There's !selfhost@lemmy.ml (and apparently also !selfhosted@lemmy.ml and !selfhosting@slrpnk.net which popped up in the autocompleter).

"The Martian" by Andy Weir

Your book list makes it seem like you've got a pretty similar taste to me and that one hooked me in the first page. I like to describe that book as being "high adrelinaline problem solving". I'm also a SWE and think that's part of the reason it was so appealing to me.

Snoo Goo

To generally mean any reddit related topics of discussion.

Because it rhymes, is slightly unsettling, and at this point reddit would probably liquify Snoo if they thought it would make them money.