I would second this. A team sport is also a good option. There are always clubs/teams that take beginners.

You can enjoy all kinds of disgusting and / or ridiculous things when you have some adjacent emotional connection. It’s one of the best things about life, keeping in mind it can work the opposite way too.

Haven't used django for a year or 2 but used to use django-rest-framework's negotiation to get both json and html responses (was using inertiajs not htmx) and it worked pretty well. You can use decorators on the api methods to set things like templates. Here's an example:

  @inertia("User/List")
  @api_view(["GET"])
  def get_users(request,  **kwargs):
    // ...
    return Response(data={"users": users})

This can return JSON or HTML with the data injected.

Ira Glass has a practical take on the idea of exposing good taste (e.g. trying to paint like Bellini): https://youtu.be/X2wLP0izeJE where he talks about how your good taste informs you that the work you are doing doesn’t yet match your ambition, and that this can be both motivating and discouraging

The way you've phrased this is rather beautiful, in that it suggests that good art is art which matches the intent of the author.

Some artists seek to recreate the world around them in great fidelity, and if they succeed in producing photorealistic paintings then for them, that is great art. Others seek to stir up controversy or draw attention to some cause, and if their work achieves that then that is great art. Others may simply seek to express themselves, or find peace with their feelings, and if they succeed in this then it is great art.

This is of course a different definition than Paul Graham would use. It does not allow for so much judgement and comparison. But for people interested in producing art, rather than consuming it, I think it's a much more useful perspective.

This is certainly the case for learning jazz improvisation. The primary obstacle, even for otherwise good musicians, is knowing you're going to suck at it for a long time before you get good. Even if you have an unorthodox idea of what you want it to sound like.

In the unity announcement they go over some of the tools weta have created: https://blog.unity.com/news/welcome-weta-digital

Clojure has the as-> threading macro (probably borrowed from another lisp) where you can specify the placeholder:

  (as-> [:foo :bar] v
    (map name v)
    (first v)
    (.substring v 1))

Great, now the timeline is going to be full of "just tweeted X to my super follows, super follow me here: ...". Sounds like more ads.

I guess in fairness you probably don't want to follow people who tweet like this but these kinds of tweets will still be hard to avoid. I'd rather just pay twitter $x/yr for no ads.

Yeah, a few artists I follow were in the first batch and I'm already getting tired of them shilling for Patreon, Twitch subs, Ko-Fi and now Twitter subscriptions, all at once, all over my timeline.

I realize these people need an income but I can't be the only one that feels a bit put off.

It's a tough balance, as you said, artists and creators should have a way to monetize. But they're hardly the only ones doing it, so depending on who you follow, Twitter can end up feeling like a subway station with buskers as far as the eye can see.

You don’t even have to do all that. Twitter has a mute words feature that allows you to target key words so that you’ll never see tweets that have them.

It amazes me how much HN complains about Twitter without understanding the tools Twitter provides. It’s similar in essence to uniformed Anti Vaxxers who’s only contempt with Vaccines are based on lack of understanding.

It does not always work. Early this year I added "NFT" to my list, tons of posts got through.

This is what state machines/charts are for. They prevent you from entering invalid states, and take responsibility for all changes in state.

You can’t do sm:hover:top-[-113px] in a style attribute

In NZ we have 2 levels, wholesale and retail providers. By law you cannot be both. The price paid by retail providers to wholesale providers is currently set by the commerce commission because the infrastructure being built and managed by the wholesale providers was heavily subsidised by the govt. The (4) wholesale providers are effectively regional monopolies but importantly cannot set their prices, and the retail providers compete on value-add services and price for which there is fairly healthy competition.