Have you looked at Amazon Lightsail? It's relatively cheap if you don't need a lot of scale, compared to other cheap alternative. Oracle free tier is another option.
zig is coming along quite nicely. If you've not heard about zig, take a look at https://ghostty.org/ (a terminal for Linux/Mac and Windows in future), https://tigerbeetle.com (a database for financial accounting) and http://bun.sh (a modern, faster alternative to nodejs).
My wife has been looking for a Javascript/React developer role for the last 6+ months in London with no luck. Not even a single interview call. We relocated from India to the UK for my job. She has 5+ years react experience in a startup in the business analytics space. She also has some backend experience in python, springboot, postgresql etc. She's comfortable in a Linux development environment.
I thought getting a web developer job in London should be easy because like everyone needs a web developer, right? But it's shocking to see rejections after rejections just at a resume level, even for a position in a company in a similar business analytics domain :-(.
I am surprised this isn't getting wider attention. With increasing antibiotic resistance (granted India is contributing significantly to this), I would have expected three brand new antibiotics would be a big deal. Especially since everyone bemoans that big pharma doesn't invest in discovering new antibiotics.
Xbox with Kinect. I was impressed by the original Wii and thought, hey, kinect can do it with bare hands. It didn't work all that well and I am not much of a gamer, so the whole thing was a waste. To top it off I even bought a spare controller because it was available for sale on Prime day and didn't even open the box!
Available under a OSS compliant license (https://opensource.org/license/UPL), it's a shame that this completely user space implementation based on BPF hasn't got wider attention. Looking at the activity on dtrace-devel it seems like it's actively maintained by a team of dedicated developers.
The Linux "native" alternative bpftrace is fantastic but it's not practical to use it in an embedded environment because it pulls in llvm-libs.
10% Human book Alanna Collen is worth a read (https://www.harpercollins.com/products/10-human-alanna-colle...). The theory is that our gut microbiome has a lot do with obesity than we realize. It explores various factors from excessive use of antibiotics to lack of fibre in the diet and a lot more.
In my company a strong referral certainly carries a lot of weight. There is however a big difference between a casual referral (as in, I barely know this guy but he reached out to me) vs a strong referral (as in, I've worked with him and will vouch for him and I would like him on the team).
Though a bit dated, I highly recommend "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD operating System". I have read several operating systems book classics including the book by Silbershatz and Galvin that you referred to and "Unix Internals" by Maurice Bach and the "Magic Garden Explained". I found the Design and Implementation of the BSD operating system much more readable and getting into details at just the right level.
I'm a grumpy old programmer now but one of the early enlightening concepts I learnt was recursion and how it applied to so many problems. As the saying goes, "To understand recursion, you have to first understand recursion" :-).
I've followed you awesome work on Linux performance tuning over the years. All the best for whatever you're doing next and I hope it ends up in another book for us mere mortals to read :-).