There’s a lot of articles about supply based usage vs demand based energy production on that website. The idea that it turns off every now and then is sort of part of the authors’ intention of showing “we can live with some outages”.

This article in particular is a good one: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/09/how-not-to-run-a-modern-society-on-solar-and-wind-power-alone/

First: Great that you’re motivated to learn this stuff! When it comes to programmers I’ve worked with, usually the best ones are those who learned programming to do something for FOSS or wanted to create a thing themselves.

Second: If you’re planning on university, an IT degree doesn’t hurt. You’ll learn a lot of stuff that -can- be useful. At the same time you don’t need one.

Practically though, start learning a programming language that is relevant to one of the projects you care about. If you want to learn programming in general, start with Python for a very easy introduction to the basics. If you want to learn more about how computer work (you should), learn C. For learning programming, I recommend books instead of websites, especially if you learn a system level language like C.

Once you’ve learned a bit of programming - apply it! Go through the bugtracker of the software you use, and find a bug someone has already solved. Read what the bug was about, then read what changes were made and understand why that fixed the bug. The most important practical skills for a programmer are reading other people’s code (especially for what you want to do) and debugging. Remember that the most common question a programmer asks is not “how do I do this” but “how does this work?” Another common one is: “WHY does this work?”

But you may also be able to contribute without programming. Many of the software you use requires people who understand how the operating system works to configure it, package the software, and help others like you to solve problems. All of this can be done without much understanding of programming if you spend some time to get familiar with the manual of your software and how the software interfaces with your operating system.

Good luck!

The hatching here messes with my brain. I had to zoom in to confirm you indeed did not use raster paper there. Great job!

This style reminds me of Android Arts.

Great job.

This is something I’d expect to see in Gemini Home Entertainment. Great work!

I like how the lake jumps out due to the clear edges around it and the cooler color.

Excellent work! Very minimal shading that works.

This makes me want to try ink on a brown paper.

On the left: this community viewed directly through lemmy.world instance. On the right: this community viewed through sopuli.xyz

Good work! Perspective is one of those things that is pretty mechanical, and one can avoid learning it for a long time by using crutches. It’s always faster to work when one has internalized perspective and especially foreshortening so it comes automatically.

Excellent use of shape and light!

Losing vision as an artist has to be one of the most difficult experiences ever. So glad you share your art. Do you have more art available somewhere?

From distance, I thought I’d see an ultra-detailed sketch, but this is conveyed by nothing but the directional lines suggesting of detail. Minimalism at best.

I see you continue to prefer orange and yellow colors. Do you have to order markers in bulk by now?

I sort of hoped that Lemmy communities would have a more original “redditquette” idea to downvoting where downvotes are explained and only done when a post is noise instead of signal. But I guess downvoting as a system will always be “I don’t like this opinion/post”. It’s a shame.

I upvoted this because you posted artwork that you created yourself, which is the point of this community.

Very cool! I love the colors.

Looks like pill-shaped M&Ms mixed into a dough.

DAYM these are amazing! The anatomy, light & shadow, clean marks, style… I love it!

I really like your recent use of stronger color (or more continous regions of color), and also how you manage to make something so abstract look like 3D shapes.

If I may offer a suggestion, the shirt looks like it’s paper-thin and appears to kinda float on him. I think it stands out because of the sharp line between the skin and the white shirt where the contrast draws it out.

Your faces are great as always.

Why are they so unhappy? Why are there so many? Why does the woman look like she’s controlling a crowd of football hooligans?!

I love it.