I'm Matt (known as Ether, eth0 or Etherealized) - a fullstack software engineer from the UK.
― Knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, Go, C/C++, C# and several other languages
― I do brand design, UI design, frontend and backend development. I also know a bit of Java and a few other languages as I've needed them for small projects before
― Primarily, I'm in the hosting industry - I've worked with 30+ clients to build branding, a design system or anything in between for their host or project and seen great results
― I've owned some of the largest free 24/7 hosts in the industry. Since 2021, I founded hosts such Pylex (now known as WispByte) and several other major hosts. Most of them still run my software and use my designs even years after my exit
I'm building the real competitor to Pterodactyl and delivering the promises of my previous project Skyport. And we've called the panel Argon. I also founded and maintain Heliactyl (the world's most popular and industry leading dashboard for Pterodactyl!), Radar, Terra and other projects.
I heard this somewhere. Since then, it has been the basis of all my principles. I always did everything because I wanted to be known — I... pretty much just wanted attention. And I was bored. So why not go all in on this? It was a solid reason to build things I guess.
In 5 years, I did it. Or I got pretty close to it. I built a lot of my industry's popular software and several of the largest free hosts.
I have never been a good guy, I have always taken advantage of people for my own usage and I have done a lot of dodgy shit. But at least, upon my demise, you will probably remember me (:
You
If you're reading this, either you've known me for ages. Or maybe you haven't, maybe I'm just a random guy you found somewhere. 👋
Regardless, I've been around in this industry for a while. I learnt a lot. I implemented none of it, I went insane and did loads of stupid shit. That's pretty much my entire story after everything I've done.
For years I wanted purpose for everything. Did I find purpose? Absolutely not. I'm honestly not sure what my motives are. It was attention, then I stopped caring about it. It was money, then I stopped caring about that too. So who am I now? I'm past my days of big userbases and being the evil leader of the hosting industry, once again I'm just a random guy that makes things sometimes it seems.
I've considered moving on fully many times. Even before my peak - I was in Kraków in March 2023 and I realised: I don't really care about everything I do, I just do it for attention and to fill my time, to make my life less boring. This isn't my thing. As soon as I had something else to do, all of my motivation is gone.
Towards the end of 2024 / start of 2025, I started realising how sad my life is, how little I am and who I am as a person. I fell for the power trip of everything hard. Really hard. I became a huge attention seeker, I lost all of my morals. I stopped caring about anyone or anything.
I cannot leave or move on. I still need money. Or I'm fucked. So I'm around for a while. In June, I intend to leave from all public appearance with the exception of for clients.
Never let attention and power ruin you.
Ether
You’ve been at war all these years to reach peace. But with whom?
The version of you seized by insanity?
...
Kill it.
I take you for granted. Because the alternative's far more alarming.
