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+title: "About me"
+date: 2019-09-04T14:32:51+02:00
+draft: false
+author: "Sascha"
+---
+# Hey!
+
+I am Sascha. Unfortunately, I've made a plan for today to write something about myself 😱. Maybe I should start at the beginning:
+
+I started with computers a long time ago, which may be because I am not the youngest anymore. As a teenager, I longed for a C64 nothing else. Essentially, I just wanted to be able to play games and have fun with it. My parents thought such a computer should be useful for school. They sought advice and bought me a sinfully expensive 286er with 640KB RAM. 
+So there I was. No games, no idea, and MS-DOS version 5 or something. How disappointing 😣.
+
+![Never stop learning](/img/laptop-cyber.png "Never stop learning")
+
+I tinkered a lot, tried a lot out and learnt an incredible amount, even though I couldn't play as intended. At some point, I took a computer science course at school and later chose it as a subject. There we actually dealt with really interesting stuff. Most of the time we programmed with Turbo Pascal. It was mega interesting.
+
+Still, after school I decided to go a different way initially. I chose graphic design, and then ended up in the print industry as a specialist for prepress, workflow automation and especially color management.
+
+During all this time, I always dealt with computers and new technologies. Simply because it was super interesting 😎.
+
+When I met my wife, I had to settle down. She assimilated me into her company, where I am still working and supporting. Of course, I do everything that has to do with technology, automation, etc. However, I have now handed over the topic of color management and printing machine calibration to the trusting hands of our graphic designers 😁.
+
+Today, in addition to jointly managing the company with my wife, I am primarily responsible for technology and automation in our company. 
+
+## We use the following technologies:
+
+* NixOS - if Linux, then declarative
+* Docker / Podman - can't do without containers these days
+* Shopify - simple and powerful and if you use the API you can do almost anything with it
+* n8n - you're at fault if you don't automate
+* Baserow - Excel just doesn't cut it
+* Metabase - KPIs done right
+* ...
+
+## And what else?
+
+* I program almost every day
+* I run approximately 14.9 miles in a week
+* 2-3 days per week / 1 hour of HIIT training is a must
+* I love to game (of course on Linux) and the best part is my wife does too 🥰
+* I follow the Paleo diet
+* I ride a motorcycle and love my Ducati, her name is Polly 😘
+* I use Linux, because I value autonomy and privacy 😜
+
+TBC