Most developer roadmaps sell a fantasy that looks like this:
HTML → CSS → JavaScript → React → Next.js → "Senior Engineer"
You follow a 40-hour video playlist, copy whatever the instructor types into VS Code, and feel like you're learning. But the moment you close the tab and try to deploy a service on a bare Linux VM, diagnose why a socket connection is hanging, or figure out why your Docker container runs out of memory, you hit a wall.
I got frustrated with two things in the current learning ecosystem:
Video tutorial hell: Watching someone code is passive. It gives you the illusion of competence without forcing your brain to synthesize anything.
