Welcome! Sounds like you’ve got a solid background. Thanks for joining.

It sure is enlightening to see how many people in the world here are in the hunt for gold, so to speak, by massaging data to gain insights. It’s kinda inspiring. Thanks.

I second what’s been said above. Python is just not the best front end tool or framework. To confirm this, I once dissected the Python Foundation’s website. I figured if anyone was using Python for serious web development it would be them. Nothing special. It was good HTML. Solid JavaScript. :) Having said that, Jupyter documents are a front-end tool that deserve to be in every website dedicated to technical documentation. Love to hear if anyone has a different take. I don’t want to be missing out on something good

p.s. The WordleBot always rates my skill as lower and my luck as higher than its own because it doesn't understand how I get better scores than it does. :)

@Renan Alves I'm working on writing firmware for microcontrollers that drive CNC milling machines to create smooth toolpaths. I'm using AI to discover analogies in scientific concepts. For example, I strongly suspect that there is an analogy between the transmission of information (Shannons) and the way light and electrons are transmitted from one atom to another. (In other words, when a photon travels from one place to another, I think this might actually be information that's traveling.) I think the shared properties of light and information - they both involve probabilities - might be "more than a metaphor."

@Renan Alves p.s. I once worked for an advertising company, so I have some a tiny bit of knowledge of your field.

Honestly, maybe the most important things is to follow your obsessions and also respond to what’s urgent. That’s just what I did. I owned a company (onsite computer repair) that needed better billing software but I couldn’t afford any of the commercially available programs at the time, so I responded to that urgency by writing my own billing program in Access which was free to me at the time. At the same time, I got the programming bug, I guess. I sat at the counter of a diner for hours with my laptop, just determined to write a simple tic-tac-toe program. I don’t know why I felt I had to do that. But it felt critical to learn. Soon after that a wealthy neighbor asked me if I would write a program that generated real estate closing documents. I jumped in and did it and that was the first time I got paid directly for programming. So I guess my only advice on connecting money to programming is follow the opportunities right in front of you, also follow threads of learning you feel compelled by some crazy instinct to follow, and people will see your capability and passion and pay you to solve their problems… which in turn leads to more learning and passion. If you were asking a different question than I answered, please let me know. I don’t know all the answers by far, but I’m still really interested in exploring how money flows where information, talent, and good judgment do. What’s the connection between good design and smooth economics? Are they branches of the same process — the search for Quality?