Hello! As a first log, I wanted to make it as a short biography of myself. How from an era of DOS I ended up here with all of you. I have a computer in the house from the beginning. As a young kid, I started to become interested in programming and write my first lines in QBASIC. My OS was DOS for a long time. I become familiar with the command prompt. Windows 3.11 was nice but overall useless as I mostly run some game or QBASIC IDE. I did not need multitasking nor my computer was capable of it (Intel 486 DX2). As I become older I spend most of the time in games. We have LAN in our neighborhood so we can chat (LanChat) and play together. I get Photoshop 5.5 and started my graphics design journey. Over the next years, I do mostly layouts for the web. I still program but a lot less and in PHP. I remember that over some winter holidays I spend the whole 2 weeks coding a CMS. I learn a lot and the code was never used for anything outside demo proof-of-concept. But I liked doing database management and web UI's. That time I did not know what a CMS or UX is. I got to university and also started my first real job. I work as an outsource guy for different things. Few months I manage database processes (company sends a LOT of packages). Then as the first line of helpdesk and some hardware administration (same company). In the end, they don't want me anymore and I ended up in the head office as a graphics/web designer. With my (then) 10 years of experience in Photoshop I was doing well. In the end, we started to make indie games. After I got more experience in JavaScript I wanted a higher salary and a more ambitious task. The boss can't do that and we ended with peace. I joined a corporation. With scrum, teams, and endless meetings. Shortly after that we were bought and merged to even bigger corpo - Pearson. I spend there seven years as a regular engineer. I learn JavaScript frameworks, working in teams, how to survive meetings, speak English, doing demos in front of management. All of the programmers use Linux so I finally switched from Apple. I use Linux to this day. Over those years to not become stagnated and frustrated (the reality of any big corporation) I founded a small indie game development group - P1X[1]. In the beginning, I do all the games alone in JavaScript. I write my own game engines. I learned a lot. Then a few colleagues joined me. We started to use GodotEngine and we stick with it to this day. We go to many game jams, got booths at trading shows (in Poland), and just become very known in the Godot community. I stopped using Photoshop and doing any layouts, aim at programming games logic, designing gameplay, and UI's for them. I included a lot of procedural generation. Recently we stopped as life sometimes happened but it's not the end! That big corpo ended with constantly changing management, decisions, and goals. This makes our local department less needed and I and half of my colleagues got fired. We get a very nice compensation. I decided to use it for a long-awaited holiday. I fly to the Tenerife and spend there for 6 weeks with my girlfriend. It was a dream. I wanted to recharge and rethink my future. The decision was made - I'm starting my own company. I also bought my first drone there. This starts my current obsession but I will write about it in a separate log. The year 2020 begun. I think that this year is significant to all of the population on the planet. We do not have such a crazy year for a long time. Probably a generation changing year. And we're only after half of it ;) For me, it is special as I started my company "Cyfrowy Nomada" / "Digital Nomad"[2]. My goal is to be mobile and self sustain. I have all the hardware and software to do the job I can - programming and game design. I got my exclusive client - beffio[3]. I'm a half scrum master half environment artist at the moment. It's a small company but with a very promising future. We do game assets and game-related jobs for hight profile companies (outsource). I sign NDA so that's all I can say about it. But when the game I'm working on right now becomes available (2021) I will be a very happy man. And it will be already an awesome introduction to my CV. A one that I dreamed of for all those years as an indie developer. I also learning Unreal Engine (visual) programming named Blueprints and a lot of 3D modeling. People working there are super talented. Over those last years, I started to self-host all my stuff. Web pages, Nextcloud, NAS, shell. I started with the first Raspberry Pi. After two years I needed an upgrade to some real hardware to run everything in Docker. I bought my first IBM server. Now I have two IBM racks. I have a 300/300mbps dedicated connection so everything works smoothly. All my pages were always text-based friendly. Doing my corporate work I started to hate JavaScript. I think that simple pages do not need it. Nor any bloated framework. The only one I use at the moment is Jekyll for the P1X page. All others are plain HTML + CSS magic. But they are text-readable first. I got WCAG certification so I know to make them accessible. I become promoting simple pages with mostly text content. No bloatware. My home page[4] and it's newest sub-pages are done with zero JS, PHP. Plain HTML with some Apache magic (like SSI). Recently I found out that I'm not the only one. I started to see people showing their simple pages and blogs on Hacker News. And then I found a list of text-friendly pages. There ware a blog/social category. And in it a rawtext.club. I got interested. I know and love to dig in the textfiles.com reading all those massages form the past. Finding little gems. But it's a finite resource and quite old. So one day I write the email to our admin and the next day got invited! I just barely looked and read all the MAN pages but I'm already impressed. The software here is very intuitive and clever (dotfiles in the home directory). But what's more important are the people that make this place. [1] https://p1x.in [2] https://cyfrowynomada.eu [3] https://beffio.com (not text-based frendly!) [4] https://krzysztofjankowski.com