I’m pretty principled. I block as much tracking as I can in my personal use of the web because what I do isn’t anyone’s business but my own. So, the idea that I have to put trackers on my site is pretty noxious to me, and I have thus far refused.
This isn’t an ad and I don’t want my personal account associated with my business, so no URLs, but I would like to know what you all think: is this something worthwhile that people will appreciate, or am I letting my principles guide me off a cliff because nobody cares that much?
Can’t disclose the page here as to not dox myself. But I run and own a software systems company in Germany. We do software development and operate the software for the customer on Linux based servers reliability guarantees and high availability setups. I and several employees have also an academic background in IT security. :) what do you do?
Fair enough, nothing here is really private after all, so I appreciate even that much. I’ve got a general plan to stand up a Matrix server soon; I’ll DM you my handle when I’ve got it up and running if you’d like to contact me there.
To answer your question in a long-winded but hopefully entertaining read: I don’t have an academic background, myself. I dropped out of college and got my certificates like the A+ and CCNA, MCP too back when that was a thing (dating myself a bit). My favorite story is passing the Linux course without the textbook, on the logic that all the information I could need to pass was available on the internet. I was right 😂 Went straight into working in IT after that.
I’m a sysadmin by career, and an indefatigable entrepreneur by nature. My latest venture is a food brand here in the US; I built it with the intent to automate as much as possible so I can run it alongside my day job, from anywhere. Self-funded, which is kind of scary and rather limiting, but this structure gives me endurance to carry on as long as I have gainful employment (or until my other projects bear profit).
I also named my company in such a way that I can expand into other industries naturally, without having to rebrand. That’s because I don’t have any great passion for food specifically - more of a general desire to produce high quality output that other people can use, or enjoy, or otherwise benefit from, and a lot of different personal interests.
Sounds good. We have a matrix server, let’s get together there when we can. :) I started as a sysadmin and with Linux and then went to do security for a while and got into professional software development and keeping the software available and working in 2014. Haven’t stopped since. We developed our first own product last year and will begin selling this year. :)