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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Boot.dev Beat. October 2023
Oct 01, 2023 by Lane WagnerHappy All Hallow’s Eve. I hope you enjoy this month’s cover art. It might be my favorite so far.
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The Boot.dev Beat. September 2023
Aug 31, 2023 by Lane WagnerThe best part of working on Boot.dev is seeing you all make almost unbelievable strides in not only your understanding of fundamental concepts, but what you can now build from scratch.
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The Boot.dev Beat. August 2023
Jul 28, 2023 by Lane WagnerAs I’m writing this on July 28th, we’ve had 118,984 lessons successfully completed by students on Boot.
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The Boot.dev Beat. July 2023
Jun 26, 2023 by Lane WagnerJune was hot. I got sunburned. What else happened… Oh yeah, I finished the new CI/CD course!