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S2E12 The Tools Are Smarter. Are You? ft. YK Sugi | S02 E12
Today we welcome YK Sugi—engineer, educator, and the mind behind CSS Dojo—for the final episode of season two.We talk about his journey from YouTube dev tutorials to building one of Sourcegraph’s…
How to Win at Learning ft. Quincy Larson | S02 E11
In this episode, we sit down with Quincy Larson, founder of Free Code Camp, to explore his incredible path from high school dropout to influential tech educator. Quincy shares his unconventional…
Mitchell Hashimoto: From Terraform to Ghostty | S02 E10
Today we welcome Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of Ghostty, a new terminal emulator built in Zig. In this episode, Mitchell shares the story behind Ghostty, how his curiosity…
S2E9 Vercel’s Big AI Bet. ft. Malte Ubl | S02 E09
Today we welcome Malte Ubl, CTO of Vercel, to discuss the evolution of frontend development and the role of AI in shaping modern engineering workflows. Malte dives into V0, Vercel's innovative tool…
S2E8 Build skills, not degrees. ft. Madison Kanna | S02 E08
Today we welcome Madison Kana—a self-taught dev who defied the traditional path. From dropping out and navigating a world of homeschooling to launching the Code Book Club, Madison transformed her…
S2E7 Roll your own auth or you’re ngmi. ft. Dreams of Code | S02 E07
This time Elliot from @dreamsofcode joins us to talk about building his own course platform we dive into why he chose to go custom, the tech stack behind his platform, and the philosophy of…
S2E6 Programming Music with Sonic Pi feat. Sam Aaron | S02 E06
Today we bring Sam Aaron, the creator of Sonic Pi, a free code-based music creation and performance tool that lets you use simple code to turn your computer into a fully networked live coding music…
S2E5 KRAZAM Unfiltered feat. Ben Burke | S2 E05
Today, we bring a very special guest, one whose face you might recognise, one that appears on your homepages with a sporadic video and seemingly disappears. His name is Benjamin Burke, or simply Ben,…
S2E2 Does ADHD really make programming harder? ft. Chris Ferdinandi | S2 E04
Lane chats with Chris Ferdinandi—creator of Go Make Things and ADHD for the Win—a frontend dev, educator, and all-around expert in making JavaScript (and learning) simpler. Chris has built a career…
S2E3 Why You Need To Stop Worrying About AI feat. Danny Thompson | S2 E03
We’re joined by Danny Thompson, currently Director of Technology at This Dot Labs and technical leader and organizer of the Dallas Software Developers Group, where he fosters vibrant local tech…
S2E2 Everyone is doing memory management wrong. feat. Ryan Fleury | S2 E02
This week on Backend Banter, we’re joined by Ryan Fleury, a talented game developer currently working with Epic Games on their Rad Debugger project. Ryan shares his journey from building games to…
S2E1 Is Elixir the Future? feat. José Valim | S2 E01
We're back for Backend Banter Season 2, and we bring a very special guest, José Valim, the creator of the Elixir Programming Language, one of the most popular and loved functional programming…
#069 - Season Finale: The Boot.dev Origin Story w/ Allan
Today, we bring you the final episode of the first season of Backend Banter! It’s a wrap up for now. With 69 episodes behind us, we want to tell you the story of Boot Dev and how far we’ve come from…
#068 - Should you trust tech influencers? feat. Charles The III
Today we welcome Chuck Carpenter aka Charles The 3rd, co-host at Whiskey Web and Whatnot. As two content creators in the tech scene, we discuss if and how celebrity developers and tech influencers…
#067 - How to Be Better than 96.487% of Developers
In today’s episode, we bring back Aaron Francis. If you haven’t watched our previous episode with him, he is a software developer, fellow content creator and co-founder of Try Hard Studios. In the…
#066 - CSS Is The Hardest Programming Language
In today’s episode, we bring Adam Argyle, a CSS Dev Rel at Google, content creator, co-host at CSS Podcast, Bad At CSS Podcast and host of GUI Challenges. He’s also the creator of a bunch of tools…
#065 - I Quit Voice Coaching for Typescript feat. Matt Pocock
In today’s episode, we welcome Matt Pocock, an educator, content creator and engineer who used to be a voice coach. Now, he teaches Typescript on his YouTube channel and is building Total Typescript,…
#064 - You’re doing networking wrong feat. Lawrence Lockhart
In today’s episode, we welcome Lawrence Lockhart, a former hospitality manager turned full stack software developer. Apart from his tech job, he’s also a developer advocate, a teaching assistant at a…
#063 - I was fired for using HTMX
In today’s episode, we bring Spiro Floropoulos, a senior developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. This episode is an unusual one, as Spiro recently got laid off due to a bizarre…
#062 - Declaring War Against the Frontend feat. Sam Selikoff
In today’s episode, we go to war with Sam Selikoff, co-host of the Frontend First podcast, and specialist on everything Frontend related. We have an amazing conversation where we discuss Sam’s…
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