Ask HN: What programming tutorial/course/article/blog would you like to see?

Coming from a ML domain, I feel there is so much terminology and its duplication floating around which could be better explained, maybe with an example or a picture (or even a simple howto). The technical debt is just too high.

For example, hundreds of papers talking about 'inductive bias' or 'SE(3) operators' and what not. There isn't even a general boundary between unsupervised and self supervised learning (Remember Yann Lecun stepping in one such debate but without a conclusively clear demarcation). Very few actually try to explain a view that general practitioner can connect (with some basic exposure). Google maintains a ML glossary but that sorely needs some updation beyond the very basic stuff.

I find it hard to read manuals and documentation. I learn much better from seeing real code, and then trying and playing with it myself.

I’ve had an idea for a while that it would be interesting to document a computer language with a complete set of example code. This example code would exhibit all the language’s functionality. It would be written with best practices in mind.

The code wouldn’t necessarily need to do anything useful, The goal would be the code itself.

This is actually exactly what Molecule.dev is all about. All of the documentation, guides, and tutorials are written with both teams and individuals in mind.

It includes detailed step-by-step guides for every little thing you need to know to develop, release (and rerelease) your app on every platform you've selected, using the tools you've selected. It also covers many edge cases and obscure issues which we know that you will probably run into.

It's written for developers of varying levels of experience so that any member of the team (present or future) can quickly jump on board and get started building and deploying.

It also includes a (very meta) guide which explains how to update the guide itself and regenerate new documentation as you (and your team) add to it for your own purposes.

> they will become outdated fairly quickly - or are not necessary even now for arbitrary "websites". The tooling for web development has become overly complex and we are now starting the trend back down to the basics instigated by projects such as esbuild.

To add to my other comment in this thread, as this relates to your particular comment, we try to keep Molecule.dev as up to date as possible. We cannot of course cover every piece of tech out there, but we attempt to cover what we think are the best tools available and will continue to exist and improve for many years to come.

It is definitely a very difficult problem to solve and will need constant maintenance, but I think it's worth it if it helps people get started building awesome, high quality things faster.

I wish there were more good courses on AR and VR development, especially for non-gaming applications. I'm not an engineer but managed to learn web dev thanks to amazing courses and YouTube channels, but find it difficult to kick start my AR projects