TL;DR: A creative reset, a Marie Kondo purge, and my promise to keep this blog unmistakably human in the age of AI-generated noise.

Transmission #002: Signal Over Noise

Starting Over

Scratch that. I’m starting article #2 from zero. The IaC series can wait.

If you’ve visited before, you probably saw a half-baked IaC post. I shelved it. Creative block, responsibilities piling up, the usual. Time to start fresh.

I’ll write that one again, but in a better form. For now, this piece will be a bit of personal introspection and a look at my plans for this blog.

I also like journaling. It settles my mind. So expect a journal-style post like this once in a while. The technical deep-dives stay the main fare.

The Marie Kondo Moment

I’ve been in a Marie Kondo phase. Purging garbage, both literal and figurative. The point is recovering time and mental bandwidth for what’s next.

A few things have become clearer to me in the last few months.

I want to let curiosity run wild. Chase the tech ideas, the business ideas, the projects I’ve been postponing. Share what I learn along the way.

And to be upfront: I’ll use AI as a tool, but the writing and the ideas stay mine.

Signal Over Noise

Here’s the experiment. AI is everywhere now. Every website, every product, every feed. Very soon we’ll be drowning in AI-generated garbage online.

For a while, I had my writing plans on freeze. Figuring out where to use AI, where not to. I didn’t want to fall down the rabbit hole and become another hollow voice online, no longer sharing any true human essence.

I wanted to make sure that when I did start publishing, what I put out online is actually my content.

I’m an AI advocate. I won’t use it to write my content. Grammar tools are fine. The words and the ideas stay mine. Diluting them is the line.

I care what people think. I hope you do too. Let’s keep it real between us.

And sorry if my writing and ideas are a bit messy, but let’s say that’s your guarantee that they are human words and thoughts being written.

A few spoilers for the next pieces of content

I’ve been working after hours on some interesting projects and concepts.

One is on these three topics, Kubernetes, security, and agentic AI.

Another is a custom tool I built to cut Claude Code’s token spend when I was scraping documentation with Firecrawl. I’ll go into the details, what worked, what didn’t.

I’ll share the GitHub repos and links when those posts ship.

Interested in the next articles or on these topics?

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Thanks for reading!

Until next time,

Armando Herra

Transmission Ended: Armando Herra @ Apr 21, 2026

For all transmissions: the words are 100% mine; only the publishing and blog deployment is automated, I work with DevOps, don’t expect anything less.

TL;DR: This is my first blog post, here I describe the purpose of this blog and my main goals for it.

Transmission #001: Hello World!

Where it all starts…

Everything started in the computer room my dad setup when I was just a kid, we had a lot of old computers and gadgets in that room, now that I look back, my dad was kinda of a tech enthusiast himself being a lawyer, I remember a desktop tower running Windows 95, one of those “legendary” e-machines running Windows 98 and that sticker that said “This computer is NEVER OBSOLETE”.

That aged well…

I spent many hours and days in that room, and even at one point, I made it my own room. That’s where I dabbled in hardware and software for a bit, nothing super crazy, but I was always curious and happy to learn something new.

Where I am now…

I’m currently far from the house I grew up in, but I still have that burning passion for technology and learning. I’ve also developed a liking for sharing knowledge via tech talks.

For the longest time, I wanted to have my own platform for blogging and sharing my thoughts, experiments, and knowledge that others could use or find insightful.

But I didn’t want just to use Medium or other online platforms; I wanted my own platform, where I set the rules.

When this thought started, I had little to share on the professional side. I had just started my journey as a Web Developer and didn’t feel ready to “share” whatever little wisdom I had at that moment.

Now, almost 8 years later, things have changed a lot, and I’ve finally found the right time and the right tools to start this endeavor and go beyond.

Where I’m going…

This Tech Blog will be the central place where I share knowledge, tech product experiments, my thoughts, and other things with the world.

This will be an ever-evolving blog, so don’t expect everything to stay the same or change at all. You might find out I updated an old blog post with new information I came up with, or made a necessary edit due to my own mistake when writing the post, or to the code of an example I created at the time.

I will also be sharing information about my participation at community-organized and Other Tech Events where I participate as a speaker around Mexico and the World in the near future.

I’m also working on a No-BS Tech Newsletter. I’m still working around the central concept and the content before launching it or collecting emails, so keep tuned for that in the near future.

But as of today, December 26h, 2025, I will be posting random one-off blog posts about new techniques and neat things I learn when performing some experiments. I’m also working on publishing a few “100 Days of …” Series for some of the Tools and Technologies I use as a Systems Architect/Platform Engineer in my day-to-day job.

In the future, I might create some spin-off specialized courses of the tools I’m working with.

“Per ardua ad astra”

Nothing has been easy so far, but I’m really motivated for this new start, that’s how I see it, and I’m happy to be able to share this knowledge with everybody.

I’m especially committed to creating high-quality tech content for the Spanish-speaking community to help everyone in LATAM grow their skills.

I hope you find my blog useful and you learn something new!

Transmission Ended: Armando Herra @ Dec 26, 2025

For all transmissions: the words are 100% mine; only the publishing and blog deployment is automated, I work with DevOps, don’t expect anything less.