Since I was 8 years old, I have always had something in my hands that, even vaguely, resembled a computer. Or a pencil, indeed.
ThenI’ve continued on this road, mixing arts and IT, adding everything that seems interesting for me: piano, drums, hip hop music, hard core metal, street art, journalism (a sort of) and videogames.
For many years I’ve explored sideprojects, beared in mind that IT, drawing and composing music was the primary interests.
So, all my interests was rapidly reduced to the main driver of my curiosity: information technology.
I’ve strived to put all the other things that I’ve loved in the perspective of IT, sometime with good, sometime … meh.
Now it’s about twenty years that the main focus of my daily work is turning around a computer: it doesn’t matter if it’s a physical laptop, a desktop, a rack server or a virtual machine running somewhere in the cloud (that, indeed, it’s only a piece of metal parked in a rack under 20 meters of concrete: “cloud” a pair of balls).
It doesn’t matter if I must write in a shell what the machine must do, or if it a simple matter of point and click.
The important thing is that every Mac, Linux or Windows box must obey at my commands. Promptly.
Designing infrastructure in the common way, like Active Directory and related services, it’s a job of the past (and I’ve done it for enough).
Now the “so called cloud” it’s everywhere and if you don’t use Google Workspace or Microsoft Azure, you’re a sad dinosaur 🦖, destined to the extinction.