Ever since starting Boot.dev, I’ve been flooded with what I call “quicksand questions”. On the surface, a quicksand question seems like a good question. …

As a kid, I always wanted to be good at drawing. I practiced drawing my favorite anime characters, but frankly, my mom was the only one who thought they were good. Fast forward roughly 18 years, and I’m a college graduate with a computer science degree looking for my first…

While “real” hell may or may not exist (no need to get into religious beliefs here), tutorial hell is very real. My definition of tutorial hell goes something like this: Tutorial hell is where you write code that others are explaining to you how to write, but you don’t understand…

A developer’s life is a never-ending saga of learning new things. It’s like you’re playing Diablo where every new Jira ticket can feel like the next mini boss to slay. Exciting? Absolutely. Scary? Sure. Especially at first. Why do we resist learning new things? We’re creatures of comfort. We like what we know, and the unknown can…

Ah, the age-old question: which tech stack should I learn? Aspiring developers often get bogged down in this dilemma, and it’s not hard to see why. The tech industry is an ocean of opportunities, and the fear of diving into the wrong waters can be paralyzing. But here’s a little…

You’re waiting at the front-desk of Google’s campus in Boulder, Colorado, waiting for your coding interview to start. Across from you in the lobby sit two other candidates: A charismatic airpods-flaunting developer who can charm the pants off of anyone in the room but requires an agonizing 8 hours to…

Let’s be real here: we live in an age where everyone and their dog seems to think they need the latest, most expensive gadgets to get anything done. But when it comes to learning how to code, do you really need that shiny, wallet-draining powerhouse of a machine? Nope. Let’s…

As the founder of Boot.dev, I’ve worked with countless students who are eager to break into the tech industry. And time and time again, I see the same question pop up: “Do I need to start a blog to get a coding job?” It’s a valid question. There’s a lot…

I talk to boatloads of students who are starting to learn to code, and invariably they are hyper-concerned about which programming languages and technologies they should be learning. Now, first of all, I don’t think it matters all that much. You don’t fail to break into tech because you learned…