I started learning Blender a few months ago and I agree, the donut tutorial is excellent. One tip that helped me was to recreate the tutorial from memory after each video. So I had two files, one for following the tutorial and one for practice.
Stupid question: What are some cool things about Livebook that Jupyter is missing? Besides the language obviously, although Jupyter supports custom kernels as well
I still think WordPress is great (far better than those other options in the space), I just think Laravel was what PHP needed to legitimize it to developers. You can build anything with Laravel as a framework, it's great.