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I've been an engineer for ~15 years and made the switch to product roughly 6 years ago. While I enjoy product work, I've been noticing that my true passion is still programming/SRE (mainly Python) and I'd like to get back. I fear however that most companies won't consider me,

a) because I'm a bit rusty or too old (35+) b) I'm probably not up to date with the latest technologies. c) I'll likely fail "LeetCode" style interviews...

Has anyone done something similar and can give me some tipps?

I wouldn't mind learning something new (e.g. node.js) and my gut feeling tells me that I should probably look into learning LeetCode-like exam questions.

After a HN post two days ago, I've installed NextDNS on my iPhone and started noticing random connection requests to *.aliexpress.com, live.musical.ly, amazon.sa and others.

What made me wonder is that a) I don't have "background app refresh" enabled, b) No app from TikTok, AliExpress or Amazon is installed and c) I had the phone locked ("standby") during the whole time.

Does anyone know what might be happening here?

After more than 12 months of development time, I've recently started a course/educational website and we're facing the egg and chicken problem: Without courses, no students, without students, no teachers (who offer courses).

What are some effective (and maybe crazy) marketing ideas to get some traffic (from both sides) to the website?

We tried spreading flyers and scraping the web for school/teacher email addresses (email campaigns), but both ideas were not very effective without having 5 figures to spend on it.

Thanks for any input :)

PS: I live in Switzerland, which is quite small and only has a population of 7.x million people..

I'm looking for something similar to Horde, which offers Webmail, Calendar support and similar. Horde looks like sh*t, so I'm wondering if there is a slicker alternative?