Do a piece on GoDaddy - they're absolutely disastrous. Eg, when you need to do any kind of downgrade of a service, you need a 2fa over email which they intentionally delay for like 15mins. If you leave the page, you have to request a new one.
Of course, when it's 2fa for something that's not negative in terms of revenue, it arrives immediately.
Gemini Ultra should show good progress according to Google - it's supposed to perform better than 85% of computer science competitors, which requires a lot of logical reasoning.
Lets see it once it goes live, but sounds promising.
It's a great list. Would be a good to keep it as some live list so we can help evolve it over time.
I'd add two ideas:
Build lightweight memcached
- it requires mixture of basic algorithms as well as good system design practices
- it's a "simple" problem, but requires to think well from multiple angles - invalidation, concurrency, memory management...
Build your own docker
- it's not as complex as it might sound
- gives opportunity to understand basics of OS programming, which most engineers nowadays don't really use in day to day jobs