35 years in Information Technology

One of the things I love about macOS today is the BSD Unix variant core.

After some odd years as a Commodore 64 and Apple IIe enthusiast, in the second half of the 1980s information technology became my career. I became an Apple Macintosh, Atari ST and PC compatibles user. At this same time I began to acquire my Unix skills with SCO Xenix and later SCO Unix.

In 1989 I went to work for what became one of the largest Apple/PC direct marketers and a Fortune 500 company. I was privileged to work with the founder and this fundamentally molded my business viewpoints in good ways and ways I later rejected.

In the early 1990s in my spare time, I started building systems with FreeBSD Unix and later BSDI Unix. In 1997 I started a company primarily focused on selling, installing and maintaining BSDI Unix servers of various sorts (see image above). For a period in the early 2000’s, I was an open systems engineer (Sun Solaris Unix mainly) for a company that manufactured enterprise level storage systems and became a part of Sun Microsystems which was later acquired by Oracle Corporation.

In the 2010’s I worked for my third Fortune 500 company, a medical software developer, as a SQL database support specialist. In 2016 I retired forever from capitalist information technology. From 2016 through 2020, I was the architect, builder, and maintainer of a successful enterprise level e-commerce site running on Ubuntu Linux for a socialist housing collective I am a member of.

Free of Capitalism

For a long time, computers were as exciting to me as a box of nails. Void of corporate robots, deadlines, quotas, meetings and what not, I seem to be warming up again to my love of technology. Some Mac Studio M1 Ultra and MacBook Pro M3 Pro stuff, but also Turtle Island on Mastodon and Bluesky:

#Native #Indigenous Social Media

TurtleIsland.social Mastodon (Twitter clone)
TurtleIs.land Bluesky (Twitter clone)

Thanks!
-Yehuda

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