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Teaching Databases, Writing PHP, and Independent Work with Aaron Francis

Aug 27, 2024
01:21:36

Today's episode is with database educator, PHP enthusiast, and all-around good guy Aaron Francis.

Aaron is one of the best out there at delivering high-quality educational content. Somehow, he's managed to have three different video courses sell over $100k in wildly different fields -- a college corporate accounting class aide, video screencasting, and high-performance SQLite.

In this episode, we talked about a lot of things, including:


- Why (and when!) to use SQLite

- What courses he's looking at next

- How to stay sharp when doing educational content

- His origin story as a programmer

- Getting kids to be high agency

- How PHP became classy.


Links

https://www.epicweb.dev/why-you-should-probably-be-using-sqlite

https://highperformancesqlite.com/


Timestamps


Intro 01:41

Why SQLite 03:31

When to use SQLite 09:14

SQLite Creators 14:20

Holy smokes 17:29

jsonb Indexing? 22:07

SQLite Course 23:54

Vendor Specific Courses? 26:17

Postgres Course Timing 30:26

Nights and Weekends 30:46

Getting into Databases 35:38

Going back to Programming 39:22

In 20 years 40:48

Kids 42:08

Making money is a skill? 47:52

Balancing Video Creation and Programming 50:43

Sustainable Business 54:23

Doing SaaS 56:13

Working for someone else 57:38

Secret Sauce for Video Content 58:34

PHP 01:05:56

Taylor and Laravel 01:13:31

Vue 01:18:39

Warp-up 01:20:41

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