danwee

Do you know of good resources (besides official documentation) to improve my Spring Boot (Kotlin) skills?

I know the basics but still feel like I'm missing something.

So, I saw the other day the release of the ep-133, and it happens that I want to get started doing that kind of stuff (e.g., creating simple beats). I have zero knowledge about DAW/sampling and music in general (my background is in soft. engineering), so the first thing that I searched on Google was "open source daw" and I found LMMS (https://lmms.io/). Installed it, played a little bit with it and right now I'm going through the documentation. Feels like a lot to process (I don't know almost all of the terminology used).

Do you know which kind of books/articles/blogs I can follow to get started in this world of DAW? I would like to get the fundamentals first and then start experimenting (e.g., not sure if the analogy is correct, but "it's like I don't want to learn JavaScript, but I want to learn data structures, algorithms and programming in general").

I know there's stuff like Ableton, but I would like to first learn the fundamentals (which I hope one can learn with simple open source DAWs like LMMS).

I used to think that, and sometimes nowadays I still think it from time to time. The reasoning behind it is, mainly:

- I'm into software engineering because I like it

- I have a degree in CS and I consider myself self-taught; I have read all the popular (and non-so-popular) books recommended for software engineers (DDIA, OSTEP, SICP, Stevens' books, and a long etc.) I do side projects from time to time to learn new things, but mainly to experiment the feeling of "building something"

- I think I have good taste (whatever that means)

Now, obviously I don't say it loud "I think I'm a better developer than you", and obviously there's no single measurement in the industry we can use (some developers are good at fixing bugs, others at designing, others at reading code, others at everything, etc.)... but deep inside my mind I still tell myself "I think I'm better than my peers, and than the other engineers in those other teams in that other area in my company".

I don't see it as an unhealthy thought, but I was just wondering that if people around here on HN tend to think that way as well.