#119 CSS Artist Kass Moreno talks Art and Code
The freeCodeCamp Podcast
Quincy Larson
5.0 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Kass Moreno, a Senior Front End Developer and CSS Artist.
Kass started learning coding at age 28 and has since built a reputation as one of the most skilled artists who work with CSS.
We talk about:
- Her childhood in Mexico and in Texas
- Making the hard decision to drop out of architecture school
- Her dreadful years working as a salesperson
- Learning from freeCodeCamp and doing the 100DaysOfCode challenge
- Getting freelance clients and expanding her skills
- Her rapid career growth as a developer
Can you guess what bass line I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's a 1982 pop classic.
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Links we talk about during the interview:
Bruno Simon's 3D interactive portfolio using Threejs. Drive an RC car around knock things down.
1-Dimensional PacMan game that I mentions. (Be careful – it's addictive)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Free Coke Camp podcast. I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of freecodecamp.org. |
| 0:23.6 | Each week we're bringing you insight from developers, founders, and ambitious people getting |
| 0:29.0 | into tech. |
| 0:29.8 | This week, we're talking with Cass Moreno, the CSS artist herself. |
| 0:36.2 | Cass is a senior front-end developer and she started learning to code |
| 0:40.4 | at age 28 and has since built a reputation as one of the most adept CSS artists building entire |
| 0:49.1 | visuals, entire pieces from HTML and CSS. |
| 0:56.5 | Cass, welcome to the Free Code Camp podcast. |
| 0:59.6 | Hi, thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:01.4 | Yeah, we're thrilled to have you here, and we're going to look at some of your art in just a moment and learn about it. |
| 1:04.8 | But first, I want to thank the 5,000, I'm sorry, 8,5002 people who support Free Code Camp each month through donations to our charity. |
| 1:18.6 | So if you want to join them and help make programming like this possible, please go to |
| 1:23.6 | freecodecamp.org slash donate and start supporting us today. Thanks. Cass, I'm so excited. |
| 1:30.8 | I've been a long time admirer of your work. I've just seen it around on Twitter, other places, |
| 1:37.2 | people have been sharing it, and I'm so excited to finally talk with you and learn about it. |
| 1:42.9 | Yeah, thank you so much. |
| 1:44.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.0 | Thanks. |
| 1:45.3 | It's crazy that people even like know that the art is out there and everything. |
| 1:51.1 | So just to hear that is amazing, honestly. |
| 1:54.2 | It makes my day every, like every time anyone says like they like CSS art. |
| 1:58.8 | Yeah. |
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