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Ben Awad discusses his recent work as a game developer and his transition from skateboarding to software development. He describes the challenges of balancing creative freedom with professional expectations, and shares some of his favorite memories from playing basketball with friends.

00:00:00 The video discusses Ben Awad's recent work as a game developer. Ben explains that he has always been interested in software development, but found skateboarding to be a more creative and rewarding activity. He eventually quit skateboarding to pursue a career in software development, and now works as a game developer. Ben discusses the challenges of balancing creative freedom with professional expectations, and describes some of his favorite memories from playing basketball with friends.
00:05:00 The video discusses YouTube creator Ben Awad's recent experiments with daily uploads and short form vertical content. Awad believes that the viewers YouTube is aiming for are too senior, but he is still curious about Tick Tock.
00:10:00 The video's creator discusses how he changed and made it work on Tick Tock, which is a different platform compared to his YouTube channel. He found that making coding content that is different and more fun to watch works well on Tick Tock. He also suggests that making content that is clickable and holds the viewer's attention for a long period of time is important on YouTube, which is where he has a disadvantage. Primagen, a YouTuber who the creator says is a better filmmaker than he is, shares a similar opinion.
00:15:00 Ben Awad discusses the decline of senior YouTube content and the role of an editor in helping to maintain quality. He says that he is "pleased or pleasantly happy" with the editor he uses, and that if he had a fat salary at Google, his incentive to post YouTube videos would be very low. He concludes by urging other tech workers to make YouTube videos as a means of staying engaged and growing their careers.
00:20:00 In the video, Ben Awad discusses the current state of YouTube and its various platforms, highlighting the importance of senior users and how they're driving growth in the market. He also discusses how Twitter is a top choice for information and discusses how Tanner Lindsley introduced him to Alex, the creator of trpc.
00:25:00 In the video, Ben Awad discusses the pros and cons of different types of programming languages. He specifically discusses typescript and its different features relative to other languages. He also discusses how to use trpc, a tool that helps generate graphql schemas.
00:30:00 Ben Awad discusses the work he's been doing recently, which includes developing a game and working on a startup. He also discusses his experience as a startup founder, comparing it to traditional software development jobs.
00:35:00 The video discusses Ben Awad's recent activity, which includes creating a lot of educational content and providing feedback to developers. Ben argues that slow iteration cycles are valuable, and that the feedback loops available to content creators on YouTube are unique and valuable.
00:40:00 Ben Awad discusses how the mindset of a YouTube creator and a founder is different, and how content is essentially a startup. He also says that engineering is the most different from the other two, and that the lines between the two can blur depending on the type of content.
00:45:00 The video discusses Ben Awad's recent activity and how it differs from his usual activity of coding. Ben says that he misses coding every day and that he has had to take a step back from some of his responsibilities as CEO of his company. He advises that if you want to be successful on YouTube, you need to be persistent and keep making content.
00:50:00 The video's speaker discusses how their team operates and how they prioritize work. They say that, as a leader, it's important for them to be as familiar with what's going on as possible. They say that, because their team is small, they have to be careful not to put too much pressure on themselves and their co-founder.
00:55:00 In this video, Ben Awad discusses some of the recent changes he's made to Notion, including moving to a linear format for all discussion and planning. He also mentions that he likes GitHub, but that there are room for improvements in the UI. He says that he's tired of talking about Angular and offers his thoughts on lip sockets and websockets.

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Ben Awad is a YouTuber who is known for his work in web development. Recently, he has been relying on third-party websocket providers, but has been having difficulty with them. In the video, he talks about how he would like to build his own provider, but is afraid of the difficulty of doing so. He also mentions that Agora has great infrastructure, and that he would switch to them if Planet Scale didn't have good customer service.

01:00:00 The YouTube video is about Ben Awad's recent reliance on third-party websocket providers, and the difficulties he's experienced with them. He talks about how he would like to build his own provider, but is afraid of the difficulty of doing so. He also mentions that Agora has great infrastructure, and that he would switch to them if Planet Scale didn't have good customer service.
01:05:00 The video discusses Ben Awad's recent experience with a third party provider. Ben explains that the provider is often difficult to work with, and that their dependencies are scattered across many different services. He also mentions that he is currently using AWS products to store some of his data.
01:10:00 The video discusses Ben Awad's recent work, which includes managing a large number of third-party providers. Ben says that he tries to keep his tech list short, but that he can be convinced to use a third-party provider when it is necessary. He also discusses his dislike of migrations, and his opinion that schema changes should be reflected in commits and a deploy, rather than being handled by a migration.
01:15:00 This YouTube user discusses recent changes to Planet Scale, which allow for multiple changes to be written to a database in parallel, and how it has saved their company's life multiple times. They also mention their experience with freelancing and their current sources of income.
01:20:00 The video discusses Ben Awad's recent activity on YouTube, including his discovery of cryptocurrency and his efforts to raise money through Brave. Awad discusses his plans for the money he has raised, and suggests that other YouTube Founders focus on shipping their products rather than optimizing for "what's right now." He also mentions that he is working on a new project that he is keeping secret.
01:25:00 The speaker describes their experience as a founder, and how it is helpful to be surrounded by other founders in the tech industry. They mention that it's harder for non-content creators to get into the founder bubbles, and that it is important to have people you can trust and compare yourself against to stay motivated.
01:30:00 Ben Awad discusses his views on content creation, and how he typically approaches it - by experimenting with both pre-written and improvisational content. He mentions that, for him, the main pain point with serverless is the cold start.
01:35:00 The video discusses Ben Awad's recent work, which includes creating an app that uses serverless technology and using edge computing to improve performance. Ben discusses the pros and cons of serverless technology, and compares and contrasts it with Lambda. He also shares a project he recently completed that uses serverless technology and cloudflare workers to render a page on the edge.
01:40:00 The YouTube video "WTF Is Ben Awad Up To Lately???" follows SQL database via HTTP not like a SQL connection so I don't have to have a native layer binding a connection to the database directly. I'm not hitting a connection pooling limit or anything, because I'm not connecting to the database. I'm sending serialized SQL via HTTP to the server, and then the server responds with the Json blob result that I can do whatever I want with. I attached Keely to it, which is like a prism like query builder that's typesafe and now I have DIY Prisma that's Edge ready with 300 milliseconds or less of load in like the region that my database is around. Do you know if uh Lambda Edge does that? It does! Just saying that. The next step is starting to get like worker ready, they most recent two next updates they added an optional like run in Edge workers thing you can call out in the config and then Versa will deploy those specific functions and endpoints to Edge the SSR part still is pretty inconsistent and slow if you edge render for it and it breaks like with random packages in ways that aren't particularly easy to debug still but for the back end stuff it's pretty
01:45:00 The YouTube video "WTF Is Ben Awad Up To Lately???" follows Ben Awad as he tries out a new approach to web development - programmatic validation. Ben finds that his bandwidth usage has decreased, and he is curious to know how many people are using his services.
01:50:00 The video discusses Ben Awad's recent changes to his pricing for S3 storage, which have raised eyebrows among customers. It explains that these changes are due to the increase in bandwidth costs, and that customers can expect to spend more in the future if they don't use S3 sparingly. Finally, the video asks a question and provides a one-liner summary of Yuri Milner's answer.
01:55:00 The video discusses Ben Awad's recent activities, which seem to be focused on developing a new, platform-independent streaming tool called Ping. This tool would allow streamers to bypass Twitch's reliance on ping-based streaming, which many feel is detrimental to their success. The CEO of Twitch reached out to Ben Awad and appears to have restored some of his faith in the platform.

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The video is a discussion with Ben Awad about his recent projects and how he approaches content creation. He talks about how he's been feeling lately and how it's less fun to work on larger code bases. He also says that most of the people who watch his videos to learn how to build their next big thing don't have anything big enough to work on yet.