Brian Morrison II
@brianmmdev
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I write about writing as a developer, mixed in with whatever tech I’m into • Sr. Developer Educator @ClerkDev , Prev @PlanetScale • Go make someone smile today
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Big goal for 2024 is to foster my existing friendships and build new ones.
I don’t care if we’ve never met, if you wanna chat, schedule something with me 👇
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I was part of a mass layoff at
@planetscale
today. 🫠 Taking a bit to process it before I hit the pavement to find my next role.
I do full stack dev (.NET, JS, Go are my main) and content as well. If you know of anything, I’d much appreciate it.
RT for reach 🙏
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A quick update 👀
I was part of a mass layoff at
@planetscale
today. 🫠 Taking a bit to process it before I hit the pavement to find my next role.
I do full stack dev (.NET, JS, Go are my main) and content as well. If you know of anything, I’d much appreciate it.
RT for reach 🙏
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Will work for money 🙏 😂
I was part of a mass layoff at
@planetscale
today. 🫠 Taking a bit to process it before I hit the pavement to find my next role.
I do full stack dev (.NET, JS, Go are my main) and content as well. If you know of anything, I’d much appreciate it.
RT for reach 🙏
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@MrTurnerj
@ThePracticalDev
Don’t stress perfection before you understand concepts. I have a bad habbit of freezing and worrying if I’m doing X the most optimized way instead of just getting it done!
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Everytime I see someone tweet that they “got the job” it sincerely puts a huge smile on my face.
Always nice to celebrate the success of others 👍
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Also gotta add that on top of all the support I’ve received, my wife left this nice note at my desk while I was out for a walk to clear my mind.
She’s the best ❤️
Just wanna say thanks to everyone who took time to reach out, comment, retweet, call, whatever regarding the layoffs.
I haven’t had a chance to respond to everyone, but I definitely will!
Love you all 💜
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@remotely_ruth
You & your phone are the front end.
The pizza shops phone is the API, and the cook is the backend.
The phone network & driver are the transport (ie; HTTP)
When you call to order a pizza, the backend makes your pizza and the driver returns it to you.
Silly example 🤣🍕
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We are so back
YouTuber Brian is returning with a vengeance 🔥
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Just wanna say thanks to everyone who took time to reach out, comment, retweet, call, whatever regarding the layoffs.
I haven’t had a chance to respond to everyone, but I definitely will!
Love you all 💜
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I’m VERY excited to announce that next week I’ll be starting a new chapter in my career as Developer Educator over at
@planetscaledata
I’ve absolutely loved my time and work at Temeda, but so excited at whats coming down the line!
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I actually really like working on docs.
Is that weird?
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@traversymedia
@BlakieCodes
You saying HTML/CSS is not programming = half of the dev community right now:
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Start networking and creating content, and help others if you’re able to
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So a bit of personal news - we finally got a solid offer on our KY home and will officially be moving back to IL in a few short weeks!
Things are gonna be a bit crazy for a bit, but I’m excited to be closer to family again ❤️
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I've been preaching content & networking forever. This is the moment I've been preparing for over the last 5 years.
Sitting at 13 potential opportunities, one is already progressing and VERY much has my interest 👀
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@chris__sev
Couldn’t imagine NOT doing full stack. I love knowing how everything works, all the way down to the infra
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Getting ready to head to my first offsite with the team at
@ClerkDev
🎉
Can’t wait to meet everyone in person!
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We’re so back 🥳
Wouldn’t be moving day if the weather wasn’t acting up 😅
Last few moves have been in a winter storm or a heat wave…
Oh yeah, I’m moving into my new house today 😏
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In
#docker
, you can set the system timezone with the TZ environment variable. Ex; docker run -e TZ=America/Chicago
#100daysofcode
#developers
#devops
#cloud
#aws
-- Alternately in a docker-compose file:
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This is probably the most vulnerable I’ve ever been on here. I’ve been struggling a lot with anxiety and stress lately. I wrote this journal entry yesterday and after rereading it I really felt like it was worth sharing because it’s uncommon to see on social media.
I often feel
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I've been ruthlessly prioritizing who I follow on this platform
My timeline is slowly shaping up to be a better place 🤗
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This Friday at 11:30am Eastern, I'm hosting a round table chat discussing the massive impact
#buildinpublic
can have on your career.
It will be part of the Journeys Conference sponsored by
@ClerkDev
I told you I'd bring a killer lineup 🔥
@aarondfrancis
@kulkarniankita9
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@warmstart_eu
@codepitbull
@Twittfort
This dude knows what’s up. I have more vlans at home than at the office.
#justnerdthings
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Today, I’m recording my first YouTube video on months 👀
“Deploying a NextJS app to
@flydotio
with GitHub Actions”
Thoughts?
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Vector embeddings as I understand them
The team at
@PlanetScale
(where I work) recently announced that vector search is coming to our databases.
As a technical writer and researcher on the Developer Education team, it became my responsibility to understand what vector
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Where my people out there who prefer tech blogging over tech youtubing???
I can't be the only one
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Excited to share that I’ll be heading out to hang with
@jlengstorf
to rep
@ClerkDev
for the 4 Web Devs 1 App IRL series next week!
Im so pumped for this 🤩🤩🤩
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Drafted something for release tomorrow. No drama, just all the steps I took after I was impacted.
Figure it could help someone at some point.
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THAT has literally changed the trajectory of my career.
I was ready to throw in the towel on being a Developer Educator. I only went to THAT TX 2023 to meet
@jamesqquick
and
@bradgarropy
in person at least once.
I walked away with a circle of supportive, amazing friends I
Go buy a
@ThatConference
ticket. Lean in and change your life.
Think I'm full of bullshit? Ask
@BekahHW
or
@brianmmdev
or
@jamesqquick
or
@tessak22
or
@elliezub
.
You're worth the investment in yourself.
Use code CLARK and save 25%, no excuses.
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Day 2 at Clerk ✅
- wrote an article on adding it to
@nextjs
🔗👇
- met more of the team through a few meetings
- got to chat with the awesome
@domitriusclark
Got some amazing stuff cooking at the moment 👀
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Woke up to a pleasant surprise from my YouTube channel this morning! 🤗
And if you aren't subbed, please do! Future content will be focused on building cool stuff for front-end devs 🔗👇
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Completely forgot to share, but late last week I published a post to the
@ClerkDev
blog walking through how to automate schema changes to a
@neondatabase
using
@DrizzleORM
and GitHub Actions!
Check it out in the 🧵
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So
@shashiwhocodes
and I wanna have a
@ThatConference
recap next week on a Space
Looking for a few folks to join as panelists. Speakers, attendees, whoever!
Any takers? DMs are open or comment below!👇
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Had such an incredible time with this crew. I seriously cannot wait to come back and be in the hot seat 🤞
Easily one of my favorite experiences
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SUPER EXCITED to announce that I've been accepted to speak at
@ThatConference
TX 2024!!!
My talk will be all about building GitHub Actions with Docker, largely inspired by my work on the
@PlanetScale
Actions!
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Got to walk through the new house today!
Here’s a sneak preview of the new office/studio 👀
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Trying out a new style of video: instead of a code-along, I'm walking through a recent project of mine and how it works
Here's how I built a way for
@fullstackchat
members to self-manage their own roles, featuring
@nextjs
,
@discord
, and
@ClerkDev
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First half of this weeks move is done!
It’s actually the second of three moves but either way, we’ve only got one trip left 🤗
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Super excited to announce that I will once again be a speaker at
@ThatConference
this summer!!!
My talk is about showing how you can use IaC and GitHub Actions to create your own version of services like Netlify
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Support small creators.
Buy their stuff if you can, smash some buttons if you can’t.
It will make a world of difference for them!
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Thread on how to use
@DrizzleOrm
relationships with
@PlanetScale
since we don't support FK constraints 👇
@aarondfrancis
@dickinsontiwari
@PlanetScale
Ok strap in for this one.
So from what I gather with
@DrizzleOrm
, the `.references` function is how you define relationships, however with drizzle-kit, this will try to create FK constraints which PlanetScale does not support.
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Awesome day hanging out yesterday with the work fam. Prepping to go on a hike today 🏔️
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Prioritize creating content and networking online.
You never know when it will come to your rescue.
If you’re 30+, please give one piece of advice to everyone who’s between 19 to 29.
It can be about anything!
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I’m at a crossroads.
When I was 20, I left my job to become a fully independent entrepreneur. At 24 I re-entered the workforce because I wanted to start a family. I made the right call, no regrets, but I always told myself I’d go independent again at some point.
Ive been
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Alright fam, so I’m getting back into the
#buildinpublic
game.
I’m gonna be building an AI powered recipe manager, completely open source. No MMRs, just a fun thing I wanna throw together.
-
@nextjs
as the base
-
@vercel
for hosting
-
@ClerkDev
for auth
-
@neondatabase
as
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My latest article for
@ClerkDev
just went live!
Learn how to use Organizations to build multi-tenancy into a simple todo app. Complete with sample repo if you just want the code!
ft
@nextjs
and
@neondatabase
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Well I've officially submitted my first ever CFP...I am both equal parts excited and terrified.
No backing down now!!!
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It’s the
@ThatConference
After-after-after-after-after Party at the Austin airport 🤣
Gonna miss these gentlemen. Had such a great time hang out with them all!
@Nateemerson
@KevinJPowell
@iamwix
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Dont be afraid to brag a little about your coding skills. It takes time and effort to build them and you shouldn't feel ashamed to show what you know!
#100daysofcode
#development
#javascript
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@jamesqquick
Here y’all go! BTW, hoping to publish part 2 tomorrow on how I built the schema for Forge on
@dynamodb
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So I’ve been busy…
I know I haven’t been terribly active here lately, but a big part of that is I’m going to be out of office for the next two weeks to move my family a few states over, so just wrapping up open items so my team doesnt have to take over. That said, here’s what
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They say you're the average of the people you spend the most time with.
Well after spending a week with these amazing people, I really need to up my game to even get to the average!
I work with some incredible people ❤️
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About 6 hours of hiking today and I’m beat! But the scenery was incredible and so worth the effort.
Awesome day hanging out yesterday with the work fam. Prepping to go on a hike today 🏔️
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I'm starting to be OK with the fact that I love to get fired up about something for periods, trying to master that thing, then moving on to the next thing I'm excited about.
I've always viewed it as a personal fault, but realistically it has helped me learn and grow very quickly
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Finally in the new office. I've got a clean slate to build my new video studio.
Send me your best suggestions!
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Interested in what a
#serverless
app looks like on
#aws
? Here is the infrastructure diagram for
@GuardianForge
, described below
🧵
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Working on a full-fledged post for the PlanetScale blog based on my thread a few weeks ago 🔥
Thread on how to use
@DrizzleOrm
relationships with
@PlanetScale
since we don't support FK constraints 👇
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My big 2024 goal is to build friendships, new and old, so I’m scheduling 1-2 coffee chats per week.
Today I got to chat with both
@DamnGoodTek
and
@DominickJMonaco
for the first time!
@Nateemerson
is with me next week, would love to get 1 more ☺️
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Submitted my talk for
@ThatConference
!!! Nothing like coming in at the buzzer 😅
Also huge shout out to
@TheClarkSell
,
@iamwix
, and
@BraydonCoyer
for reviewing my draft before submitting it!
They helped me get past the surface-level stuff and dig deeper into my own mind for
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Check out how signing in with passkeys using
@ClerkDev
looks like from the user's perspective! 🤩
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Props to this guy for planning an awesome offsite for the
@ClerkDev
marketing team!
This is the first time I’ve even been to a company outing like this and it was incredible. Great people, great conversation, and great experiences.
Can’t wait for the next one
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Wishing you and your family a blessed Easter!
He is risen ✝️
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Would you say your successful? How do you define success? 🤔
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Got some great news this morning. Gonnna be a member of the
@awscloud
community builders program!
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Well I signed the contract for a new house in IL
Shits about to get crazy, but I’m so excited!
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Just DM'd 8 people to schedule for my upcoming podcast! Hopefully this gets the ball rolling 🤞
If you're building cool software, or starting to, hit me up to come chat with me about what youre building
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SUPER EXCITED to announce that I'll be speaking at
@ThatConference
in WI this July.
This is my first in-person speaking engagement EVER, and I cannot overstate how grateful I am for this opportunity!
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Lots of
#buildinpublic
folks will brag on how quickly they can spin up and launch new projects.
That’s fantastic, but I also think perspective is great too. I’m building something as well but it will take a while to launch since I have a family and job that takes priority.
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Finally circling back to Cooking with Clerk.
#buildinpublic
Mid-day update:
- Saving recipes to a
@neondatabase
- Sharing recipes publicly
- Favoriting recipes
- Public user profiles
Next up:
- Integrating with
@permit_io
Quick video recap:
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My (apparently shy) 4 year old walks up to my desk and goes “woah is this a bird book?”
You would think 😅
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