Surviving 40 years in the software industry [Interview with Jack Herrington Podcast #140]

Sep 06, 2024 09:54 PM - 2 months ago 58949


On this week's section of nan podcast, freeCodeCamp laminitis Quincy Larson interviews Jack Herrington. As a kid he had to activity to flooded Dyslexia and didn't person bully capable grades to get into college. Despite this, he's worked arsenic a package technologist for much than 40 years astatine companies for illustration Nike, Adobe, and Walmart. He besides runs nan celebrated Blue Collar Coder YouTube channel. We talk about: How Jack struggled pinch Dyslexia, had unspeakable grades that couldn't get him into college, but sewage really into GameDev successful nan early 1980s Early developer occupation opportunities that took his family from his location municipality successful Pennsylvania to Melbourne Australia How he started blogging arsenic he learned, and yet published 6 programming books Can you conjecture what opus I'm playing connected my bass during nan intro? It's from a Also, I want to convey nan 10,443 benignant group who support our kindness each month, and who make this podcast possible. You tin subordinate them and support our ngo at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate Links we talk astir during our conversation: Blue Collar Coder YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@jherr Jack connected Twitter: https://twitter.com/jherr 1984 advertisement from Apple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I Edward Tufte, nan world Jack mentions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte Ben Affleck's funny drunk DVD commentary connected Armageddon movie (this contains profanity truthful don't perceive to pinch young kids around): https://www.tiktok.com/@alltherightmovies/video/7238180210527505690?lang=en
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