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Oof. This was a tougher period. Life definitely caught up with me in the past
couple months. 
 Traveling home during a catastrophic and record breaking storm in Portugal, house viewings and bidding, mortgage documents back and forth, baby daughter starts going to daycare (and getting sick all the time 😅), wife going back to work and me staying home twice a week, wars starting, gas prices…
This journey actually did not start 1.5 months ago. 
 Early last year I realized that if I wanted any of my projects to see any success, I could not let my engineer brain be in control and keep building in a vacuum. 
 So now I had to start sharing things online and building an online presence. Like the tech person that I am, for me this meant X / Twitter. So that’s where I started.

 

 Thank you BringOps. I learned so much with you! 
 Some reflections that might resonate with people: 
 
 I shipped too late. I worked on this project on and off for two years. 
 I didn’t talk about it online. Only my computer and couple friends knew about it 
 I rewrote it a couple of times. It started with react, moved to svelte, played around with…

 

 I was just thinking how impressive it is the value that a much smaller team is able to deliver, 3 years after the acquisition & layoffs. I’m not pro firing people, but sometimes companies do get bloated and lose focus. Everyone was saying Twitter / X was gonna crumble. One could argue they’re doing quite well!
I’m seeing more and more products either doing reverse trial or requiring credit card to unlock more free stuff within the free plan. 
 Last example I saw was Posthog. 
 I find it super smart and don’t know why we didn’t do it that way sooner. Maybe people were more risk averse before? 
 
 Originally posted on X
If you’re anywhere near X/Twitter in 2025, particularly following tech indiepreneurs,
 vibe and coding are words that just keep popping up. Vibe coding , vibe
coded , one-shotted . 
 At some point I really couldn’t stand it anymore and had to mute it. 
 There I've done it 🤯 Lets see if it calms down... pic.twitter.com/vsX6S5TGNS — Ricardo Marques (@RCM7) March…

 

 In today’s world there seems to be no reason why anyone can’t build and deploy
anything. With the proliferation of all sorts of
 PaaS and
 SaaS services to
abstract the developer further and further away from the metal, the pace at
which new ideas can be made available to the masses is insane. 
 Multiply that by the fact that everyone building…
Decided recently to uninstall oh-my-zsh because it was a big contributor to my
shell’s slow load time. Suddenly my Ctrl + a and Ctrl + e shortcuts for
beginning of line and end of line stopped working, but only inside a tmux
session. 
 Turns out setting these bindings directly in .zshrc fixes it: 
 #.zshrc 
 bindkey '^A' beginning-of-line
 bindkey '^E'…
Keep your shell history. The amount of time saved looking for commands you’ve
run successfully in the past will become near zero. 
 #.zshrc 
 HISTSIZE = 1000000 
 SAVEHIST = 1000000 
 
 #.bashrc 
 HISTSIZE = 1000000 
 HISTFILESIZE = 1000000 
 This will keep you years of history. 
 Pair it with fzf and you hit a gold mine. 🚀
When you start increasing your typing speed, the default settings on the Mac are just not enough. The adjustments in the Keyboard settings menu are not enough either. 
 You need to go to the terminal and run the following commands: 
 defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 1 
 defaults write -g InitialKeyRepeat -int 10 
 Feel free to adjust those numbers to your liking. 
 Happy faster…
Remap the Caps Lock key to Escape. The little finger is basically there already.
I did this when Macbook Pros had the Escape key on the touch bar. Never changed it back. 
 Seemed like a good first Mindscape 🚀
I discovered the digital garden concept a few years ago and have been meaning to
incorporate it on the blog website for a while. Finally done! 
 I have unfinished ideas all the time. Maybe this will help me write them down
somewhere. Let’s see! 👀 
 I’m calling it Mindscape.

 

 The first question you may ask is: What is Factorio and where can I get it? 
 Quoting Factorio website : 
 
 Factorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories.
You will be mining resources, researching technologies, building infrastructure, automating production and fighting enemies. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements…
Living in the digital era is awesome. Everyone has smartphones, iPads, GoPro’s and the same old computer. We all have email, all sort of documents and specially photos and videos (can you keep up with an Instagram feed??). 
 Actually based on a random live counter , the whole internet is 10,961,628 Petabytes big as of the second I started this paragraph. That means the average person…
So after around 2 years of thinking, talking and being lazy about starting a blog, here it is! Day zero . 
 My objective is to share the random things I learn about operations / automation / scripting / systems / whatever new name they call it now for the old traditional system administration ( but now it’s in the cloud! ). 
 I might also share whatever I’m excited about! 
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 Beardman. Remote. DevOps. Photography. EDM. Coffee. Vim. Spaces. 
 Hi, I’m Ricardo Marques, and I’m passionate about helping teams grow and perform at their best. 
 Over the past decade I’ve worked in roles spanning System Administration, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Tech Leadership, and Platform Engineering. I specialize in scaling infrastructure platforms and…

 

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Here is a list of the projects I’m working on: 
 
 Gofwd.to - Short links you actually control. Create trackable links with analytics, custom domains, and QR codes. 
 Bringops - Tool to help you hire SRE’s / DevOps professionals (no longer maintained) 
 FastFigaro - Easily simulate your mortgage payments. No ads. No data collected. 
 Capsule One - This website!…
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See here every tool I use on my day to day! 
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 Alfred 
 Productivity app with search capabilities 
 
 
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 1Password 
 Password manager 
 
 
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 Cleanshot X 
 Screenshot and recording tool 
 
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