My experience: just try to land a programmer job first, even if the company/job looks shitty.
I only had an Economics degree with no formal IT education and now I had a software dev job.
Like you, I was self-taught and only had built some personal projects, but it was enough to land me my first IT job in a shitty startup. And then you can have easier time finding other software dev roles.
Basically I just want to go somewhere to start fresh... not really career prospect/salary motivated.
London looks a good option to me because its english-speaking, I have relatives living there, I can work there visa-free (now its complicated due to brexit), and I love english football haha.
I have to admit it's not obvious to me at first. Especially for the second ad, you need to have good knowledge of Chinese literature to know the story behind the poem.
But once I read the explanation it became quite clear since there isn't really other ways to interpret it.
A lot of big corporations/wealthy people had ads on HK newspaper front page explicitly condemning the protesters. Li Ka Shing could have done the same but he didn't.
It is indeed a problem. I am still thinking how to make these two pages work together.. maybe merge the first page into the color picker in second page.