Today Quincy Larson interviews Chris Quire. He is a front-end developer and co-founder of CodePen and the CSS Tricks blog. He has also recorded over 700 podcasts about software engineering.
We talk about:
How he thinks front-end development tools are 90% of the way where they need to be.
How to develop for the web “is just as good as mobile, and you can reuse it everywhere.”
And why highly skilled devs working on new problems don’t have to worry about AI disrupting their careers.
Watch the podcast on freeCodeCamp.org YouTube Channel Or listen on your favorite podcast app.
Links to our conversation:
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