Does anyone else here participate in the selfhosting hobby without a formal IT related education or a career in a similar field? I’ve only had one or two programming courses as part of my university education, but it was only very basic Python and C. I’ve never formally learned how to use containers, version control or anything else. Sometimes I regret not pursuing an education in IT/programming because there are so many things I’d like to accomplish but can’t (for example if there’s a feature missing in some project, or to feel safe in my abilities to harden my servers and my network in order to expose services to the open internet).

  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 hours ago

    I professionally work in IT without formal education or any related career. It’s one field where you can really teach everything yourself with free online resources.

    In fact my self hosting journey has taught me things that were later useful for work. I consider it part of my informal education.