>/. whoami

I'm Nunex — real name Nuno Guerreiro, based in London, UK. Portuguese by origin, Londoner by life. I've been using Linux for about 20 years but only recently started learning to code properly, at 41 years old. Better late than never.

I didn't finish school. I'm mostly self-taught in everything I know. My math skills are questionable. And yet here I am, learning several programming languages and building websites. Funny where life takes you sometimes — I never thought I'd be doing something like this a few years ago if you'd asked me.

>/. the long version

It started with a 486 in the 90s. I was around 12 years old and completely obsessed — MS-DOS, games, figuring out how everything worked. Then life happened, I drifted away from computers for a few years.

In my early 20s I found Linux because Windows wasn't cutting it for me, and I wasn't getting what I wanted from my computer in terms of user experience. Started with Ubuntu, moved through Fedora, Debian, eventually Arch Linux. Each system taught me something new. A few months ago I made the jump to Alpine Linux — and it changed how I think about computing entirely. Minimal, fast, no nonsense. Runs beautifully on my ancient hardware.

The coding interest grew with time, through daily use of my Linux system — which is a very different world from Windows. I tried coding before and gave up, convinced it wasn't for me, that I wasn't smart enough. What changed? Honestly — having the time to really focus, finding the right learning tools, and discovering that coding does something good for my head. When I'm deep in a problem, everything else quiets down. That's worth a lot to me.

>/. interests

linux, open source, minimalism

go, rust, python, c, bash, CSS and HTML (since building this website)

gaming, pixel art, ASCII art, game dev (someday)

the old web, neocities, personal sites

>/. about this site and ai

This site is written by hand — HTML, CSS, me and a text editor. I use Claude (an AI assistant by Anthropic) as a learning tool. It helps me understand concepts, spot mistakes, and improve my writing. English is not my native language and I'm self-taught — I'm not the best writer, and Claude really helps me construct things better and turn my ramblings into something readable before I publish. But the ideas, the words, the decisions — those are mine. Claude is a colleague and teacher, not the author of my code, work, or this website.

I want to learn, not just copy-paste. There's no point otherwise. I'll write a proper blog post about this at some point because I think it's worth talking about honestly.

>/. find me

Codeberg — where my code lives (public repos coming soon)