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kacperlukawski 3 days ago

Although it's in a different area, I wanted to mention https://calmcode.io/ as an excellent example of a calm learning platform.

There is a whole movement around enshittification, and I see potential in this kind of app, even though it still seems to be a niche.

exasperaited 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Oh, thanks for this link. Looks great and it may suit me well. I need to settle in and learn Python but I am experiencing tremendously severe dysregulation at the moment, and my normal quick deep learning is simply not happening.

cantdutchthis 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Creator of calmcode here, AskMeAnything[tm].

Kerrick 3 days ago | parent [-]

Do you accept contributions?

cantdutchthis 3 days ago | parent [-]

Multiple people have offered but decided against it for a few reasons.

- Proper reviews actually feel like they would take me as much time as doing it myself.

- One benefit of doing it all myself is that all the content has a familiar style.

- The downside of contributions is that a lot of the stuff that I see on YT just simply doesn't fit the style that I intend to have on calmcode. So before accepting contributions it also feels like I would have to vet the person who makes the contrib.

A lot of the aforementioned is more complex now as well due to the fact that folks can pay for the platform. It was a 100% free platform before, and right now it's a 99% free platform and some people pay a stipend to keep the site running. If contributions come in, I would also need to figure out a way to keep the incentives aligned, which also complicates things.

I've had a collaborator in the past and a bunch of things worked out there. But he's gone off to do other things, all of which is fair enough.