What I`m not Unless I explicitly state otherwise below, you must assume I have no expertise / formal training in any topic. This includes, but is not limited to, assuming I have any legal, medical, or structural engineering, electrician, or plumber training whatsoever. I have no such training, nor do I hold any certificates or accolades in the aforementioned. If you take my advice and it ends badly, you do so at your own risk and I can provide no warranty or guarantee as to my advice`s efficacy, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose. My advice is provided as is. If you take my advice and it ends well, I am happy for you, unless you are using the advice I have given to be a dick, in which case I am at best ambivalent. I do not understand why licenses feel the need to put as is in quotes, but I like punctuation (especially parentheticals and ellipses...), so I`ve decided to adopt that arbitrary style for the duration of this paragraph. What I am I`m a computer engineer and computer scientist (with degrees `n` everfin`). I wouldn`t call myself an expert in any topic, but I like computers and am reasonably good at getting thinking machines to do what I want them to do. Currently working as an SRE at $silicon_valley_company writing Ansible and Salt deployments targeting cloud infrastructure. Personal opinion? After writing a lot of Ansible, I`ve reached the conclusion that no one should use Ansible. I`ve yet to come to a formal opinion about Salt. Languages My favorite languages are bash, C, C++, Python, Verilog, Perl, and Haskell, but of those I`m only fluent in the first 6. I`m also fluent in Matlab (well... GNU Octave, really), Java and VHDL. And I like Scala better than vanilla Java- except when it comes to the collections framework- because mixins. LaTeX is also fun, and I can use it wonderfully, but ``fluent`` implies I know a lot about the language constructs, which I don`t, so I`m not. Platforms If it`s an operating system whose name is a registered Bell of AT&T trademark Corporation, or based on the aforementioned, I like it. Also like FreeBSD a lot (ran it on my main machine without a GUI for the duration of 2014). But I also quite like OSX. I know how to use Windows effectively, but that O/S is just too GUI-oriented to make me happy. And, no, Powershell doesn`t solve the problem. If I wanted to write DCL, I`d be running VMS. CentOS and Debian also float my dirigible quite nicely. ©