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I'm Building a NestJS Course for Scrimba | Channel Updates

• Don Hansen • Season 1 • Episode 193

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Building a NestJS course for Scrimba and other channel & life updates

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Don Hansen:

Hey, so I'm going to be building out a NestJS course for Scrimpa. Essentially it's probably going to take about like a month or two, but I want to live stream it with you guys and I wanted to just hop on with this video and share some updates with you guys as well. But essentially I kind of have a pretty good idea of what I want to create for a Nest Jazz course. But Scrimpa is kind of expanding with its back-end curriculum and I do think if you have any serious intentions to go a little bit more towards the back-end, you've got to expand outside of the normal Mernstack tutorial and I think Nest is a really good stepping stone in that direction. I think nest not next nest is a fantastic back-end framework for node. You're still going to hit some of your limitations with node, but you can really build something scalable and maintainable and manageable with a larger team with Nest. And I think Nest is also something that kind of just got me to want to be a better software engineer in general. There's just something that it kind of forced me to upgrade with how I built out and essentially organized my application, especially in the backend, and I felt like it was kind of like the Wild West and I was doing the best that I could to organize it in a way that made sense for me, but I never really had a background with, like a MVC framework or something a little heavier. You know, I came from the React world. I worked with React professionally and React is just a view and you got to pull in a bunch of other external libraries to get React to do what you want it to do. And you know, I never worked with Angular, which is a bit more of a full-fledged framework, right, I didn't work with these frameworks that you're going to see on a little bit more organized, scalable teams, and so Nest kind of just exposed me to different ways of doing things and I'm kind of expanding my knowledge outside of that in different languages and different ecosystems over the course of this entire year and I'm having a lot of fun with it and that's another thing I'm finally wanting to become a good software engineer. I'm finally wanting to explore different languages and different ways of doing things. I felt trapped in this little front-end React ecosystem and I didn't like it right. So I think Nest is a really cool project that I'd love to be able to teach and get other people to dive into and see if maybe they could see what I'm seeing. It just got me excited about software engineering and it got me excited about becoming a better backend developer too. So I was a little hesitant on Scrimba building out some backend courses and I've been vocal about that and I've been vocal about that. But that's only because when platforms start to expand and provide more variety, I see the quality of what they were really good at go down. That's what I was worried about with Scrimpa. But I have a little bit more confidence that they still truly care about the quality of their front end program. So they're expanding to the back end.

Don Hansen:

And yeah, I don't know if you're a current Scrimba member, you can. I don't know when that's going to be released. I'm not sure some of this has been released already, but I do think it's coming soon. So, anyways, if you're a current Scrimba member, you can check it out. There's a discount below. It's just an affiliate link. If you want a bit of a discount gives me a little bit of a commission, but you don't have to go through the commission. You can just check out their website on your own.

Don Hansen:

Um, I think it's a cool platform, so I'm building the course for them. I just want to update you guys with that and I'm going to be live streaming it at least most of the days. I really want to do majority of the content where we kind of just build it live. Uh, per, the founder of Scrimba, is okay with that, so I think he even encouraged it. Anyways, I'm excited about that. So we're going to be doing more live streams, so look out for that. It's probably going to start off in the evening.

Don Hansen:

So I'm going to try to get a good stream schedule, but I have to. I have to figure out, I have to get used to live streaming. I know that sounds silly because I've been live streaming each week, but I don't do it for long and I don't do it every day. I don't know how people do that. I feel like it sucks the energy out of me. I think it's just something I have to practice. So I'm going to try. I don't know what my schedule is going to be, but I am going to stream more often. There's a lot I want to do there to be, but I am going to stream more often. There's a lot I want to do. There's a lot I need to do, including.

Don Hansen:

I want to do more bootdev stuff. We're diving into Python. I'm actually liking Python a lot. It's fun, it's a clean language. Scope things have I don't know. I like Scope and JavaScript. Python is a little bit more loose. There are certain variables that I shouldn't have access to, but I do. That's like one thing I don't like about Python. But I eventually want to dive into Django and build something with Django, with it. But I'm having fun with the bootdev stuff. I really am. I've gone through the entire front-end curriculum with Scribba. I want to go through the entire curriculum with bootdev because they're my two affiliate partners and you know, quite frankly, I feel lucky. I finally I know I say this a lot, but I finally found two programs one front-end focus, one back-end focus that are really good for self-taught developers. I feel so fortunate to be able to recommend these resources and not just do it for the money. Now, granted, they are a good income, they are, and they're allowing me to have a little bit more freedom to do some of the stuff that I want to do. They're extra income in that regard on top of my mentorship sessions. So like I just feel like I'm in a very good situation right now.

Don Hansen:

In 2025, the revenue's increasing. I feel a little bit more comfortable. It's not going like paycheck to paycheck every single month. We're gonna figure out, like, how to supplement so I can put food on the table. In 2025, I feel a little bit more comfortable, um, so I'm feeling good about that. I'm eating better, I'm taking care of myself better, I don't know. 2025 is just an awesome year, but I'm going to do more bootdev live streams, so I'll probably do some of that in the morning. If you checked out my morning streams, I intermittent fast, so my brain doesn't work as well because I have no food I mean no carbs whatsoever doesn't work as well because I have no food I mean no carbs whatsoever. But I'm starting to get used to it a little bit. So we still make progress and we're getting through the python stuff and then we're going to get to a certain point where I'm going to learn django. I'm going to build something with that. I already have ideas in mind.

Don Hansen:

I don't know if I'm going to replace my main website with or next, not nest. Next, I might finally try out. Next, when Scrimba releases the next course. I don't know if I'm going to like it. I might really regret that decision, but my Donda developer website is just a marketing website and I am tired of dealing with Google Search Console, essentially de-indexing all my crap because for some reason the JavaScript just loads at the right time half the time with Google. It's so frustrating. So just to have server-side rendering and hydration set up automatically, where I don't have to worry about that, next is a good tool for that. Again, I don't think Next is a bad tool, but it is a tool it should be used for everything. That's what I try to get people to realize. But some Nexus form a bit of a cult and I argue with all those cult members, but I do think it's a tool that maybe I'll use in 2025.

Don Hansen:

So I don't know if I'm going to build my main website with Django or build a different app with it or dive into Next. I don't know, we'll see, but I kind of just want to give you a heads up on some of the stuff that I've been talking with people about in my stream. So I'm just constantly learning and I want to build more stuff and I have a little bit more revenue and freedom to do that now, so I'm also going to be diving a little bit deeper into twitch sprout, into nest um. Now that I'm building the nest course it just makes sense to and I have a little bit more free time, it makes sense to be able to pair that with actually flushing out more features with my twitch sprout app, um. But yeah, we're going to be doing a lot of live streams, a lot of building, a lot of learning, so definitely check those out.

Don Hansen:

But I wanted to talk to you about one more thing, um, a lot of you like, if you've been here a while, you found my channel because I was doing a lot of coding bootcamp reviews and I kind of just want to talk about, like, my perspective as a creator, as a content creator who used to be a developer, a professional developer. Like I still code, I still build things, but I haven't worked for a company in five something years now. I'm just learning what I want and building what I want. I'm a better developer than I was when I was a professional developer, but it's because I can explore whatever the hell I want to explore. I'm not niching down into just solving that specific company's problems. I could just build and learn whatever the fuck I want, and I love that, but I feel like some of the initial years, especially doing a bunch of coding bootcamp reviews, I don't think I was in that good of a place.

Don Hansen:

I felt like the more I would like call companies out and call people out. I don't think that's the best version of myself. I think it's necessary sometimes. But I kind of felt like people kept asking me and they would submit their individual complaints and like, this coding bootcamp scammed me and they would submit their individual complaints and like this coding boot camp scammed me. And you have to call them out, don. And like a lot of times I would ask like, ok, why don't you come onto my podcast and share your story? No, no, no, I can't do that. I can't do that. You know I it's going to void my refund, or I'm afraid of them like coming after me legally. I'm like, ok, so you don't care if they come after me legally, you just don't want them to come after you. Okay, well, why don't you send me the contract that you signed? Well, no, I can't do that, um, or I don't have the contract anymore.

Don Hansen:

It's like I had a lot of people just upset about their experience with a coding bootcamp where, like, extremely few people would even just send their contract over and then, like 99.9 of the time, it's like did you read this clause right here? Did you read this contract at all? I know you're upset. This sucks. It sucks to have a shitty experience, but but listen, when you guys sign stuff, you have to read it. This is just a learning lesson for you and it's expensive. You got to read your shit. A lot of people don't read contracts. I'm telling you do not sign contracts when you are not even just with coding boot camps, just in general. When you're signing big contracts, please fucking read the contract.

Don Hansen:

And so I felt bad because a lot of people were just upset with their experience and because most coding boot camps even back at the day they weren't that good. There were, um, kind of like a small selection of coding boot camps are really fucking good and would land you software engineering jobs pretty effectively. But you know, like the majority of the industry just got, it created a bad rap for the entire industry, unfortunately, and a lot of good coding boot camps went under, which sucks. I don't like seeing shitty coding boot camps stay up right now and, like a lot of the good coding boot camps, go under. That's been hard to, that's been really hard to see. But either way, I feel like as a creator.

Don Hansen:

I sometimes watch other creators like call out other YouTubers and call out people in the world and I just I think it takes a certain type of personality type to do that. I can do that. But if I'm doing that majority of my time, I just find that I become unhappier and I'm always like I train my brain to constantly be critical of everything and focus on the negative of everything and I realized over the years I just train my brain to do that over and over and over and it's, it's not enjoyable. I just don't have the personality type to do that majority of the time. I have to be very selective when I do that and it's obviously clear I dunk on stuff. I have fun, but it's. I feel like now it's a little bit more lighthearted. I don't know, I just feel better, I feel happier.

Don Hansen:

So I know some people have been wanting me to like do these call out videos? I just don't care. I want to build stuff, I want to create stuff, I want to put stuff out in the world, not tear stuff down. That's kind of why I've been moving away from that direction of like calling people out. I just I don't know, it just doesn't seem like the direction I want to go in in the future. So I just want to give people a heads up on that. But I like the idea of grading a course, the idea of building an app. These kind of things excite me. They, they just they feel fulfilling, they energize me. I, I enjoy it. I enjoy the experience of doing these things, um.

Don Hansen:

So you're probably going to see more of that um, and probably a lot of memeing, but I just want to give you a heads up. So we're going to be doing a lot of live streams. You're welcome to swing by the Scrimba stuff. I don't know what my schedule is going to be, but if you're on my Discord, you can definitely check out the Discord. I stream mostly to Twitch and YouTube, but if I stream, it's almost always on Twitch, so definitely follow me on Twitch. Don the developer Anything else? I think that's it, yeah. Developer anything else? I think that's it. Yeah, I'd love to see in the live streams. Even if you have like a web dev question. Uh, you're trying to become a web developer. You have questions about like just standing out stuff like that. Feel free to swing on by. Happy to answer as best as I can, but yeah, we're gonna be creating our first uh programming course, which is pretty cool, so look out for that and hopefully I will see you in the live streams.