wagslane

It's so much easier today when it comes to good tooling, scalability of services, specialized tools, etc.

It's so much worse today when it comes to things like paralysis of choice and configuration.

I've been working on a new project for Boot.dev students and the goal is to get them a simple but professional dev environment on their machine. It's a very hard problem.

Hugo, Go, K8s, PubSub, Vue, Sendgrid, Postgres

I love the stack, but I was already really experienced with these tools which helped.

Author here, I prefer the term "content marketing" xD

Jokes aside, there is a small plug at the end of the article, but the article itself is not an ad. I have a lot of thoughts on the current state of "DevOps" and enjoy writing about it

We share money. It's not "mine" or "hers", it's "ours". That works for us, but I can see why it might not work for everyone.

Hey HN! I recently published a free tutorial on Boot.dev (my side project). It's not a FULL walkthrough, the purpose of "projects" on Boot.dev are to be "semi guided", but there is solution code at every step of the way in case you get stuck.

All the projects are completely free on Boot.dev, you don't even need to sign in. The courses are free to read, but in order to pass off assignments you need to login, and in some cases become a patron.

Anyhow, this project is a part of the "backend learning path": https://boot.dev/tracks/computer-science

I'd be really stoked to hear any and all feedback :) Hope you enjoy the project

Personally I would either use a compiled language, or electron

Hey HN! I'm Lane, the creator of Boot.dev.

A couple years ago I was working as an engineering manager, and my wife was working as an x-ray tech. Frankly, she was a bit jealous of the work-life balance I had, the pay, the work from home, etc. I started looking for a program she could take online to get into coding and was super disappointed.

It seemed like everywhere I looked, at least a few of the following problems were present:

- Bootcamps are expensive and risky - Video courses don't have you to writing enough code - Many curriculums weren't structured in linear paths - CS concepts were skipped over, dropping students straight into hot new frameworks - Old languages and technologies were being used, when more modern alternatives exist (Why would I want to learn Python 2??)

Anyhow, I started building boot.dev about 2 years ago, and just have been plugging away at it on the side of my full-time job. I'm excited to hear any feedback :)

Hey HN! Lane the creator here.

A couple years ago I was working as an engineering manager, and my wife was working as an x-ray tech. Frankly, she was a bit jealous of the work-life balance I had, the pay, the work from home, etc. I started looking for a program she could take online to get into coding and was super disappointed.

It seemed like everywhere I looked, at least a few of the following problems were present:

- Bootcamps are expensive and risky - Video courses don't have you to writing enough code - Many curriculums weren't structured in linear paths - CS concepts were skipped over, dropping students straight into hot new frameworks - Old languages and technologies were being used, when more modern alternatives exist (Why would I want to learn Python 2??)

Anyhow, I started building boot.dev about 2 years ago, and just have been plugging away at it on the side of my full-time job. I'm excited to hear any feedback :)

StarCraft 3.

I want RTS to make a comeback. Sick of mobas.

So interesting that you post this, it's really what I've been working on in my spare time for the last few years. I have a GitHub with my current roadmap: https://GitHub.com/bootdotdev/curriculum

I've been working on https:/boot.dev in my spare time, trying to go full-time on it soon.

Wont't say it's the best but I've been trying to fix a lot of things I don't like about existing content/platforms.

Well this is about unit tests - you should probably write an integration test for that.

Hey all! Just this week we reskinned and renamed the entire site. It was Qvault.io and now it's Boot.dev. Basically we went all in on dark mode and found a name that more accurately portrays what we do.

I started building this thing over two years ago and have just been plugging away in my spare time. I was (and still am) frustrated that when my wife wanted to learn to code I couldn't find high-quality sources that checked the following boxes:

1. Primarily focused on CS, not just the hottest new framework 2. Primarily uses modern languages / modern syntax 3. Is focused on writing real code and projects rather than just video lectures 4. Has a linear curriculum so that students don't have to know enough to build their own.

Anyhow, that's how the project started. I've learned a ton along the way about what my students care about vs what I THOUGHT they would care about so some big pivots in the product have happened since the beginning. I'd love to hear what you all think!

It's funny, I've experienced the opposite, usually in the form of the "senior" title being handed out as a retention incentive because the company doesn't _really_ want to pay more. Here's a senior title and a 5k raise sort of thing.

That said, I agree that these requirements sound too specific, but they don't sound too intense. I mean, After working in the industry for ~8 years I would expect someone to at least be familiar with a bunch of this stuff.

Lane here. I would love to see this as well. Anecdotally, most the Mormons I know in Utah leave for atheism/agnosticism, especially if they're a millennial like me.

However, the Latinos I know tend to leave for some form of non-denominational Christianity or vague theism. The reasoning I get from my Latin friends is that "it's crazy to not believe in God at all". I'm thinking it has to do with how few atheists there are in their communities.

I love the idea frankly, just signed up, and I'll link to it over on Qvault. Some feedback: I need some basic filters, nothing too fancy:

* Pay range * Location * Title

It would be nice if all that was handled by the search, e.g. "golang engineer USA 170k+" but I'm not sure how to make that simple AND intuitive

This is really sad, but I run a competing service so in my greedy business mindset I'm glad their doing it and getting called out. On Qvault.io I've done my best to make cancelling easy. I've lived the horror stories of dark patterns trying to cancel stuff. My vasa gym was the worst, I had to pay a fee to cancel.

Here are a few of the goals with this project, because the platforms I'm aware of don't fulfill all my requirements:

* CompSci focus. No "learn React in 4 weeks" nonsense. * Interactive, you need to be writing code to learn. * Free to audit * Modern technologies * Linear, most people don't know what they should be learning when they go to YouTube or Udemy

I'm looking for someone in the devrel/dev-influencer space to help me continue to grow a discord community of programmers that are looking for their first job. Info at https://qvault.io (it's launched but still very very small)

Could look for more data that supports the presupposed conclusion, then swap out the statistics? /s

Not a book but I've been working on a project that sounds like it might be what you're looking for. It's algos and data structures courses in code-along style. It's free to audit, so do check it out even if you aren't interested in the certification stuff :)

https://qvault.io

Just hacking away on https://qvault.io mostly. Thinking about raising some cash and going full time on it.

This is amazing, cheeky, and even has the technical accuracy to back up the humor. Bravo author, if you're here.

I had a similar experience, not that I got rejected, but that I didn't like their content very much. I made https://qvault.io to focus on computer science. I'd actually love to chat with you, we could potentially collaborate or something :)

That's actually great feedback - I realize I left some key points out in that regard. Just updated it to try to be more clear, and communicate that I agree the responsibility rests almost entirely on the platform itself.

Was this due to storing them as something other than strings?

This is a good insight, I hadn't thought of that perspective

The irony to me is this statement:

> How many startups could be built if hundreds of thousands or even millions more people could code and bring their entrepreneurial ideas to fruition? How many bureaucratic processes could be eliminated if developers were more latent in every business? The answer, of course, is on the order of “a lot,”

While tools are great, the problem still remains that we need more people with useful tech skills - specifically CS skills. I've been working on this problem for a year or so at my side-project Qvault.io

https://qvault.io/

This is particularly interesting to me as I've been building a CS education platform this year (https://qvault.io). My favorite bit was right at the end:

> In computer science, we often have a model of teaching that is heavily focused on content matter knowledge—if you know your CS, you'll likely be a good teacher. But all our evidence about quality teaching says that that's wrong. There's a lot of knowledge involved in teaching computer science well, and perhaps the most important is pedagogical content knowledge.

Basically, its not enough to understand your CS, you have to understand how to teach the CS.