Sonny! It is so wonderful to see you coming back to your roots. I became part of the papfam a few years ago and used to love watching you faithfully because of your authentic positivity and transparency! I’ve been so proud of you and feel you deserve all of your success. The only thing I was always concerned about for you is that you worked so hard for us that you were missing out on life and that you would burn out. You have to take care of you physically, mentally, spiritually & emotionally and spend time with those you love first. At the end of the day, it’s what matters. Thank you for all of the sacrifices you have made for us viewers. I decided to go back to school last April and just recently completed my masters in data science. At 54, I’m now looking for how I can use it to make a difference. I say that to encourage you. Stay true to who you are. You are making a difference not only technically but because of opening your life up to show the good the bad and the ugly. Thank you Sonny. Be blessed. 🙏🏼❤️
Denise!!! this is SUCH a lovely message thank you so much even after all this time you're still here supporting! I appreciate the kind words and advice so much I really do - I make this content because i simply LOVE it and thats why this video was so important, its finding my feet back to that place once again! WELL DONE for the data science masters, age is just a number and you're proof of that youre absolutely crushing it well done - and youre message truly did encourage me so thank you Denise. Ill be more transparent, more open & ill continue to bring value/content to the best of my ability, you have my word!!!
I have always loved the VLOGS a bit more, I dont always watch the build videos even though I am a dev but I always watch the VLOGS. They are incredible and it just gives me a sense of escapism from coding.
I've recently quit my job, and I've been without money for a while. My only source of entertainment is spending time with your videos. I don't know how much longer I can endure this unhappiness.
Stay positive & strong - I know it seems tough right now but the journey will be worth it. Practice and learn to code from my content & from youtube and change your life one day at a time, 1% better each day thats what counts
Love your content. I remember you back from the CP days when you were getting started. I can't elate to gym stuff as I'm physically disabled. My muscles can not grow. Any activity, any pushing myself, any trying, only leads to rapid self destruction. Decades of this reality profoundly impacts the mind, and severely restricts social interaction. Add to this incontinence which started in my teens. Nothjng about the hip/edgy/new wave positive mental attitude stuff lands with me, at all, because it's made by people who have no idea about my lived experience, and the challenges. For instance, you talk about loved ones, and doing for them. Believe me, I feel that, or felt that. But here I sit, homeless, cold, in a truck, soiled myself, and alone. My family doesn't care, discards me because I'm disabled and they're not interested in anything other than trying to squeeze myself into their definition of normalcy. My body does what it does and I have little control. I can control food intake, my weight, somewhat my sleep, but pain and breathing and hyperhydrosis and temperature disregulation all interfere. But I can tell you this about food. Stop cheating, stop eating that toxic plastic fake powder. Eat steak, eggs, chicken, fish. Stop making excuses, make time, and learn to love your greens. I'm lazy by nature, also a side effect of low energy from disability, so I measure protein, carbs, greens, get rice going, add the meat, then the fats like butter, then lightly steam veggies to preserve nutrients, all in a pot, 15 minutes or so, turn off heat, season as it rests and carryover heat finishes meat. Nothing beats real food, and I feel that more potently as I am more weak and more sensitive to body changes. If I ate that powder, and I did in the past, it made me feel ill, and the fake sweeteners triggered migraines. You may be getting away with it now, but it's youth, not health. You fades, healthnis how you really feel when you're no longer youthful. As for muscles, become aware of the miracle you can perform, just to stand up from the floor or walk across the room. Bulk up so you can carry a buddy like Jay in an emergency, help build something like a wall, carry furniture, bond with others in a friendly sport game, whatever. But don't get sucked into that trap of vanity or ego going for body builder physique or beat yoyrself up about arbitrary goals which honestly do not matter. Health, fitness, pragmatic use of muscle. As for some of your business partners, like Microsoft, I despise them, and probably many others. I don't want to operate anywhere in their sphere of influence, i don't want to enrich or empower them. Same goes for the bastards of the UAE royals. I don't want any part of that life. I'm not enticed by new flashy modern things when behind the scenes it's endless human rights abuses. I don't respect those decisions, but I do respect that those are your decisions to make. As for your tool stack, react is ok, react native is ok, but i despise the dependency on closed source cloud compiler. I want to build that shit on my own computer, not be beholden to others for a build tool. So I taught myself to build Android apps ON ANDROID, using Termux, basic tools, no Maven, no Gradle. Just straight up write XML, Java, JNI to C or C++, pull jars from maven repo online for standard android components, use my own build shell script for now, maybe Make or CMake later, maybe meson and ninja, idk. Next, I'm looking at portablr 2D and 3D and audio gaming libraries. I want to write my own game engine, make an online game playable on Android, Windows, or Linux. Did I mention I'm homeless? All I have is this phone. Right? Not ideal. But it doesn't matter. I'm working on my C++ skills, then will practice some coding patterns used in games. Yes, I understand JS much more, but I struggled with CSS trying to style web pages and apps. CSS just seems broken, as do browsers. Oh well. I enjoy Python a little, but many libs are just lacking, do umb things. Not crazy about bloated gaming engines encumbered by royalties, nor limited and broken open source engines. Besides, you can't build those games on Android, whereas smaller libs you can. So I'll try to do my own engine and see what I can learn. Yes, we differ in some values and choices and life experiences, that's fine, that's life, but we do share a love of pursuing whag we love, no compromising our vision, and not letting anyone or anything stop our pursuit. Yes, I'm looking to rsove housing issue, but there's absolutely no options here right now. I live lean. Minimal food, water, electricity, heat, comfort. It's enough, I'll live, and I'll figure out the rest later. Right, back to my code training. Anyways, even if I get housing and some help re-entering the "workforce", they only help abled bodied people do menial labor that my body can not do. I'd love to do a janitor job and have a house and land, and code evenings and weekends. Not an option. They have zero help for me. I can't do college. Too much strain on body and mind. Office work destroys my soul and mind. They have no help for self taught programmers who want to launch a game as a business venture. They will actively discoursge it an make rules to get me kicked out of "help" programs. Better off on my own, do it my way, do it my damned self.
Theres a whole lot more that goes into doing something like this. We're not just coders, we're thinkers, some of us creators, its hard but its honest work. So many of us are giving everything we have, some of us have been trying for years as well. But we never give up.
Your content is the best by far, I love every build you've done. Show us more real stuff, especially when you have the downs and how you overcome them. Also unit testing content please!
Hey sonny hope your doing well. I watched your streams from when you were making videos with clever programmers. After that i have watched and coded almost everything on youtube and am working as a mern stack developer. Thank you for being an amazing teacher who inspires not just the passion of coding but inspires the person to put more and more effort. One thing that i would highly ask of you to be more transparent with vlogs and stuff that i know go behind the making of a just 4 hour long stream. Thank you again and i hope you have a good day.
Honestly speaking, Every Time I see your video get motivation to do something big in life, I learn many things from you and your videos, Waiting for your video every day to learn new things, Really enjoy seeing
I started learning coding last year and the first thing that made me subscribe here is your positive energy and the music in the background while coding. Watched a couple of your previous vlogs as well. So i'd like to see more of these. it's refreshing content. Would love to see more builds at least 2 per month if possible. On a side note please telle Clerk team to have a dedicated pricing for B2C apps, I believe their actual price is geared towards B2B and SaaS companies. Will be coming to Dubai later this year, would love to meet you if you're still there.
Thank you so much & I got you - the build frequency will be higher than ever now trust me & we will keep the vlogs flowing with occasional tech videos as well on certain topics! Will share this with the Clerk team thank you!
Thanks for sharing your open and honest thoughts Sonny! You've been killin it since Day 1! If your looking to switch it up, making these Day in the Life Vlogs! Maybe show us some behind the scenes work with some of your partner projects, properties and whatever you got going on! You've got a good personality and seeing the more "personable" side of you would be a good change to switch things up a bit! Just a suggestion! Keep it up my boi!
We appreciate you, bro. At 22 in Kenya, last year made me realize the challenges of half-assing life. Your mentorship, assuring that all will be fine, is super cool, and I deeply appreciate it. Handling the low-level stuff, your content, especially this video, inspires me to persist. Thanks again, man!
this is nice Sonny, this is inspirational, I've been following you for years now. i really want to be like you, I code too, and I have interest in creating content to help people just like you. my wish is that you would mentor me on content creation.
Hi Sonny! You never fail to motivate us like you did when you started with PAPA FAM. Can't wait to again Hop in with you on this new journey. Surely would again start contributing to the community.
Your honest thoughts were meant for me to be heard. Saying no to the right people, so the right opportunities can come through! I know my worth, but I needed to hear that again...to give my 100%. Happy to hear, you could help your mom, that's a Childs dream to do that!! Follow what your soul, is telling you to do! That's what gives you genuine peace, Sonny! Keep up the good work!
We would literally love anything that comes from your HEART and MIND. E.g this vid is amazing because your genuineness shows. Your coding content is amazing because your passions shows in your work there as well. Keep following your dreams and your heart and keep us a part of your journey
Thank you for being so real Sonny. Sometimes all we see is a glimpse into someone else's life and we might assume it's perfect, but no one's life really is. Really appreciate your candor. Much love.
I appreciate this so much thank you for the support - I felt the same when I watched those I looked upto so believed it’s only right I try to follow suit & it feels just right doing so! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Honestly, I really love these vlogs, cause you are my inspiration, motivation. These world is about social media. Everyone show just nice cars, a lot of money, nic bodies... and sometimes I feel that I lost something, that I am down or that my boat is gone. These vlog are naturally and motivate me, that also you are a normal guy and thats a point why is these vlogs GREAT ! Thank you Sonny
This is really great to hear, ill keep it coming - I too agree with you, not enough of the 'raw' life is shown and i believe its SO SOOOO important to share this - Im just another normal guy dude so anything is really possible! Keep it up and thanks for the support!
Looking forward to see the 40 hours, my friend. Really wanna see what it takes to build a fullstack web clone from start. I think that's the real bit I've been waiting to see.
You were the one of great teachers who made me that I could to learn more about programming languages and I became someone more than before. Your various tips and methods made me understand the language better. I always told my girlfriend that I want to meet you oneday and take a selfie (hope this dream will done). Every video of your is perfect. I'd love to get know more about your daily life, various problems in the lives of programmers, how to deal with job burnout (you could tell about this from people's stories, it might be interesting content). Best Papa! :D
Wow, thank you so much for the kind words it means a tonne - dude ill 100000% take a selfie anyday, we'll get a coffee together if you're ever about I LOVE meeting the PAPAFAM members! Thats a great idea about the stories - we have lots to share, ill add this to the list of upcoming content ideas! Thanks for being awesome!!!
I remember those days; and I got massive value when I wanted someone to explain those Java Concepts in a simplified and concise manner for a newbie - you did exactly that. You were really good with Java but React took you to greater heights. Managing social media on a consistent basis can be headache for a lot of people - you're not alone. Maybe in future, you'll hire someone to manage it on your behalf and free up some valuable time. Congratulations on your latest investment Bro. You work hard and you deserve it.
best advice I can get from millions of self help books and videos. What fires me is to see the Honest and true part, the whole picture. not just the best perfect thing. I LOOOve seeing this. keep it up sonny
Loved the coding videos, loved the podcasts, loved the vlogs, and loved when rocky dressed as an air hostess and traveled on the plane. Its always good to have the changes and I feel getting to know the raw is gonna be even more interesting. Keep going bro.
I love that you followed across socials! that is dope lolll (especially rocky's air hostess dressup haha) Ill keep em coming thank you for the support!!!
Bro, hopefully you will overcome those personal hurdles. Sounds like relationship issues more, but could be wrong. However hopefully you will get over it amd start falling in love with content creation. Love the vlogs, favs are the Rolex, Tesla and podcasts with Jay and how you created the business. You also taught me to look after your health and I even booked a PT. Keep up the raw vlogs, keep smashing it dude. Papafam are behind you. 👏💪
Thank you for the support bro! Im so glad you enjoyed those vlogs, they're some of my favourites too! - Especially the pod's with Jay. Great job booking the PT sessions - keep pushing forward you got this and HELL YES we got that PAPAFAM energy all the way up! Appreciate you!
I used to watch you a lot and life got busy on me but I can see that you've gone through a lot lately and I genuinely wish you the best! Never settle buddy! Never settle! I think you know what I mean!
Sonny you help me a lot when it comes to react, i wish i can thank you face to face but it easy to say it on the comment, God bless you, i work hard and also pray to God to be the best programmer like you, keep those vlogs up it is what keeps us going. will pray for you
You are the inspiration behind many developers like me. Keep up the amazing effort! Sonny.. Thank you for being a source of inspiration and motivation. 🚀
Yessss Sonny, Honestly loved this video. I would love to see more vlogs and DITL Videos but not just the normal aesthetic videos, but Raw, real content.
I gotchu, i felt the same with my favourite influencers also hence why I want to show the RAW aspect of life, its much more relatable and inspiring. Ill keep it coming thank you for the support!
Honestly, I'm waiting for this kind of content of yours. I really like to see how's your day-to-day. You're my inspiration and you are one of the reason I want to start my own company. Hoping we can work together in the future. Great content! You're killing it man!
More Live Streams for sure, they are really helpful for upskilling, also maybe some videos to guide us how to write production level code and the best practices for coding. Your channel is really amazing man, thank you for existing ❤
Much love and respect, I konw your channel almost since the beggening, and also same for Christian Guzman you are inspirations and example for me ! Keep up the good work and good luck
hey sonny, you mentioned you want to talk about things beside coding. can you talk about "scaling up" in one of your vlogs? like we all want to do somethings, and most people dont think about what they are gonna do after they have achieved that, i want to know how you managed to keep what you did rolling and expand it. thanks
Sonny Sangha was my the best friend and colleague when live streams was focused only on clones and different technologies. But, they are now once a month :( Sonny, thank you for all streams: React, React Native, Tailwind,... ;)
I can see y sometimes we question what we are doing, I do doubt sometimes myself whether shifting to becoming developer is worth it , Thank goodness I am not the only who feels like this, we all have these days it just sucks fr no reason but I believe we can take inspiration from sonny's journey that there is light . So keep up the good works, thanks for showing the diamond gang in this video bro.
I appreciate the honesty in this comment - 100% its totally normal to feel this way & I want to normalise this feeling because there is much more 'powering' a developer through the 100's hours of debugging than just 'simply loving it' and I believe this needs to be highlighted more in the coding space. Ill keep them coming & hell yeah had to represent the DIAMOND community in Zero To Full Stack Hero! #PAPAFAM
I left my 1st comment when the video was around the 8th minute but@@SonnySangha you've earned my total respect and get connected with you in most of the words you've spoken later on. I won't spam this video with my comments. I'm blessed to be part of the PAPAFAM for so long now. I have the privilige to meet you in the next weekly coaching call.
Sonny, you must learn to take longsuffering first, then gym later. Walk for 3 hours without stopping or eating. Bath or shower cold water first, then take on the roads. The reason I said you should walk is because breath and strength automatically deepen from both the top and sole of feet. The balance between water, sun, and earth in your body comes first. Gym is good but always start with your legs. REMEMBER, YOU FIRST WALK BEFORE YOU SPOKE JUST LIKE AND ANY OTHER HUMAN BORN OF A WOMAN. What I am telling you not many people know about. Breath and walking helps your heart and internal organs with strength work, plus your WHOLE MAJOR MUSCLES: CARDIAC, SMOOTH, AND SKELETAL muscles work symbiotically in tamden. Congrats with the second property in Dubai. You deserve every bit of what you have right now. I remember people using you too much and being users. I won't mention his name but I am glad your goodness was not going to have it just because you were a cool fellow who loved helping and supporting people you don't know at all. Please, walk. 3 hours of walk is 10 miles. The hours of 9am to 3pm are key times to walk. A camel is a strong animal who walks miles. This is why the camel is rated the strongest animal. And, please make videos on data structures, algorithms, dynamic programming, 2 pointers, and dynamic programming. If you do, you have made my career and others a sure gig.
Wow thanks for this - Ill try to encorporate it into my routine more, my trainer pushes a similar approach! And thanks for the well wishes its awesome to see youve been about since the early days! Ill keep the content coming & thanks for the suggestions!
Remain uncommonly favoured in Allah, insight, strength, supporting others, and eating vegetables. But, please walk. You can ask me where I got the idea of WALKING FROM. I will pure my hearts out. I was born to speak the kind of truth that supports spiritual good minds with inductive reasoning.