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December 6, 2024 101 mins

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Scott Tolinski. He's a developer who 14 years ago - after injuring himself breakdancing – decided to create a programming tutorial YouTube channel called LevelUpTuts. He is also co-host of Syntax, the most popular web dev podcast on the planet.

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We talk about:
- Scott's perspective on the state of web dev
- His journey from video editing into full blown software development for agencies
- What he's learned from recording 2,000 tutorials and 800 web dev podcasts
- Productivity tips and how he's kept up this pace for 12 years without burning out

Can you guess what song I'm playing in the intro?

Also, I want to thank the 11,036 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate

Links we talk about during our conversation:

- The Syntax podcast: https://syntax.fm/

- Scott's archive of more than 1,000 programming tutorials he taught on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@syntaxfm/videos

- The Honeypot documentary about Scott (8 minute watch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9eh2iJsjxE

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