The 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.
We’ll get em next time,
Lane
Patch notes 🔗
1. New HTTP Protocol Course (build your own) is live 🔗
ThePrimeagen has done it again, with a brand new course on the HTTP protocol… from scratch! In this advanced course, you’ll start with a TCP socket and build your own HTTP server on top of it - parsing all the strings yourself! The chapters include:
- HTTP Streams
- TCP
- Requests
- Request Lines
- HTTP Headers
- HTTP Body
- HTTP Responses
- Chunked Encoding
- Binary Data
This is a course written in Golang, that isn’t for the faint of heart. Best of luck, friends.
2. New “Got a Job” forum in the Discord 🔗
We update the got-a-job channel (that was causing some confusion) to be a forum, and there have already been some awesome stories of Boot.dev students landing new developer jobs there. If you’ve recently landed a job or got a promotion, we’d love to hear about it there!
3. New Boss end screen UI 🔗
Before, the boss event would end and the boss screen would kinda just… go away. Now there is a satisfying end state showing how much damage was dealt, which chests you unlocked, etc.
4. Miscellaneous improvements 🔗
- Improved auto sync of the
/rulecommand in the discord - New lessons report a “still calibrating” difficulty so as to not confuse students
- Streak reminders take frozen flames and embers into account properly
- New danger, warning, and info callouts in the lesson UI
What is yet to come 🔗
- A new dashboard view that gives a better “jump back in” experience, as well as a better view into your progress
- A brand new TS course (and FULL TS track)
- A new product… that is totally secret for now
- Walkthrough of the DSA course
New YouTube Videos 🔗
We publish all of our explainer videos and course walkthroughs on our YouTube channel for free! We also just started season 2 of the Backend Banter podcast:
- How to Win at Learning ft. Quincy Larson | S02 E11
- Mitchell Hashimoto: From Terraform to Ghostty | S02 E10
- Vercel’s Big AI Bet. ft. Malte Ubl | S02 E09
