Who I am

I am Anton Anders, a software developer and founder based in the greater Leipzig area. I build and run several companies, covering IT consulting, managed open-source hosting, a health app, app development, and scientific prediction software. I also run a homelab that does real work, and I write here about self-hosting, company-building, and the politics of digital infrastructure.

That is the short version. The rest of this site is the long one.

What I actually do all day

Most of my time goes into the companies. They are different enough that no two days look alike: one day is a consulting conversation about self-hosting for a mid-sized firm, the next is debugging a deployment pipeline, the next is app code. I wrote up what I do with each company in a separate post.

The rest of my time goes into infrastructure: some of it professional, some of it the homelab in my house. An OpenWrt router on a Banana Pi R4, VLANs, a Proxmox host full of LXC containers, configs tracked in git. It is not a toy setup; when it breaks, everything in the house that depends on the network breaks with it.

Where I come from

I studied computer science at Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg and finished my B.Sc. in 2015. My thesis was an indoor navigation system based on pedestrian dead reckoning. While still at university I co-founded DroidSolutions, and from 2013 to 2018 I also did full-stack agency work at zwei.null Marketing in Leipzig: PHP, JavaScript, Angular, whatever the client’s stack demanded. I work in German, English, and Russian; all three are native-level.

Why I care about running my own infrastructure

I think of self-hosting as more than a hobby. Who runs your infrastructure decides what happens to your data — and what you can walk away from. Running your own, or at least knowing you could, means nobody else makes those decisions for you. That conviction shows up in the consulting work, in the hosting company, and in most of what I write here.

The posts on this site are mostly notes from things that actually broke here, and what fixing them taught me.

What you will find here

Homelab and networking write-ups, notes on building small companies. Occasionally politics. If you want the fuller picture, the about page has the overview, and why another tech blog explains what I am trying to do with this site.