Unrelated, this is a good thing to hear, I have an old MacBook air 2012 lying around, a supported OS would be handy to make use of the hardware still being in excellent condition.

Google firebase would be the likely answer for serverless architecture, won’t pretend I know anything more to help than that sorry

Depending on the country, your tax laws may also let you get the full cost of job related education and conferences back. I was lucky enough that my employment funded the bulk for me, but in Australia it’s a solid way to keep learning once you’re in the field you’re after.

Yeah I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad game honestly, the worst it gets is when the bots spike again and people start raging

Yeah ps4 works a charm, the hard part for me was figuring out why an Xbox controller didn’t. Turns out some of the older models had deprecated Bluetooth that it couldn’t connect to, so went with a ps4 one instead.

You may find these concepts interesting (if you don’t know them already) Recursion algorithms for graphs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortest-path_tree Dynamic programming: https://www.baeldung.com/cs/tabulation-vs-memoization

I’d honestly say the confusion between what communities are worth subscribing to is one of the worst blocks for me. Sure, /c/ exists, but what server should I go to? What communities are there? What ones are actually active? It’s not as easy as reddit was, and if it’s annoyed me then it’s definitely stopped another 10 people from bothering with lemmy :/ Edit: also, ty for the suggestion