Lane || Boot.dev

@wagslane.bsky.social

Founder of Boot.dev Host of BackendBanter.fm

Went into a GameStop to pick up zelda for my nephew's birthday why are there so many single (obviously) 35 y/o men buying thirsty statues of one piece characters? I didn't see a single kid in there buying games

Back in 2022 and 2023, I thought ai art was a kinda fun alternative to stock images. Now in 2026, it's soooo much worse. EVERYONE is sick of it. I'm constantly amazed at the unironic use of blatant AI slop art by so many companies out there. 1/2

The one thing I hope I can save my kids from is just overall apathy. Apathy in general, but particularly apathy about getting good at things Trying hard is cool. Failing is cooler than not trying.

The biggest misconception about Bootdev is that people take our courses to learn new things, improve their lives, and get into better careers We've always been very clear on this: it's actually about the digital confetti, loot boxes, and leaderboard stats

Traditional educators should be embarrassed that they have our kids for 7 hours a day and still need to send kids home with homework. Use the time more effectively. Cut the busywork. Oh, and pay educators more so that we get good ones and they're incentivized to care.

slide decks have got to be the worst possible mechanism to communicate information, especially in the age of ai give me plaintext if its async just talk to me if its a call there is literally zero cases where I want to see a deck

will someone PLEASE regulate online interactive learning already: this industry must be stopped. people are getting waaaaaay too good at stuff oh also people are addicted to learning on boot dev can someone please sue us for addicting them to writing too much code

If you're actually good (tm), it's waaaay easier to just to start a company in a competitive market You don't need to worry about pmf, you know people have the problem, and if you're really smart, you can figure out typical margins and CaCs and such 1/2

So far sol feels way more of an incremental improvement to me than astra Astra is cool, but so far the only thing I've really noticed in my day to day coding work is that maybe I get to where I wanted to go 10% faster (I don't have to correct as much) But mainly I just hit my usage limit faster

The future of knowledge work is incredibly highly skilled. People are so focused on how much you can get done without knowing much, and that will lead to a certain type of productivity growth. Particularly when it comes to internal tools and prototyping. 1/3