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Indie hacking, startups, resilient systems - and staying sane while building a small company
Late June is the perfect time to focus on work and finally write about what is going on at Improvy OÜ. June is the last month to file tax returns in the EU. While my personal return is still a mystery…
How Do You Know You’re Not Just ‘Office Plankton’? I recently saw a Reel about a situation at work in the UK. In a ‘presentation about yourself’, someone listed their hobbies as ‘extreme sports’ and ‘…
Yesterday, along with the new models, OpenAI released Codex CLI, a full-fledged coding agent you can use right from the terminal. To me it looks like a perfect complement and, in some ways, a replacem…
I once thought I would write here about my love of cycling, but other topics always won. Today it is about the bike. Heading out on a Sunday ride from Lisbon toward Sacavem, I planned to do very littl…
A bit about AI The day before yesterday OpenAI introduced a new toolkit for building AI agents, and today I finally got around to reading the release notes and the description of what is actually ther…
A little about why you can end up standing in traffic for a few minutes on the island: the farmers were just discussing a cow 🐱
About DeepSeek In the last few days the entire internet has been buzzing about a new OpenAI competitor, the Chinese company DeepSeek, which claims that its models are much more powerful than anything …
Me in 2018: NFT is a scam! Or a way to launder money that is way too dirty. Me in 2024: Give me more Telegram Collectible Usernames! In the last two months of 2024 I bought myself 3 usernames (2 as in…
Sometimes on sleepless nights, when you are trying to understand yourself a little better, a thought slips into your mind. At first you treat it as something strange. You think: 'Well, consciousness, …
Holiday week is the best time to launch new features :) While everyone is slowing down, you can quietly ship updates, test ideas, and polish the experience without extra noise. It is a great moment to…
A few days ago I decided to do a fairly routine pre–New Year operation and upgrade the OS on the servers used for Fullyst. The support period for the current OS version ends in March, and it is better…
A little over two years ago, in November 2022, while I was trying to decide where to move and already had my own startup, I applied for Portugal’s startup program. I filled out the form as it was, wit…
The second dispute has once again been resolved in favor of Improvy OÜ! On September 8, one of the users on the 'Pro' plan in Fullyst ($33 per month) filed a complaint with their bank requesting a ref…
I have not written here for a long time, so now feels like the right moment. Today I was thinking about openness – the kind where you are not afraid to show the people around you who you really are. A…
Today, on my way to a concert that started at 22:00, I managed for a moment to catch a thought by the tail and look at it closely. It turned out to be a splinter from the past that, like a splinter in…
Today I received feedback from the people in my department: with a maximum score of 4, the median rating of me as a manager was 3.3. I think that is quite good, especially considering this is my first…