Francisco Torres

About me: Banging on the keyboards

Have you ever met that person who sits in front of a computer and spends hours looking at unintelligible letters? Okay, that outrageous strange guy is me.

Software, open software

And I happen to like it, I like it in the same way a pianist likes to compose a melody or a painter likes to recreate a scene. Programming or systems design is a work of intellectual effort but with visible reward, and it is wonderful to see how everything works as you go forward, and how with time and patience the system you create is getting bigger and more functional.

In the same way that a painter wants his works to be seen in a museum, I also expose part of my work. I develop following the open software philosophy, and some works can be seen on my GitHub.

Profession

I also earn my living with it, I work as a developer for many years. For more than 7 years I have been focused on advanced back-end web development on WordPress platform with HTML/CSS/PHP/JS technologies and on linux systems with apache/PHP-FPM. Al of this is happening under the GIGA4 firm.

I’m a member of the Col·legi Oficial d’Enginyeria Tècnica en Informàtica de Catalunya.

WordPress

I am specialized in web development with WordPress, I am part of “the community” and I organize and participate in talks and events, where i can teach and i can learn.

Highlights

About me: Oh, i’m recording you!

Communication is the basis of life in society, it’s emotional, makes you laugh, cry, keeps you informed and uninformed, entertains, educates, solve cultural confrontations and creates them, etc.

I have always believed in communication as an element to create “breadth of view”, I love to contribute with something new and give a different point of view.

Journalism, journalism freedom

One of the things that I feel most proud of is to have done journalism for my city.

For several years I have written articles in ecomovilidad.net Granada, a negative-profits organization (We support it with our personal incomes) that reports on public transport and sustainable mobility.

The rewarding part of this work is to have done a completely free journalism, where the topics are obtained directly from “the street”, you talk about them because they passionate you, the affirmations are based on data and research, and you give them directly to the public without going through a censor.

The Audiovisual

I love the surprising and funny productions, my reference could be “Pedro Almodóvar”, for his chaotic narrative where the fun joins the strange, the extroverted, the irreverent and the unusual.

My audiovisual work has almost-always been behind the camera, I have a technical character but I also take part in the creative process. I know mostly camera and audio recording, and filming organization, although I can not consider myself an expert in anything because my experience here is limited.

Highlights

About me: Ring Ring

The bicycle is the simplest, most effective and safest application of the wheel to a human being for its displacement.

Cycling, I love you.

Mountain bike, for the city, fixie, tandem, folding, with panniers. The bicycle has as many forms as needs.

Why love it? For me it is a fast way to travel around our cities that respects the environment and space, as well as a great tool for physical exercise outside the city while you interact with the environment.

Have you challenged you today?

My usual routes run through different dirt roads around Granada, mountain and plains, this routes are usually about 13 to 20 km, with an approximate duration of 1 to 1.5 hours.

Although I have had more special routes:

• Tenerife, 2009: Descent from “Teide” to “La Laguna”. ~55Km.
• Tenerife, 2012: Tenerife North, from “La Laguna” to “La Punta de Teno”. ~100Km.
  
• Camino de Santiago, 2016. French Way from “Hospital de Órbigo”. ~300Km. Preparations 1, 2. The way 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.

My bike

At this moment I have a Conor AFX 8500 (2016) of 29” with two ortlieb waterproof panniers.

Contact me

Communication between people has been difficult since ancient times. Today the thing is even more fucked up, so you should fill this rough form without soul to contact me, but we have added people from stock very happy below to make it look like it’s really cool.