How to Survive in Tech When Everything's Changing w/ 21-year Veteran Dev Joe Attardi [Podcast #174]

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Joe Attardi. He's a software engineer and prolific author of programming books.

We talk about:

• How software development has changed over the past 21 years

• Tips for suriving AI's sweeping changes to the field

• The evolving role of Computer Science degrees

• Why people should still read O'Reilly style programming books on dead trees

Links we talk about during our conversation:

• Joe's freeCodeCamp books and tutorials: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/author/joeattardi/

• Joe's website: https://joeattardi.com/

• Joe's Web API Cookbook: https://www.webapis.info/

• Joe's open source projects on GitHub: https://github.com/joeattardi

• What Joe's desk looks like: https://x.com/JoeAttardi/status/1849819837360480658

• Some games Joe's recently played: https://backloggd.com/u/jattardi/games?page=1

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