Hello, World

Hi, I’m glad you found your way here. I’m an IT Operations and Application Support engineer based in Porto, Portugal, and this site is my attempt at doing something I should have started years ago: writing things down.

Why this site exists

Day to day, I keep applications healthy, dig through logs, talk to users, and untangle the occasional production mystery. Lately I’ve been steering my career toward systems administration and DevOps — more automation, more infrastructure as code, fewer manual fixes at 6 PM on a Friday.

Writing about that journey helps me learn faster, and with a bit of luck it might help you too.

What you’ll find here

Expect articles roughly in these buckets:

• Infrastructure — Linux, networking, virtualization, and the glue that holds systems together.
• Automation — scripts, Ansible playbooks, CI/CD experiments, and anything that replaces a repetitive task.
• Homelab notes — what I’m running at home, what broke, and what I learned rebuilding it.
• Troubleshooting war stories — real incidents (suitably anonymized), how I approached them, and the lessons that stuck.

A small promise

I’ll keep posts practical. If I write about a tool, it’s because I actually used it. If I document a fix, it’s because I hit the problem myself. No fluff, no rewritten press releases.

Thanks for stopping by — feel free to poke around, and check back soon for the first proper article.