## Welcome to my blog

Why a blog?

For over a decade I’ve been building things at the intersection of two worlds - sound and technology. I run sound at the National Philharmonic, co-build the infrastructure of Flightcore Studios, teach at film schools, and build CI/CD pipelines at movecloser. On any given day I jump between a mixing console and a terminal - and it turns out these worlds have more in common than you’d think.

This blog is where I want to document those experiences. No textbook theory - more like field notes: what worked, what fell apart, what I’d do differently.

What to expect

I plan to write about three main areas:

Audio and recording studios

Building three studios from scratch as part of Flightcore Studios taught me more about acoustics, ventilation, and cabling than any course ever could. I’ll describe specific design decisions - from choosing acoustic panels to configuring the Dante network that ties all control rooms together.

DevOps and infrastructure

Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloudflare - tools I use daily at movecloser and in my own projects. I’m interested in the pragmatic approach: not “what’s the best stack” but “what actually solves my problem and why.”

Hardware and automation

ESP32, Home Assistant, PCBs, acoustic monitoring - side projects that bridge both sides of my interests. codeyourpcb (designing circuit boards from code), filharmonia-ai (classifying concert recordings with PyTorch) - these are the kinds of things I want to write about.

Format

Articles are written in Polish first - it’s my native language and I think through technical problems best in it. The vast majority of technical content on the internet is in English and I’m not trying to fight that. But there’s something about writing on complex topics in your own language - it forces deeper understanding because you can’t hide behind jargon. English and Russian translations will appear as capacity allows.

I try to write concretely. Every post will be grounded in a real project or situation, with code snippets, configurations, and lessons learned. I don’t promise a regular schedule - I write when I have something worth sharing.

Who I am, briefly

Szymon Gwóźdź. Sound engineer at the National Philharmonic, co-founder of Flightcore Studios, lecturer at Warsaw Film School and ARD, DevOps engineer at movecloser. 12 years of music school in Katowice (organ, diploma with honours), telecommunications technical school, Mix With The Masters with Emile Haynie at La Fabrique in France. 19 gold and platinum records, over 570 produced tracks, over 100 DJ sets.

If you have questions, want to talk audio, DevOps, or anything weird - the contact section is on the homepage.

Until the next post.