Fernando Videira's Portfolio

Homelab Diary #1: Where This Started

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:00:00 +0100

This is the first entry in what I’m calling the Homelab Diary: a running log of my self-hosting setup, what’s working, what’s on fire, and what I end up doing about it.

Here’s where things stand. Somewhere along the way I ended up running a media server for a library that’s now past 30,000 songs and movies, a handful of private tools I use daily, a Foundry VTT container my group uses for our TTRPG sessions, and a few websites, including the one you’re reading this on as well as my own gitea repository. There’s also a Matrix Synapse server I set up once the EU Chat Control debate started picking up steam, mostly so my own chats didn’t depend on whatever a platform or a regulator decided to do next. Internal services sit behind a reverse proxy, and the public-facing ones go out through a Cloudflare tunnel instead of anything exposed directly. Almost everything is managed through Portainer, which I reach over a VPN when I’m not home.

Laredoute 3D Product Page

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Bisca Multiplayer Web

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Academic Research Platform

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Velox Discord Bot

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Stuf'N'Go Web

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Stuf'N'Go Mobile

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Restgest

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Secure Chat

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Contact

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Privacy Policy

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This data is used only to authenticate you and attribute your comments — never for analytics, marketing, or sharing with anyone else.
You can ask me to delete your comments and any associated data at any time via the contact page.

Your use of GitHub or Google to sign in is separately governed by their own privacy policies, which I have no control over.

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Welcome.

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Welcome to my personal portfolio and blog! This will be a place for me to dump my thoughts on tech, ideas and projects, and share my journey as a software engineer. I hope you enjoy your stay!

Do not expect any regular content, as this is a space where I write down whatever comes to my mind whenever I feel like it. But I’ll make my best to keep it interesting and informative. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to reach out to me through my contact page.

About

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My Journey with Coding Link to heading

I’ve always been passionate about tech, and in 2019, I decided to start learning programming. I began with learning how to make games using Unity and C#, which led me to explore more about programming and software development. That’s the reason I decided to join the TeSP in Information Systems Programming at the Polytechnic of Leiria and progressed to the Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, which I finished in 2026.

CV

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Personal Website

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