Today Quincy Larson interviews Jessica Rose. He is a developer and teacher who has worked on open data projects at Mozilla and many open source projects.
We talk about:
How difficult the whole world is, and how embracing it instead of avoiding it can make you a better thinker.
The Bad Website Club, a free online bootcamp where people learn front-end development together starts this April.
Why making “silly little things” is one of the best things you can do as a learner.
Links to our conversation:
Watch the full podcast at freeCodeCamp.org Listen on the YouTube channel or your favorite podcast app.
Community News Section:
freeCodeCamp has just published a new Python course that will teach you how to program your own aerial drone. You don’t need to own a drone. You will use the PySimverse simulator to practice autonomous flight. First you will learn the basics of drone components, 3D movement, and common computer vision tasks. Then you’ll learn about navigation, image capture, hand gesture control, autonomous tracking, and more. (2 hour YouTube course):
freeCodeCamp also published a great course that will teach you how to program NVIDIA’s H100 GPUs using CUDA. You’ll learn about CUTLASS optimizations, multi-GPU scaling, and primitives developers use to train large models. (24 Hour YouTube Course):
If you’ve ever wanted to build a video editor or live streaming tool that runs entirely in the browser, this handbook is worth bookmarking. You’ll see how the WebCodecs API can give you low-level, hardware-accelerated control over video processing. You’ll learn important concepts like video frames, codecs, containers, and mixing. (Full Length Handbook):
Kubernetes does not have a built-in user database. Instead it relies on a chain of verifiers. This course will teach you how x509 client certificates work, why they are not ideal for human users in production, and how to deploy your own self-hosted browser-based OpenID Connect login instead. (29 minutes read):
Song of the Week is “Obvious” from 1983 by Scottish New Wave band Aztec Camera. I love the song’s Django Reinhart-style flamenco guitars, naughty bassline, and stereo percussion. Believe it or not, frontman Rudy Frame was only 18 years old when he wrote the song, sang it, and played his iconic guitar solo.