A workshop for the curious. Software engineering, automation, observability, and self-hosting.https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en-ushttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/task-manager-blog/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/task-manager-blog/I cancelled Todoist, opened Claude and built my own task manager in over a week of vibe coding.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiprojectshttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/monitor-claude/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/monitor-claude/Anthropic's Claude Code CLI exports OpenTelemetry data — here's how to hook it upWed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiobservabilityopentelemetryhttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/obsidian-all-in/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/obsidian-all-in/Obsidian is a powerful tool if you know your way around it.Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTproductivityhttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/n8n-is-awesome/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/n8n-is-awesome/Automate everything you can, it's easy and free if you self host itTue, 23 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTautomationproductivityhttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/directionless/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/directionless/Do you ever feel like a paper bag drifting through the wind?Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTmetahttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/first-workshop/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/first-workshop/The first every workshop I did with some audience?Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTmetahttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/yaml-is-king/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/yaml-is-king/Hate to say it but YAML won the great devops wars. We really need to find an alternative way to work with.Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTcodingk8siachttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/victoria-over-elastic/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/victoria-over-elastic/Friendship ended with Elastic, Victoria and her secrets won me overFri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThomelabobservabilityhttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/dont-use-neovim/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/dont-use-neovim/Despite the FOMO you really need to think what editor you will use, it's ok to not say neovim btw.Fri, 27 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMTneovimhttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/golang-interfaces/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/golang-interfaces/Once an interface and how it works clicks, your life will never be the same.... Maybe not but at least things will be easier to read.Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMTcodinghttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/self-hosting-engineer/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/self-hosting-engineer/I can probably say I am better than you on some aspects because I run and build my own stuff.Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMTmetahttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/ollama-wsl-nixos/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/ollama-wsl-nixos/Tech quickie lesson from running LLMs locally in Windows and WSLTue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMTwslnixhttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/split-keyboards/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/split-keyboards/Once you go split, you cannot go back easily. Your shoulders, wrists and arms will thank you.Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTmetahttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/tailscale-is-cool/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/tailscale-is-cool/I cannot believe it's free for anyone, how are they gonna make it?Sun, 21 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThomelabhttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/nix-journey/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/nix-journey/On the one hand it's amazing and love... on the other I want to punch it.Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 GMTnixwslhttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/meal-notifier/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/meal-notifier/Knowing what your kids will eat can help debunking their lies.Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 GMTautomationcodinghttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/selfhosted-2024/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/selfhosted-2024/Lessons from self hosting in 2024Mon, 25 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThomelabhttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/streaming/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/streaming/Let's try this streaming thing for a bit yes?Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTmetahttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/steam-deck-awesome/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/steam-deck-awesome/Mobile gaming is amazing and addictive.Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTgamingmetahttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/atlantis/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/atlantis/IaC even at home, it may not be as fun but it sure teaches you a lot.Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTautomationiachttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/neovim-2023/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/neovim-2023/Life with Neovim in 2023 is pretty cool.Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTneovimhttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/terraform-nvim/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/terraform-nvim/You can use neovim to also navigate your terraform infrastructure, validate and run your plans and apply.Fri, 28 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMTneovimiacprojectshttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/asdf-tea/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/asdf-tea/How I found a whole in asdf that i decided to sort of patchMon, 24 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThomelabhttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/cloudflare-tunnels/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/cloudflare-tunnels/Expose your services without VPNs or Port Forward. It's free and you get SSL, what-a-deal!.Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThomelabk8shttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/chef-tips/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/chef-tips/Things I wish I knew when I started using Chef.Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMTautomationconfiguration-managementhttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/server-scraper/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/server-scraper/Learning by doing is always a good excuse. Ruby was required for work so why not build a scraper.Sun, 17 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMTautomationcodinghttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/babylog-app/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/babylog-app/How often is your baby eating, pooping and peeing?. It's super important the very first month.Sun, 27 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMTprojectscodinghttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/selfhosted-2022/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/selfhosted-2022/Lessons from self hosting in 2022.Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMThomelabhttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/pushgateway-pihole-speedtest/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/pushgateway-pihole-speedtest/Are you getting what you pay for from your ISP?Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTautomationhomelabhttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/pihole-is-awesome/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/pihole-is-awesome/Stop seeing ads everywhere you go, run a pihole and enjoy the internet!Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMThomelabhttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/switched-back-to-windows/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/switched-back-to-windows/Yeah I cannot believe I went back to MS after 4 years on good Linux full time.Sun, 19 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMTmetahttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/bootstrap-ansible/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/bootstrap-ansible/Set your machines in a consisten way with AnsibleTue, 20 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMTautomationconfiguration-managementhttps://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/ansible-101/https://blog.mvaldes.dev/en/posts/ansible-101/The basics of AnsibleFri, 18 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTautomationconfiguration-management