Ask HN: Best experience learning a skill online?

I’ve enjoyed immensely learning Vue in Laracast. It might be the way I learn or that the instructor assumed nothing about my knowledge but it was the first time in my early career when I understood the why for a front end framework.

Mind you, this was after years as a web designer and after “learning” js and ember.js and a little bit of angular. I guess I hadn’t came across anybody that had actually bothered to explain why one might want to use js/X framework and where to busy explaining arrays and “everything is an object”

I watched ~25 Moog Grandmother videos by Once Upon a Synth on YouTube. It really helped me drive deep into subtractive analog synthesis.

For me, using chessable for chess was immensely helpful. Something about the patterns and repetition scratches a lovely itch