I am a long-time systems engineer who got his first taste of Linux via Debian GNU/Linux back in the mid 90s. I started as a software developer (front-end and back-end), but soon dwelled into Internet services operations through dedicated servers and, later, virtualisation.
Along the way, I also learned about monitoring, automation, and configuration management. What is now known nowadays as DevOps was common sense to me when I was in my twenties, as I never shared that development versus operations divide.
I spent some years alternating the roles of project manager and systems engineer and, eventually, co-founded a company offering VoIP and systems engineering services, which led me to a general manager role in the public administration for two terms (my small public service contribution).
Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated.
Offline, I practice lots of sports (swimming, beach volleyball, stand-up paddle and hiking, among others) and I coach volleyball players.
The thing I like the most in life is learning, so I am always eager to meet new people and share knowledge and experiences. Usually very passionate about everything I do, I like practicing sports, attending to opera and classical music events, reading books, cooking, and watching films and series.
And I also like writing about what I learn and what I do, hence this blog. All the articles in it are based on free and open source software, and are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
About the site #
In Catalan, calabruix means hail, hailstones, or hailstorm, depending on how you use it. Hailstones are formed when raindrops are carried upward by thunderstorm updrafts into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere and freeze. Hailstones then grow by colliding with liquid water drops that freeze onto the hailstone’s surface.
The Summer storms are the wildest. They can really rip a place apart. There is nothing soft or gentle about the rain: it purs down, a huge, heavy torrent. The thunder is so close and loud, you feel it all around you. And sometimes there is hail.
Background picture in the home page by Korawat Thatinchan.