Learn Blogging the Hard Way

A Brutally Honest Critique of Blender Thus Far

My first week of Art Guy Summer: Learning blender and re-discovering pastels.

Art Guy Summer Sale Ends Soon -- 25% All Courses

Announcing my 25% off Summer Sale for July.

Summary

I'm going to recover my Oil Painting skills by painting live on Twitch every day.

My experience with Java in 2026.

I want to run a Game Engine jam, so I entered one to see what they're like.

I failed my first attempt at a great rewrite of this site.

I failed my first attempt at a great rewrite of this site.

You spent decades sucking all humanity out of programming and you're surprised it worked?

I gave the Epic Supporter the wrong sale price.

Announcing the Great Rewrite and some small changes to the UI.

I'm documenting my rewrite of this site from JavaScript to Go starting March 1, 2026.

We are finally off discord and on a self-hosted system that should be better suited.

Winter Sale Almost Over -- Save 15%

First batch of Learn Go the Hard Way Videos are Live

First batch of Learn Go the Hard Way Videos are Live

First batch of Learn Go the Hard Way Videos are Live

I have almost finished Learn Go the Hard Way, Module 3.

Learn Go the Hard Way, Draft 1 Available

UPDATE: JavaScript is Now Pro-WebDev

LCTHW Newsletter #9: Go Course Has Begun

LCTHW Newsletter #8: Curse You Rogue Python

A first attempt at a very simple Rogue in Python for beginners to study and learn from. This may become the basis of the new 6th Edition of LPTHW.

LCTHW Newsletter #7: Go is One of The Languages of All Time

I've been learning Go recently and found the documentation is horribly organized so I made this list that reorganizes it into a logical study guide.

The LCTHW Weekly Update #6: Free Upgrades to Some Courses Coming

Announcing my free drawing and painting course on Youtube specifically aimed at programmers.

The LCTHW Weekly Update #5: Where I've been, and cool new stuff in my game development journey.

I've realized that I seem to be preserving the old way to code, and I don't know how to feel about that.

The LCTHW Weekly Update #4:

My pitch for Rogue being the best for both beginners and old crusty coders like me.

A quick announcement on an important update to the C++ course regarding errors in the game-dev-starter-pack.

The only sale I will have this year, everything is 20% off during Hurricane Milton.

A list of projects that anyone with basic programming knowledge can do in any language, but have a lot of depth and aren't boring to do.

Where I try to explain why I feel like C\+\+ is so much fun, and to correct some misinformation.

The LCTHW Weekly Update #3: Hurricane Milton, Studio Redesign, C++ Praises, and Project Ideas for Everyone.

The LCTHW Weekly Update #2: Regex, Roguelikes, Restreaming, and more.

The LCTHW Weekly Update #1 contains all the things I've found and made this week.

Epic Supporters are now automatically updated whenever I add a new course or make new exercises.

Debunking idiots on HackerNews who think a total beginner can just 'Use MSYS2' on Windows.

I've created a set of install scripts for Windows that helps people install many different programming languages using standard tools.

I go through various style guides and attempt to extract the minimum C++ someone can learn to be functional on many code bases, and in your own code.

My standard answer when people ask me how long it will take for them to become competent enough to get a job.

My thoughts so far on finding a replacement for C in teaching compiled languages and memory safety.

Time to learn about values, and the blockin style of drawing.

An excerpt from Learn Python the Hard Way, 5th Edition that explains how I analyze learn from projects with poor or no documentation (which is most of them).

An experimental idea to teach the basics of a Turing machine before teaching loops and branching. Feedback welcome.

Announcing the new version of Learn Python the Hard Way which will be entirely focused on Pre-Beginner Data Science and not web development.

I did a test of Youtube and its streaming has tons of problems. Here's 10 reasons why Youtube's streaming is mostly pointless when compared to Twitch. I'll use Twitch for streaming, then post to youtube.

Getting realistic about Single-Page vs. Multi-Page applications.

After struggling with npm init I figured out a way to avoid it entirely that ends up being easier.

After integrating both Stripe and Paypal I've come to the realization that they are nearly the same, including all the evil.

Cheap and easy ways to get paths out of your web server logs.

What would a traditional artistic process look like for a web page?

An excerpt from Learn JavaScript the Hard Way teaching a starter creative process for using HTML and CSS.

A critique of the counter-claim that JavaScript's use of NaN errors is valid because it's 'math.'

An idea about the irrational focus of developer technology on teams to the detriment of everyone else.

The result of my work to eliminate my own ability to track other people around the internet, and how that might end up working in practice.

How the prevailing view of side projects is a damaging perspective for early programmers.

Thoughts on implementing a method for not storing email addresses while still allowing for password reset, Part 2.

Thoughts on implementing a method for not storing email addresses while still allowing for password reset.

A brief description of how to ask another programmer for help with your code.