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I didn't see anyone mention the McMaster-Carr website [1]. It may not be the "densest" out there, but it's clean, functional, and nicely presents a lot of information at once.

[1] https://www.mcmaster.com/


Maybe this Programmer Competency Matrix?

https://web.archive.org/web/20210105042643/http://www.starli...

It was discussed here (and probably elsewhere):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4626695


We're using on the French national access point to transportation data (http://transport.data.gouv.fr/?locale=en, source code at https://github.com/etalab/transport-site) and we're not going to switch to another stack ^_^.

Plenty of use-cases are made easy by the stack, from regular web work, API (https://transport.data.gouv.fr/swaggerui) to proxying (https://github.com/etalab/transport-site/tree/master/apps/un...) to real-time maps (https://transport.data.gouv.fr/explore), clustered maps (https://transport.data.gouv.fr/explore/gtfs-stops), XML queries building (https://transport.data.gouv.fr/tools/siri-querier?endpoint_u...)...

The maintenance story is very good too.

With ML being added (Nx/Axon etc), and mobile apps being in the works (LiveViewNative), it has become my everyday language & stack.


I burnt out hard after almost 20 years programming, mostly web things, last decade in the full-stack JavaScript ecosystem. Last year I started building simple electronic stuff with the Raspberry Pi Pico board. It's not far off from programming and I had to learn C (Python feels too JS somehow), but being able to literally move things with electrons and code and talk directly to the metal awakened something in me.

I got YouTube Premium, unsubscribed from all the "funny stuff" and subscribed to makers, builders, creators, electronic, aviation, etc. channels only. I am AMAZED at what you can build right now in your own home. I am building an electromagnetic jet engine from scratch. It sounds crazy when you say it out loud but it's the 2023 equivalent of assembling model gliders from balsa wood decades ago.

Here are a few channels that inspired and helped me the most:

Fantastic explanation of how electricity/circuits/elements work:

https://www.youtube.com/@ELECTRONOOBS

https://www.youtube.com/@greatscottlab

These guys are into aviation and actually iterate on their projects:

https://www.youtube.com/@rctestflight

https://www.youtube.com/@TomStantonEngineering

These two are wizards of explaining physics and engineering:

https://www.youtube.com/@TheActionLab

https://www.youtube.com/@Nighthawkinlight

I can't even comprehend the level of engineering this guy does in his garage:

https://www.youtube.com/@StuffMadeHere

PS. If you're getting into electronics from programming it's really, I mean really easy, to do the programming bits which most makers struggle with (because they are pros in circuits and other things). A lot of the learning curve is stuff like "what is a compiler" or "how to install an IDE" which you got covered.


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