm, I'm like the 90 to 95% person in terms of working on a project. Like, I don't have the best eye for details and like the finishing touches on things that I create. So thankfully I get to collaborate with some people that have more of that experience.

00:03:52 - James Q Quick

But, I started doing video at Microsoft and enjoyed it enough and that was what I started back doing at Fedex in 2017 or something. And that's always been the thing that I enjoy most. It's so much easier to me to record a YouTube video than it is to write a blog article, for example. So I will probably write more blog articles now that I have more time. But choosing between the two video has always been the priority. And then content comes in a lot of shapes and sizes, right? So being on Twitter and sharing a code snippet, for other people to benefit from, that's content. And that's something that I do a lot. Being on TikTok and showing tips and tricks and stuff is also content that's also valuable for people, so there's tons of different ways to do it. I'm in a lot of different forms of content, but the big thing for me is it just comes from a place of loving, enjoying what I'm learning and then being able to teach people the stuff that I learn also.

00:04:51 - James Q Quick

So I try to stay away from things that I'm not just already inherently excited about.

00:04:57 - Anthony Campolo

Yes, but you're kind of the exact opposite of me in the sense that for me, I get sit down and write something. Pretty much any of this is very comfortable and natural, but like getting in front of a camera, like hitting record and then having to worry about like how the video looks after the fact, like editing and stuff like that. That's tougher for me. So I find it very interesting how, you know, some people just tend to everyone tends to gravitate towards some sort of medium. But, I'd be curious now that you're kind of going at this full time. Like, how are you thinking about the monetization aspect, and are there some places where you find you already have more traction? You can like kind of dig in and draw more revenue out of that? Or like, what is the the kind of overall strategy of how are you going to make this an actual full time job?

00:05:43 - James Q Quick

Yeah, that's a great question.

00:05:45 - James Q Quick

So I'm in I've been in a really fortunate position the last couple of years to first and foremost have a good job with a good salary, which is nice, but then also being able to make money outside of that on my own as well. So last year. So this is I did some teaching for a while. So that's included in this. But I made around 60 K outside of my regular job. So if you start to project it out of hey, if I did this full time, how much more could I make? I at least have a pretty good idea that I may not replace my current salary, but I could make a good amount of money, and that makes it really easy for me to give it a shot. Right. To take a few few months, maybe six months. We'll see. I don't really know and see how it goes and see what I can scale up from there. and so there's lots of different forms of income. I've got a course on Udemy, I've done some in-person teaching.

00:06:38 - James Q Quick

I've got, ad revenue on YouTube. And the biggest thing is sponsored videos on YouTube. So tons of emails, several each week, actually, from potential sponsors. I've gotten more since I announced that I was doing this full time. And, those are the biggest bang for my time. Biggest, biggest bang for buck with my time. Of, of income. So that's a huge thing. And then also courses. So I feel like I've never done a course as, as well as I would like to in the past. So that's an opportunity for me to take, kind of the bigger forms, bigger pieces of content and turn those into things first and foremost valuable for the community, but also like bigger revenue generating items for myself personally.

00:07:26 - Anthony Campolo

Where have you done courses in the past?

00:07:30 - James Q Quick

Yeah, I the long term biggest one is a VS code course on Udemy. And a lot of course creators are like understandably negative about Udemy because as an instructor you make like each sale I make up, I make $4 on because they go on Udemy controls and sales.

00:07:51 - James Q Quick

No one ever pays more than 10 or 15. And then I only get a third of that that comes to me. But my VS code course was just well timed and has gotten picked up where it's made about $1,000 a month without me doing almost anything for the past couple of years. So that's huge to have that revenue coming in. I've done, a couple courses through podia, which is a hosting platform. I really enjoyed them. They've got a lot of different features and things. So I've had I had a really good experience doing stuff through there. My podcast co-hosts, Amy Dutton and I are for advent of CSS script courses last winter, which made, I don't really know, to be honest, 7 or 8000. so that was kind of cool. And I've done the course on, level of tutorials before. Got some free ones on YouTube. So, a couple of different, a couple different places.

00:08:48 - Anthony Campolo

Very cool. Yeah. It looks like, we have someone, crypto back who requested to speak.

00:08:54 - Anthony Campolo

Do you have a question you'd like to ask James?

00:09:03 - James Q Quick

Ready when you are.

00:09:04 - Anthony Campolo

And if anyone else is curious. Feel free.

00:09:09 - CryptoBac

Hello, everyone.

00:09:10 - James Q Quick

Hey.

00:09:11 - CryptoBac

And, Hello. And, Yeah, we like, your, project. And, I just hope that you can develop, the community all around the world. That's all. Thank you.

00:09:27 - James Q Quick

Yeah. Cool. I mean, that's the cool thing about content, right? Like, we could do Twitter spaces and podcasts and videos and articles for people all across the world. have access to it. So that's definitely, definitely a big part of modern content is being able to share that with people all over.

00:09:47 - Anthony Campolo

Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Like podcast stats, it's like 44% us and then all over the world. Yeah.

00:09:57 - CryptoBac

I want to ask if you if you plan to create a local community around the world.

00:10:09 - James Q Quick

so, no, not like, not like quick meetups. Quick. Yeah, that'd be cool. Yeah. but I do have I do have a discord server called learn, build, teach.

00:10:20 - James Q Quick

So there's people from all over the world in that. And then I, participate in the local meetups that we have where I live also, but no plans for me to go out to different geographical places and create communities.

00:10:35 - CryptoBac

Okay. Thank you, thank you.

00:10:39 - James Q Quick

Yeah. You're welcome.

00:10:42 - Anthony Campolo

Yeah. I find the the local meetups an interesting space right now, because that used to be the only way people used to do meetups is you actually go to a place that people would hang out with each other and talk face to face in that room together. And it's quite strange.

00:11:00 - James Q Quick

Yeah. We, we we've only had a couple back in person in Memphis, but I'm super excited about that. We did, I do these monthly code together. Meetups or just whoever wants can come to a coffee shop and we'll just hang out and talk. And we had a really, really, like, I just had so much fun with talking to him where we had a mix of different people of different experiences and several people that were like looking to transition into a job and were going through Udemy courses and content in general.

00:11:27 - James Q Quick

And that sort of stuff gets me super excited for people that are like working, working towards career changes. I love being a part of, part of their learning journeys.

00:11:37 - Anthony Campolo

That's awesome. Yeah. You're you're in Memphis. Yep. Yeah.

00:11:41 - James Q Quick

We're not too.

00:11:41 - Anthony Campolo

Far away from your show. Then I'm in Saint Louis.

00:11:43 - James Q Quick

Yeah. Yep. Not too far.

00:11:45 - Anthony Campolo

Yeah. Awesome. so you want to talk a little bit about your discord and how. Because I know you've also combined with another group, the coding cat perfect dev kind of group. So you're kind of like sharing a discord space. That's pretty cool. And that's not something I see particularly often.

00:12:05 - James Q Quick

Yeah. so my like my, one of my personal mottos for a couple of years now has been learn, build, teach. And the idea is you can't be successful in this industry if you're not almost constantly learning. so that's a big part of like, we spend so much time learning and we need to and, then you take what you learn and then you build stuff with it.

00:12:27 - James Q Quick

If you ask anybody, like, how do I get better at so-and-so? The answer is just build stuff. And the same is true with woodworking, right? Like, I've I've started trying to do woodworking projects and DIY projects myself. And there's literally I watch as many videos as I want, but there's no better way to get better at it than it just builds stuff. And the last part is to teach other people how to do it too. And selfishly, teaching other people helps you learn and reinforce the things that you, Learn. But then also you get to help the community and all those things. So it's been a motto of mine for a while, and discord started getting more and more popular. a couple of years ago for different communities. And so I started to learn, build, teach. Discord. Community. so we got people, like I said, all over the world. the idea is to just foster all of those three different components learn, build and teach. And then we've had, Brian Morrison, who's one of the mods he ran, ran.

00:13:23 - James Q Quick

So I forgot the name, but he basically didn't have. He didn't think he had the time to continue to run his. So he actually merged with ours and just kind of brought his audience in. And then, talked to Alex and Brittany from, Perfect Dev and Coding Cat, and they actually have some like. Through a discord role, they have sub like kind of a sub discord group within Lindell teach. So if you add the emoji reaction for them, you get a role which gives you access to their channels, which is kind of cool because we have these like, I guess it's really the only well, we kind of had different subsections of the discord. So one for like my personal content, one for my podcast content, and then one for coding Cat, and that's only available to people who kind of opt in. So you have to. So that way people don't get overwhelmed by having too much unless they choose to. But it's kind of cool to have have some other people involved.

00:14:22 - Anthony Campolo

Very cool.

00:14:23 - Anthony Campolo

Are there other areas where if you're recommending people who are looking for like developer communities, how they should check out.

00:14:31 - James Q Quick

there's a ton of different discords. I don't like if you look at any product that you might be interested in or framework, they probably have a discord or Slack, which is a.

00:14:40 - Anthony Campolo

Quick guy discord mix up on that.

00:14:44 - James Q Quick

Yep. so most many of the products and platforms and stuff have them. I'm a big fan of hash node just as a platform in the way they do community, so I think they're great. They have a discord as well. there's a bunch of different ones I don't even have, like to put myself on the spot and start listing them. but Twitter is a huge one for me. I spent a ton of time on Twitter, but the value that I get from networking there and all the things is just, it's just super, super amazing for what it is. Like me, announcing that I got Lego for my job last week. I mean, I got an overwhelming amount of comments and DMs and all kinds of things.

00:15:26 - James Q Quick

So one, I feel super supported and I appreciate that. But also a lot of that was people reaching out with job opportunities, too, which makes it so much easier when something like that happens to know that like you've got opportunities for next step if you're looking.

00:15:40 - Anthony Campolo

Yeah, I saw you tweeted basically like you got so many offers you could barely even read them all. Like it's pretty incredible.

00:15:49 - James Q Quick

Yeah. And they weren't necessarily they weren't necessarily like offers directly, but at least people reaching out to say like, hey, we've got this opportunity you should look into type thing. but yeah, it was it was a little overwhelming, but really cool to have that much support and people reaching out.

00:16:03 - Anthony Campolo

Yeah. And Twitter is one of those things where it's it's very much I feel like it is what you make it. So for people who are looking at Twitter and are like, what is this? How do I approach this? How do I actually get benefit of this? Like, what's your Twitter strategy or like Twitter tips that you would give to others?

00:16:20 - James Q Quick

Yeah.

00:16:21 - James Q Quick

So there's I've used this before and I love it. So there's I'm a big fan of the show New Girl if anybody's ever watched that. And there's this scene where the main character, Jess, is like competing for man's attention with another girl at a wedding, and she's asking her friend Winston. Like, what do I do? And he tells her, just be there. So like, every time the guy goes to get a drink, be there every time he goes to the dance floor. Be there every time he goes to get a snack. Like, whatever. Just be there. And I think he ends up calling it the Biden or I don't actually know the correlation there, but the idea is just be there. And so with Twitter, and really it's the same on any social platform. You have to engage, you have to interact. So like follow people that are doing the thing you want to do or talking about the thing that you want to talk about, or they're in the communities that you want to be in.

00:17:12 - James Q Quick

Interact with them. Respond to them in a meaningful way. Invest your invest your time and energy in supporting them, and then continue to share the stuff that you're doing. a lot of part of that is sharing content that you create, but more importantly, it's just sharing. Hey, I'm working on this thing. Hey, I'm trying out Next.js. I've never tried it before. Or. Hey, I just learned this trick in VS code. Like, the more you talk about the thing that you want to talk about, and the more you engage with the people that are already talking about those things, the better off you'll be and you'll start to get this, like, really curated list of people that, you know, like it's been so wild having a few in-person conferences. Meeting people in person that I've just been friends with for months. It's so wild being able to do that. And you feel so close because I've spent so much time interacting with people on Twitter, you can actually build meaningful relationships.

00:18:02 - James Q Quick

So yeah, just be there. Just participate. Just share, engage with the stuff that other people are creating and stay active.

00:18:10 - Anthony Campolo

Yeah. We got to hang out a bit at remix come. And I would be curious now that you are kind of a free agent when you're going to build something, do you have a certain framework that you kind of lean towards or some that you're interested in learning or creating content around?

00:18:27 - James Q Quick

Yeah. So I've been a react guy for a couple of years. I feel like I was late to late to the game there, and I did, like from regular reacted to Gatsby for a while until I found Next.js. And actually I've been using for a couple of years and love really interested in remix. So you just mentioned Remix Cop. That's a cool, hot one that I've started to get into, and I was working on a project relevant to planet scale, so we'll see that probably going to adjust a little bit, but I still want to work more with remix. And then I'm a huge Svelte and Toolkit fan as well.

00:18:59 - James Q Quick

So Amy and I are working hard to release or at least start to release part of our Everything Salt course at the end of the month. So it's svelte kit and Super Bass, which I'm excited about, and Stripe and Tailwind and other things. so yeah, it's like honestly overwhelming how many different exciting tools and platforms and languages and frameworks there are, and there's never enough time to try them all. But this does give me a little bit more freedom to do that, which is exciting.

00:19:29 - Anthony Campolo

Yeah, totally full stack spell kit, I feel like is still an area that is very, very underexplored. So when you connect that to Super Bass or using like Super bass client libraries or using an arm like how do you do that?

00:19:43 - James Q Quick

Yeah. Using, using a client library. So anybody that's not familiar. Firebase is the most standard that's been around for a long time that people are familiar with, but it's kind of a all in one platform where you get the database, you get the SDK, you get off, you get file storage, you get all these things kind of packaged into one, which is really nice.

00:20:02 - James Q Quick

And Super base is an open source alternative to Firebase. There's actually a lot of these that are really exciting. app right is one directory is another similar one. There's like lots of really good options and yeah. So I'm using their SDKs, which then have equivalent functionality of an ORM because you interact with your database through this SDK, just like you would by calling a JavaScript function. That's basically what it comes down to. So I use the SDKs with Super bass.

00:20:36 - Anthony Campolo

Very cool. I'd also be curious. I already think I know the answer to this question, but do you have any exposure to Web3 at this point. Have you done anything with a blockchain or a crypto wallet or anything like that?

00:20:49 - James Q Quick

Yeah, I haven't at all. I have no experience. I know nothing other than a few words. It's it's one of those things that I know if I get into it, it's going to take time to get into. It's the same reason why I don't often like, start playing new video games, because for that video game to be.

00:21:05 - Anthony Campolo

Fun, really good comparison.

00:21:07 - James Q Quick

You have to. Yeah, like you have to invest time. And I just know I don't quite have it, especially given all the other things that I'm already doing. but the interesting thing, and this is this would be good for other people to think about career wise, is I mentioned a lot of people reaching out with job opportunities. A lot of those, I don't know, a percentage, but a lot of them were like web related. So it's it's definitely something that seems to be higher level. And I think that's worth considering for people going for something that I'm still considering.

00:21:38 - Anthony Campolo

Yeah, I think there is a strong barrier to just getting started. But once you kind of deployed like your Hello World smart contract and done something with it, I feel like that's what you've done, that you're kind of like, okay, this doesn't really seem that foreign from the the whole other world. So sometimes you should have you hop on one of your streams. I can show you how to how to get going.

00:22:00 - James Q Quick

Yeah, I I'd love to. I've got a, like, timing of me going full time is interesting because I've already had to spend a lot of time just like setting up a new computer. Like everything I've done, there's some setting or something I needed to get right before I could actually do it. And then I've got two conference slots next week and I'll be traveling next week, so I'm kind of getting ready for all that stuff while doing some longer term kind of preparation for full time, content. But after that, it'll be really exciting to, to, to see what I'm going to focus on. But I think that'll be a ton of fun to have you on.

00:22:32 - Anthony Campolo

Yeah, yeah. Do you want to pitch those conferences and talk you've got coming up?

00:22:38 - James Q Quick

sure, I have to. I was gonna say I have to double check what they are, but there's two at the same conference. And the name of the conference is that conference. It's literally the name.

00:22:49 - Anthony Campolo

That it's Esperance. Yes.

00:22:51 - James Q Quick

Yes you can. You can search that conference. It'll pop up for you. And it's a series of conferences. So this one is in Wisconsin Dells and they're all at Kalahari Resorts, which is cool. So there's like one in Wisconsin Dells, there's one in Austin, there's one in Michigan somewhere. I think that's Code Bash or Code Mash, I can't remember. And anyway, so they're kind of cool. They're really family friendly, friendly and like family oriented, which is cool. My wife's going to go with me and I've got two talks for this one. One is about building a wand generator with svelte kit and serverless. So it actually still uses a plant scale.

00:23:30 - Anthony Campolo

Generator like magic.

00:23:31 - James Q Quick

So just yeah, just taking like random properties and like cycling through them, kind of like a slot machine type thing, but it, it shows like a full stack thing with full kit. So there's API endpoint and there's server side rendering and there's interacting with a database and all those things, which is cool.

00:23:50 - James Q Quick

And then the other one is about databases in a serverless environment and things that people need to consider, with working with databases and serverless.

00:24:12 - Anthony Campolo

Very cool. Do you feel.

00:24:15 - James Q Quick

Like the cool thing for me with passive jobs I've had, which is all zero sense, authentication, identity, all those things. And then working in planet scale database company is those have been two separate opportunities to build up skill sets and knowledge base of topics that I wouldn't necessarily have gone out of my way to get. So I think that's been a good learning opportunity for me. I wouldn't say like learning more about databases is the most exciting thing, so it's probably not something I would dedicate too much time for, but I definitely appreciate having worked for a few different companies where I have learning opportunities to build up, like complementary knowledge base and skill sets for myself going forward.

00:24:54 - Anthony Campolo

Yeah, it's similar to how I feel about like GraphQL right now because I worked a GraphQL company for like a year. And like I'm not trying to go necessarily super deep into GraphQL anymore, but it's also nice to like, show up somewhere and be like, yeah, no GraphQL.

00:25:07 - Anthony Campolo

Like geographical.

00:25:08 - James Q Quick

Yeah.

00:25:09 - Anthony Campolo

GraphQL. You know?

00:25:10 - James Q Quick

Yeah. There's nothing I feel like it's only going to be beneficial, right? Like the more more conversations you can take part of that's just fun, like community wise and content wise potentially. And then also from a hiring perspective, like you get to bring those skill sets and knowledge to, to the table for future potential employers too.

00:25:31 - Anthony Campolo

Awesome. Yeah. If anyone else out there in the audience wants to ask some questions, feel free to hop on up. Otherwise, feel free to let our listeners know where they can find you. And what are some links that they should check out to learn more?

00:25:45 - James Q Quick

Yeah. James quick on most things. So on Twitter. Also on TikTok, which is a fun, fun space. I'm looking forward to having more time to dedicate to, to TikTok going forward than you do for a long time. So James quick on YouTube. I do weekly and sometimes probably more frequently now, biweekly videos on web development there.

00:26:10 - James Q Quick

And then. If you're interested in two other things, the podcast that I do with Amy Dutton is called compress FM. You can find it at compress the website or in a podcast, and then also have the learn, build, teach discord so you can get a redirect. There's like a button to join the discord at learnability. Com.

00:26:34 - Anthony Campolo

Very cool. Awesome. Well thank you so much everyone for Listening, and I think that this will about close it out for us. Thank you so much, Jane, for being here with us. I'm a really big fan of like all the content you put out, and it's really great having someone who's, like, exploring all these different pieces of tech and also creating like community spaces for people to get together and learn together. I definitely highly recommend people to check out your discord and check out your twitch and and all that.

00:27:04 - James Q Quick

Yeah, I appreciate I appreciate you having me on. And if anybody has questions or anything after the fact, feel free to reach out.

00:27:12 - Anthony Campolo

Yeah. All right. Well thank you everyone for being here. This is our weekly Twitter space. We do this every week, Wednesdays at 12, central time. So if you are here now, we'll be here again next week. And we will enjoy getting to speak with you all. All right. And that'll close it out for us. Thanks, everyone. Hi.