Hacker News: lvales

New comment by lvales in "Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future"

lvales — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:14:22 +0000

Yeah, I eventually gave up on self hosting Nextcloud because of incompatibilities with PHP(-FPM), iirc. They were always lagging behind and it became a hassle to mantain. I ended up replacing all the parts I used with other single purpose software, and it's been a better experience overall.

New comment by lvales in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

lvales — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:54:49 +0000

Hey there, this is Lourenço! Right out of the bat, I just want to say: I'm not the typical application, as my background is in Economics, Philosophy and (organic) Farming. IT was always my hobby, and that's why I've decided to do the inverted pipeline: instead of Tech > farmer, I've gone from farmer to techie.

I've been dedicating myself to helping people and companies move away from big tech through my consultancy, Excipio [0]. Some of my recent projects can be seen on [1]. I'm particularly proud of a completely self-hosted GitOps pipeline [2] and have been recently working on a multi-tenant K8s platform written pretty much from scratch in Go [3][4][5][6]. In any case, here are my details:

  Location: Kraków, Poland
  Remote: Yes, hybrid is also fine.
  Willing to relocate: maybe (in the EU).
  Technologies: GNU/Linux, Golang, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Jenkins, AWS, Zabbix, Kubernetes (CKA certified), Docker, Postgresql, Elasticsearch, Git, and a few more
  CV: drop me an e-mail!
  E-mail: lvales (małpa) excipio (kropka) tech
  Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lourenco-vales-443088256/ + https://github.com/lourencovales

[0] https://excipio.tech/ [1] https://excipio.tech/showcase/ [2] https://excipio.tech/showcase/gitops/ [3] https://excipio.tech/blog/k8s-mtp-a-multi-tenant-kubernetes-... [4] https://excipio.tech/blog/k8s-mtp-a-multi-tenant-kubernetes-... [5] https://excipio.tech/blog/k8s-mtp-a-multi-tenant-kubernetes-... [6] https://excipio.tech/blog/k8s-mtp-a-multi-tenant-kubernetes-...

Improving my self-hosted actions runner setup

lvales — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:01:07 +0000

Article URL: https://excipio.tech/blog/improving-my-self-hosted-actions-runner-setup/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228835

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lvales in "Show HN: We automated Portugal visa appointment checks with computer-use agents"

lvales — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:32:13 +0000

The system is bursting because AIMA is severely understaffed and there's a shit ton of people waiting in line. An agent is not going to solve this, it will just make you earn some money while helping people who are able to pay to jump the line.

You are framing the problem in whatever way it helps you sleep at night. "Fairness", lol.

New comment by lvales in "Show HN: We automated Portugal visa appointment checks with computer-use agents"

lvales — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:08:49 +0000

What a great way to make a system that's bursting at the seams, even worse.

New comment by lvales in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

lvales — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:49:29 +0000

Why don't addicts chose to stop with their addictive behaviour?

And this isn't an excuse btw, but if you want to understand why, this is a good place to start.

New comment by lvales in "$1,605: average annual ad value of a U.S. Google user"

lvales — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:20:19 +0000

FTA: "One caveat: this analysis estimates advertiser demand for access to a given profile. It does not reflect the exact revenue Google receives from any individual user. What the model reveals is the ceiling, the maximum price the market places on your attention."

From this I believe that your problem can be solved. In accounting terms, the 1605USD isn't a flow (e.g., revenue) but rather a stock (e.g., receivable). They've estimated value about how much a profile is worth, which you shouldn't use to draw those conclusions about revenue.

New comment by lvales in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

lvales — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:17:32 +0000

  Location: Kraków, Poland
  Remote: Yes, hybrid is also fine.
  Willing to relocate: maybe (in the EU).
  Technologies: GNU/Linux, Golang, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Jenkins, AWS, Zabbix, Kubernetes (CKA certified), Docker, Postgresql, Elasticsearch, Git, and a few more
  CV: drop me an e-mail!
  E-mail: lvales (małpa) excipio (kropka) tech
  Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lourenco-vales-443088256/ + https://github.com/lourencovales

New comment by lvales in "Migrating to the EU"

lvales — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:11:13 +0000

This is something I've been trying to help people and companies with excipio (shameless plug). Data and digital sovereignty are fundamental nowadays.

New comment by lvales in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

lvales — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:58:57 +0000

> Set up a private space which will be used for google play services required apps (bank stuff, etc).

If all the apps (including GP+GPS) are sandboxed anyway, what's the point of doing this?

New comment by lvales in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

lvales — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:15:52 +0000

> This is going to hurt legitimate sideloading way more than actually necessary to reduce scams

Isn't that the objective? "Reducing scams" is the same kind of argument as "what about the children"; it's supposed to make you stop thinking about what it means, because the intentions are so good.

New comment by lvales in "Building a Shell"

lvales — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:27:15 +0000

Building a shell is a great exercise, but honestly having to deal with string parsing is such a bother that it robs like 2/3 of the joy along the way. I once built a very simple one in Go [0] as a learning exercise and I stopped once I started getting frustrated with all the corner cases.

[0] https://github.com/lourencovales/codecrafters/blob/master/sh...

New comment by lvales in "The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books"

lvales — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:15:36 +0000

Thanks, I for sure know someone who will be interested in this, I'll be sure to pass it along!

New comment by lvales in "The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books"

lvales — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:00:47 +0000

Yeah, I'm leaning towards that conclusion as well. While I don't publish my writings, I have a few friends who do. The stuff that comes from Lulu, even the cheapest "models", is honestly fine. The ones from Amazon, not so much.

Of course if you typeset and edit your book like a moron, that's going to impact the quality, but this has nothing to do with POD.

The Hype-Beast Crisis

lvales — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:57:03 +0000

Article URL: https://excipio.tech/blog/the-hype-beast-crisis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392893

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by lvales in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)"

lvales — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:21:33 +0000

Hey there, this is Lourenço! Right out of the bat, I just want to say: I'm not the typical application, as my background is in Economics, Philosophy and (organic) Farming. IT was always my hobby, and that's why I've recently decided to convert. I've already had entry-level positions in the industry, and I'm more than willing to continue to work at that level.

  Location: Kraków, Poland
  Remote: Yes, hybrid is also fine.
  Willing to relocate: maybe (in the EU).
  Technologies: GNU/Linux, Golang, Bash, Ansible, Terraform,  Jenkins, AWS, Zabbix, Kubernetes (CKA certified), Docker, Postgresql, Elasticsearch, Git, and a few more
  CV: drop me an e-mail!
  E-mail: lgavales (małpa) gmail (kropka) com
  Links: https://lourencovales.github.io/ + https://github.com/lourencovales

New comment by lvales in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)"

lvales — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 12:29:13 +0000

Hey there, this is Lourenço! Right out of the bat, I just want to say: I'm not the typical application, as my background is in Economics, Philosophy and Farming. IT was always my hobby, and that's why I've recently decided to convert. I've already had entry-level positions in the industry, and I'm more than willing to continue to work at that level.

  Location: Kraków, Poland
  Remote: Yes, hybrid is also fine.
  Willing to relocate: maybe (in the EU).
  Technologies: GNU/Linux, Golang, Bash, Ansible, Terraform,  Jenkins, AWS, Zabbix, Kubernetes (CKA certified), Docker, Postgresql, Elasticsearch, Git, and a few more
  CV: drop me an e-mail!
  E-mail: lgavales (małpa) gmail (kropka) com
  Links: https://lourencovales.github.io/ + https://github.com/lourencovales