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I can't share my most successful project.

I can't share my most successful project. I can't put it on any résumés, and I can't tell anyone about it. It is completely unremarkable in some countries, frowned upon in others, and illegal in the rest. My country belongs to the latter.

Successful is a relative term, but let's just say that it auto-completes on Google, and in its relative niche sector, it's one of the "big ones". When I launched it, in early 2018, I never expected it to grow to the point where it, as corny as it sounds, became bigger than me. You never do, but that's how it goes.

It'd showcase numerous skills that I haven't yet shown anywhere else. Maybe it's about time I launch something similar and do that, though I've recently started to distance myself from the project. It is now run by others, people I trust and like. I still help out occasionally.

That's not to say that I didn't learn anything along the way. Far from it. I believe if I hadn't started it four long years ago, I wouldn't have nearly as much experience around Linux and system administration today. Perhaps this capsule wouldn't exist.

Only time will tell when I will fully depart from the project, and for how long it will live on without me. But until then, I'll be glad I can put it on my CV – not by mentioning it, but by writing "advanced skills in Linux system administration".

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