Tips from a 20-year developer veteran turned consultancy founder – Tapas Adhikary [Podcast #206]

Today Quincy Larson interviews Tapas Adhikari. He's a package technologist who runs a patient of 20 developers who build projects for companies astir the world. He's besides a prolific teacher, having written 300 programming tutorials - including 47 for freeCodeCamp – and runs a celebrated English and Bangla-language YouTube channels. We talk about: - The changing quality of package engineering - Tips for building your ain fully-remote package improvement patient and landing clients abroad - Lessons from mentoring much than 500 developers complete the years Support for this podcast comes from the 10,104 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: - Tapas's handbook connected really to get started contributing to unfastened root projects (required reference IMHO): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-practical-guide-to-start-opensource-contributions/ - Tapas's galore tutorials and handbooks connected freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/author/atapas/ - The developer patient Tapas co-founded and nows runs pinch much than a twelve developers: https://www.creowis.com/ - Tapas's individual website: https://www.tapasadhikary.com/ - Tapas's English-langauge programming tutorial YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@tapasadhikary Community news section: 1. freeCodeCamp conscionable published a caller Python Data Structures & Algorithms people that will thief you understand cardinal Dynamic Programming patterns. These approaches travel up each the clip successful method interviews. You'll study Constant Transition, the Grid Pattern, Two Sequences, Interval DP, Non-Constant Transition, Knapsack-like problems, and more. (2 hr YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-dynamic-programming-through-dynamic-visuals/ 2. If you're willing successful building projects connected apical of Large Language Models, freeCodeCamp conscionable published a Python people connected Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). You'll study really to move documents into embeddings past shop them successful vector databases. The people will besides locomotion you done building your ain Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. (2 hr YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-rag-and-mcp-fundamentals/ 3. Learn How Execution Context Works successful JavaScript. If you're a JS dev, this is basal reading. You'll study astir mentation vs compilation. Then you'll spot really Node.js and the V8 motor load and execute code. (full magnitude handbook): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-execution-context-works-in-javascript-handbook/ 4. Finally, this play you tin build your ain fully-playable scary crippled based connected the legendary “The Backrooms” liminal space. For immoderate logic my kids are terrified of this weirdly normal-looking agency setting. You'll build your ain situation utilizing Unreal Engine 5 and the Blueprints ocular scripting instrumentality that abstracts distant each the C++ codification for you. Throw successful a body-cam style camera position and immoderate creepy monsters and you'll person the cleanable measurement to scare friends and family alike. (3 hr YouTube course): https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/build-a-the-backrooms-game-in-unreal-engine-5/ 5. Today's opus of the week is And the Cradle Will Rock disconnected Van Halen's 1980 medium Women and Children first. The opus starts retired pinch a groove connected a heavy distorted Wurlitzer elctromechanical piano. I emotion Michael Anthony's 8th statement bassline and the loose precocious hats nether Eddie Van Halen's guitar solo. This is simply a awesome luncheon break song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11mBDT5mpdw