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The Boot.dev Beat. September 2025
Sep 08, 2025 by Lane WagnerThe 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.
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Boot.dev Launches the Training Grounds
Aug 27, 2025 by Lane WagnerWe’ve always said Boot.dev is fun… but we’ve never said it’s easy. Subscribe to my YouTube channel if this video was helpful!
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The Boot.dev Beat. August 2025
Aug 04, 2025 by Lane WagnerWe 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!
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2025 Hackathon
Jul 25, 2025 by Lane WagnerThe 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.
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The Boot.dev Beat. July 2025
Jul 09, 2025 by Lane WagnerThis 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!
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The Boot.dev Beat. June 2025
Jun 10, 2025 by Lane WagnerWe’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.
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The Boot.dev Beat. May 2025
May 11, 2025 by Lane WagnerOur 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!
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The Boot.dev Beat. April 2025
Apr 27, 2025 by Lane WagnerThe 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.
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The Boot.dev Beat. March 2025
Mar 07, 2025 by Lane WagnerOur new JavaScript course is live! ThePrimeagen’s course on building your own HTTP server from scratch is just around the corner, and the TypeScript track couldn’t be closer.
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The Boot.dev Beat. February 2025
Feb 04, 2025 by Lane WagnerIt’s official: TJ’s C course walkthrough was released before GTA6! This is a great month for Boot.dev, and for humanity as a whole.
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2025
Jan 02, 2025 by Lane WagnerFastest boss defeat in the history of Boot.dev, a new AWS course, embers are live, and my children just won’t stop being sick for more than 4 days at a time. Win some, lose some.
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The Boot.dev Beat. December 2024
Dec 06, 2024 by Lane WagnerPotions got a rework, solutions were added to the Git course, and I’ve been sick for like 10 days straight… hope your Holidays are staying healthier than mine!
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The Boot.dev Beat. November 2024
Nov 05, 2024 by Lane WagnerMortrunk has fallen. The community rallied in our Halloween boss fight spectacular. Well done. The Boots’ aura XP boost even hit 2x for a while there.
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2024
Oct 07, 2024 by Lane WagnerThe “learn computer science basics” section of the backend developer learning path is now complete! We have no big plans to make serious modifications (tbh I always say this though, so idk). To be clear, that’s the first half of the track complete - the first 13 courses up to the personal project.
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The Boot.dev Beat. September 2024
Sep 04, 2024 by Lane WagnerThe aracnum was soooooo close to defeating the Hound of Zaggoroth in this month’s boss fight. 88,297,514 xp was gained over the course of the event, and 90,000,000 was all that was needed to secure victory. It’s a shame, but we can’t win them all. The hound will return soon.
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The Boot.dev Beat. August 2024
Jul 26, 2024 by Lane WagnerI’m writing this one a bit early because I’m going out of town next week… better early than late?
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The Boot.dev Beat. July 2024
Jul 10, 2024 by Lane WagnerOne million lessons. Well, to be precise, you have all completed 1,122,050 lessons just in June. That’s nuts. I was so preoccupied with how cool it is that you all are learning so much that I’m late on this newsletter. Sorry ‘bout that.
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The Boot.dev Beat. June 2024
Jun 05, 2024 by Lane WagnerThePrimeagen’s Git course is live. A new boss battle is on the horizon, and we’ve made massive speed improvements to the site. Hope you enjoy!
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The Boot.dev Beat. May 2024
May 01, 2024 by Lane WagnerA new Pub/Sub Architecture course, lootable chests, and ThePrimeagen’s Git course is only a couple weeks away. It’s been a good April. glhf.
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The Boot.dev Beat. April 2024
Apr 03, 2024 by Lane WagnerPythogoras returned in our second community-wide boss battle. He was vanquished, and there was much rejoicing. Happy coding.
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The Boot.dev Beat. March 2024
Feb 28, 2024 by Lane WagnerPythogoras escaped this month. The community rallied against the Serpent God, and while he was wounded and beaten back, he escaped. We’ll be trying again later this month. Happy coding.
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The Boot.dev Beat. February 2024
Jan 31, 2024 by Lane Wagner609,179. That’s the number of lessons you crazy folks have completed on Boot.dev in the last 30 days. Good work my fellow pupils.
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The Boot.dev Beat. January 2024
Jan 03, 2024 by Lane WagnerHope you had a wonderful holiday! I know you might not have been able to take time off, but I hope you were able to spend some time with family and friends. I spent the whole week driving up and down the state of Utah. It was fun, but I’m happy to be back in my office. Kids can be exhausting. Love ’em, but they’re exhausting.
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The Boot.dev Beat. December 2023
Dec 01, 2023 by Lane WagnerHope you had a splendid Turkey month. My wife, two kids, and I spent Thanksgiving in southern Utah. The fresh air was nice, AQI here in Northern Utah is 100+ right now… wouldn’t recommend. Anyway, back to coding.
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The Boot.dev Beat. November 2023
Oct 30, 2023 by Lane WagnerHope you had a fantastic Halloween. I spent last weekend in Seattle with Allan and Hunter (the other two full-timers here at Boot.dev) at the DotA 2 International. Absolute blast. I’ve never been to such an enormous gaming event in person. Ah, well, back to coding.