#217 Stanford's youngest instructor talks InfoSec, AI, and catching cheaters - Rachel Fernandez interview
May 1, 2026
Today Quincy Larson interviews Rachel An Fernandez. She's a computer science student at Stanford and the youngest instructor at the entire university. She recently helped organize TreeHacks, Stanford's annual hackathon, which narrowed 15,000 applicants down to just 1,000 participants. They built projects over a...
Apr 17, 2026
Today Quincy Larson interviews Jessica Rose. She's a dev and teacher who's worked on open data projects at Mozilla and lots of open source projects.
We talk about:
- How the whole world is hard, and how embracing that difficulty
rather than avoiding it can make you a better thinker
- The Bad Website club, a free online...
Apr 10, 2026
Today Quincy Larson interviews Mark Mahoney. He worked as a dev before becoming a computer science professor. He's taught computer science for 23 years at Carthage College, a 180-year-old US university. He's also taught thousands of developers through his free programming courses built on top of his own open source...
Apr 3, 2026
Today Quincy Larson interviews Chris Griffing is a software engineer and prolific streamer of live coding on Twitch. He spent 10 years as a "snowboard bum" doing odd jobs at ski resorts to facilitate him spending as much time on the mountain as possible.
At age 28 he taught himself PHP programming and started...
Mar 27, 2026
Today Quincy Larson interviews Landon Gray. He's a software engineer who worked at agencies for years. Then he taught himself AI assisted software development. And now he's helping other devs do the same.
Landon's famous for proving that RAG pipelines can be written in Ruby and popularizing Ruby as a language for...