"I want to start learning programming, but since code is just text at the end of the day, a cheap used laptop I can buy for ...

This is the Python material that does not get left behind. Almost none of it is replaced by a framework later. Learn it, and keep this cheat sheet close by as a handy reference.

Zed replaced most of my day-to-day VS Code workflow, but there are still a few gaps. The biggest one is the extension ecosystem. VS Code has an enormous library of extensions for almost every language ...