Climbing Mountains Into the Clouds

There’s no place like home. Specifically, buying your domain and owning your website: the place where you’re in charge of building and maintaining what you write and share with your guests. This is a part of “learning in public”: the practice of sharing what you learn while doing it. Showing not only the “finished product”, but the iterations, the setbacks, and the solutions you’ve found and applied. I first read about this practice a few years ago from swyx (Shawn Wang) 1, former financial analyst first turned developer and now an AI engineer. Last year I came across it again, while reading the book “Share Your Work”, by Austin Kleon, a recommendation by Mischa van den Burg. After that, I decided to do it myself. ...

How I’m using project management principles to structure my career shift from OR Nurse to DevOps.

As a child, I learned to play the piano. I had a knowledgeable and demanding teacher who lived at the top of my street, so I couldn’t make excuses not to go to lessons. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy it (I eventually did), but in the beginning it felt tough as a 5-year-old. Learning musical theory first, and not being able to touch the keyboard until further along, it wasn’t much fun I thought. Later on, as I learned how to play other musical instruments at school, I was thankful that my teacher insisted on learning the fundamentals first. ...

My first impression when I heard about Linux was of another mainstream operating system (OS). One version for all users, no questions asked. And also, no freedom to choose differently, nor leeway for extended customization. In reality, Linux isn’t the operating system itself, but the Linux kernel. This is the OS’s core, a program that has control over everything in the system. What is commonly referred to as the OS corresponds to distributions. A Linux distribution is an operating system built on the Linux kernel, bundled with additional software, such as the GNU Core Utilities, a package manager, and several other tools depending on the use case. ...

When I started working as an Operating Room Nurse, I felt like a fish out of water. It looked like I was a complete beginner again. After spending 3.5 years working at a small urgent care department in a different location, this seemed like the right challenge to pursue next. But the sheer amount of things to learn “on the job” from day one, plus the high-stakes environment I was now a part of, made me think “What did I get myself into?” many times. ...

The first time I was told I should use Linux, I didn’t know what it was, really. “Another operating system? OK, but why should I switch now?” My impression was that Linux was a single operating system (OS), as any other mainstream OS, and that everyone’d be using the same version. I didn’t see a good reason to change from what I was using, my routines, and habits. Now that I look back, I think I feared having to learn something new from scratch. And also, of becoming different, by switching into something the majority of people I knew had never heard about. ...

All around us, change happens at every hour, every minute, every second. But there’s a clear distinction between driving change, and being forced into it by external circumstances. Throughout the first three movies of the Matrix series, Agent Smith always presents change as a threat, while Neo embraces it as transformation. Evolution. When he took the red pill from Morpheus, Neo chose to leave the Matrix and live in the real world, as harsh as it was. ...

I’ve always been interested in technology. And solving problems. In recent years, with the gradual adoption of software applications in healthcare, I became interested in finding out why it was so hard for applications to share data and communicate. That interest piqued one morning when I saw a technician installing a Raspberry Pi on top of a ventilator to collect and send data to an operating room records application. One month later, in March 2025, I attended a practical course focused on process digitization in healthcare, by Nova School of Science & Technology, and promoted by my employer. ...

A 3-month experiment waking at 04:30h to study before morning shifts in the OR.

Imagine you discover this beautiful mountain: the tallest of all around, it’s summit’s bare during the summer, and covered in snow during winter time. Simultaneously beautiful and frightening, would you like to climb it? I would, for sure. The view from up there must be breathtaking! Choosing My Mountains Last month, I spent every early morning for a week walking and hiking back in nature’s grounds, soaking in the sound of birds waking up for the new day, enjoying the smell of wet grass, and stopping to appreciate the view when the sun finally shone its light. ...