Backend Banter
by Boot.dev
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Latest episode
The Tools Are Smarter. Are You? ft. YK Sugi | S02 E12
The Tools Are Smarter. Are You? ft. YK Sugi | S02 E12
About this podcast
The only podcast dedicated to backend development, technologies, and careers. Lane Wagner, the founder of Boot.dev, interviews successful backend engineers to get their takes on various trends, technologies, and career tips for new backend developers. Golang, Python, JavaScript, and Rust are the programming languages most commonly discussed, but speakers dabble in all sorts.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 82 episodes
- The Tools Are Smarter. Are You? ft. YK Sugi | S02 E12 · 1 h 8 min · Season 2 Episode 12Today we welcome YK Sugi—engineer, educator, and the mind behind CSS Dojo—for the final episode of season two. We talk about his journey from YouTube dev tutorials to building…
- How to Win at Learning ft. Quincy Larson | S02 E11 · 1 h 13 minIn this episode, we sit down with Quincy Larson, founder of Free Code Camp, to explore his incredible path from high school dropout to influential tech educator. Quincy shares…
- Mitchell Hashimoto: From Terraform to Ghostty | S02 E10 · 1 h 4 minToday we welcome Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of Ghostty, a new terminal emulator built in Zig. In this episode, Mitchell shares the story behind…
- Vercel’s Big AI Bet. ft. Malte Ubl | S02 E09 · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 9Today we welcome Malte Ubl, CTO of Vercel, to discuss the evolution of frontend development and the role of AI in shaping modern engineering workflows. Malte dives into V0…
- Build skills, not degrees. ft. Madison Kanna | S02 E08 · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 8Today we welcome Madison Kana—a self-taught dev who defied the traditional path. From dropping out and navigating a world of homeschooling to launching the Code Book Club…
- Roll your own auth or you’re ngmi. ft. Dreams of Code | S02 E07 · 1 h 13 min · Season 2 Episode 7This time Elliot from @dreamsofcode joins us to talk about building his own course platform we dive into why he chose to go custom, the tech stack behind his platform, and the…
- Programming Music with Sonic Pi feat. Sam Aaron | S02 E06 · 1 h 5 min · Season 2 Episode 6Today we bring Sam Aaron, the creator of Sonic Pi, a free code-based music creation and performance tool that lets you use simple code to turn your computer into a fully…
- KRAZAM Unfiltered feat. Ben Burke | S2 E05 · 1 h 6 min · Season 2 Episode 5Today, we bring a very special guest, one whose face you might recognise, one that appears on your homepages with a sporadic video and seemingly disappears. His name is Benjamin…
- Does ADHD really make programming harder? ft. Chris Ferdinandi | S2 E04 · 1 h 20 min · Season 2 Episode 2Lane chats with Chris Ferdinandi—creator of Go Make Things and ADHD for the Win—a frontend dev, educator, and all-around expert in making JavaScript (and learning) simpler. Chris…
- Why You Need To Stop Worrying About AI feat. Danny Thompson | S2 E03 · 1 h 9 min · Season 2 Episode 3We’re joined by Danny Thompson, currently Director of Technology at This Dot Labs and technical leader and organizer of the Dallas Software Developers Group, where he fosters…
- Everyone is doing memory management wrong. feat. Ryan Fleury | S2 E02 · 1 h 11 min · Season 2 Episode 2This week on Backend Banter, we’re joined by Ryan Fleury, a talented game developer currently working with Epic Games on their Rad Debugger project. Ryan shares his journey from…
- Is Elixir the Future? feat. José Valim | S2 E01 · 1 h 23 min · Season 2 Episode 1We're back for Backend Banter Season 2, and we bring a very special guest, José Valim, the creator of the Elixir Programming Language, one of the most popular and loved…
- #069 - Season Finale: The Boot.dev Origin Story w/ Allan · 1 h 14 minToday, we bring you the final episode of the first season of Backend Banter! It’s a wrap up for now. With 69 episodes behind us, we want to tell you the story of Boot Dev and how…
- #068 - Should you trust tech influencers? feat. Charles The III · 1 h 12 minToday we welcome Chuck Carpenter aka Charles The 3rd, co-host at Whiskey Web and Whatnot. As two content creators in the tech scene, we discuss if and how celebrity developers…
- #067 - How to Be Better than 96.487% of Developers · 59 minIn today’s episode, we bring back Aaron Francis. If you haven’t watched our previous episode with him, he is a software developer, fellow content creator and co-founder of Try…
- #066 - CSS Is The Hardest Programming Language · 55 min · Episode 67In today’s episode, we bring Adam Argyle, a CSS Dev Rel at Google, content creator, co-host at CSS Podcast, Bad At CSS Podcast and host of GUI Challenges. He’s also the creator…
- #065 - I Quit Voice Coaching for Typescript feat. Matt Pocock · 56 min · Episode 66In today’s episode, we welcome Matt Pocock, an educator, content creator and engineer who used to be a voice coach. Now, he teaches Typescript on his YouTube channel and is…
- #064 - You’re doing networking wrong feat. Lawrence Lockhart · 1 h 4 minIn today’s episode, we welcome Lawrence Lockhart, a former hospitality manager turned full stack software developer. Apart from his tech job, he’s also a developer advocate, a…
- #063 - I was fired for using HTMX · 1 h 3 minIn today’s episode, we bring Spiro Floropoulos, a senior developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. This episode is an unusual one, as Spiro recently got laid off…
- #062 - Declaring War Against the Frontend feat. Sam Selikoff · 59 min · Episode 63In today’s episode, we go to war with Sam Selikoff, co-host of the Frontend First podcast, and specialist on everything Frontend related. We have an amazing conversation where…
