Long-form video walkthroughs of real work - not toy demos. Pick one, work through it, ship better code on Monday.
Critical AI skills for staying on top of this industry. Self-paced, no fluff.
Get yourself or your team up to speed quickly with the modern AI toolchain.
Migrating a modern JS site back to Rails - and why Rails might still be the best.
JavaScript frameworks are powerful - but learning them sucks. Here's the shortcut.
A deep dive into Postgres using real NASA data from the Cassini mission.
Companion to The Imposter's Handbook - CS for self-taught programmers.
AI will happily write the code. Knowing whether it’s any good is still on you, and that part hasn’t changed in fifty years. I wrote these to teach myself the things a CS degree would have covered, and they read like stories rather than textbooks. Tens of thousands of people have picked them up since.
Everything that goes into a CS degree, taught the way I had to learn it: computation, complexity, encryption, algorithms, data structures, lambda calculus. The vocabulary you need to read what the machine just handed you.
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PostgreSQL the fun way. You're the interim DBA at a startup, digging through real Cassini mission data on the way to Saturn. Your database is the one thing AI can't hand-wave for you.
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Shipping something real means source control, code reviews, DevOps, project management, and most of all other people. The work that starts once the code exists.
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