Welcome to the Code Newby podcast. We talk to people on their coding journey in hopes of helping you on yours. I'm your host, Ron, and today we're talking about Codeland 2021 with Ben Halpern, co-founder of forum and dev, which acquired Code Newby in 2020.

There's no acceptance test for, hey, is it special?

Is there a community environment?

This is not like a code question.

Like, what does it mean to be an online conference?

Registration for Codeland is pay what you want, starting at $0.

Grab your Codeland 2021 ticket today at codelandconf.com.

In this episode, Ben and I talk about the conception of Codeland, last year's Codeland,

which had to switch to a virtual conference due to COVID-19, and the biggest differences between Codeland 2020 and Codeland 2021. After this.

Thanks so much for being here.

Thanks so much for having me, Seraan.

So, Ben, we've had you on the show before where we talked about entrepreneurship,

but for those people who may not have heard that episode, give us a refresher of who you are.

Yeah, I started coding, you know, I guess, like fiddling around with HTML and CSS when I was in junior high,

but never really took on coding as a full-time craft until after college,

and really saw it in combination with entrepreneurship as another interest of mine.

So really most of my coding journey has been creatively bringing my ideas to life. And as an entrepreneur started Dev as the practical dev on Twitter

and evolved to dev.tio, which we then transitioned, you know, our organizational goals into

proliferating community in a broader sense through forum, which is the open source extraction of the platform.

So we let anybody host a community. And to represent that, if you go to community.comit

dot codenubi.org, that is actually a special forum dedicated for the advancement of newbies and everything that Code

Newby is all about. And that's actually where Codeland 2021 is being hosted. So let's talk about

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