This article was originally written in Spanish by a human. This translation was generated by AI. We believe that knowledge should be shared across the world, so we publish these translations. If you want your language to be included, send an email to contact@codingpizza.com and I will add it to the list.
Times have changed a lot since I started working as a software engineer.
I haven’t published anything for a long time because maintaining the blog was, above all, a nuisance, and I hadn’t found anything that motivated me.
Since last year I’ve been working on setting up a personal, private organization so I don’t have to depend on big companies or subscriptions, and so I can own my information. More than from a “I have nothing to hide” point of view, it’s about having the freedom to change service providers without being tied to a specific one.
As a consumer, I think we should love ourselves more and not put on the jersey of a provider we are hiring and defend it tooth and nail as if it were a football team we swore loyalty to since we were kids or something like that. But anyway, I digress. With the AI revolution I’ve learned a lot of the various things I always wanted to try; I got myself a VPS, I set up a self-hosted Gitea, I broke things while learning and fixing them, and I had fun like a little kid. From copying and pasting AI-generated commands, to creating scripts, to creating specific users with permissions so agents can read, to using Ansible to configure servers, it has been a pretty funny experience.
The fact of showing up and telling someone “hey, I did this and it’s cool”, and then saying “I shat myself” and now nothing works.
This revolution has been pure fun for me. When you enjoy it from a point of view far from FOMO and from having to keep learning every Twitter blog post that uses the same structure to farm engagement, and outside the need to “ship” something, it’s like having a thousand more toys to try. Before, I only had the Android Lego box. Today I have them all.
As a fun fact, I wrote this article in a Telegram draft on my phone. I passed it to my agent so it publishes it directly on the blog and gives me the link. I don’t want to fix any error, semantic or grammatical, so it shows that these are directly my thoughts as they come out of my head, unfiltered, which I think is the best thing these blog posts have. And reading the summary an agent made of it doesn’t make sense to me. That’s the approach I want to have on this blog.
I think that thanks to AI we can share with many parts of the world, so I’ll ask it to translate it into some languages. I hope that someone in another language can find some of these ideas or processes that I’ll keep noting down here useful.