Latest Notes
Indie hacking, startups, resilient systems - and staying sane while building a small company
The full spectrum of my emotions after reading that complaint: 🚬 😔 🏥 🤷♀️
Today is a really exciting day for me, because I am about to have a conversation with a WebSummit representative. It is the very same WebSummit I attended last year as a visitor, but this time they ar…
Today I saw yet another news item in Pavel Durov’s channel. The kind of news that just makes you feel sick. So here we are: Telegram is now promoting an extremely conservative journalist, the very one…
People keep asking me to finally write a WebSummit summary (who’s asking, I only have 11 followers!). Time to do it. I’ve seen a lot of feedback about WebSummit, both the one I attended and previous e…
Today there will be fewer photos and more text. Recently I listened to a talk by Simon Wistow from Fastly. His words really struck me and gave me even more hope: every major crisis has led to even gre…
This stand showcases why Estonia has become such an attractive place for investors: a digitally native business environment, straightforward e-residency, and a pro-startup culture supported by smart r…
Right now, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is talking about how most of the internet is built on open source, volunteering and other free stuff. That is why using Wikipedia data to train LLMs like GPT i…
Since the Fullyst blog is still hosted on Medium, I recently received their newsletter with a short summary of a new post from their own blog: https://blog.medium.com/default-no-to-ai-training-on-your…
It’s time to have some fun (and more).
I recently decided to hire a junior-level backend developer, junior-level frontend developer, and junior-level marketing specialist for just $20 per month, and I opted for GPT-4. After using it for a …
It is time to talk about the future of many professions, especially software engineers and developers. I believe that soon junior and then middle level specialists will become unnecessary. Why? Simply…
My Estonian company's first annual report is coming up soon, and I'm fully prepared for it. Despite launching my project four months ago and updating a small project just last week, preparing the repo…
I am planning a relocation to a new permanent or semi permanent country instead of a digital nomad lifestyle. One thing I have realised: tax laws are incredibly outdated and basically useless even in …
Long time without any content here, but now it is time to write something. In June I moved to Indonesia, lived in Bali, visited Jakarta, and now, since October, I have settled in Bangkok, a noisy, hug…
There’s an interesting and worrying trend in Georgia right now. A lot of Russian IT specialists have relocated here. Roughly half left for political reasons, and the other half because of restrictions…