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  • I’m around the same age as you, and I taught myself front end development. Don’t let anyone say you can’t learn. If you want to make websites, I suggest HTML => CSS => JavaScript => React.js. I recommend learning on Scrimba.com. They have a screen cast system where an actual instructor tells you what to do in plain English with the corresponding code on screen. If you want to see how a change would affect the code, you can pause the cast and run the code yourself.

    And if you want to learn back end, a back end programmer suggested learning PHP. Still in high demand in the job market.










  • Might I suggest Walkaway by Cory Doctorow, my favorite book. The structure is like a Kim Stanley Robinson novel where there’s a group of characters but the real character is the birth of a post scarcity society, namely the one in Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.

    I loved it because it answered the problem I had with anarchism: what happens when a psychopath decides to take your shit? The answer is–in a post scarcity society–you walk away. You can always make new shit, better shit, grander shit.

    I don’t want to get into spoilers, but there was one thing that always was bugging me about this premise. Like, what if X situation happens? Wouldn’t you know it, X situation happens. He interrogates the premise to its logical conclusion.

    I would kill to see this novel made into a decent TV series.








  • IvanOverdrive@lemm.eetoRisa@startrek.websiteCope
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    11 months ago

    Disco was hot garbage except for that one episode where they ran out of budget and told a decent groundhog day story. Pike carried me through the second season though. And the only interesting character was the spidey-sense alien dude. Didn’t bother with season 3.

    Picard. Well… I only lasted ten minutes into the first episode. Noped out when the motorbike helmet Romulan ninja killed the roommate with a knife. Guess they couldn’t afford stun mode on a phaser or something.

    Strange New Worlds is great. I’d rank it better than Voyager but not quite original series quality. Not yet anyway. And when Jack Quaid popped out the other side of the portal, that’s when I thought I’d give Lower Decks a chance.