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TypeScript and Side Projects with Dylan Israel

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Dylan went from Delivering Pizzas 🍕 to Delivering talks 🔊

Dylan Israel became a developer to solve a specific personal problem: poverty.

We met Dylan at DevFest Florida and knew that we had to have him come on the show!

Dylan dropped out of college twice, delivered pizzas for a living, and knew that he needed to make a change. So he taught himself to code, started a YouTube channel to help market his skills, and broke into the tech industry as a front-end developer.

In this episode we talk to Dylan about his story, plus his TypeScript recommendations and tips for working on side projects and content creation.


Show Notes

  • 1:10 - Intro
  • 2:47 - DevFest Florida
  • 4:13 - Dylan's TypeScript Talk
  • 5:42 - Junior Developers
  • 7:13 - Contractors < Juniors
  • 8:36 - Dylan's thoughts on TypeScript
  • 12:17 - TypeScript helpers and avoiding "any"
  • 16:28 - Interface Segregation Principle
  • 19:19 - Type Guards and the "is" keyword

  • 23:28 - Abstract Classes instead of Interfaces

  • 28:36 - Dylan's Background
  • 32:25 - Coding Motivation: Poverty
  • 33:37 - College Programming Courses

    • Opportunity Costs
  • 38:43 - Direction and Mentorship
  • 41:20 - YouTube and Side Projects
  • 42:53 - What makes a good side project?
  • 44:19 - Side Project Rate of Return
  • 46:17 - Giving away your best content for free
  • 47:50 - Passive Income
  • 49:36 - Building a Following
  • 51:35 - Where to find Dylan online

  • 52:24 - Nerd Minute!

    • Board Games

      • Secret Hitler
      • Munchkin
      • RummiKube
    • Movies

      • Iron Sky
    • Anime

      • No Guns Life
      • Sound and Fury
      • My Hero Academia
      • Promised Neverland
      • Deadman Wonderland
      • Haikyuu
      • Toriko
      • Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
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Wed, February 26, 2020, 1:00 PM UTC