I’m trying to learn how to do new things, well, basically all the time.
Right now I’m stalled out on a sorta important personal project to teach myself about containers/micro-services/certs in a homelab environment. And what I’m discovering is that I don’t know enough to know I don’t know enough - it used to be that I’d take on an ambitious project, mess up, figure out how to overcome that, then learn by looking at what did work, and do better in the future.
But every technical project lately has gotten to the point where I’m trying to just get something, anything, to work or make sense, but every convincing enough AI generated page sets me back by several days as I troubleshoot the convincing enough steps and find myself realizing they’re referencing YAML settings from apps that aren’t part of the service, that every page directs me to install Python, Node, or whatever other helper app directly on my machine that would normally run in a container (which defeats the purpose of trying to containerize things - some stuff I want to use relies on non-compatible versions/configurations). There’s a very clear disconnect from what I’m seeing and what I’m understanding, and the utter lack of authoritative information/proliferation of useless info has just crippled my ability to identify and resolve the disconnect. It’s honestly soul crushing.
Keep going! It was worse before the internet, slightly better once it started gaining content. When you’re ignorant as a stump on a given tech, starting from 0 is hell.
When I began learning SQL I didn’t know the search terms I wanted and my questions were too simple to get results. My first script took me 8 hours, for 8 very short lines. A year later I stumbled on that script at work and laughed, all stuff I could write from memory, easily.
Sounds like you need to back up and parse your ambitions into smaller chunks. That’s too much to digest at once. You know how to eat an elephant, right?
That’s the most infuriating thing.
I’m trying to learn how to do new things, well, basically all the time.
Right now I’m stalled out on a sorta important personal project to teach myself about containers/micro-services/certs in a homelab environment. And what I’m discovering is that I don’t know enough to know I don’t know enough - it used to be that I’d take on an ambitious project, mess up, figure out how to overcome that, then learn by looking at what did work, and do better in the future.
But every technical project lately has gotten to the point where I’m trying to just get something, anything, to work or make sense, but every convincing enough AI generated page sets me back by several days as I troubleshoot the convincing enough steps and find myself realizing they’re referencing YAML settings from apps that aren’t part of the service, that every page directs me to install Python, Node, or whatever other helper app directly on my machine that would normally run in a container (which defeats the purpose of trying to containerize things - some stuff I want to use relies on non-compatible versions/configurations). There’s a very clear disconnect from what I’m seeing and what I’m understanding, and the utter lack of authoritative information/proliferation of useless info has just crippled my ability to identify and resolve the disconnect. It’s honestly soul crushing.
Keep going! It was worse before the internet, slightly better once it started gaining content. When you’re ignorant as a stump on a given tech, starting from 0 is hell.
When I began learning SQL I didn’t know the search terms I wanted and my questions were too simple to get results. My first script took me 8 hours, for 8 very short lines. A year later I stumbled on that script at work and laughed, all stuff I could write from memory, easily.
Sounds like you need to back up and parse your ambitions into smaller chunks. That’s too much to digest at once. You know how to eat an elephant, right?