I’m Fonzi Vazquez

I’m a Software Engineer in Test. I love looking for ways to get new testing tools created. There are many projects that I have worked on. Including Enterprise and Personal. Here is my Github. There’s not a lot there yet…

Here, I’ll talk a bit about projects that I’ve done but cannot share code. Well maybe I’ll share some [code snippets]. Obfuscated ofcourse. Or the general theory. I also will write about technology, that I’m currently learning, or what I think will be the next big thing. This website started as a learning experience - initially built using only terminal tools, which was quite a challenge. Over time it’s evolved to use more modern tooling while still maintaining its minimal, fast-loading philosophy. Learning to deal with DNS, Nginx, and self-hosting has been valuable, even if it’s not used in my daily job.

I opted to keep this website relatively minimal. I want to take the journey of making ethical decisions when it comes to software. Yes, that’s right. Some third-party tools are not ethical. A lot of people that set up websites think it’s okay to track visitors because they see websites as a public space such as walking down the street and looking at a building from the outside. However, there are issues with the following someone outside of a building or “tracking” where they came from i.e. another website. Even though I am a single drop in the bucket I do hope that people who may come across this website does read and realize that because of these tools a massive amount of information has been given away for free to data brokers and advertisers. I’d rather not add to that, which is why the only analytics here is a self-hosted, privacy-friendly GoatCounter. Sadly most people do not realize nor care about privacy and that is fine if they so choose. Look at the basic front page of non-privacy-oriented search engines. Not only does the search engine track you, but every website as result also has non-ethical software. Plus how cool is it to land on a random small website like this one and feel nostalgia on how fast it loads and how thoughtfully the technology is chosen?