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

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/