My name is Ibrahin Gil, I am 46 and I am not a programmer.

I have spent more than twenty years in sales, and today I work as a commercial manager at Florette Ibérica. That has always been my profession. But all through those years, technology was the other thing, the one always sitting there: something I loved, something I wanted to learn, and something the right moment never seemed to arrive for.

Until a few months ago, when it struck me that if I kept waiting to have time, I would probably never start at all.

And I started in the worst possible way: building a server at home without the faintest idea of what I was doing.

It was a disaster.

I did not know where to begin, I did not understand half the words I came across, and every problem I tried to fix seemed to lead straight into a different one. I spent close to a month stumbling in the dark, getting it wrong, undoing things and starting over.

Until one day it worked.

It was nothing spectacular. I had simply managed to get my own server running. But I had done it myself.

And that is where I understood something that has since become almost the reason this site exists: these things are not reserved for people who are somehow specially equipped for them. They can be learned. The problem is that, more often than not, nobody explains them to you from where you actually are.

Then came Bamburu

It began as a “let’s see what happens” and slowly turned into a real project. I still remember the day I got it to issue its first invoice. It was a simple invoice, nothing extraordinary, but it appeared on the screen and I thought:

And what happens if…?

That question is probably to blame for everything that came afterwards.

Every time something worked, I wanted to try the next thing. And then another. And another. Until I reached a point that a couple of years ago would have seemed impossible to me: being able to carry a whole programming project through.

I still have an enormous amount left to learn. And that will probably always be the case. But now I have a foundation and, above all, I have lost the fear of not knowing.

Why this site exists

This site comes out of that road, and also out of something that makes me quite angry.

Technology moves so fast that keeping up with all of it is practically impossible. And yet we still explain it as though the person on the other side already had an obligation to know.

“You’re supposed to know this already.”

Sometimes nobody needs to say it out loud. You can feel it.

And that feeling is what makes people stop asking.

I know far too many perfectly capable people who have been shut out of tools that could have made their lives enormously easier. Not because they could not have learned them, but because somebody managed to make them feel they were late, or that their question was too basic.

Here I want to do the exact opposite

I am going to try to explain, in plain words, things that are actually good for something. Without assuming you know what nobody ever explained to you. Without filling every paragraph with technical words that are not needed. And, above all, without making you feel bad for not knowing something.

I am also going to tell you what I learn along the way: what works, what does not, the times I get it wrong, and above all those things that took me hours to understand and that I later found out could have been explained in five minutes.

Because that is probably where I can be most useful.

I am not a programmer and I do not intend to present myself as an expert in any of this. I am someone who started from zero, got an awful lot wrong, kept asking, and ended up discovering he could do far more than he thought.

If I could do it, so can you

And if there is a single idea I would like you to take away from here, it is this one:

If I could start at over forty, while still working at something with absolutely nothing to do with programming, so can you.

You do not have to become a programmer.

You do not have to understand all of it.

You only have to start with something that is useful to you, and lose the fear little by little.

If this site gets you to master a handful of tools that looked complicated yesterday and make your life a little easier tomorrow, it will have done its job.

Nothing more.

And nothing less.