News - Pg. 2
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.
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 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.
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?
The Boot.dev Beat. July 2024
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
One million lessons. Well, to be precise, you have all completed 1,122,050 lessons just in June. That's nuts. I was so preoccupied with how cool it is that you all are learning so much that I'm late on this newsletter. Sorry 'bout that.
The Boot.dev Beat. June 2024
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
ThePrimeagen's Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we've made massive speed improvements to the site. Hope you enjoy!
The Boot.dev Beat. May 2024
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
A new Pub/Sub Architecture course, lootable chests, and ThePrimeagen's Git course is only a couple weeks away. It's been a good April. glhf.
The Boot.dev Beat. April 2024
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Pythogoras returned in our second community-wide boss battle. He was vanquished, and there was much rejoicing. Happy coding.
The Boot.dev Beat. March 2024
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Pythogoras escaped this month. The community rallied against the Serpent God, and while he was wounded and beaten back, he escaped. We'll be trying again later this month. Happy coding.
The Boot.dev Beat. February 2024
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
609,179. That's the number of lessons you crazy folks have completed on Boot.dev in the last 30 days. Good work my fellow pupils.
The Boot.dev Beat. January 2024
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Hope you had a wonderful holiday! I know you might not have been able to take time off, but I hope you were able to spend some time with family and friends. I spent the whole week driving up and down the state of Utah. It was fun, but I'm happy to be back in my office. Kids can be exhausting. Love 'em, but they're exhausting.
The Boot.dev Beat. December 2023
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Hope you had a splendid Turkey month. My wife, two kids, and I spent Thanksgiving in southern Utah. The fresh air was nice, AQI here in Northern Utah is 100+ right now... wouldn't recommend. Anyway, back to coding.
The Boot.dev Beat. November 2023
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Hope you had a fantastic Halloween. I spent last weekend in Seattle with Allan and Hunter (the other two full-timers here at Boot.dev) at the DotA 2 International. Absolute blast. I've never been to such an enormous gaming event in person. Ah, well, back to coding.
The Boot.dev Beat. October 2023
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Happy All Hallow's Eve. I hope you enjoy this month's cover art. It might be my favorite so far.
The Boot.dev Beat. September 2023
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
The best part of working on Boot.dev is seeing you all make almost unbelievable strides in not only your understanding of fundamental concepts, but what you can now build from scratch. It's not just that, I've been hearing a lot of stories about the confidence that's being gained by our alumnis after shipping so much code. That's a critical part of the journey.
The Boot.dev Beat. August 2023
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
As I'm writing this on July 28th, we've had 118,984 lessons successfully completed by students on Boot.dev so far this July. This marks the first time we've had over 100k lessons completed in a month. While I'm ecstatic that we've been able to join you in so many of your learning journeys, I just want to emphasize that it's your journey. We're here to provide the best resources and experience that we can, but you deserve every ounce of credit for your hard work. Keep it up friends.
The Boot.dev Beat. July 2023
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
June was hot. I got sunburned. What else happened... Oh yeah, I finished the new CI/CD course! It's slated to launch on July 10th, so watch out for that. We also are in the process of hiring a new Boot.dev team member to help us build harder better faster and stronger.
The Boot.dev Beat. June 2023
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
May was a historic month for Boot.dev. We added more students to the backend learning path than we ever have in a single month before, and we're doing everything we can to build and release new, better courses at a faster clip. Thanks for hanging out and learning with us.
The Boot.dev Beat. May 2023
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
We hit some amazing milestones in April. We now have over 40,000 registered students and over 500,000 lessons completed on the platform! I hope your learnings are going well, and that everything we're building is helping you, even if it's in a small way.
The Boot.dev Beat. April 2023
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
We released more this last March than I think we've ever released in a single month before. I've been biting my nails waiting to share it all in this month's newsletter.
Introducing Boots, the Artificially Intelligent Bear that Explains Code
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Learning to code isn't easy; frankly, I'd be wary of anyone who tells you that it is. Hopefully, you're primarily learning by writing and reading a lot of code. As you code, you'll run into roadblocks and bumps, and having a mentor that can answer your questions is an unbelievable advantage.
