On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Suz Hinton. She's a software engineer, security researcher, and one of the first ever people to live-stream her coding on Twitch.

We talk about:
- How Suz started her career building browser ads in Adobe Flash, working around bandwidth early 2000s limitations.

- How she moved to the US from Melbourne to work at Zappos, and then Microsoft and Stripe.

- Her love of hardware and embedded development

- How she went back to school to study infosec, and launched a second career as a security researcher

- How she nearly burned out after 20 years in tech, and what she's doing to recover.

Can you guess what song I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's a 2015 song from an Australian musician.

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Links we talk about during our conversation:

- Suz's article on live coding on freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/les...

- NoClip video game development documentaries:    / @noclipdocs  

- The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop. Suz says it's "Dense and long, but the best narrative about how computing came to be." https://press.stripe.com/the-dream-ma...

- Space Rogue: How the Hackers Known as L0pht Changed the World by Cris Thomas. "A book about the original cult of the dead cow hacking group." https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/spac...

Sections:
0:00:00 Introduction and Background
0:09:54 Education and Early Career
0:26:50 Reflections on Advertising and Broad Skill Set
0:30:16 The Impact of Teaching and Working at Zappos
0:44:24 Exploring Hardware Projects and Embedded Development
0:52:42 Challenges of Obtaining a Green Card
0:54:51 The Journey of Live Coding and Open Source
0:57:15 Participating in Capture the Flag Events
1:10:11 The Benefits of Asynchronous and Real-Time Communication in Remote Work
1:24:05 Customizing Software Tools
1:29:17 Balancing Foundations and Practical Skills
1:31:54 Recognizing and Addressing Burnout
1:43:56 Rejuvenating and Staying Connected