Boot.dev Blog
I'm in Vibe Coding Hell
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
When I started thinking about the problems with coding education in 2019, "tutorial hell" was enemy number one. You'd know you were living in it if you:
The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing. Also, my children and those of half my employees are sick with the flu... I hope you've all been able to avoid it!
The Boot.dev Beat. September 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
The training grounds are LIVE! 21,000 challenges have been generated between the launch and as I write this, and we're just getting started. Big things to come.
Boot.dev Launches the Training Grounds
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
We've always said Boot.dev is fun... but we've never said it's easy. I mean, it's not for lack of trying. We do everything we can to make the content as easy to understand as it can be:
The Boot.dev Beat. August 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
We ran the biggest hackathon I've ever been a part of (500+ participants!) and saw some incredible projects come out of it. Thanks to everyone that participated, I'm excited for the next one!
2025 Hackathon
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
The 2025 Boot.dev Hackathon has been completed! We had an amazing turnout this year, with over 500 participants across two categories: Amateur and Pro. The projects were incredible, and the competition was fierce.
The Boot.dev Beat. July 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
This month we were heads down building a lot of background stuff for big releases that are coming up - but we still did manage to get a few new features out the door!
The Boot.dev Beat. June 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
We've capitulated into the vibe coding era? Well... not really. But it's cool to understand how AI agents like Cursor and Claude Code work under the hood.
Are Boot.dev Courses Free?
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Sometimes folks get confused and wonder, are Boot.dev's programming courses really free?
The Boot.dev Beat. May 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python and TypeScript! This is a massive update that we've been working on for a year, I hope you enjoy it!
The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The community rallied during the event, dealing a whopping 132,282,452 damage in total, but not quite enough to bring him down.
The Boot.dev Beat. March 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Our new JavaScript course is live! ThePrimeagen's course on building your own HTTP server from scratch is just around the corner, and the TypeScript track couldn't be closer.
The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
It's official: TJ's C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for Boot.dev, and for humanity as a whole.
18 Months with GPT-4: Now Can I Fire my Developers?
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
As the founder of a company where my largest static expense is engineering salaries, I'm over here just chomping at the bit, eagerly awaiting the moment I can fire everyone and line my pockets with all those juicy savings. See, about one year ago, I wrote an article titled, "9 Months with GPT-4: Can I Fire my Developers Yet?" and I thought I'd give you a little update on Allan's employment status.
The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Fastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children just won't stop being sick for more than 4 days at a time. Win some, lose some.
The Boot.dev Beat. December 2024
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Potions got a rework, solutions were added to the Git course, and I've been sick for like 10 days straight... hope your Holidays are staying healthier than mine!
The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Mortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The Boots' aura XP boost even hit 2x for a while there.
The State of Learning to Code - 2026 Report
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
I've been building a learning curriculum for backend developers for the last 3 years, but I've mostly been relying on qualitative feedback and my own intuitions.
The Boot.dev Beat. October 2024
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
The "learn computer science basics" section of the backend developer learning path is now complete! We have no big plans to make serious modifications (tbh I always say this though, so idk). To be clear, that's the first half of the track complete - the first 13 courses up to the personal project.
Build a Web Server in Go
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Let's build a fully-fledged HTTP server from scratch in Go. This course assumes you already have a solid understanding of Go. If you don't, take a step back and take our Go course.
Build a Blog Aggregator in Go
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
We're going to build an RSS feed aggregator in Go! It's a web server that allows clients to:
The Boot.dev Beat. September 2024
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
The arcanum was soooooo close to defeating the Hound of Zaggoroth in this month's boss fight. 88,297,514 xp was gained over the course of the event, and 90,000,000 was all that was needed to secure victory. It's a shame, but we can't win them all. The hound will return soon.
The Boot.dev Beat. August 2024
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
I'm writing this one a bit early because I'm going out of town next week... better early than late?
Is there a course on <insert technology>?
by Casper Andersson
In the Boot.dev Discord server, this question appears now and then. Will there be a Rust course? Why is there no Django course? Can you add a Spring Boot course? Maybe there will be in the future. Maybe not. It's impossible to cover everything that everyone wants. But that's no reason to not do the curriculum. Even universities with their 3-4 year degrees only cover a fraction of all there is. Instead, it prepares you to specialize and learn what you want.
Are Pointers in Go Faster Than Values?
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
I was recently working on a lesson about pointer performance for Boot.dev's Golang course when I found myself repeating some advice I've given many times before.
