Welcome Back (or Welcome For The First Time)
Two years ago I wrote Internet Menace because I was tired of watching people get fleeced by $20,000 bootcamps that taught them less than a free YouTube playlist. About 2,000 people downloaded that curriculum. Some of you got jobs. Some of you got better jobs. A few of you sent me very nice emails. One of you sent me a meme so good I screenshotted it.
Now it's 2026, and the ground has moved under all of us.
Internet Menace v1 was a 180-day plan to take you from zero to functional in data engineering and analytics. It was built on Python, SQL, Docker, Git, basic ETL, and the discipline of learning by doing. That curriculum is still correct. I'm not retracting it. If you've never written a line of Python in your life, start there: https://internetmenace.com/
This curriculum, Internet Menace, Again, is what comes after, or alongside, or sometimes instead of v1, depending on what you're trying to do. The machines got smart. Coding agents like Claude Code can ingest a well-written specification and produce working software. Local models you can run on a Mac mini in your closet are good enough for a lot of real work. The skill that separates the people shipping useful things from the people shipping hallucinated garbage is no longer "can you write the code." It's "can you describe the problem precisely enough that a machine can write the code, and can you tell whether the code it wrote is any good."
That's the skill this curriculum teaches.
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Curriculum last updated 2026-04-30