#128 From Designing Truck Wraps to Coding SDKs and APIs with Colby Fayock

The freeCodeCamp Podcast

Quincy Larson

Education, Technology

5.0 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Colby Fayock. He's a Software Engineer and prolific teacher who has created 68 tutorials for freeCodeCamp, and more than 100 videos on his YouTube – all freely available.

We talk about:
- Colby's early days doing design work for local bands
- How Colby went to art school, then pivoted that into a software development
- His early career at ThinkGeek where he not only did web dev but also worked as a male model for their products.
- Colby's day-to-day work as a developer experience engineer, building demo applications and SDKs
- How Colby uses AI tools in his day-to-day work, and what he thinks its current limits are.

Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1995 punk song.

Also, I want to thank the 9,771 kind people who support our charity each month, and who make this podcast possible. You can join them and support our mission at: https://www.freecodecamp.org/donate

Links we talk about during our conversation:

Colby's freeCodeCamp course on building a clone of Google Photos using AI tools and Next.js: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-a-google-photos-clone-with-nextjs-and-cloudinary/
Colby's Trailer and web design work: https://photowall-colbyfayock.vercel.app/wall/design
Colby's ThinkGeek Modeling. He's legit a male model: https://photowall-colbyfayock.vercel.app/wall/thinkgeek
Colby's music from his band years: https://soundcloud.com/colby-fayock/sets/day-late-hero
The XKCD comic I mention about how the scope of developer work can be non-intuitive: https://xkcd.com/1425/

Transcript

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0:00.0	We've seen that with like design trends.
0:02.2	All these startups now have websites that look the same.
0:04.7	But, you know, I think that we've become so practically oriented that we've kind of lost touch of that kind of creative angle.
0:11.6	And... Welcome back to the Free Code Camp podcast.
0:40.4	I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of Freecodecamp.org, where each week we're bringing you insight from developers, founders, and ambitious people getting into tech.
0:50.7	This week, we're joined by Kobe Fayok.
0:53.6	He's a developer experience engineer and a prolific
0:57.9	teacher who has created 68 tutorials for free co-camp over the years, and he's published 176 tutorials
1:05.3	on his own YouTube channel, all freely available. This man is a wellspring of developer wisdom. Colby,
1:13.9	welcome to the show. Hey, thanks for having me. I've been super excited for this. Yeah, man, like,
1:19.1	you are somebody in the community who's just like a mainstay. You're like, you're always there.
1:23.3	You're like the energizer bunny. You never burn out. You're always creating. And it's like such a breath of fresh air to have somebody who's just like a super chill, you know, dad who goes out and like creates tutorials. And I've never seen you in a bad mood either. Hopefully I won't say something that makes you angry and you won't like Hulk out. I can't imagine. Yeah. You won't like me when I'm angry. Yeah, yeah. Well, dude, it's so cool to
1:49.4	have you here and I want to learn more about you because I interact with you all the time and yet I
1:54.7	know so little. Yeah. So maybe you can share some of your journey with us and we can go way back to maybe your
2:03.8	formative moments.
2:04.9	Like at what point did you first start getting interested in technology and design and just
2:10.6	creating?
2:11.6	Yeah.
2:12.0	So I've always just generally been interested in technology.
2:15.5	My dad was that way.
2:16.8	My brothers were that way. I still
2:18.4	remember sitting back behind my brothers playing like Warcraft 1 and all those kind of games on
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