#141 Lessons from freelancing for dozens of startups with Eddie Jaoude
The freeCodeCamp Podcast
Quincy Larson
5.0 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 124 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Eddie Jaoude who is a software engineer and open source creator.
He's worked more than 15 years as a developer everywhere from Germany banking sector to London's tech startup scene. He's now a dev rel for hire and runs several open source projects.
We talk about:
- Eddie's journey into open source
- How he built his reputation through hackathons
- How he leveraged his network to find his first freelance clients
- His audio-video setup for filming tutorials
Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's the theme from a 1982 police show.
Also, I want to thank the 10,773 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate
Links we talk about during our conversation:
Eddie's YouTube channel with more than 700 tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5mnBodB73bR88fLXHSfzYA
Eddie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/eddiejaoude
Eddie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eddiejaoude/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There's actually one thing that really helped me with my content, especially on Twitter, is the 80-20 rule. |
| 0:05.0 | 80% I stuck in my niche. |
| 0:08.0 | Open source, you know, open source, that was my niche. |
| 0:10.4 | Open source web development, like, so JavaScript, typescript, et cetera, and so forth. |
| 0:14.4 | But I did 20% outside that. |
| 0:17.5 | So I did do a bit of Kubernetes, a bit of DevOps, a bit of automation. |
| 0:21.6 | And I think it's important for people to experiment with that 20%. And so 80% keep it on brand. About 20% do experiment with stuff. Welcome back to the Free Code Camp podcast. I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of FreakokeCamp.org. Each week, we're bringing you insight from developers, founders, and ambitious people getting into tech. |
| 0:57.6 | This week, we're talking with Eddie Jowd. He's a software engineer and open source creator. |
| 1:04.4 | He's worked for more than 15 years as a developer everywhere from Germany's banking sector to London's tech startup scene. |
| 1:12.0 | And he's now a dev rel for hire. |
| 1:17.6 | And he runs several open source projects. |
| 1:20.5 | Eddie, such a pleasure to have you on here, man. |
| 1:22.9 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:24.2 | I'm super excited to geek out with you today. |
| 1:26.3 | I know we're going to have a great discussion. Yeah, man. You're like, you're somebody who I've intended to |
| 1:30.7 | interview for a long time. Obviously, you're like a very big in the open source space, like |
| 1:36.3 | pretty much anybody who knows open source probably has heard your name before because |
| 1:42.6 | you're advocating for open source at |
| 1:45.6 | different companies you're teaching people how to use open source and of course uh you run your own |
| 1:52.0 | open source projects uh so yeah it's like really chill to have you here thank you so much i am so |
| 1:58.5 | excited i'm a bit nervous because I'm with Quincy, |
| 2:04.5 | like, you know, the founder of Free Code Cam. I mean, that's a bit nerve-wracking, but like I said, |
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