After signing my first client with a very low budget, an old colleague contacted me on LinkedIn saying he needed help with some DevOps work. I told him I could do it — but only through Upwork because I needed help building reviews. It wasn’t a high-profile or high-budget project, but I signed him anyway. After completing these jobs, I got 5-star reviews and hit 100% JSS. And Client #1 started a long-term collaboration with me. Then the day came that every freelancer waits for — a client reached out to me on their own, without any proposal. We signed a contract on my terms. I’m now working with them and expecting more work ahead. I’m still in my struggling phase, but I love my small wins.A girl who knew nothing about freelancing left her job and started something completely new with high goals, big thinking and a persistent attitude. I believe these are small steps toward my bigger vision. I’d be more than happy if any of you take your first difficult step because of this story and if anyone needs help, I’d love to support you.

Just recently we saw what Gemini 3 Pro can do for websites. I decided that i have to use this to my advantage to build the Minecraft Server Management Dashboard of my dreams. I wanted to have my own project that i manage in a Development Environment and later send it to a Test, Production Environments to understand the big picture ideas. I got these ideas from a book i recently finished called The Phoenix Project, i'll make another post for it later in the future. So far i'm pulling modpacks via Modrinth API and be able to show every modpack's descriptions so i can understand what are their contents. Even though i'm gonna work on the website itself simultaneously, this week goals are: - On every push to Github repo, Github Actions runs tests and build docker images for backend & frontend individually then runs the containers on my server pc - Give it a domain name via reverse proxy with Nginx - Expose the metrics from containers and put them in Prometheus so i can watch them on Grafana I tweak and setup the website with AI and i like how it looks so far but the automation, the DevOps part excites me the most 😂 Can't wait to see how everything works by itself without me doing anything 😎 If you have any recommendations for DevOps structure, i'd love to hear them out. This will be my long term project for my homelab but i think it will be worth doing since it's so much fun!

Today I got my Microsd card for the Rasberry pi started reading documentation on pihole as well as a few linux commands for it to get working. Even though it is a small project im currently learning how to use unbound to locally resolve dns queries. It such a nice feeling when things start working.

I was working on a website project though i don't do wordpress development, but I had to do it for a purpose. From logo design to brand color pallete and whole site development, I just completed it. But, the most fun part was while I was checking the site's performance in PageSpeed Insights. Initially, it was not good. but finally i achieved a good landmark. here is the result....🙂

Just had a pretty sweet victory: I successfully set up Docker Compose to get my FastAPI, React, and PostgreSQL patient management app running with containers. Feeling great about that one! It's really nice to see it actually working in practice. Next: Kubernetes :)