Patrick Collins - Developer Advocacy, New Tooling, & Chainlink

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Today’s guest is Patrick Collins. You may know Patrick from his YouTube channel or his work at Chainlink, where he serves as a Lead Developer Advocate.

Patrick is one of the industry’s best educators and devrel pros. His latest 32 hour, full stack web3 development course was viewed over 1.3M times, and lives on as one of the best resources for people who want to go from zero to hero as a web3 dev. In this episode, we talk through how Patrick thinks about developer education, developer tooling, and building communities. We also touched on what he’s most excited about in the space & the Chainlink pipeline.

00:00 Intro

4:10 How did Patrick get into crypto?

5:57 Chainlink & the importance of oracles

7:57 First crypto projects

9:07 Does Patrick still hate Javascript?

10:33 Early challenges of building smart contracts

11:50 How Patrick approaches videos/tutorial content

18:17 Maintaining docs & videos as the tech progresses

21:12 How does Patrick stay on top of endless developer questions?

27:02 Bad advice or bad patterns Patrick sees in devrel

32:53 The smart contract language debate

35:42 How Patrick approaches smart contract security

38:07 What tooling does Patrick wishes someone would build?

40:42 What is Patrick excited about?

Patrick on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/patrickcollins
Patrick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/patrickalphac
Chainlink: https://chain.link/