At the tail end of 2019, we got together with Quincy Larson to celebrate ten years of Changelog & five years of freeCodeCamp by recording back-to-back episodes on each other’s pods. Can you believe it’s now five years later and we’re all still here doing our thing?! Let’s learn what Quincy and the amazing community at freeCodeCamp have been up to!
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Notes & Links
Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | Your favorite ever show | 01:25 |
| 2 | 01:25 | Let's talk! | 00:38 |
| 3 | 02:03 | Sponsor: Fly.io | 02:45 |
| 4 | 04:51 | Birthdays & Friends | 00:51 |
| 5 | 05:42 | A vision realized? | 04:38 |
| 6 | 10:20 | Just getting started | 05:42 |
| 7 | 16:03 | Deciding what to work on | 02:38 |
| 8 | 18:41 | The liberty hook | 05:10 |
| 9 | 23:51 | A bad precedent | 01:25 |
| 10 | 25:17 | Sponsor: Speakeasy | 00:53 |
| 11 | 26:10 | The job market | 08:29 |
| 12 | 34:39 | Entrepreneurship | 07:00 |
| 13 | 41:39 | Quincy has a book?! | 04:42 |
| 14 | 46:21 | Sponsor: AssemblyAI | 02:17 |
| 15 | 48:38 | Sponsor: Wix Studio | 00:54 |
| 16 | 49:32 | Curriculum talk | 10:51 |
| 17 | 1:00:24 | Going low-level | 03:52 |
| 18 | 1:04:15 | Obsessed with learning | 02:33 |
| 19 | 1:06:48 | Teaching English | 02:43 |
| 20 | 1:09:31 | Teaching from our transcripts | 05:20 |
| 21 | 1:14:52 | Finding the right people | 04:54 |
| 22 | 1:19:46 | Still being ignored (so far) | 03:03 |
| 23 | 1:22:49 | freeCodeCamp esports! | 02:35 |
| 24 | 1:25:24 | Learn to Code RPG | 02:34 |
| 25 | 1:27:58 | The future of education | 07:51 |
| 26 | 1:35:50 | Quincy on the bass! | 01:44 |
| 27 | 1:37:33 | Adam's challenge | 02:55 |
| 28 | 1:40:28 | Bye, friends | 00:32 |
| 29 | 1:41:01 | Next week on The Changelog | 01:50 |