A Story About Kanye West and Learning to Code

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, Technology, News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Harry Dry about the crazy story behind his Kanye West dating site, how he taught himself to code, and how to come up with cool side projects! Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Sanity - Sponsor Sanity.io is a real-time headless CMS with a fully customizable Content Studio built in React. Get a Sanity powered site up and running in minutes at sanity.io/create. Get an awesome supercharged free developer plan on sanity.io/syntax. Show Notes 2:30 - How did you get into web dev and come up with the idea for the Kanye West dating website? 10:29 - Do you have a background in design? 13:05 - What’s your story? 15:28 - Do you wear yeezys? 36:26 - What made you decide to take this story and make a bit site out of it? What was the plan? 40:45 - How did you learn to code? How did you decide what to learn next? 45:30 - How do you push through hard problems? 48:50 - Any final advice to offer? Links The Kanye Story TheNetNinja @rogerfederer Refactoring UI @GonzoVice Dang That’s Delicious Puck @joerogan Code Academy ChatKit by Pusher @grantimahara Mythbusters @elonmusk Marketing Examples @goodmarketinghq @harrydry ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: BattleBots Wes: Logitech MX Master 2S Wireless Mouse Harry: Twitter Demetricator Harry: CAMP LIFE: BIG JOHN FURY GIVES TOUR OF VINTAGE CARAVAN Shameless Plugs Wes: All Courses - Use the coupon code ‘Syntax’ for $10 off! Scott: Dev Tools and Debugging and Gatsby and E-commerce Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	You're listening to Syntax.
0:02.8	The Podcast with the Tastiest Web Development Treats out there.
0:06.0	Strap yourself in and get ready.
0:08.0	Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.
0:10.5	Welcome to Syntax. This is the podcast with the Tastiest web development treats.
0:17.0	Today we have a super interesting guest on a super interesting story about
0:23.2	Koney West. I'm just gonna say that and I'm gonna, Kanyy West is not on the podcast right now, but close enough.
0:29.8	We'll talk about that in just a second, but we'll do our sort of pre-show stuff that we need to talk about real quick.
0:35.8	We are sponsored by two awesome companies, Century, which is going to do all of your error and exception tracking,
0:40.9	and Sanity, which allows you to build with structured content.
0:45.1	So you can distribute to any device or channel over flexible APIs with a fully
0:49.4	customizable ReactJAS editor.
0:51.5	We'll talk about that part way through the episode. So with me as always is
0:55.7	Mr. Scott Tolinsky. How you doing today, Scott? Hey, doing good. Yeah, fill in the flow of things.
1:01.6	Yeah, I don't know. We just launched a new course yesterday and so I am ready to start the month over and start working on the next one.
1:08.6	Awesome. Yeah, that's good. Happy to have Harry here today. Yeah, so welcome to our guest, Harry Dry.
1:15.0	Welcome, Harry.
1:16.0	Thanks for coming on.
1:17.0	Absolute pleasure, guys.
1:18.0	There's no place I'd rather be right now.
1:22.0	So Harry is a developer from, where are you from, England?
1:26.0	Yeah, live in London, that one.
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