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You're building Rust client libraries at no cost? Why? Seems too good to be true.

Founding ML engineer of Sourceress (S17) here - we'll be there! https://jobs.lever.co/sourceress

Phew, that's an overwhelming list. A less exhaustive alternative that I recommend is https://teachyourselfcs.com. It's tailored to those who never studied CS in undergrad, like myself.

As someone who's been self-learning computer science on the side (I've been working as an engineer for 5 years, but have a bootcamp background, plus I'm just interested in all that stuff), I can't wait to take it.

I plan to take it every 6 months to quantify my progress.

These placeholders are tiny (<1 kB for images with 10 triangles) and quite beautiful in their own right. I found this post inspiring.

The second edition was one of my favorite programming books when I was just getting started! Looking forward to this.

Finally, a Recurse Center in SF. How it doesn't already exist here is beyond me.

Attending Dev Bootcamp in March 2013 is the best decision I've ever made, it totally altered the trajectory of my career and I'm happier and more fulfilled as a result. I'm not sure I would have been able to make the switch from consulting to software engineering without DBC.

That being said, I'm extremely lucky to have enrolled during the narrow window I did. The entire bootcamp industry is suffering, not just DBC. They've now totally saturated the market with juniors and refused to adapt to that reality by extending and improving their product: they should be offering longer courses, covering more material, interspersing their offerings with internships, and providing intermediate-level bootcamps for engineers looking to graduate to the next level. Today's bootcamp graduates have to compensate for this themselves by continuing to teach themselves new content as they fight for jobs after graduation. This is difficult - don't get me wrong, it's still doable and still very much worth the effort - but it's hard, and this explains the current embarrassingly low rate of bootcamp graduates winning jobs as developers. If this describes you: keep your chin up, find a friend to practice interviewing with, and know that you're going to need to work through this material eventually: https://teachyourselfcs.com. And feel free to reach out to me.

I don't think anyone close to the bootcamp industry would see this as a surprise, and I think we'll see many more bootcamp closures/M&As in the near future. Hopefully the industry will evolve and adapt, not die - everyone deserves the opportunity, not just the lucky few who had it easy before the market got saturated.

$1,800 per course.

Me too - I took their Computer Architecture course and really enjoyed it. Would recommend.

It might seem obvious to you, but the bootcamp crowd really underestimates the impact of computer science on their day-to-day work. I know because I used to be among them.

At least in my case, I was indoctrinated by my bootcamp to put a standard CS undergrad degree into the same bucket as the rest of our broken education system. So at my first job I focused on keeping up with the trends, trying to master web development by becoming hyperproductive with my day-to-day tools. I was trying to emulate the most visible engineers I saw at conferences, figuring that to shape the trends I'd have to be on top of them. Very naive of me, but then again, I didn't have much exposure to the world beyond web development, and you don't know what you don't know.

I wish I could have seen this post years ago! Would've saved me a ton of time.

"But the thing that got me through that moment, and any other time that I’ve felt stuck, is to remind myself that it’s about the work. Because if you’re worrying about yourself — if you’re thinking: ‘Am I succeeding? Am I in the right position? Am I being appreciated?’ — then you’re going to end up feeling frustrated and stuck. But if you can keep it about the work, you’ll always have a path. There’s always something to be done."

- Barack Obama

Amazing and inspiring... how did you find the time to do this? Were you employed?