The Big Machine community lives on Discord. It is where you post the thing you shipped at 2am, where somebody who has already solved your problem tells you how they did it, and where a spec gets better because four people read it. Free rooms for anyone with an account, and I am in there most days.
Long-form video walkthroughs of real work - not toy demos. Pick one, work through it, ship better code on Monday.
Critical AI skills for staying on top of this industry. Self-paced, no fluff.
Get yourself or your team up to speed quickly with the modern AI toolchain.
Migrating a modern JS site back to Rails - and why Rails might still be the best.
JavaScript frameworks are powerful - but learning them sucks. Here's the shortcut.
A deep dive into Postgres using real NASA data from the Cassini mission.
Companion to The Imposter's Handbook - CS for self-taught programmers.
AI will happily write the code. Knowing whether it’s any good is still on you, and that part hasn’t changed in fifty years. I wrote these to teach myself the things a CS degree would have covered, and they read like stories rather than textbooks. Tens of thousands of people have picked them up since.
Everything that goes into a CS degree, taught the way I had to learn it: computation, complexity, encryption, algorithms, data structures, lambda calculus. The vocabulary you need to read what the machine just handed you.
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PostgreSQL the fun way. You're the interim DBA at a startup, digging through real Cassini mission data on the way to Saturn. Your database is the one thing AI can't hand-wave for you.
Have some fun learning Postgres →
Shipping something real means source control, code reviews, DevOps, project management, and most of all other people. The work that starts once the code exists.
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