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The freeCodeCamp Podcast

Quincy Larson

The official podcast of the freeCodeCamp open source community. Learn to code with free online courses, programming projects, and interview preparation for developer jobs.

Episodes

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

Today Quincy Larson interviews Rachel An Fernandez. She's a computer science student at Stanford and the youngest instructor at the entire u...

01:18:41May 19, 2026

#217 Stanford's youngest instructor talks InfoSec, AI, and catching cheaters - Rachel Fernandez interview

Today Quincy Larson interviews Rachel An Fernandez. She's a computer science student at Stanford and the youngest instructor at the entire u...

May 1, 2026
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#216 How to friction-max your learning with software engineer Jessica Rose

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 p...

52:51Apr 17, 2026

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

Today Quincy Larson interviews Mark Mahoney. He worked as a dev before becoming a computer science professor. He's taught computer science f...

01:16:07Apr 10, 2026

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

Today Quincy Larson interviews Chris Griffing is a software engineer and prolific streamer of live coding on Twitch. He spent 10 years as a...

01:18:45Apr 3, 2026

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

Today Quincy Larson interviews Landon Gray. He's a software engineer who worked at agencies for years. Then he taught himself AI assisted so...

01:32:41Mar 27, 2026

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

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 recor...

01:18:45Mar 20, 2026

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

Today Quincy Larson interviews Luke Ciciliano. He's a front-end developer who runs Modern Website Design, a software consultancy that builds...

01:47:29Mar 13, 2026

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

Today Quincy Larson interviews Justin Searls. He's a software engineer who cofounded a software agency 15 years ago that's still going – eve...

01:29:34Mar 6, 2026

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

Today Quincy Larson interviews Carl Brown, who runs the Internet of Bugs YouTube channel and has worked as a dev at Amazon, IBM, Sun Microsy...

01:27:12Feb 27, 2026

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

Today Quincy Larson interviews Shawn Wang. He's a software engineer, founder of the AI Engineer conference, and host of the Latent Space pod...

01:15:59Feb 20, 2026

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

Today Quincy Larson interviews Robby Russell. Robby created the open-source project Oh My ZSH. Oh My Zsh is a framework for managing your Zs...

01:23:05Feb 13, 2026

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

Today Quincy Larson interviews Tapas Adhikari. He's a software engineer who runs a firm of 20 developers who build projects for companies ar...

01:19:12Jan 29, 2026

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

Today Quincy Larson interviews Sumit Saha, a software engineer and prolific teacher on YouTube. Sumit is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where h...

01:04:20Jan 23, 2026

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

Today Quincy Larson interviews Mike McQuaid. He's a software engineer who previously worked at GitHub, and now serves as lead maintainer of...

01:27:42Jan 16, 2026

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

Today Quincy Larson interviews Zubin Pratap, a software engineer and manager from Melbourne, Australia. After nearly two decades working as...

01:13:11Jan 9, 2026

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

Today Quincy Larson interviews Santosh Yadav. The son of a textile worker, he grew up inner-city Mumbai and studied hard to get into univers...

01:04:47Dec 19, 2025

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

Today Quincy Larson interviews Jason Lengstorf. He's a college dropout who taught himself programming while building websites for his emo ba...

01:08:25Dec 12, 2025

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

Today Quincy Larson interviews Kunal Kushwaha. He's a software engineer and prolific computer science teacher on YouTube. He failed the JEE,...

01:08:48Dec 5, 2025

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

Today Quincy Larson interviews Andrea Griffiths, who taught herself programming using freeCodeCamp while working in construction. She moved...

01:14:12Nov 28, 2025