Austin Griffith: Dev Tooling, Scaffold-ETH, and Leveling Up as a Web3 Dev

Episode 2 features Austin Griffith: a leader in the Ethereum developer ecosystem. In this episode, we discuss Austin’s process for building developer tooling, new developments that Austin is excited about at the application layer, and how to level up as a solidity developer.
Today, we have Austin Griffith, dev tooling & dev education extraordinaire. He’s the creator of countless high value dev tools, including ETH.Build, Scaffold-ETH, and Speed Run Ethereum. In this episode, we discuss Austin’s process for building developer tooling, new developments that Austin is excited about at the application layer, and how to level up as a solidity developer.

00:23 How Austin got into Ethereum
2:23 Austin walks through the first dapps he ever built: games
4:28 Austin’s entry into dev tooling
8:15 ETH.Build
13:40 Scaffold-ETH
21:47 Speed Run Ethereum
27:45 Taking a PM approach to building dev tooling
30:36 Austin shouts out other great devrel resources
33:02 Becoming an elite web3 developer
40:40 The state of existing dev tooling
47:49 New developments in the application layer that Austin is excited about
49:30 Nifty Ink - using meta transactions to improve UX
56:03 Austin’s vision for web3 in 10 years: public keys will be as ubiquitous as an email address

Links:
Scaffold ETH: https://docs.scaffoldeth.io/scaffold-eth/
Speed Run Ethereum: https://speedrunethereum.com/
Austin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/austingriffith
Ethereum Resources: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/

Austin Griffith: Dev Tooling, Scaffold-ETH, and Leveling Up as a Web3 Dev
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