Hi, I'm Ricardo.
Staff platform 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
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2026
- Edition 002: The Slow Struggle journey
- Edition 001: The Beginning journey
- Goodbye BringOps mindscape
- X/Twitter Smaller Team mindscape
- Reverse Trial and Credit Card Requirements mindscape
2025
- Vibe coding blog
- The case for self-hosting blog
- Ctrl-a and Ctrl-e with tmux and zsh mindscape
- Keep your shell history mindscape
2024
- Make your keyboard fast in Mac Os mindscape
- Remap Caps Lock key to Escape mindscape
- Mindscape mindscape
2017
- Automating infrastructure: playing factorio on AWS blog
- Personal backups: The geek way blog
- Capsule One - Day Zero blog