Resources

What I’m actually learning with, kept honest and short. Not a link dump — just the things doing real work right now.

The spine

• Launch School — the mastery-based Core curriculum, currently the Ruby track. This is the main study path, and everything else orbits it.

Reference I keep open

• Ruby documentation — the standard library, read rather than guessed at.
• MDN Web Docs — the reference for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript on the frontend side.

Books shaping how I work

• So Good They Can’t Ignore You — Cal Newport. The case for skill over passion, and the reason I chose the slower, deeper path.

Home lab

• Proxmox VE — the hypervisor the lab runs on.
• OPNsense — the open-source firewall guarding the private network.

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This list stays deliberately small. If something isn’t earning its place in the current work, it comes off.