Hi, I’m Brian
I am also a is a Senior System Administrator, Infrastructure and Application Engineer, Full-Stack Developer and “digitigraded” IT guru based in San Francisco
A little about me
I’m very fortunate to have been exposed to technology at a relatively young age.
At Kinderwood (Grade K-2) in Santa Clara, CA and Oster Elementary School (Grade 2-5) in San Jose, CA I learned to type on an Apple IIe and had my first exposure to gaming. I honestly can’t tell you how many times I died of dysentery in Oregon Trail.
Sometime between my Oregon Trail days and when I started Elementary School, I was gifted a Nintendo Entertainment System and that was really the catalyst which sparked my interest in gaming and then evolved to computers and technology in general.
At Rainbow of Knowledge (after shool/care), my gaming experience expanded to the likes of Super Ninteneo and Sega Genesis. Thank you, Konami code!
Throughout my years in elementary and middle school, I had exposure to a wide range games of platforms and even dabbled a bit in programming (hdllo Turob/Power BASIC)!
My Software Stack
| Mac | Win | Linux | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating System | macOS Monterey | Windows 11 Pro | Arch Linux |
| Browser | |||
| Apple Safari | x | ||
| Chromium | x | x | x |
| Firefox | x | x | x |
| Microsoft Edge | x | x | x |
| Apple Mail | x | ||
| Coding / IDE | |||
| Visual Studio Code | x | x | x |
| Text | |||
| BBedit | x | ||
| Sublime Text | x | x | x |
| Shell / Scripting | |||
| Zsh + OhMyZsh | x | x | x |
| PowerShell | x | x | x |
| Remote / Connect | |||
| RoyalTSx / RoyalTS | x | x | |
| VPN Client | |||
| NordVPN | x | x | x |
| Graphics | |||
| GraphicConverter | x | ||
| Inkscape | x | x | x |
| Productivity | |||
| 1Password | x | x | x |
| ForkLift | x | ||
| Hazel | x | ||
| Pastie | x | ||