Whew thanks for looking this up! I was afraid I'd have to add yet another entry to my gigantic C++ footguns.org document. It's getting so big now that Emacs struggles a bit to load it due to inline code examples!
Looks like footguns.com is taken but footguns.org is still available.
* Start with C++20 unless you have a very good reason not to. Not only does it obviate crufty old things like SFINAE (concepts!), but it includes a ton of usability fixes (e.g. reflexive operator== -> I only have to write the code for MyType == MyOtherType in order to get both that version and MyOtherType == MyType). A lot of lambda behavior has really been cleaned up too (e.g. capturing `this` has fewer corner cases).
* start with Google's coding guidelines [0], as they've been developed to avoid many footguns (the bottom line depends on it). Once you understand things better, keep removing these rules (e.g. about exceptions, const& parameters; many of these rules are good for big teams, but annoying to follow for individuals)
* The CppCon "back to basics" talks are absolute goldmines, and the speakers usually tell you if some technique has been outdated as of the recording. Some things in certain books, although valuable, may be outdated based on later revisions to the language.
* The best notes to take are usually some structure list followed by a bunch of godbolt links with examples, e.g. this one I made to demonstrate the reflexive operator== behavior [1]
[0] https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html [1] https://godbolt.org/z/scPdcaWT7