Chewing Glass - pencil flip

<p>Chewing glass is what Solana developers do. Introducing the second episode in a new series on the Solana Podcast, Chewing Glass. Chase Barker (Developer Relations Lead at Solana Labs) talks shop with the most interesting builders in the Solana ecosystem. It’s for devs, by devs. Todays guest is pencilflip, a Solana dev who joined the Solana ecosystem just a few months ago, and in addition to contributing tools, guides and twitter threads for fellow developers, he recently founded Formfunction, a marketplace for 1/1 NFTs.</p><p> </p><p>00:39 - Intro</p><p>01:51 - pencilflip’s background<br />03:30 - Working at facebook vs. web 3.0</p><p>07:31 - How pencilflip got into crypto</p><p>08:52 - Views on NFTs</p><p>10:45 - Getting into Solana</p><p>15:29 - Experience working in lower level</p><p>17:56 - What was his method to learn Solana?</p><p>21:01 - What’s the hardest concept on Solana?</p><p>23:53 - How fast did he move from Rust to Anchor?</p><p>27:35 - Building on Solana</p><p>33:24 - Advice to people moving to Web 3.0</p><p> </p><p>Intro Voice Overs: (00:00)</p><p>If we can't talk to each other, we're not going to make it. Sometimes I feel like I've been a lot full more than I can chew. Most of the time I work in a glass jar and lead a very uneventful life. Face full of glass hurts like hell, when you're in it. That's weird that glass looks half full to me. Eating glass, eating glass is staring at the abyss. Gosh who gives a shit about glass. It's part of our culture to eat glass. Hey get some safety goggles next time.</p><p>Chase: (00:38)</p><p>Hey everybody. And welcome to Chewing Glass the show where we talk to Solana developers building in the Solana ecosystem. Today, we have Matthew Lim, aka pencilflip. Matthew is actually one of the young bloods in the Solana ecosystem. I think I met him maybe two or three months ago. He was doing some really cool threads on Solana. So I reached out, we set up a call. He really dove into everything that has been going on in Solana and produced some really cool content. Ev