#212 The world still needs people who care - CodePen founder Chris Coyier interview

About this episode

Quincy Larson interviews Chris Coyier about front-end development, AI's impact on careers, and the state of web development tools.

Today Quincy Larson interviews Chris Coyier. He's a front-end developer and co-founder of CodePen and the CSS Tricks blog. He has also recorded more than 700 podcasts about software engineering. We talk about: - How he thinks front-end development tools are 90% of the way to where they need to be - How developing for the web is "just as good as mobile, and you can reuse it everywhere." - And why high skilled devs working on novel problems don't need to worry about AI disrupting their careers Support for this podcast comes from the 10,113 kind folks who donate to our charity each month. Join them and support our mission at https://donate.freecodecamp.org Get a freeCodeCamp tshirt for $20 with free shipping anywhere in the US: https://shop.freecodecamp.org Links from our discussion: - Chris's personal site: https://chriscoyier.net/ - CodePen: https://codepen.io/chriscoyier - ShopTalk Podcast: https://shoptalkshow.com/ - Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/chriscoyier.net - Mastodon: https://front-end.social/@chriscoyier Community news section: 1. freeCodeCamp just published a comprehensive DevOps course that will teach you how to deploy your apps to production safely. You'll build…

People in this episode

Host: Quincy Larson

Guest: Chris Coyier

Topics covered

• front-end development
• software engineering
• AI in tech
• web development tools
• DevOps

Keywords

• front-end development
• CodePen
• AI disruption
• software engineering
• DevOps
• CSS Tricks
• podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CodePen, CSS Tricks, freeCodeCamp, Jenkins, Maven, Bluesky, Mastodon

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