@tajoma learning through books is pretty fun! In the world of programming there’s a couple different types. Reference books, topical books, and tutorial books. I’d avoid reference books since you can get most of the value of reference by being good at finding digital docs. For either topical or tutorial it’s just a matter of what interests you the most!

My last book was a tutorial one “writing an interpreter in go”. This project really empowered me to stop shying away from reading

@Lydie Amazon amongst others. Here’s their page in case you are curious

https://www.coral.ai/products/

Here’s how frigate utilizes it

https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/object_detectors/#edge-tpu-detector

I’d love to dive into locally powered object detection I just don’t have the camera array to make it worth it quite yet

@michael lol why did erlang catch a stray?

Lately I’ve been using hono and drizzle as my backend. It has hono RPC which has been a great experience. No need to hand roll the client that talks to your backend, just use hono type magic. Also being code first in drizzle means no mapping sql queries to types, I get it all for free. Those combined handles much of the “plumbing” so I can focus on stuff that matters more. I use tanstack for the front end but I know you said no react