Hey I am also a coder and designer. My strong suggestion; actively seek the ‘seam’ where art/design and code meet. You’ll have more success (and fun) doing thi

Hey I am also a coder and designer. My strong suggestion; actively seek the ‘seam’ where art/design and code meet. You’ll have more success (and fun) doing things where you can leverage your creative skill alongside your code learnings. One source of deep admiration for many Ruby programmers was the artist/coder “Why the Lucky Stiff”. They created digital works of art that were a serious of small coding projects most of them fun, a couple highly useful. The seminal book “Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby” (http://poignant.guide http://poignant.guide) is still a beautiful read. Pair it with the website Try Ruby (https://try.ruby-lang.org https://try.ruby-lang.org) and you can plug in the examples from the poignant guide as you read along. I’d recommend learning Hotwire and Rails 7 and then making small Rails apps to create small artistically interesting sites. Ruby and Rails is highly attractive to people who value asthetics and beauty, and helps you integrate your creative impulses with how you code. Most languages don’t account for or attempt to address beauty in how you code. It’s by no means necessary but has been delightful for me finding a language and community that often highly values deep inner creativity along side coding principals.