Just my emotional reaction: I am amateurishly selfhosting for more than ten years with only basic linux knowledge. This training is probably more focused on pros and general web development than self hosting. In my imaginary perfect world self hosting would be a common skillset taught in a secondary school.
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2024
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Ahh yes, I should maybe have posted this somewhere else now I think about it.
For me, I find the barriers to entry are quite high but if you can get a good training vid that covers the building blocks then it's easy to learn more.
School would be a good place for that initial learning.
Seems solid enough of an outline. My only note is I highly recommend git first, you don’t need to be an expert or anything but if you understand the basics and use it you will never lose a line of code and be able to lookup historical changes to find issues faster. Then when ready you can stand up a simple git server like gitea to host those repos and collaborate.
Before Linux command line?
Yea, I did. When you start modifying configs and writing shell scripts git can help you track those as well.
Thanks for that. I'll move this up the list.
Seems fine, but you’re sorta hitting two fields at once. Application development (coding) is a different skill set from devops/deployment (docker). I’d stay pretty surface level on docker and the CLI for now and focus on building your app. You’ll know when you need to go off and learn those things.
I'll do just that. Thanks for the reply!
Decent list and plan overall. Since you enjoy self hosting and seem systems oriented, I'd add Python on the curriculum somewhere. That would round things out nicely for you.
I've been flip flopping between JavaScript vs python and landed on JavaScript as it has some libraries I'd like to experiment with.
I've written a few lines of python code but just basic training stuff. Hopefully there are some transferable skills from learning JavaScript.
Thank you for the reply.