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Sri Lanka 2025

- We spent most of the month in Sri Lanka. It is becoming our annual tradition to travel abroad for the Christmas season. What a country, I’m telling you! People in Sri Lanka are incredibly kind. No matter whether they are wealthy or living in extreme poverty, no matter which god...

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Two weeks ago

Look Back at 2025

- Last year we spent the end of December in Portugal, which started a new family tradition of travelling abroad for the Christmas season. We don’t like the cold, Mariah Carey and George Michael songs are not particularly to our taste, and overeating Christmas food just because...

Life / Culture Remote work

About a month ago

The Pulse: Could a 5-day RTO be around the corner for Big Tech?

- From next February, workers at Instagram must be in the office, five days a week. This makes Meta the second tech giant after Amazon to mandate a 5-day RTO. Will more big companies do the same?...

Remote work General tech

3 months ago

Attending MicroConf Europe 2025

- Being a solo founder needs company...

Remote work Startups

Self Actualization

- So tell the story you want to be true. Eventually, it will be....

Career advice General tech

4 months ago

Miscellaneous updates

- Just some bits and pieces that don't justify a whole post....

Life / Culture

Choosing the Right Path

- Srijan Singh pinged me on LinkedIn earlier today with a question: I’m in my early career as a backend dev at IBM, and something I often wonder about is choosing the right path: whether to stick with a big company and learn deeply, or test myself in a startup environment (remote...

Career advice

6 months ago

If you're remote, ramble

- A tip for remote teams of 2-10 people. Create a personal “ramblings” channel for each teammate in your team’s chat app of choice. Ramblings channels let everyone share what’s on their mind without cluttering group channels. Think of them as personal journals or microblogs inside...

Remote work

7 months ago

We’re hiring an apprentice!

- Note: we’ve lined someone up, which means submissions for the apprenticeship are now closed. But please keep your eyes peeled for future opportunities. Ian and I have a ton of fun projects brewing, so we’re looking for a creative, passionate, […]...

Hiring / Interviews Remote work

8 months ago

The British Airways position on various border disputes

- My spouse and I are on vacation in Japan, spending half our time seeing the sights and the other half working remotely and enjoying the experience of living in a different place for a while. To get here, we flew on British Airways from London to Tokyo, and I entertained myself...

Hardware Remote work

12 months ago

Bear Blog question challenge

- 13 Jan, 2025 I'm a bit late to the question challenge posed by Ava. I just arrived back from a 7 day hike up the Wild Coast of South Africa, which was beautiful, relaxing, and a great way to usher in the new year. img { max-height: 350px; aspect-ratio: 1; object-fit: cover;...

Life / Culture Remote work

over 1 year ago

Early Stage Company Offsites

- this post was mostly dictated off the top of my head with Wispr AI...

Remote work Startups

Top picks — 2024 June

- Hey, web folks! The summer season is here, and I am writing this intro while looking at the sunrise in a beautiful Santorini, giggling due to a loud crowing rooster. A vacation with my family, away from my day-to-day responsibilities, helped me relax and regain creativity to do...

Front-end dev Remote work

Ship something every day

- Edit: A better title would've been "commit every day that you work". I don't mean you should work on weekends or not take time off, and whatever you work on doesn't need to "ship to prod". I don't feel particularly qualified to give advice (I blame imposter syndrome), but I do...

Career advice Remote work

Book review: "Remote: Office Not Required" by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried

- “Remote: Office Not Required” is a well-known publication among the programmers. So it must be a good book, or its popularity comes from the fact that two influential figures in software development wrote it. Maybe both? Even though I am late to the party because 11 years have...

Remote work General tech

almost 2 years ago

US Tech Cannot Comprehend the Digital Nomad Way of Life

- Hello all, I’m Paul. I’m a British citizen and tech nerd. I’m currently visiting and working remotely in Medellin (Colombia). Before this, I worked remotely fro......

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Bliki: Periodic Face-to-Face

- Improvements in communications technology have led an increasing number of teams that work in a Remote-First style, a trend that was boosted by the forced isolation of Covid-19 pandemic. But a team that operates remotely still benefits from face-to-face gatherings, and should do...

Remote work

about 2 years ago

You Should Have A Virtual Mailbox

- If you fit one of these criteria:...

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Deel is the HR solution that you don't want to deal with

- Working with people from around the world is incredible and has become the norm in the tech industry. However, handling legal regulations and payroll across multiple countries can be a pain in the backside. A few HR solutions have emerged to offload these tedious duties from...

Remote work

over 2 years ago

Notes from “Weathering Software Winter” by Devine Lu Linvega

- I watched this talk[1] where the presenter details their experience trying to use modern digital devices while living on a boat with little to zero connectivity. It soon became obvious that all the technology [we planned to use] was not designed to leave the western world. It...

General tech

The Future of Remote Work

- The discussion of the future of work post-Covid has now been going on for years, and is nowhere near settled. Some companies are reversing prior decisions to go remote, while others cancel the last of their office space. Debates around the value of remote have continued...

Remote work

Remote work requires communicating more, less frequently

- Remote work is not simply a matter of replicating the office environment online. One of the key shifts that remote workers need to make is to communicate more, less often. Instead of relying on constant, synchronous, and often interrupt-driven interactions, remote workers...

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The Apple Vision Pro and the future of workspaces

- Around the beginning of 2022, my girlfriend and I were taking a hike overlooking Camps Bay. And while the vistas were gorgeous, I was waving my arms about and describing the future of virtual reality. Having worked as a game developer in the VR space for several years (back...

Remote work General tech

My struggles with remote work

- Introduction I began working as a software developer during the pandemic. It was the summer of 2020. Because you weren't allowed to go into the office, everyone was working from home. So I began working remotely. Around October of the same year, I had a mild burnout. It took me...

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