Self Taught Web Developer
64 stories
From sleeping in a car in Silicon Valley to owning a development agency
Michael Aubry wanted to get out off his hometown in Illinois and work in Silicon Valley. So he drove across the country and arrived in Palo…
This self-taught CTO talks hiring developers with no CS degree
Self-taught programmer Alex Kremer heads up a developer team at eBacon, a payroll SAAS company, which is almost exclusively comprised of pro…
Being a digital nomad developer without a CS degree
Sander is a Dutch self-taught programmer who works from wherever he likes. He has been able to go out and snowboard in the morning before co…
Falling down and getting back up with the help of code
Cher Scarlett is a Senior Software Engineer who taught herself to code and ended up turning her life around. Prior to Webflow she built a su…
From coding newbie to Front End Developer in 9 months
A few months ago I went to a coding meetup in Edinburgh, Scotland where I live and met Josh Carvel, who at the time said he was taking some…
From broke teacher to remote Uber Software Engineer
Aaron turned his career around by teaching himself to code and getting a job at Uber. He used to be a poor English teacher abroad. He now wo…
How the 20 year old co-creator of CleanShot learned to code
Luke Oslizlo talks learning to code without going to college and by making Mac OS design tools CleanShot and PixelSnap. I chatted with him o…
From Waitress to Software Developer in 8 months
Tae'lur Alexis(https://twitter.com/TaelurAlexis) was determined to improve her situation. She was working as waitress full-time but she taug…
A self-taught web developer bought a house with cash
Patryk Pawlowski has earned enough from working as a programmer to buy a house with cash. Not bad for a self-taught developer! Hey, so can y…
This Brazilian teenager is a self-taught web deveoper who travels the world
Lenilson Dos Santos is a young Brazilian self-taught web developer who at the tender age of 18 is already travelling the world while working…
How the Simple Analytics founder learned to code
Adriaan van Rossum makes Simple Analytics, an internet privacy alternative to Google Analytics. The advantage is it doesn't track website vi…
Pauline Narvas talks learning to code with no CS degree
I was happy to interview Pauline Narvas about learning programming, teaching girls to code and being a techie in a small English city. Pauli…
Marc Kohlbrugge talks teaching himself to code
Marc Köhlbrugge is a successful indie hacker and solo founder who is best known for creating BetaList, which shows promising startups. He al…
How Anne-Laure Le Cunff learned coding in six months
I had the pleasure of asking Anne-Laure Le Cunff some questions about learning to code, her mindfulness Chrome extension, and producing Make…
How this entrepreneur without a CS degree learned to code
I talked to entrepreneur Derek Pankaew about learning code with no CS degree, building plugins and his experience at the Y Combinator Hackat…
This 22 year old self-taught PHP developer earns $15k a month and lives in an Austrian farmhouse
I had a chat with Richard 'Pretzel Hands' Blechinger about earning a high income at a young age and advice for people with no CS degree. It…