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quincy.bsky.social
The teacher who founded freeCodeCamp.org, where you can learn to code for free, with thoughtful people. I host of the freeCodeCamp podcast each Friday and interview devs.
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I am halfway through this episode and it's so wonderful. Ryan is such a great guy! Give it a listen!

Song: Little Nemo Dream Master (NES 1990) πŸ₯πŸŽΈπŸŽΉ (No quantization or pitch correction) This is the opening song from this week's freeCodeCamp podcast where I interview a dev who studied 5 years then landed his first engineering role. Listen on YouTube, Spotify, or your favorite podcast player.

Hey devs, I'm recording a new season of the freeCodeCamp podcast, and I'm looking for guests to interview. πŸ•οΈ I don't mind interviewing celebrity devs but I LOVE interviewing folks who've never been on a podcast before. 1/3

Song: Life Force – Power of Anger (NES 1986) πŸ₯πŸŽΈπŸŽΉ (No quantization or pitch correction) This is the opening song from this week's freeCodeCamp podcast where I interview @francescociulla.bsky.social, who got serious about coding at 37. Listen on YouTube, Spotify, or your favorite podcast player.

People sometimes sign up for my weekly email newsletter and apparently forget they've done so and assume I'm a spammer. This response had be busting up laughing. I clicked the unsubscribe link for them. πŸ˜‚

freeCodeCamp just published another FREE handbook – this time on web accessibility. We're going to keep publishing comprehensive guides to sub-disciplines of software engineering. The entire handbook is here, along with more than 12,000 free tutorials: www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-web...

@monica.dev you're pretty high up on my list of people I'd like to interview on the freeCodeCamp podcast. Would you be interested in coming on? If so please send me a DM and we can work out a time.

Some exciting news - @emmabostian.bsky.social and I just wrapped up recording for a new season of @ladybug.dev! This new season is all on engineering management! We're editing now, so stay tuned for a launch date. We're excited to be back in your ears soon!

Song: Elevator Action (1983) πŸ₯πŸŽΈπŸŽΉ (No quantization or pitch correction) This is the opening song from this week's freeCodeCamp podcast where I interview @codestackr.com, who taught himself coding while raising kids. Listen on YouTube, Spotify, or your favorite podcast player.

Shout out to Prankur for writing this comprehensive handbook on how to become a full stack developer in 2025. He talks about the role of DevOps, the dev job market, and even shares tips for how to leverage AI tools. Learn it. Know it. Live it. www.freecodecamp.org/news/become-...

Automating things will be the last thing to be fully automated.

Song: Galaga arcade (1981) End Theme πŸ₯πŸŽΈπŸŽΉ (No quantization or pitch correction) This is the opening song from this week's freeCodeCamp podcast interview with Caleb Curry. Listen on YouTube, Spotify, or your favorite podcast player. What video game song should I do next?

Don't be evil.

Song: Mad Magazine's Spy VS Spy (1984) πŸ₯πŸŽΈπŸŽΉ No quantization or pitch correction What 80s/90s video game song should I do next?

Song: Balloon Fight (NES 1984) πŸ₯πŸŽΈπŸŽΉ No quantization or pitch correction What 80s/90s video game song should I do next?

Song: Dr. Mario (NES 1990) Fever πŸ₯πŸŽΈπŸŽΉ No quantization or pitch correction

Did you know that there are cases where all 3 versions of a Chinese character look different? From left to right: Simplified Mandarin -> Japanese -> Traditional Cantonese Dragon: ιΎ™ 竜 龍 Medicine: 药 θ–¬ θ—₯ To listen: 听 聴 聽 To carry: εΈ¦ εΈ― εΈΆ To watch: 觉 覚 θ¦Ί

If you have trouble retaining people's names, new vocab, new concepts, anything that involves long-term memory... Here's a simple hack: remind yourself that everything is important, that this moment is fleeting, won't happen again, so you should be present and pay attention.

Outrun (Arcade 1986) Passing Breeze πŸ₯πŸŽΈπŸŽΉ No quantization or pitch correction. This was a fun one. What game soundtrack song should I do next?

Any developers out there, check out the link below. I just got a @freecodecamp.bsky.social shirt - they are good people helping other people better themselves in coding.

Confession: I had no idea who Quincy Larson @quincy.bsky.social was, although I have definitely used #FreeCodeCamp! Enjoyed his perspective, insight, and....his heart! Happy & #inspired to see he was also a former educator with frustrations, but made such an #impact in this field! #respect

Song: Duck Tales (NES 1989) Theme from the Moon πŸ₯πŸŽΈπŸŽΉ No quantization or pitch correction What game soundtrack song should I do next?

freeCodeCamp is now screen printing our own shirts and selling them at-cost, with free shipping. $15 shipped anywhere in the US. These are high quality triblend shirts that will last years (I own 5 of them and have washed each hundreds of times.) shop.freecodecamp.org

Ludicrous speed. Go.

I am never surprised when I find out that a highly self-motivated friend does not drink alcohol.

freeCodeCamp's alpha Exam Environment is now in the Microsoft Store. Soon we'll be administering certification exams / English proficiency exams with the app. It's rated PEGI 3, which I believe means you have to be at least 3 years old to use it. Keep your toddlers away please.

Song: Theme for King Dedede (Kirby Super Star 1996) πŸ₯πŸŽΈπŸŽΉ No quantization or pitch correction

freeCodeCamp started creating custom thumbnails for every tutorial we publish on /news. What do you all think about these? Do they make you more likely to click through and read the tutorial?