I don’t want my projects to get skipped over because they’re ugly and I don’t want to copy other designs pixel for pixel.

Just build your ugly thing then look up some designs and copy the parts you think are a good fit for you project.

So we went from companies claiming to use blockchain/crypto even if they didn’t use it (for any significant portion of their service), to now hiding it when they do use it?

I never got the point of using classes from tutorials, all those animals/cars/person examples were utterly useless to me, but then i started writing C++/Qt and then Flutter and i think i got it…

keep him safe online

Not sure how well it works but u can try those family safe DNS servers like adguard I used the adblock ones and it’s good, but not as good as ublock or pihole.