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Dennis Ivy

Developer and educator teaching full-stack web development, Python, Django, and JavaScript.

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Editing software1

  • Pixlr

    first cited May 2021has reservations

    “I made the banner ad I had to use I think it was Pixlr I don't remember I didn't have photoshop it was a program like that where I basically edited an ad it was terrible”
    View source at 4:14from May 2021

Recording software2

  • StreamYard

    cited in 4 videosfirst cited June 2021has reservations

    “I know stream yards is a little bit limited if the pictures or if the video gets a little bit small let me know and I'll just go full screen and take my face out of here”
    View source at 2:12from June 2021+ 3 more sources
  • OBS

    first cited June 2021

    “…so let me whoops accidentally open opened up OBS here”
    View source at 2:30from June 2021

Coding software38

  • Django

    cited in 38 videospositive about it

    “Now what is a website without authentication so for this we're going to use a Django authentication system to register users log users in protect certain routes on our website and even allow users to reset their own password”
    View source at 1:38from June 2021+ 37 more sources
  • GitHub

    cited in 14 videosmixed views on it

    “We had the Cursor Co-pilot Not Cursor uh GitHub Co-pilot. And I didn't really like it, but I saw it as this really cool thing. It kind of annoyed me because I didn't really like typing out a function, having it fill in a bunch of stuff, and just kind of assume what I'm doing.”
    View source at 1:45from September 2026+ 13 more sources
  • Python

    cited in 6 videosspeaks highly of it

    “…are you enjoying using Jingo for development heck yeah I love Python and last weekend building cotos”
    View source at 1:37:00from October 2022+ 5 more sources
  • Visual Studio Code

    cited in 5 videosfirst cited February 2021speaks highly of it

    “I'm going to open this up from vs Code so I'm going to go ahead and prep this and I'm going to use a vs Code terminal”
    View source at 9:48from September 2021+ 4 more sources

AI software3

  • LangChain

    first cited July 2023

    “I've been like doing a lot of machine learning stuff I've been working with openai and uh their API with Lane chains specifically using that framework”
    View source at 3:34:25from July 2023
  • ChatGPT

    first cited September 2026mixed views on it

    “It can produce code, but we're still typing it in from ChatGPT, copying and pasting it. It's all right. You know, it does its thing, but it's not quite there yet.”
    View source at 2:22from September 2026
  • Find (AI search tool)

    first cited December 2024mixed views on it

    “…the cool thing about I don't know if anyone's used this tool it's like chat GPT but you it basically scans all search engines and it gives you results it still hallucinates it's still stupid AI but uh it kind of summarizes information for you but it does provide sources so I can look those up”
    View source at 2:34:01from December 2024

Productivity software7

  • Discord

    cited in 6 videosfirst cited July 2021

    “…when I uh when I first mentioned in my Discord server that I was having Danny Thompson review these portfolio sites everyone freaked out”
    View source at 6:31from September 2022+ 5 more sources
  • daily.dev

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited September 2022speaks highly of it

    “…so Daily Dot Dev this is actually a Chrome extension I love to use it gives me the latest news for any blog post related to developer or developer related content anything I like whether it's python or Django node.js I'm always seeing the latest content pulled down from all these platforms and it's an awesome extension keeps me up to date with all the latest news”
    View source at 1:50from September 2022+ 1 more source
  • Grammarly

    first cited December 2024has reservations

    “I swear if this is a grammarly extension I'm going to be so mad let me just turn that off”
    View source at 2:07:29from December 2024
  • Google Chrome

    first cited December 2024has reservations

    “I'm using Chrome like yeah I literally can't type anything that's no fun”
    View source at 48:09from December 2024

Creator tools8

Platforms

Hosting platforms11

  • Railway

    cited in 5 videosfirst cited August 2022speaks highly of it

    “I'm not a Railway expert I've just been using them for almost about three to four weeks at this point so I've done research on them and I'll try to answer what I can hopefully everything goes smoothly and I don't bomb this stream”
    View source at 0:25from August 2022+ 4 more sources
  • WordPress

    cited in 3 videospositive about it

    “We ended up doing we started with wix at first and then I wanted to make my websites more advanced wix is a little bit limiting at least it was back at the time and I ended up learning WordPress so I thought WordPress would let me do a lot more and it did”
    View source at 12:16from May 2021+ 2 more sources
  • YouTube

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited July 2021

    “And I also run a YouTube channel called Traversy Media with my co-host Brad Traversy and we get a lot of questions regarding the state of the market and nowadays it's more mid-level to senior-level developers.”
    View source at 10:42from September 2026+ 1 more source
  • Namecheap

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited October 2022

    “I think I bought the domain code battle dot com I believe let me check my uh namecheap account”
    View source at 9:51from October 2022+ 1 more source

Courses2

  • Udemy

    cited in 8 videosfirst cited February 2021

    “I hope you enjoyed this tutorial I do have my my Udemy course out on react and django so if you go to buildproshop.com I'll definitely recommend checking this one out”
    View source at 1:46:34from February 2021+ 7 more sources
  • One Cent Facebook Clicks (course)

    first cited May 2021mixed views on it

    “The first specific course that I actually took was this company or these two guys that made this program called One Cent Facebook Clicks”
    View source at 3:18from May 2021

Desk

Computers2

  • MacBook Pro M3 Max

    $3,906.70first cited October 2022critical of it

    “…this is my setup this is my MacBook which I can't stand I really hate Mac but I use it anyways because I need to get used to it”
    View source at 2:56:06from October 2022
  • Mac

    first cited October 2022mixed views on it

    “…uh I'm going to be on a Mac so we're going to open up the terminal”
    View source at 7:22from October 2022

Peripherals1

  • Windows keyboard

    first cited October 2022has reservations

    “I am on a Mac but I'm using a Windows keyboard so I had to modify the keys so the Windows key is a command key and it really throws me off”
    View source at 32:47from October 2022

Storage2

  • Amazon S3

    cited in 2 videosfirst cited August 2022

    “…this is stored inside of an AWS S3 bucket so I actually used a bucket that I already have for my personal website and I'm just uploading images there”
    View source at 1:55from October 2022+ 1 more source
  • Google Drive
    “All right so I spent some time today digging into my old Google Drive files and I put together a list of the first 25 clients we got as that web development company”
    View source at 0:00from November 2020

Everything else

Other1

  • GoDaddy

    first cited August 2022

    “…but my domain is currently on GoDaddy so what I would do here is just take these values go to GoDaddy or maybe you're using namecheap and I would just simply configure that”
    View source at 11:15from August 2022

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