Competitions. In college I did the ACM ICPC and trained hard with my schools programming team.

These days I do advent of code, which will start on Dec 1. But you can go fo previous years now. It is great.

I think the picture is unclear somehow, the spoon is over the pot so it isn’t shifting the center of mass outward.

People seem to expect a lot of wild action over an active stovetop. That hasn’t so much been my experience…I mean after college.

That is the best compliment I’ve gotten in a while.

Why would anything be swinging over a hot stove?

Note: house is only not covered in objects because the cleaners are literally still here.

That is actually pretty solid. Ordered one.

Expensive is a little bit a problem. Mostly I don’t want to spend money.

I’m going to try a Zimaboard for the backup server. It should be fine. I might need a USB hub but whatever, performance isn’t a wiggle there.

I’m not allowed to go places or do things. That isn’t a bad idea though.

Absolutely. I use ipv6 so I can directly reach all my servers. For public facing things I put it on an ipv4 address but for my own internal stuff, ipv6.

Yeah, on servers low swap and an alert on available ram so I know if things are getting snurgly.