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Deep Blue Was Not ChatGPT
by Boot.dev Team - Programming course authors and video producers
It's May 11th, 1997, and Garry Kasparov sits in front of a chessboard on the 35th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper.
SHA-1 Was Shattered
by Boot.dev Team - Programming course authors and video producers
A couple of weeks ago I downloaded a copy of OBS, and my operating system yelled at me. Told me I shouldn't trust it. And it was right, I shouldn't have been trying to download from fastandrealobsfree.ru.
The Boot.dev Beat. June 2026
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
May was a fun month. Interactive widgets (the ones we teased last month) are now live in select lesson content, sound effects rolled out to everyone, and every Python project course got type hints.
WannaCry: The Ransomware Attack That Shut Down Hospitals
by Boot.dev Team - Programming course authors and video producers
It was 3 PM on a Friday. A doctor at an NHS hospital in the UK tries to check his email. Instead, one of the PCs in the room reboots into a scary red screen demanding $300 in Bitcoin.
Open Source Maintainers Are Crashing Out
by Boot.dev Team - Programming course authors and video producers
Open source is a safe, sustainable development model. Right?
GitHub Keeps Going Down
by Boot.dev Team - Programming course authors and video producers
On February 9th, 2026, GitHub went down.
The AI Land Grab Looks Familiar
by Boot.dev Team - Programming course authors and video producers
In May of 2013, Yahoo announced plans to buy Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars. Yahoo's CEO, Marissa Mayer, stood in front of the press and said, "We promise not to screw it up".
The Boot.dev Beat. May 2026
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
April was a polish-heavy month for us here at Boot.dev. We shipped many small improvements to the lesson experience, added Custom Learning Paths, made the Training Grounds easier to navigate, and cleaned up mobile UX annoyances.
Nvidia CEO: AI Doomers Could Cause a Software Engineer Shortage
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
It feels like every week Dario (Anthropic's CEO) is yelling about how AI is going to destroy white-collar jobs, particularly software engineering jobs. Well, in April 2026, about 4 years into the "in 6 weeks, AI is taking your coding job" cycle, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is finally talking about the potential consequences of that narrative:
The Boot.dev Beat. April 2026
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
March was a monster month. We shipped the new DevOps learning path (18 DevOps courses!), 2 brand new courses, upgraded the in-browser Python coding experience, and made Boot.dev noticeably better on phones.
Boot.dev's New Logo Unveiled
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
We created our old blue/black/gray logo years ago before we redsigned the site to its new gold/brown/blue textured look and feel. As such, the old logo just doesn't fit at all with the current state of the brand (as much as we loved it). So, we decided to work with an incredible designer (thanks Dusan!) to create a new logo that really captures what Boot.dev has become over the years.
The Boot.dev Beat. March 2026
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
February was stacked with quality-of-life work and platform upgrades. A lot of this work is infrastructure-heavy and not quite as flashy, but it makes Boot.dev faster, sturdier, and more fun to use. Also: the DevOps learning path is very close. The AWS and logging courses are getting their final polish and should be landing any week now.
The Boot.dev Beat. February 2026
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
A new year and another record broken! In January a combined 4,016,641 lessons and challenges were completed by you, dear pupils! And to top it off, we're now releasing the much anticipated Power BI Course by none other than Alex the Analyst! I hope you enjoy it.
The Boot.dev Beat. January 2026
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
We're off to an incredible start to 2026. December of 2025 broke a new record with 3,075,904 lessons completed and 82,578 training grounds challenges completed during the month! In January, I'm writing this on the 13th, and we're already at 1,657,581 lessons and 47,795 challenges - so it's looking like this is going to be a monster month. Best of luck to you all in the contest of the resolute.
The Boot.dev Beat. December 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
We plan to wrap up 2025 with some important quality of life updates! League placement badges, lesson bookmarks, and major improvements to the Training Grounds are just a few of the highlights. Thanks for learning with us, we're gearing up the platform for a ton of new courses in 2026.
The Boot.dev Beat. November 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Isaac's new Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) course is now live! It's a very in-depth course. It's not for the faint of heart, and it will teach you not just about AI search, but full keyword and semantic search systems as well... the "RAG" name actually sells it a bit short.
The Boot.dev Beat. October 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Searchable challenges in the Training Grounds, and realtime voice chats with Boots are now a thing. Also, my children and those of half my employees are sick with the flu... I hope you've all been able to avoid it!
The Boot.dev Beat. September 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
The training grounds are LIVE! 21,000 challenges have been generated between the launch and as I write this, and we're just getting started. Big things to come.
Boot.dev Launches the Training Grounds
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
We've always said Boot.dev is fun... but we've never said it's easy. I mean, it's not for lack of trying. We do everything we can to make the content as easy to understand as it can be:
The Boot.dev Beat. August 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
We ran the biggest hackathon I've ever been a part of (500+ participants!) and saw some incredible projects come out of it. Thanks to everyone that participated, I'm excited for the next one!
2025 Hackathon
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
The 2025 Boot.dev Hackathon has been completed! We had an amazing turnout this year, with over 500 participants across two categories: Amateur and Pro. The projects were incredible, and the competition was fierce.
The Boot.dev Beat. July 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
This month we were heads down building a lot of background stuff for big releases that are coming up - but we still did manage to get a few new features out the door!
The Boot.dev Beat. June 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
We've capitulated into the vibe coding era? Well... not really. But it's cool to understand how AI agents like Cursor and Claude Code work under the hood.
The Boot.dev Beat. May 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
Our biggest content release ever just dropped: the complete backend learning path, but now in Python and TypeScript! This is a massive update that we've been working on for a year, I hope you enjoy it!
The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025
by Lane Wagner - Boot.dev co-founder and backend engineer
The Lord of the Mire has been the hardest boss yet (by far), weighing it with 150,000,000 HP. The community rallied during the event, dealing a whopping 132,282,452 damage in total, but not quite enough to bring him down.
