Software development and related things are known to have fantastic often free online resources for autodidacts. It seems like the trend in this space is to ju

Software development and related things are known to have fantastic often free online resources for autodidacts. It seems like the trend in this space is to jump directly to the highest layer of abstraction. Skipping the fundamentals and point to $buzzword tools, libraries and products. You see glimpses of this in different forms. One is social media threads which ask stuff like “How much of X do I need to know to learn Y?” Where X is a fundamental, possibly very stable technology or field and Y is some tool du jour or straight up a product or service.