Lane Wagner (@wagslane) talks hitting $26k/mo in revenue, why A.I. disruption is a good thing, the ethics of addictive products, surviving after a first year of no traction, why most business writing sucks, and how to grow revenue by making your product smaller with Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen).

🎙 About the episodeMeet Lane Wagner 🇺🇸! Lane is an engineering manager and the founder of Boot.dev. In this episode, as an experienced leader and educator, Lane talks about the recent changes in the job market and what they mean for aspiring and established developers alike. With tech layoffs and  AI that can write code, how do you even stand out?Lane and Alex discuss the future of the industry as well as the ongoing recession and why it seems to hit tech companies especially hard. You'll learn what's the main difference between a developer and an AI that can write code and how to focus on it. They also talk about different types of companies, how different paths require different strategies to break into tech, and why it's okay to change companies as that's the quickest way to learn and figure out what works for you..🔗 Connect with Lane👨‍💼Linkedin🌐 Website🐦 Twitter✏️ Blog⏰ TimestampsWhy is the tech industry experiencing layoffs? (01:41)Do tech layoffs affect junior developers in the long run? (03:20)Why we are in a recession: the (tech) bubble created during the COVID pandemic burst (05:00)Why have big companies mostly hired seniors in the past three years (08:31)Should junior developers aim to work at smaller companies? (09:24)Getting a job requires different strategies for different types of companies (12:29)Changing jobs is okay! (16:06)Community break! (18:23)Get your first developer job ASAP because that's the quickest way to learn (20:36)AI can write code. Should developers be worried for their livelihoods? (22:37)The difference between ChatGPT and a junior developer (26:03)If your biggest selling point as a junior is what technologies you use, you're doing something wrong (30:21)What we can learn from the data available at layoffs.fyi (33:39)We can't control most things happening in the job market, but we can focus on the things we can control: Lane's advice for junior developers (35:21)🧰 Resources Mentionedboot.devlayoffs.fyiBlog post: What Do Tech Layoffs Mean for Budding DevelopersScrimba Podcast: How to become a successful Junior Developer with Danny ThompsonScrimba Podcast: How to Use Twitter to Beat Your Social Anxiety and Land Your First Job, with Scrimba Student Trecia⭐️ Leave a ReviewIf you enjoyed this episode, please leave a 5-star review here and tell us who you want to see on the next podcast.You can also Tweet Alex from Scrimba at @bookercodes and tell them what lessons you learned from the episode so they can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏

Lane Wagner, Go backend engineer and founder of boot.dev, discusses Go's design and functional programming. Topics include the debate between tabs and spaces for indentation, advantages of functional programming languages, hierarchy of functions in functional programming, rock's concurrency story, breaking protocol and debugging in programming, function purity and IO operations in functional programming, Cgo, static compilation, and hot code loading in Go, and stateful IO in functional programming.

Explore Go language with Lane Wagner as he discusses its fast compilation speed, object-oriented concepts, struct embedding, concurrency, memory management, and advanced database interaction in a deep dive with Philip Winston.

Lane Wagner, the founder of Boot.dev, a gamified learning platform for backend development, shares his remarkable journey from $6k to $110k in monthly revenue. He reveals the growth strategies behind Boot.dev, including effective YouTube partnerships. Lane discusses the unique challenges of B2C education, the importance of customer lifetime value, and his decision to raise funding while mostly bootstrapping. He also reflects on the journey from a stable job to entrepreneurship, emphasizing marketing tactics and gamification that propelled his business forward.