Read(about)me.md

About my GitLab presence

I moved my personal repositories to SourceHut; you can access them here.

About me

My name is Solt Budavári (pronounced as "sholt"). I am a free software enthusiast.

My main interests (within IT) are:

• free (as in freedom) operating systems

  I like and use Linux-based operating systems, I'm most familiar with Debian and its derivatives.

  I'm also interested in BSD's, mostly in OpenBSD.

  I use the OpenWRT router firmware where I can.

• free (as in freedom) software

• plain-text based document creation and software configuration

  • light-weight markup languages like Markdown and AsciiDoc

  • converting light-weight markup documents to other formats with software such as lowdown or Pandoc.

  • creating web sites from light-weight markup documents with software such as MkDocs or ssg.

  • plain-text configuration files

    Plain-text configuration files can (in better cases) be read by humans, they can be modified by standard tools working with plain text, and they can be committed to a version control system.

  • infrastructure as code

    Using plain-text files to describe the state/configuration of systems can help create automated and version-controlled workflows, which means less manual work, and more transparency and ease of reproduction. See e.g. Ansible and YAML.

• automation -- because manual work is a bug. :)