tf2_pyro

Hi HN

I'm developing an electronic board book to teach children the basics of chess and for the last few months have had issues with my meta ad account being blocked. I recently moved to India and setup the account there but I used my UK payment details when trying to pay for a test ad, which is what I suspect triggered the automatic block.

As this is a new business I have no contacts within Meta to help me unblock my account, it's been incredibly frustrating raising appeal after appeal with no reply. As a last hurrah before probably just creating a new account I thought it would be worth asking here if

1. Anyone has been able to successfully unblock their ad account after being in a similar situation and if so how they did it and/or 2. Any of my fellow HN readers who currently work at meta would be able to help me unblock my ad account

Thank you

PS I guess it feels weird to trust random strangers online but to give context that I am in fact a real person with a real product here is a link to the product I am working on

https://www.chessfunforlittleones.com/

I get an annual $400 allowance from my company to spend on tech related books/courses/general education. I wanted some recommendations on what I could spend this money on.

Some background on me - I am an advanced python backend programmer (not web just general programs) but because don't come from a computer science background, recently completed (and loved) both nand 2 Tetris courses. What I learn doesn't have to be directly relevant to my career in any way and I'm open to anything that is just interesting in the computer science space.

I know interesting is subjective but I also welcome random suggestions that you enjoyed learning (has to be related to computer science/maths/physics) in some way so that I can at least see what is out there.

Some things I am thinking about learning more about

- Linux (thinking of getting How Linux works) - System security (maybe black hat python?) - Machine learning (maybe Andrew Ngs courses?) - Improving as a tech manager (Haven't really researched any books on this...) - General technology knowledge (byte go newsletter)