[jamil7]

One theory of mine is there is far more self promotion in the developer community now than there was when I started. In particular javascript and web development juniors writing blog posts and dev.to articles as a form of self promotion. On the other end of the spectrum are domain experts who make video courses or books on advanced topics. In the intermediate level you have a big gap with not a whole lot of information available.

[duxup]

As someone 2 years into a web development career. I get really frustrated by this.

I'll fire up a tutorial on something and 20 minutes into this and I'm all "yeah this does what it says, but it can't be used to do almost anything else..." and I fear the actual person doing the tutorial doesn't know.

Heck I've commented on some Medium blogs where they mention how to do a thing and I'm 100% sure in any real world that code won't do the thing. I post and ask about some aspect of it and the blog author ... doesn't know.

Like outside this one off tutorial and everything working perfectly ... the code is useless.

There's valid reasons to simply code for illustration, but at the same time, without exposing even how to handle an error... what have you really taught someone?

[mydongle]

When trying to learn html/css and following multiple tutorials with different ways to achieve one thing, it truly feels like I'm just throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks. Sometimes nothing sticks. It's incredibly frustrating. Is there someone who writes tutorials who can actually explain what they're doing and why? Maybe something will work, but I'm not sure if anyone learned anything valuable from that kind of experience.

[duxup]

CSS feels like such an add hoc mix of things that sometimes go together, other times don't.

I just hang onto some snippets I like and pick a framework most of the time.

[ssivark]

In other words, we’re being flooded by “content marketing” sewage... whether the authors think of it in those terms or not. The mentality has stepped into a lot of places insidiously.

Unfortunately, signaling games are difficult to avoid in any burgeoning ecosystem. The problem is that our signaling schemes are almost as crude as “spray and pray” and our information seeking methods are as crude as “click and pray” (to the search overlords, or to the algorithmic feed overlords).

Both sensitivity and specificity are increasingly impoverished in online information communication. Maybe this is a fundamental caveat to large one-size-fits-all platforms... they cannot serve a variety of needs beyond a simplified representative.

[saddestcatever]

I like this theory a lot.

If you're looking to self promote, you can either target the larger audience base of beginner content, or provide domain expertise with advanced topics.... with the gap in the middle then being underrepresented