Hello 👋

My name is Elisiário, I'm an Engineer based in Porto, Portugal.

These are some thoughts on tech, pitfalls, and the occasional rant.

What I'm currently doing

• 🛠 Building and maintaining infrastructure at scale
• 🤖 Automating everything I can
• 🌱 Self-hosting new stuff
• 📝 Writing about my experiences here

You can find me on GitHub, LinkedIn or you can reach me at hello@couto.io.

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Latest 3 Posts

1. Connecting my Mitsubishi Electric aircons to my smart home

   Or "How I bypass MELCloud with small ESP32s and ESPHome"

   February 2025
2. Automating my apartment: Part 1

   I wanted to automate a light bulb. Ended up reading RFC 6762.

   May 2023
3. Git LFS Migrate All Branches

   Migrating big files to LFS from a pre-existing Git repository using BFG Repo Cleaner versus `git-lfs`.

   November 2019