Hi, I'm Ricardo.

Platform/SRE/DevOps engineer. On the side I build and run my own products, on my own servers.

Four of them are live. Sometimes I write about it here.

Products I run

• Nagnaut AI that turns your to-do pile into a game you win a little of every day live
• ask.recipes ask your AI what to cook, get real recipes that fit your kitchen and your diet live
• Stashito one Docker cache for your whole fleet, never pull the same image twice live
• gofwd.to URL shortener with analytics, built for you and your AI assistant live
• FastFigaro mortgage simulator, no ads, no data parked
• Bringops hiring platform for SRE and DevOps roles retired

Newsletter

Writing

• Nov 8 Trying Mistral mindscape
• Nov 8 Experimenting with AI video mindscape
• Sep 11 AI and sharing what you built mindscape
• Sep 10 Owning your own infrastructure mindscape
• Sep 10 Make your API available mindscape
• Sep 8 Migrating my infrastructure from my phone mindscape
• Sep 6 Building for agents first mindscape
• Sep 4 Cloudflare proxy for IPv6-only servers mindscape
• Sep 2 Claude forgets too mindscape
• Aug 23 Picking a niche mindscape
• Aug 6 Invest in internal tooling mindscape
• Jul 16 Why AI writes so much mindscape
• Jul 9 Why free tiers are hard mindscape
• May 11 How to not get fat: ice cream mindscape
• May 9 How to not get fat: eggs mindscape
• May 7 How to not get fat: yoghurt mindscape
• Apr 8 Extra warranties mindscape
• Apr 8 Edition 002: The Slow Struggle journey
• Mar 20 Being a parent and the human brain mindscape
• Mar 16 Being intentional about meeting people mindscape
• Mar 15 Working on multiple projects mindscape
• Feb 21 Why cloud providers give startups credits mindscape
• Feb 21 Conferences used to be cool mindscape
• Feb 13 Fast fashion and the temu of tech mindscape
• Feb 9 Samsung Magician mindscape
• Feb 4 Managers in 2026 mindscape
• Feb 1 AI inside the business mindscape
• Jan 31 Long term vision with AI mindscape
• Jan 30 My building journey so far mindscape
• Jan 25 Edition 001: The Beginning journey
• Jan 23 Hetzner for email mindscape
• Jan 15 Goodbye BringOps mindscape
• Jan 12 X/Twitter Smaller Team mindscape
• Jan 7 Reverse Trial and Credit Card Requirements mindscape
• Jan 3 Rules for working asynchronously mindscape

• Dec 28 Reducing friction mindscape
• Dec 24 How you are perceived mindscape
• Dec 20 Joining a company and changing everything mindscape
• Dec 10 Parenthood and free time mindscape
• Mar 22 Vibe coding blog
• Feb 3 The case for self-hosting blog
• Jan 9 Ctrl-a and Ctrl-e with tmux and zsh mindscape
• Jan 3 Keep your shell history mindscape

• Dec 9 Make your keyboard fast in Mac Os mindscape
• Dec 4 Remap Caps Lock key to Escape mindscape
• Jan 11 Mindscape mindscape

• Sep 28 Automating infrastructure: playing factorio on AWS blog
• Jun 22 Personal backups: The geek way blog
• Apr 27 Capsule One - Day Zero blog

Find me

• X @RCM7
• GitHub
• Spotify playlists
• My stack
• RSS