Announcement: Mentoring for Coding, Writing, and Production 

Boom, sold out! 😮 Funny, I was contemplating asking you for excactly this kind of service in the future. Can I „reserve a spot“ for later? :)

@@stevepositiv I'm afraid I don't have such a system in place, Stephen, but my advice to those who have asked is to check the patreon regularly, people tend to drop off after their final sessions during the week. Do email me anyway, we can see if mentoring is suitable for you. Thank you!

I was surprised too! This is a bit of a test, but the 4 people in the private beta test thought it was good value. (and I suppose the 3 people who also signed up just now!) I understand that this premium option isn't going to be good for most people, that's why I've capped it to 15 for now. I don't want this to take up all of my time: What I hope this will allow me to do is unlock NB education full-time in the future. I've got lots of plans, most of them completely free :-)

Cadence may need to be more often for sure - but when I tutored a lot for high level sciences I found a higher hourly rate and shorter time slots (coming out to the same overall cost to the mentee) provided a much better experience for them and for myself. They came more prepared and so did I for a focused conversation.

@@dinophage Thank you very much for sharing your experience - I will keep that in mind 🙂

I’m one of his menteees I find it helpful since I can learn fine on my own but as I work on stuff I usually Run into questions like this works but why does it work or sometimes will find a solution that seems janky really janky and want to know if there’s a better way. All which are possible to research but just being able to ask makes it save me a lot of time. Or in some cases where the documentation I find doesn’t make sense to me.

@@mskiptr thank you! Fixed the typo now!

Expect an email soon! I just so happen to be in a learning state and would love a 1-on-1 conversation.

@@codeman99-dev Oh lovely! Well thank you, I look forward to chatting 🙂

How wonderful! If you want to de-train your brain on my voice, I'd love to know what you think of Lost Terminal ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p3bDE9kszMc.html

Glad it wasn't just me. I almost feel like he could do an audiobook of it

@@NoBoilerplate I will buy that audiobook in a heartbeat

Thank you so much! I'm very excited to see what more I could do, if I no longer need the day job...! Stay tuned!

That's so kind of you to say! I was so lucky in 2020 that I had a mentor to help me through Rust, and that's what my video series is really about: helping people get to the gold-paved world JUST the other side of the difficulty curve! Some folks can afford to pay for 1-on-1 tuition, and if that helps me do this full time, that works for everyone, I hope!

Thank you so much! But let's see how people like the new tier :-D

Thank you so much! I have SUCH PLANS!

That's so kind of you to say! I hope this boost of income will let me make more educational technical videos for everyone!

Thank you! I hope this new income stream will allow me to focus on Rust and Education content much more!

Thank you! I'm going to try to bootstrap some cheap-or-free courses so that I can teach as many people as possible, stay tuned! :-)

Thank you so much, it's working so far!

Cheers Mort, here's hoping!

Logesh, I would be very pleased to talk to you if you would like mentorship. I would much rather you have a good connection, and talk in a quiet place than have perfect English! We're talking about programming I presume, so that is our shared language. Do not worry about the language barrier. Email me, tell me more! (link in description)

Whenever someone asks me for advice like this, I quote Bo Burnham: "BUY LOTTERY TICKETS! THE SYSTEM WORKS!" The serious answer is that there are enough people who will pay for your content/art/teaching/whatever in the world RIGHT NOW. But they're needles in the haystack. This is the reason everyone's so obsessed with 'growing their audience', because they know they money just follows. Make good content, make it easy to get to, and the rest follows. If it doesn't work, try something else. RU-vid and Patreon have created entire new industries that we're all kindof sleeping on. Tell me when you've uploaded your first thing, ping me when you post it on my Discord :-)

@@NoBoilerplate Thanks for the advice. The issue is that I don't think I would enjoy making videos, the part of teaching I love is interacting with the student, figuring out what's their level of understanding on a subject and make proper lessons based on that, what I mean is that I prefer teaching individuals rather than audiences.

@@houtamelocoding Ah, I see! Freelance teaching feels like one of those thing that is 20% skill 80% reputation. I wish you the best of luck in finding your audience! 🙂

Thank you! I hope this new income stream will allow me to focus on Rust and Education content much more!

Thank you! With this extra boost of income, I hope to unlock much more time to produce free content :-D

Thank you! I hope this new income stream will allow me to focus on Rust and Education content much more!

Thank you so much, here's hoping!

Great topic, documentation is part of the process of being a developer - I'll see what I can do in the future! There's a lot written on this topic you could look up, a quick search on HN yields news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26446692 And try this: documentation.divio.com/

Good for you! I'm going to try to bootstrap some cheap-or-free courses so that I can teach as many people as possible, so stay tuned! :-)

@@NoBoilerplate Good for me? Nah my health is failing, i've got medical insurance debt to last a lifetime and i'm locked out of further treatment and have been for quite a while; so as much as i think you're doing a good job you're just not about to get anything from me, not even a dollar, that's just how it is. Also half the city i grew up in burned down last year, which makes me VERY angry, so if i had anything to spare, that would be my priority.

@@SianaGearz Siana, I'm sorry, my language was too vague, I see that now. Let me start over: Open source software is one of the shining jewels of the world, despite being used by profiteering companies for free, it's people who work for no money like you who are the backbone of the modern world. My expression 'good for you' was meant to say that I'm impressed and grateful for your work. Sorry again. You don't have to pay me a thing, I'm going to use this new business model to super-charge my education videos and courses - I want to teach the world about this incredible language, and I can't have 99% of people being shut out because of capitalism. Stay tuned.

You're very perceptive Maxwell, thank you for asking. I put off ramping up my efforts with NB for a few months for exactly this reason, but I believe, and hope that I was wrong: I used to think I had to choose between NB or LT. Now I realised that it's NB or my day job. And that's an easy question :-) If I can pull this off and deliver value in my mentoring programme, I'll have MORE time for LT, not less!

Of the "NewSQL" database listed here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewSQL I only recognise Couchbase, which I used in production in 2012ish. I don't hate the idea of bringing nosql to acid databases, that sounds cool. But I don't yet know enough about these databases to make a video on it. if it becomes more of a popular technique, I'll cover it! I really dig postgres for nearly everything, it can be a queue, a nosql json store, whatever you want, and sqlx supports it all!

Thank you so much! What an exciting time!

Thank you, I'm looking into such things now!

@@NoBoilerplate the one set courses are pretty good but the author sets the advanced course against a game library they made. Useful to a degree but a purely command line operator like myself wants to work on tools and operational code, not games.

@@taxessux Ah I see the problem. I had a lecturer at university who did the same thing. Standard tooling is what I would teach, I think! And don't worry, I won't be teaching gamedev :-)

Good point, I've upped to 15, but I think that is the maximum I can currently manage in my schedule. I will open up more, hopefully, as I wind down my day job. It's always going to be quite a small thing, as to give everyone my full attention and help, I won't be allowing back-to-back bookings. I've currently programmed in about 2h space between appointments on my calendaring system. Watch this space I suppose!

Thank you! 🤞

ikr!

Thank you so much! I'm excited to see where this goes! 15/15 people signed up to mentoring - I'm having a great time!

@@NoBoilerplate in the words of the wise Will Smith "Ahhhh that's hot"

You've read my mind. I work with students occasionally as part of my job, and I will soon be opening up some options that work well for folks on lower budgets! Until then: - I reply to every comment asking questions here - My discord is full of very smart folks, if I'm not available to ask questions of Thank you for your patience while I figure this out: I'm here for education, and today was a big step towards giving myself enough time to teach more :-)

@@NoBoilerplate thank you for your great work and your replies to all of my comments! 👏👏👏 I think 160€ isn't much for professional one to one teaching in tech so I hope all 10 seats will be used (idk a better word) soon.

@@thepaulcraft957 My pleasure. I'm just here to tell the world about Rust! (how wonderful that I get paid to do it!)

This is exactly why I'm doing it - I had a really great mentor back in 2020 when I was learning Rust, and it really helped on the days I wanted to quit! Email me, address is in the video description!

(Google translate says this means "are you a teacher?", I hope that is correct) Not by profession, but I LOVE teaching. I mentor many people at my job (gov.uk) and adore it. When I was a teenager and trying to work out what I was going to do for work, I told my dad that I wanted to be a teacher, like him, or maybe a programmer. He said "Earn your money as a programmer and you can teach on the side, teachers don't get paid very well". And here I am!

@@NoBoilerplate Your dad is/was a wise man. Besides the fact that teachers get notoriously underpaid they also have to endure the daily s-show 🙄 Kids today don't even know how to spell respect anymore. And yes if google got this basic sentence wrong they would have a way more serious problem than bard at hand lol.

babe wake up no boilerplate's asking for money

@@NoBoilerplate lmao

@@RenderingUser :D

Thank you!

Firstly, thank you very much! Secondly, I'm afraid I was brought up to speak like this, I didn't learn it consciously. HOWEVER my father DID. He was brought up in a part of the UK that has a very strong accent, and when he started his career to become a teacher, they told him (in the 60s) that he had to learn to speak 'proper' English, or he wouldn't get any work. Obviously, this was not a fair policy, and I don't think this is the case today. But it is my personal example of hard work allowing you to change your accent. My advice is to practice practice practice. Get a tutor who speaks like me, if you want to speak like me, and if that's not possible then watch a lot of old British films and imitate their speech :-) In my own life, I *pronounce* Mandarin Chinese very well, though my vocabulary is very poor. I believe I learned better than my classmates because I CARE about pronunciation so much, so I made it a focus of my studies. (of course, now I have too small vocabulary, so I must focus here too!). What gets measured, gets managed. Good luck friend!

Until then, I'll do it for free anyway :-) My hope is that by offering these limited mentoring sessions, I can grow the project and give myself time for many more free or low-cost education options! In the near term, I'd like to start a streaming classroom for students and young people.

Thank you so much, I'm delighted!

Thank you so much!

I think he'd be a great mentor! Really his twitch streams (which are fire btw) is like a group mentoring session / therapy session XD

Due to the nature of youtube ads, just being here watching and learning supports me a great deal! I hope to be able to do more content if this all takes off! Thank you.

Good suggestions Dani, I'm still feeling out this business, so I'll very likely do things like this in the future. if there's one thing I've learned from putting out videos and podcasts on Patreon is that you must always have an expensive premium option that seems preposterous to you. Patreon themselves suggest this, it's what my "sponsorship" tiers are for. You can't predict if you'll find those small handful of people that 1. really love your content and 2. have the means to support you at these high tiers. You will never find them if you don't give them the opportunity to pay you. I filled 13/15 slots on the mentoring tier overnight. I'm as astonished as you!

Thank you so much! If 1:1 mentoring isn't possible for you, I hope to launch wider-scope courses soon! :-)

Thank you! Yes this plan is that this mentoring will free up time for my other projects, podcasts being the #1! NEW PODCAST DROPPING THIS MONTH!

When I was first learning rust in 2020 I wanted to quit all the time, I crashed out twice, even. But I had a great mentor to answer questions and put me back on track. My video series is designed to replace that mentor, in a small way, for a lot of people. You have to get EXCITED about rust to handle the brutal initial learning curve! Come chat in #newbie-advice on my discord if you'd like help - ping me and say hi! :-)

@@NoBoilerplate I have to say that your videos are the most exciting programming videos I can recall of the top of my head. Unfortunately I have a bit of life stuff going on right now, so I will just keep it close in mind for now.

@@oredaze That's so kind of you to say! I wonder if you would like my podcast, Lost Terminal? If you have space in your life for a peaceful hopepunk podcast, I tackle mental health through the lens of AI, I'd love to know what you think about it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p3bDE9kszMc.html I hope life becomes more stable for you very soon 🙂

Thank you so much!