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Boot.dev
Company blog · blog.boot.devprogrammingcareer
Boot.dev is the company blog at blog.boot.dev, writing about programming and career. Since 2022, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 58 times, most often “The One Thing I'D Change About Go”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly mention Boot.dev posts in passing, as links on learning multiple programming languages, career advice, or job listings. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Read articles about backend development, computer science, programming languages, and learning to code.
Most-linked posts?
- The One Thing I'D Change About Go3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-08-18
- How SHA-256 Works Step-by-Step2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-22
- Beliefs on how you should learn to code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-13
- Writing Good Unit Tests; Don’t Mock Database Connections2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-21
- If You're Learning Back-End, Don't Start with Frameworks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-01-16
- /careers/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-01
- We Force You to Learn Multiple Programming Languages2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-13
- Supply and Demand Are Broken in Programming Education2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-24
- Best Practices for Interfaces in Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-14
What Hacker News says?
Boot.dev | Junior Video Editor/Animator | REMOTE (US/Europe Timezones Preferred) | Full-time | https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3987534709 At Boot.dev we're building the smartest way to master backend development by tackling the hardest problem with e-learning: boredom. We’re a small team of developers who love to make the process of learning as fun and hands-on as it can be. We are looking for a junior video edit…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)”Submitted "Vibe code hell" has replaced "tutorial hell" in coding education as a story · 283 points
HN discussionI love moving domains every so often because changing up tooling and languages is such a great learning experience. Here's a related piece I wrote talking about why I think learners should also be learning multiple programming languages: https://blog.boot.dev/education/learn-multiple-programming-l...
Comment linking /education/learn-multiple-programming-languages/
on “Trying new programming languages helped me grow as a software engineer”Submitted Elliptic Curve Cryptography: A Basic Introduction as a story · 215 points
HN discussionBoot.dev | Senior Course Producer (Full Time, Remote) We’re building the smartest way to master backend development by tackling the hardest problem with e-learning: boredom. We’re a small team of developers who love to make the process of learning as fun and hands-on as it can be. We are looking for a course producer and editor to help us create more programming and computer science courses on Boot.dev! If you’re a…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)”Submitted How SHA-256 Works Step-by-Step as a story · 197 points
HN discussionWhile people are right to point out the down market, I think they're ignoring the obvious corollary. My theory is that you've been getting by with the weaknesses in your resume because the tech market hasn't seen a major downturn for awhile. From skimming your blog, it doesn't seem like you're an unskilled developer, but that's how your resume presents you. Others pointed out that you don't mention impact, just resp…
Comment linking /jobs/build-github-profile/
on “Ask HN: Why am I suddenly unemployable?”Submitted What would a recession mean for developers? as a story · 103 points
HN discussionI highly disagree with the interfaces criticism. Firstly You can literally just use one of the dozens of go lsps or code tools to search for API invocations to find what structs are passed/called into it. More importantly if you need to know you've written bad code. The entire point of an interface is that you SHOULDN'T need to know the underlying type. If you do you've violated the entire point. Just pass concrete…
Comment linking /golang/golang-interfaces/
on “Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)”Submitted Are You a DevOps Engineer If You Aren’t Writing Code? as a story · 28 points
HN discussion> https://blog.boot.dev/about/ They're an outfit which offers (online) coding-cum-cs courses. Which is perfectly legit, but they have a bias when giving advice.
Comment linking /about/
on “What would a recession mean for developers?”Submitted We Force You to Learn Multiple Programming Languages as a story · 25 points
HN discussionDIGITAL MARKETER #1 Boot.dev | Remote possible, Salt Lake Area preferred | Salary + Equity We're building the smartest way to learn backend development online by tackling the hardest problem with e-learning: bordeom. We need someone with some of the the following skills in descending order of importance: - Writing & Copywriting: Can you tell a good story? Can you grab someone’s attention and keep it? Can you write i…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)”Submitted Supply and Demand Are Broken in Programming Education as a story · 15 points
HN discussionsuper interesting. I recently started using stable diffusion images for my blog posts on https://blog.boot.dev . I got really sick of all the same unsplash and pexels images.
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on “Show HN: Stable Diffusion Image-to-Prompt Tool”Submitted State of Learning to Code 2024 Report as a story · 12 points
HN discussionBoot.dev / Remote USA / Senior Software Engineer / Full Time https://blog.boot.dev/careers/
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)”Submitted Do Better in Coding Interviews by Being Confident and Humble as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted What a Recession Would Mean for Developers as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Good Unit Tests; Don’t Mock Database Connections as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Supply and Demand Are Broken in Programming Education as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trends in Developer Jobs: A Meta Analysis of Stack Overflow Surveys as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trends in Developer Jobs: A Meta Analysis of Stack Overflow Surveys as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Problem with Education Is a Problem of Incentives as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Do Tech Layoffs Mean for Developers? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Dry Code, and Is It Always a Good Thing? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beliefs on how you should learn to code as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: The Boot.dev Training Grounds as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Awww, do I need to learn X to get a job? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Boots, the Bear That Explains Code as a story · 4 points
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