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Jan 31, 2025 | 
freecodecamp.org | Quincy Larson
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Rishab Kumar, cloud engineer and developer advocate at Twillio. Rishab grew up in India and moved to Canada for school. But he couldn't afford to finish. He resorted to delivering pizzas and working at a gas station. But he worked hard to teach himself how to code and how to build cloud infrastructure, and eventually got a job Google.
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Jan 25, 2025 | 
freecodecamp.org | Quincy Larson
On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview Lane Wagner. He's a software engineer, prolific contributor to freeCodeCamp, and founder of the Boot.dev online learning platform.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
freecodecamp.org | Quincy Larson
On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview Jiquan Ngiam. He's a former Google Brain engineer who's building tools to make AI useful for everyone – not just developers. We talk about the power of AI and it's practical capabilities, and separate those from a lot of the hype surrounding the AI space.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
freecodecamp.org | Quincy Larson
On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview Elliot Arledge. He's a 20-year old computer science student who's created several popular freeCodeCamp courses on LLMs, the Mojo programming language, and GPU programming with CUDA. He joins us from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
freecodecamp.org | Quincy Larson
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Scott Tolinski. He's a developer who 14 years ago - after injuring himself breakdancing – decided to create a programming tutorial YouTube channel called LevelUpTuts. He is also co-host of Syntax, the most popular web dev podcast on the planet.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
freecodecamp.org | Quincy Larson
On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview Eamonn Cottrell. He's a software engineer who also runs a local chain of coffee shops in Knoxville. Eamonn taught himself to code using freeCodeCamp. And he's since published 37 freeCodeCamp tutorials on using productivity and automation using spreadsheets.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
freecodecamp.org | Quincy Larson
On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview Yifan Mai, a Senior Software Engineer on Google's TensorFlow team who left the private sector to go do AI research at Stanford. He's the lead maintainer of the open source HELM project, where he benchmarks the performance of Large Language Models.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
freecodecamp.org | Quincy Larson
On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview Adam Stachoviac and Jerod Santo, co-hosts of The Changelog – the longest-running software podcast in world. They interview devs about Open Source projects, and they also have a weekly news episode that I always listen to. 5 years ago, I interviewed them for their 10th anniversary episode, and now I'm back catching up on what they've been doing for the past 5 years.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
freecodecamp.org | Quincy Larson
10 years ago today I sat down in the closet of my San Francisco apartment and coded the first few hundred lines of freeCodeCamp. I didn't know it at the time, but fCC would quickly grow into a global community of busy adults learning to code together. Many of these campers – as we now call ourselves – have gotten jobs as software engineers. And many campers have also contributed code to fCC's open source codebase.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
freecodecamp.org | Quincy Larson |Joan Ayebola |David Jaja |Nathan Sebhastian
2024 has been an extremely productive year for the freeCodeCamp community. We’ve built up an incredible amount of momentum toward our missioncreating open learning resources for everyone.
