Lessons from 15,031 hours of coding live on Twitch with Chris Griffing [Podcast #214]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Chris Griffing is simply a package technologist and prolific streamer of unrecorded coding connected Twitch. He spent 10 years arsenic a "snowboard bum" doing overseas jobs astatine skis resorts to facilitate him spending arsenic overmuch clip connected the upland arsenic possible. At property 28 he taught himself PHP programming and started building websites for friends. In 2018 he started streaming himself programming connected Twitch, which blew up during the pandemic and has lead to much opportunities arsenic a dev and developer advocate. We talk about: - How he learned programming astatine property 28 and built projects for friends earlier going pro - How learning Go made him a amended Rust Developer and why you should beryllium a polyglot programmer - How Chris uses LLM devices but still builds astir codebases manually - Tips for building projects successful nationalist for anyone willing successful besides watercourse coding Support for this podcast comes from the 10,338 benignant folks who donate to our kindness each month. Join them and support our ngo astatine https://donate.freecodecamp.org Get a freeCodeCamp tshirt for $20 pinch free shipping anyplace successful the US: https://shop.freecodecamp.org Links from our discussion: - Chris's Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/cmgriffing - Chris's YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@cmgriffing Community news section: 1. freeCodeCamp conscionable published a broad people that will locomotion you done utilizing the celebrated AI-assisted improvement instrumentality Claude Code. You'll study astir Code Harnesses, Agentic Loops, Sandboxing, and different cardinal concepts. By the extremity of the people you'll beryllium capable to rotation up an full fleet of agents to thief you hole bugs and build retired caller features. (12 hr YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/claude-code-essentials-exampro/ 2. We besides published a people connected the Hugging Face instrumentality ecosystem. You'll study really to link your models, datasets, and deployment devices into a azygous unified build pipeline. (7 hr YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/deploying-ai-models-with-hugging-face/ 3. Learn really to unafraid your Kubernetes Cluster. This in-depth tutorial starts by exploring real-world information breaches astatine large companies for illustration Tesla, Shopify, and Capital One. Then it walks you done really to forestall each of these types of attacks by hardening your setup. (1 hr read): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-secure-a-kubernetes-cluster-handbook/ 4. Tell your Spanish-speaking friends: freeCodeCamp conscionable published a caller Spanish-language people connected SQL and relational databases. It covers tables, overseas keys, queries, information manipulation, and more. (4 hr YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-sql-course-for-beginners-in-spanish/ 5. Today's opus of the week is the 1988 opus by Genesis sideproject Mike + the Mechanics: "Nobody's Perfect". If you for illustration synths and guitar solos, you'll emotion this song. Paul Young has an unthinkable voice. And I emotion the edifying connection down the song. The video is arsenic 80s arsenic they get: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7mQ26YCsho