A nickname that doesn't mean anything so you can pronounce it in anyway you want.

Nothing more, especially nothing professional. I just love anything open source.

Interested in open source technologies, mainly Linux system administration and automation, WordPress administration and optimization.

• Been using Linux since the times when Windows booted in 30 seconds and Linux did in 3 minutes in one of my historic PCs. I think this must be a sign that I really love Linux. Strangely enough, the only thing I love about Windows is its classic theme. I tried everything to make my Linux desktop look like that with no success but these are the things of the past.
• Also interested in BASH, definitely not a guru, but I love to automate anything I can. You should really see how my laptop and then me panic together when the external command I passed to the fd command goes crazy just because it found every bit in $HOME recursively.
• Sometimes a server-side guy who prefers PHP over anything JavaScript. Believe me, the term 'Modern Tooling' scares me a lot.
• I no longer ask questions like 'Why is WordPress slow?' where the underlying machine is a single core VPS.
• Most of the times, I find myself hitting jj inside any text input. Once you learn how to exit VIM, there is no turning back.

Left to right, they are ordered from what I enjoy the most to what I disgust the most. Yes React, I'm talking to you. Why? It's just that I simply cannot unlearn what I have learned, Master Yoda because you do not guarantee that what you teach will not be deprecated sooner or later.

If, one day, you want to say hi to this random guy, you can contact me at: balrog at anonaddy dot com.