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.

Then why not start with those ones?

That’s more or less my understanding, a nerd knows a lot of useless random facts, but a geek will tell them to you whether you asked or not.

It takes a while to kick habits, the feeling of “who the fuck will ever see this comment” keeps stopping me from posting half the time. At least on Lemmy there’s plenty of chance someone will.

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