Drupal is hard.
I've been working with it for years and I'm still learning new things every day. The documentation can be lacking, and StackOverflow is hit or miss.
Read through my collection of articles, hopefully they can help you learn something new.
Recent Articles
Working with Media items in codeRead article →
April 6th, 2020
Media items and their related fields and views are easy once you get the hang of it.
EntityTypeManager for querying nodesRead article →
March 30th, 2020
Get the data you want with a quick intro to entity queries including, field conditions and sorting.
Add a custom library via preprocessRead article →
March 23rd, 2020
Keep your site lean by only including necessary libraries, and only when needed.