Best Quincy Larson Podcasts (2025)

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#176 From Therapist to six figure freelance dev 1:20:33

7d ago1:20:33

1:20:33

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Kelly Vaughn. She's a self-taught software engineer who ran her own developer agency. She was also the founding CTO at financial technology startup. Kelly runs the popular Ladybug Podcast focused on women in tech. We talk about: - How to freelance and ultimately cr…

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#175 From electrical engineering student to CTO with Hitesh Choudhary 1:21:23

21d ago1:21:23

1:21:23

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews former CTO and prolific programming teacher Hitesh Choudhary. We talk about: - The limits of AI in building a robust codebase - Time management - Higher Education in India - Lessons from training developers - Lessons you've learned from your travel Support for this…

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#174 How to Survive in Tech When Everything's Changing w/ 21-year Veteran Dev Joe Attardi 1:10:35

28d ago1:10:35

1:10:35

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Joe Attardi. He's a software engineer and prolific author of programming books. We talk about: How software development has changed over the past 21 years Tips for suriving AI's sweeping changes to the field The evolving role of Computer Science degrees Why people …

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#173 Laid off but not afraid with X-senior Microsoft Dev MacKevin Fey 1:18:51

1M ago1:18:51

1:18:51

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews MacKevin Fey. He just got laid off last week from his senior engineering role at Microsoft. We talk about: How Mack's approaching the job search after being laid off Tips for building your own financial safety net while working as an engineer How to use your dev sk…

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#172 How to make Developer Friends When You Don't Live in Silicon Valley, with Iraqi Engineer Code;Life 1:29:27

1M ago1:29:27

1:29:27

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews software engineer and live coding streamer Code;Life. For those of you watching the video version of this interview, she lives in Iraq and she uses a 3D avatar to protect her identity. We talk about: Training language models to work well with low-resource languages…

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#171 Ditching a Microsoft Job to Enter Startup Purgatory with Lonewolf Engineer Sam Crombie 1:55:27

2M ago1:55:27

1:55:27

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Sam Crombie. He's a software engineer and prolific open source contributor to freeCodeCamp. He abandon his job at Microsoft, got into Y Combinator, and is currently in startup pivot hell trying to decide how to use the half million he raised. We talk about: How use…

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#170 From Art School Drop-out to Microsoft Engineer with Shashi Lo 1:23:48

2M ago1:23:48

1:23:48

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Shashi Lo. He's a software engineer at Microsoft. He grew up the child of refugees. He wanted to start earning money and build his family so he abandoned his art school degree and taught himself how to program. He immediately hustled to land freelance development c…

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#169 From fast food worker to cybersecurity engineer with Tae'lur Alexis 1:20:11

2M ago1:20:11

1:20:11

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Tae'lur Alexis. She's a developer and security analyst. Instead of going to college, Tae'lur spent years working various fast food and retail jobs. Tae'lur taught herself Python and JavaScript using freeCodeCamp and worked as a software engineer for 5 years before …

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#168 From Accountant to Data Engineer with Alyson La 1:19:20

3M ago1:19:20

1:19:20

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Alyson La. She taught herself how to code while working as an accountant at GitHub and was able to transition to a data scientist there, then ultimately a software engineer. After one of her kids got diagnosed with autism, she left her career for 3 years to be a fu…

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#167 From drop-out to software architect with Jason Lengstorf 1:20:55

3M ago1:20:55

1:20:55

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Jason Lengstorf. He learned to code out of necessity building websites for local emo bands. He dropped out of college but eventually worked as an engineer at IBM and has gone on to roles at many other companies doing everything from software architecture to managem…

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The Tools Are Smarter. Are You? ft. YK Sugi | S02 E12 1:08:12

3M ago1:08:12

1:08:12

Today 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 one of Sourcegraph’s most-used AI tools, and how the role of DevRel has changed (and in some cases, disappeared). YK also breaks down how senior engineers are actually using …

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#166 From broke musician to working dev. How college drop-out Ryan Furrer taught himself to program 1:36:24

3M ago1:36:24

1:36:24

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Ryan Furrer. He's a Front End Engineer working on tools that help companies monitor their buildings for energy usage, water leaks, and other environmental factors. Ryan dropped out of college and worked as a musician and violin instructor. He spent 5 years teaching…

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How to Win at Learning ft. Quincy Larson | S02 E11 1:13:54

3M ago1:13:54

1:13:54

In 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 his unconventional journey — from living in his car and working fast food jobs to building one of the most impactful coding education platforms in the world. We discuss the p…

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#165 From hating coding to programming satellites at age 37 with Francesco Ciulla 1:27:18

3M ago1:27:18

1:27:18

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Francesco Ciulla. He's a software engineer who has worked with the European Space Agency on code that powers the Copernicus satellite program. More recently he's published courses on learning Docker and the Rust programming language. We talk about: - How Francesco …

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Quincy Larson Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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The freeCodeCamp Podcast

freeCodeCamp.org

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CodeCareer.io

CodeCareer.io

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Backend Banter

Boot.dev

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The Struggling Stoic

The Struggling Stoic

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#176 From Therapist to six figure freelance dev 1:20:33

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#175 From electrical engineering student to CTO with Hitesh Choudhary 1:21:23

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#174 How to Survive in Tech When Everything's Changing w/ 21-year Veteran Dev Joe Attardi 1:10:35

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#173 Laid off but not afraid with X-senior Microsoft Dev MacKevin Fey 1:18:51

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#172 How to make Developer Friends When You Don't Live in Silicon Valley, with Iraqi Engineer Code;Life 1:29:27

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#171 Ditching a Microsoft Job to Enter Startup Purgatory with Lonewolf Engineer Sam Crombie 1:55:27

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#170 From Art School Drop-out to Microsoft Engineer with Shashi Lo 1:23:48

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#169 From fast food worker to cybersecurity engineer with Tae'lur Alexis 1:20:11

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#168 From Accountant to Data Engineer with Alyson La 1:19:20

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#167 From drop-out to software architect with Jason Lengstorf 1:20:55

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The Tools Are Smarter. Are You? ft. YK Sugi | S02 E12 1:08:12

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#166 From broke musician to working dev. How college drop-out Ryan Furrer taught himself to program 1:36:24

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How to Win at Learning ft. Quincy Larson | S02 E11 1:13:54

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#165 From hating coding to programming satellites at age 37 with Francesco Ciulla 1:27:18

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