Dennis Ivy
@dennisivy11
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Working on @appwrite, contributor to @freecodecamp & @traversymedia, developer advocate, instructor.
United States
Joined January 2020
Someone hacked my course website, proceeded to unlock the paid version for their their account, then emailed me to let me know about the vulnerability. I’m not even mad, I’m impressed. Your account will remain unlocked, you earned it. .
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Met this guy at a bar in Boston, seems like he know a lot about how the internet works.
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If you ever have difficulty reading the structure of JSON data try Anytime I have difficulty understanding how data is nested I just copy and paste it hear to get a good visual. Thank me later 😉
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Didn’t even realise this tutorial crossed 1.4 million views 😳
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I'm convinced most developers have no idea what a RESTful API is. Just about every explanation I find on the internet is wrong.
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My first client paid me $300 for a website. My 50th client paid me $2,500 for the same exact website. What changed? It wasn’t the product. It was my ability to market my service, communicating the value of my service and confidence in my own worth.
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So @heroku no longer supports connecting to GitHub directly as a deployment method? Time to find a new platform. Any suggestions for hosting my backend? . Looking into options and will start updating my tutorials soon.
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His reaction when I told him he needs 15 years experience for an entry level tech job
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Python in the browser?? This is giving me major php vibes.
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Hey mobile app developers, what backend do you like to use for building your API's?.
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It saddens me when a content creator/teacher who has impacted millions with his educational videos has to look for a job because his videos don’t pay the bills. 37million views and some of the best material I watched when I was learning to code. We need to fix this.
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3 years ago I decided to go all in an learn how to code while working a full time job. No school, no boot camp, just YouTube and books. Since then:. - First job/gig after 3 months of learning.- Sold a website for $41,000.- Endless Job offers. So much opportunity nowadays.
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Whatever happened to Deno Js? You know, that “node js killer”?.
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How would you explain what an API is to your grandmother? . After years of building and working with API's I still have a hard time simplifying this topic.
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If you try to build your UI without a frontend framework you'll just end up creating your own framework by default, and it probably wont be that good. Been there done that.
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It’s funny how people refer to me as the “Python guy”when I actually spend most of my time writing JavaScript code. 👀.
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Tailwind CSS is ugly, there is no doubt about that. But I'm finally starting to see the value of it. Definitely not sold yet tho.
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AI won’t take your job developers, it will just be a part of your job now. Use it as a tool.
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As a full time employee and being married, these are the times I used to learn how to code:. - Before work 4am- 7am.- Lunch breaks 1pm -12pm.- Bathroom breaks 🚽.- Driving (Listening to tutorials).- walking (Listening to tutorials).- After work 6pm - 12am.
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One of the best things you can do to your code is have other developers look at it and give you feedback. A lesson I recently learned through experience.
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According to my YouTube analytics, 25% of my viewers are from India. I think we need to set up some kind of conference there to meet in person some day. Who else is up for this??.
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Just agreed to terms for creating a full Django + React ecommerce course for team @traversymedia. Did I just become employee #2?. @florinpop1705 I asked Brad to put me in charge of you. .
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I got my dream job. I'm leaving a well established organization for a startup, seems crazy in this market but I believe in the tech so much! Hello @appwrite!. ✅ 100% Open source.✅ Awesome tech.✅ Awesome people.
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Python 3.10 scheduled to be released today! Best new feature in my opinion is its own version of the switch statement.
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It only took 7 LONG years but I now get to live right on the beach. The view I see every morning on my walk to get coffee.
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For all you trying to hack my website since I made my last post, please don’t make me keep updating a site I don’t feel like working on. Oh and it’s not that hard for me to trace your location when you do. .
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5 years married and I still to this day wonder why the heck my wife decided to let me marry her. She is what I am thankful for today. I love you @sulamitaivanov ❤️.
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I’d recommend everyone first learn about Richardsons maturity model Here: . Then about REST here:
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New Django course almost complete. Back to live streaming soon! . Will be building some cool projects live, including an Instagram clone.
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I’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for complete beginner developers learning without a traditional education. I remember how frustrating my first months were and feeling stupid because it took me a week to grasp the concept of an array and for loop.
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Before we were together I told my wife jokingly that if she decided to date me I’d get her a place on the beach some day. That was 7 years ago. This week we sold our house and moved 2,700 miles to live the coast of Florida. Gonna see these beautiful sunrises every day now!
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Fun fact, I made over $400,000 freelancing, about $250,000 of that was from selling SEO services. Wanna hear more? Join me @natmiletic and @designcoursecom on here twitter spaces Tomorrow at 12pm EST (oct 20th).
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Been using Sublime as my text editor for over 3 years and just now switched to VS code. Wow I was missing out on a lot!.
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Worked my entire life to get rid of any hint of a Russian accent. Now when I speak Russian I have an American accent 🤣.
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Q: "PHP, the language of . ". A: "developers who don't care about others opinion and just use the most efficient tool to get their job done" . Perfect answer to a question by @rafrasenberg, answered by @VladPasca5.
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It used to take me 5 hours to film a 7 minute video. Now it takes me 7 minutes to film a 7 minute video. That’s what repetition does for you. .
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Little surprise coming this Monday from me and @traversymedia for all you Django lovers ;)
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Search Engine Optimization. Does this topic interest anyone?. Thinking about doing a mini series on SEO for Django.
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Trying to get @benawad on my channel for a live stream to discuss Http-only cookies and XSS attacks. Anybody wanna help me get his attention? 😬.
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Almost 10 days without writing a single line of code and I feel rusty. Good to get back at it.
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When I had no money to put myself through college, I turned to these 7 legends to build my tech career. 💪. 1 - @bucky_roberts .2- @traversymedia .3 - @thenetninjauk .4- @JustinMitchel .5 - @vitorfs .6 - @Sentdex .7 - @CoreyMSchafer.
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Looking to fill a React/Next JS role at my company. Still have to make the official job post but if you are interested or know somebody who has the skill set, have them send me a resume at dennis@agora.io. Looking for someone with a strong JS background.
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Sitting at a coffee shop today and decided see how hard it would be to land a client just for fun. I don't freelance anymore but what the hell, why not. I waved down the owner to have a chat. Turns out they need a website and I got a client. Don't overthink, just ask.
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Even with its popularity, #Django is still one of the most underrated backend frameworks in my opinion. Express JS is getting all the attention here meanwhile here are the rankings by GitHub stars as of oct 2021: . Laravel - 66.9K ⭐.Django - 60.2K ⭐.Express - 54.7K ⭐.
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This joke got WAY out of hand! For the sake of not having complete strangers argue about pointless things I'm gonna have to take it down 🤣
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I'm looking for a new Co-worker at @appwrite, someone who wants to join the DevRel team! . In summary, we're looking for someone who can help write technical content, create short form education videos, keep up with social media/discord engagement, and most importantly, **strong.
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Django 4.1 now has a asynchronous variant for operations like get() and delete(), just prefix with "a". 😋. Ex: aget() and adelete().
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Does anyone actually buy Udemy courses at full price? . 2460 students and I don’t think a single one paid the original price. What’s the point of even setting this if there is a promo every 12 hours?.
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@rupali_codes Building clones is meant to help you understand how to build features/functionality of a particular site, while learning a specific language or framework. Let’s look at an e-commerce website example, an “Amazon clone” can help me understand:.- how the project can be structured.-.
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My wife just became my first Instagram follower. Do you think I’m being to aggressive?
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Hit 100k subs today and finished up my React + Django course with @traversymedia Which will go live public on Monday on udemy. Feels weird to celebrate this victory publicly so I will dedicate my 100k live stream to featuring @FrancescoCiull4 and @TomiTokko3.
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Most companies out there don’t give a damn about 2021 programming trends. So while people out there are bashing Jquery, PHP and Templating engines, there’s a whole other group of people getting paid to know this stuff.
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Got some people upset at me for not replying to emails and comments. It’s ok, You’ll love me when you see the 2 badass courses I’m working on for you. I still love you guys, just need to focus on coding for now 😉.
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Django 4.0 is set to be released in December 2021!. Reading over the release notes I don't see any major compatibility issues with Django 3.2 besides supporting only python 3.8 and up. Will take some time to read over thoroughly before talking about new features.
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Something I always told my clients when freelancing:. You can have it done fast. You can have it done cheap. You can have it done right. But you can only pick 2 of the of the 3 options. .
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@edanbenatar I didn’t have a way of validating the payment amount in the backend (PayPal), so they just set their price to zero in JS. This validated them as a paid premium user. Just had to ad some code to make sure that the price sent was the actual price of the product.
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Spent two months collaborating with @traversymedia on a Udemy course. Video Description: "This is a collaboration with Brad Traversy". First 2 seconds of video: "Dennis Ivy & Brad Traversy". Comment on youtube: "You stole this from Brad Traversy!".🤦♂️.
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My First Website Sold For $6,000 with a $12,000 Service Contract. Sorry @traversymedia but this picture fit just right.
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Best part about this new setup is opening the sliding door to my balcony at 5am and feeling that Florida breeze.
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I think I just committed to building an open source project with my YouTube audience😬.
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Django developers looking to use MongoDB, please DO NOT use the Djongo package. To many videos recommending it, its not supported and does not have the functionality that's needed!.
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Fun fact: Everything you say on the internet will be taken out of context, EVERYTHING, even this. .
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I started dreaming about the life I have right now 9 years ago. It was a long journey, I’m still not exactly where I want to be, but damn it’s been worth it.
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It appears to me that #Flutter developers are part of a cult like group. Should we add them to the list of national security threats?.
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Just got word from an old coworker that my boss has been bad mouthing me for a year and a half since I quit. Problem is, I don’t think about him at all 😂.
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AWS just gets more secure everyday 🤣 There's no way a bot can get past this captcha.
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You ever type so fast that it scares you? Feels like my fingers have a mind of their own sometimes 😳.
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I would benefit greatly from YouTube adding a 4x speed option.
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I moved across the country to fulfill a dream and a promise I made to my wife, but I’m missing my family right about now. Feel like someone ripped my heart out of my chest. Cherish your family and never forget to let them know how much you love them.
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Are unpaid internships a scam or opportunity? . I’ll be live on twitter spaces with @PrasoonPratham in about an hour (12pm EST) to debate this so join the conversation!.
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@thedivyareddyy As someone who’s reviewed at least a thousand resumes by now, here are my thoughts:. First off, good information. I’m able to get an idea of your skills and work experience. However, this can be significantly reduced. You don’t need to mention every detail. Just Summarize your.
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I am officially going on a hunger strike. @traversymedia promised me he would live stream on my channel and so far nothing. That’s it Brad, you did this. .
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No, you DONT need to learn web3. Please stop with nonsense headlines like this.
To succeed in the future, you MUST learn web3. Here's a list of 24 top resources to get up to speed (for free):.
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A lot of the struggles I went through early on in life seemed pointless at the time. I’m starting to see their purpose now.
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There will be times when you pour your heart into something and nothing will come of it. Those who can brush off these failures and move on without looking back are the ones that ultimately succeed.
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I’ve done several unpaid internships and never regretted it. If I had to start my dev journey all over again I’d start by offering my services free for a few months just to get my foot in the door.
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“Most people that tell you the ‘correct’ way to develop applications have never built a real working product themselves” - @svpino.
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Not every idea you have has to be revolutionary, you don’t even have to be first to market. You could just make your product a little different, more convenient, or simply just have a different marketing approach. 💡.
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The more frameworks I try the more I appreciate the genius of Django.
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Since a few people asked, all the jobs I’ve had and age:.- News paper route - 8.- landscaper - 10.- House painter- 14.- landscaper - 16.- UPS loader - 17.- computer repair - 17.- handy man - 18.- construction- 19.- Wordpress developer/marketer - 19.
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