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Thanks for saying that, it means a lot! I hope we both thrive this year, the future is very uncertain

Founder of Boot.dev here: the industry is absolutely having a VERY rough time in 2026. Our revenue in particular is actually up in 2026 vs 2025, but modestly low double digit percent) vs 2025 being nearly double 2024. That said, I feel we're an exception in that we have been able to grow, mostly due to a complete doubling down on high quality human content, and trying to build experiences you just can't get from plain text (interactivity, animations, etc). time will tell.

I haven't independently verified all the claims in the article, but as a codex, Claude, and opencode user, opencode is easily my favorite harness. From a user perspective it's a dream

A more accurate title would be "The Problem with AI Agent Harnesses, and small annoyances with OpenCode specifically"

I've been using opencode for months with codex. best combo I've tried so far

I'm the founder of Boot.dev and I was doing my regular "what's going on in my industry" research - searching through Google trends, and was baffled by this.

I'm not sure what on earth is driving the sudden spike in Python learning resource searching

I _think_ this is good for Boot.dev... (I'm the founder, which is why I care)

Yeah I think there's some nuance. As a relatively experienced dev I still use autocomplete when using a new language, but I think it's different when you already have a strong grasp of coding fundamentals. Learning your 3rd or fourth language when you already understand the constructs is much different than baby's first for loop

I think they may be referring to token usage, which is mentioned in the article. fewer tokens = higher performance

one thing to keep in mind is the video you linked is the _walkthrough_ of the course, the actual course itself is probably what you're looking for, because it moves at a much more reasonable pace

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We’re building the smartest way to master backend development by tackling the hardest problem with e-learning: boredom. We’re a small team of developers who love to make the process of learning as fun and hands-on as it can be. We are looking for a course producer and editor to help us create more programming and computer science courses on Boot.dev!

If you’re a highly technical developer with a love for teaching, this could be the perfect role for you! Your main responsibility will be to work with course authors and our in-house engineering team to produce new high-quality interactive courses on the Boot.dev learning platform. Our courses are highly engaging with coding challenges and quizzes along the way. They are mostly written (in Markdown), however, each course also typically includes 5-10 explainer videos that our in-house animators and editors help create visuals for.

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check out opencode by sst

I've had the chance to interact with both Preston and Clyde (Preston helped Clyde get going in code as well) - Clyde actually completed like all the backend courses on boot dev and is doing great at unlocked labs.

anyhow, thanks for all you did to help Clyde Preston!!! and thanks to glauber and turso for giving Preston a chance, he's such a a cool guy with such a cool story

I've published a lot of interactive programming courses on Boot.dev over the last few years, but the issue that's been plaguing the platform is how quickly it moves through material.

Like we give people challenges for each new concept, but we don't give them 4 or 5 challenges for each new concept. It's hard to get right because

1. It's a lot of work to make challenges/review material 2. Every student wants a different amount of practice/review

So anyways I think we've got a really good solution in the works, been cooking on it this week and we're hoping to be ready to go live in August

Just finished porting Boot.dev's backend learning path to TypeScript (used to only be available in Python/Go, now also Python/TS)

Official release is Cinco de Mayo, I'm very excited!

https://www.boot.dev

haha this is such a cool aesthetic! nice work.

education needs more stuff like this - less matter-of-fact regurgitation of information (which ai does an okay job of anyhow) and more creativity.

Lane here, I wa so excited that I got to record with Ben, his and Shiva's 2020ish videos hit me soooo hard when they dropped. I think Krazam is pretty popular around here so figured I'd share.

yes. also, let's be clear... dax ain't the founder

It has boring well written docs. in fact very boring, and very well written. the video is a banger though, I have no idea why you'd want less creativity in an otherwise boring space

Hmmm... only the things that are really in our control. For example, I think adding time-on-lesson as another metric for the difficulty calculation will make certain courses and projects jump up quite a bit.

I also think that prompt versioning will give us some interesting stuff to look at next year - and of course encouraging more up/down votes on the AI assistant

I guess I will say that if Boot dev keeps growing at this rate, I expect vim mode usage to go down a bit, just because I'd expect the growth to come more from beginners than what we've had in the past

I was expecting <2% - I'll be interested to see if this goes up or down over time... I imagine it's fairly dependent on whether the platform sees growth with more experienced vs less experienced devs

Author here! If you have any questions I'll try to monitor this today and answer anything I can

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Yuuuge disclaimer: I made it, but Boot.dev is a collection of game-like interactive courses focused on backend web dev. It's all in Python and go for the most part.

I will say I don't think certs are a big deal, and they wouldn't be the reason for doing Boot.dev. Its all about learning the concepts and putting it into practice by building cool stuff

Please please please release to the US soon. I get tons of requests for this.

I actually got really confused by the instructions because I went into the dashboard and couldn't find PayPal.

I have a decoupled front and back end. Front end takes less than a minute, back end take 5 minutes. Biggest time sink is a rebuilding the docker image, it doesn't cache super well.

I've had some blog posts make it, but I don't think my product ever did:

https://boot.dev

I've been building https://boot.dev for a couple of years on the side, and recently went full time.

It's geared toward CS and backend development. I'd love to hear what you think if you check it out!

I really like Tailwind, I see a lot of hate in this thread so I'll try to offer a counter-perspective.

First of all, it's important to understand what Tailwind is good for, and what it's not good for.

Tailwind is NOT a design framework. It doesn't dictate the "theme" of your app. I like to think of tailwind as a tool for writing "clean" css that encourages good UI/UX practices. We need to stop comparing it to Bootstrap.

Tailwind is a tool that makes using "good practice" design simple and easy. If you haven't read Adam Wathan's "Refactoring UI", I'd recommend it. It's a book that helps developers make better UI/UX design decisions, and Tailwind is the framework that Adam developed that encourages a lot of those practices.

On that note, my recommendation is, "Tailwind CSS is AMAZING if you're a small team of developers and you don't have a dedicated designer". Tailwind probably is NOT a great choice if you work with a team of designers and need everything to be super-custom and pixel-perfect.

It's also important to note that tailwind is based on utility-classes. It can easily be used alongside "regular" css. I love that it gives a sane convention for writing that stupid "padding: 4px" class you're going to need. My old apps had crap like this that all did the same thing:

.p-4 .pad .padding-4 .padding-button-4

After several developers got their hands on the CSS, and didn't realize there were already classes defined for what they needed.