About Me

Still at the beginning, but with a clear goal

I'm Elias and originally wanted to become something completely different. Programming or IT had nothing to do with it at first. Since 2022, maybe not until 2023, that changed completely, and ever since, the idea of programming myself and getting into IT hasn't let go of me, I've become a real IT enthusiast in the process.

This website is my private portfolio and learning project, not a company, not a service, simply mine. I build it myself, piece by piece, whenever I've learned something new again.

What interests me most is Linux and open source, server administration, networks, self hosting, privacy, IT security, and programming and web development. I run my own Ubuntu server for that, where I just try things out and see what happens, and through that understand how modern technology actually works in detail. On my own computer I've since switched from Windows 11 to Kubuntu as well. IT security appeals to me especially because you immediately notice whether you've really understood it, a misconfigured server or a weak password doesn't forgive half explanations.

Privacy matters just as much to me as IT security itself, that's why I deliberately try to give away as little data as possible and use open source software wherever I can. That's not just lip service to me: this website sets no cookies for advertising or analytics purposes, loads no external scripts, and doesn't store any more data anywhere than a given function actually needs. For my own Nextcloud I wrote my own privacy policy that openly discloses exactly which data is processed and why.

Several of my own projects have grown on the server by now, my own support ticket system and Nextcloud, plus the MP3 and MP4 downloader, which was originally just a plain Python project and has since become a real web application with its own interface and login. This website has grown the same way: 19 key FAQ entries and several cheat sheets on Linux, Docker and networking have come together by now, and I keep documenting my progress deliberately.