not recent projects but everything that DJB implemented is absolutely elegant, low on bugs and great as a lesson for how to write secure C. e.g. qmail, djbdns,

not recent projects but everything that DJB implemented is absolutely elegant, low on bugs and great as a lesson for how to write secure C. e.g. qmail, djbdns, daemontools, there is a lot of ideas there you can learn from: https://cr.yp.to/ https://cr.yp.to/ It also helps to build up (and refactor) your toolset over time, memory handling wrappers, logging, I/O, daemonize (https://github.com/jirihnidek/daemon https://github.com/jirihnidek/daemon) etc, so that you don't have to keep reinventing the wheel. if I'd recommend one book then it's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Programming_in_the_Unix_Environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Programming_in_the_Un...