Welcome, people of the internet!#

You have reached my blog. A little about myself:

When I was about 5 years old I had a friend whose father worked at IBM and they had a “Personal Computer”. For me it looked like a thing of “magic” at that time and since then I had always wanted to have one for myself but it would take probably around 10 more years before I got my own “PC”, a 286 with M$ DOS (v3?). A black screen with “C:>_” on it and I only remembered the commands “cd” and “help” from what the seller had explained to me. At this time there was no “www.google.com?q="how%20to%20use%20msdos"". “help, dir” and “cd” got me started.

In my professional career I have been a software developer (C#/.NET mostly) for about the last 16 years at moment of writing. Before that I had some jobs in systems-, workstation- and network administration, including customer and user support. This was mostly in the Micro$oft landscape. Curious as I am however about other technologies, I felt attracted to Linux and the free/open source world and about 6 years ago I switched the O.S. on my local desktop to Ubuntu. I had dabbled a little in some other distributions in the past (Suse, CentOS) but at that time it didn’t stick.

Right now, I still use my Ubuntu desktop (not for much longer) but also have a small Debian home-server and the latest addition to the family is a laptop with Arch linux. It’s contagious ;)

For now I am very interested in topics like ‘Containerization (kubernetes/docker etc)’, ‘DevOps’, ‘SaaS / PaaS / IaaS’, ‘IaC’, ‘Azure / AWS’, ‘Go / Golang’, ‘Bash scripting’ and ‘Linux in general’. I want to gain/expand (my) expertise in these areas and log my progress somewhere so that is the reason for this blog right here.

This blog is hosted on my private Debian server in a docker container and powered by Hugo, an open source static site generator written in Go which is very nice and suited my needs for this blog perfectly.