The freeCodeCamp Podcast

The freeCodeCamp Podcast

freeCodeCamp.org

Episodes 100
Avg. Duration 1h 29m
Activity Moderate
Apple Rating 4.9 (487)
Since Apr 2024
Latest Episode May 2026

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Weekly
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freecodecamp.libsyn.com

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About This Podcast

The official podcast of the freeCodeCamp.org open source community. Each week, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews developers, founders, and ambitious people in tech. Learn to math, programming, and computer science for free, and turbo-charge your developer career with our free open source curriculum: https://www.freecodecamp.org

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Recent Episodes

#217 Stanford's youngest instructor on InfoSec, AI, catching cheaters - Rachel Fernandez

May 19, 2026 1h 18m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Rachel An Fernandez. She's a computer science student at Stanford and the youngest instructor at the entire university. She recently helped organize TreeHacks,…

#216 How to friction-max your learning with software engineer Jessica Rose

Apr 17, 2026 52m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Jessica Rose. She's a dev and teacher who's worked on open data projects at Mozilla and lots of open source projects. We talk about: - How the whole world is hard, and…

#215 How to learn programming and CS in the AI hype era – interview with dev and prof Mark Mahoney

Apr 10, 2026 1h 16m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Mark Mahoney. He worked as a dev before becoming a computer science professor. He's taught computer science for 23 years at Carthage College, a 180-year-old US…

#214 Lessons from 15,031 hours of coding live on Twitch with Chris Griffing

Apr 03, 2026 1h 18m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Chris Griffing is a software engineer and prolific streamer of live coding on Twitch. He spent 10 years as a "snowboard bum" doing odd jobs at ski resorts to facilitate…

#213 What happens when the model CAN'T fix it? Interview with software engineer Landon Gray

Mar 27, 2026 1h 32m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Landon Gray. He's a software engineer who worked at agencies for years. Then he taught himself AI assisted software development. And now he's helping other devs do the…

#212 The world still needs people who care - CodePen founder Chris Coyier interview

Mar 20, 2026 1h 18m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Chris Coyier. He's a front-end developer and co-founder of CodePen and the CSS Tricks blog. He has also recorded more than 700 podcasts about software engineering. We…

#211 How to Land Freelance Clients with Small Business Whisperer Luke Ciciliano (Developer Interview)

Mar 13, 2026 1h 47m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Luke Ciciliano. He's a front-end developer who runs Modern Website Design, a software consultancy that builds solutions for small to medium sized businesses. He taught…

#210 There are 2 kinds of devs. One of them is screwed. Justin Searls interview

Mar 06, 2026 1h 29m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Justin Searls. He's a software engineer who cofounded a software agency 15 years ago that's still going – even after he figured out how to make a lot of money quickly…

#209 The ultimate dev skill is Integration Testing – Interview with Internet of Bugs

Feb 27, 2026 1h 27m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Carl Brown, who runs the Internet of Bugs YouTube channel and has worked as a dev at Amazon, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and startups for over 37 years. We talk about: - The…

#208 The three paths AI could take from here - Shawn Wang SWYX interview

Feb 20, 2026 1h 15m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Shawn Wang. He's a software engineer, founder of the AI Engineer conference, and host of the Latent Space podcast focused on applying the latest models toward getting…

#207 Why maintaining a codebase is so damn hard – with OhMyZSH creator Robby Russell

Feb 13, 2026 1h 23m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Robby Russell. Robby created the open-source project Oh My ZSH. Oh My Zsh is a framework for managing your Zsh configuration for your command line terminal. It's been…

#206 Tips from a 20-year developer veteran turned consultancy founder – Tapas Adhikary interview

Jan 29, 2026 1h 19m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Tapas Adhikari. He's a software engineer who runs a firm of 20 developers who build projects for companies around the world. He's also a prolific teacher, having…

#205 How to stay curious as a dev in the AI hype era with Sumit Saha

Jan 23, 2026 1h 4m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Sumit Saha, a software engineer and prolific teacher on YouTube. Sumit is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he runs a developer agency building projects for clients…

#204 The Most Important Skills Going Forward with CTO + Homebrew Maintainer Mike McQuaid

Jan 16, 2026 1h 27m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Mike McQuaid. He's a software engineer who previously worked at GitHub, and now serves as lead maintainer of Homebrew, a Mac package manager used by tens of millions of…

#203 First developer job at age 38 with lawyer turned software engineer Zubin Pratap

Jan 09, 2026 1h 13m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Zubin Pratap, a software engineer and manager from Melbourne, Australia. After nearly two decades working as a corporate lawyer, he taught himself programming using…

#202 How to get promoted as a dev without becoming a manager – Staff Engineer Santosh Yadav interview

Dec 19, 2025 1h 4m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Santosh Yadav. The son of a textile worker, he grew up inner-city Mumbai and studied hard to get into university. From there he's worked as a software engineer for 16…

#201 The "AI is going to replace devs" hype is over – 22-year developer veteran Jason Lengstorf

Dec 12, 2025 1h 8m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Jason Lengstorf. He's a college dropout who taught himself programming while building websites for his emo band. 22 years later he's worked as a developer at IBM,…

#200 How to build your own learning path using Open Source with Kunal Kushwaha

Dec 05, 2025 1h 8m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Kunal Kushwaha. He's a software engineer and prolific computer science teacher on YouTube. He failed the JEE, the Indian Engineering Entrance Exam, TWICE. But he…

#199 Tips from a serial career changer with GitHub's Andrea Griffiths

Nov 28, 2025 1h 14m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Andrea Griffiths, who taught herself programming using freeCodeCamp while working in construction. She moved to the US from Colombia when she was 17, and within 6…

#198 When NOT to use AI in your hackathon project with MLH winners Cindy Cui and Alison Co

Nov 21, 2025 1h 3m

Today Quincy Larson interviews Alison Co and Cindy Cui, two university students who won the NW Hacks hackathon with their tool that helps people who are losing their vision learn to read Braille. He…

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