Adventures in F,O, X, & 0

My health is not the best. Two and a half years ago I was diagnosed with myeloma after finding myself suddenly very breathless when doing strenuous exercise. The myeloma had in turn caused amyloidosis - which in its turn had severely affected my heart, causing heart failure. Not cool. Two years ago, after six months of prep chemo I had an autologous bone marrow transplant. Now, two years on, and I'm doing pretty well all considered. I'm not disabled in any way really - apart from not being able to easily walk more that about 500m! However, I don't have sufficient heart capacity to cope if I were to be hit by a bad flu or COVID-19... As you can imagine, I'm keeping pretty strictly to the lockdown procedures...

This has now been running for three months! Some background: Last year I had great plans to re-purpose my  Linux sysadmin beginners course as a paid product marketed to IT managers. The plan was for them to use this to train, but also evaluate, their staff. I still think the concept was sound - but it did require a full-on "funnel" process to get in a steady flow of new participants, and there was quite a bit of infrastructure needed to get it fully automated. However, late last year I got a bit of a "rude awakening" from a doctor regarding my health - and so I've "pivoted" to simply providing the course as a not-for-profit service. It has a website at:      linuxupskillchallenge.com . ...but the course is mainly run via a "subreddit" on reddit.com: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxupskillchallenge/ That might seem a bit odd, but it has some advantages: * There are already some very active related subredits (r/linuxnoobs, /r/li...