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bieh

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About bieh

Freelance software developer, originally from NZ, ex-digital-nomad now based in Lisbon, PT (via Singapore, Bangkok, Nairobi, Seychelles, etc).

web: http://paulh.consulting email: paul@bieh.net

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    SEEKING WORK | Lisbon, Portugal or Remote (originally from New Zealand!) | Full stack -- and I mean full stack, from BIOS-dev to biz-dev. I've done a bunch of interesting stuff ove…

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    For me, I had to keep copying a text file of terminal output off a machine I didn’t have keys or SSH agent forwarding on, but I did have a scp binary. I made https://scpbin.com — a…

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    SEEKING WORK | Lisbon, Portugal or Remote (originally from New Zealand!) | Full stack -- and I mean full stack, from BIOS-dev to biz-dev. I've done a bunch of interesting stuff ove…

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    Yeah, for sure. But I can't build houses (to the scale required), I can only build tech :) Obviously this would 100% be a problem better solved by government. But I don't see any e…

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    Hey, thanks for the reply! Yeah, absolutely -- with hindsight, the phrasing that I used was far too negative. I suspect I need to go with something very carefully phrased around "h…

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    I moved to Lisbon in 2020, and I've become increasingly aware of the impact that high-income remote-worker immigrants like me are having on the city, and other similar places. I've…

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    SEEKING WORK | Lisbon, Portugal or Remote (originally from New Zealand!) | Full stack -- and I mean full stack, from BIOS-dev to biz-dev :) I've done a bunch of interesting stuff o…

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    Comment #26662945

    SEEKING WORK | Full stack + Remote Location: Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹 (originally from New Zealand!) Skills/Tech: Pretty much everything except "super pretty UI". I've built everythin…

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    Comment #4906996

    Yeah, I phased out the blog a year or so back, hence why it's not on http://bieh.net any more. I wish I'd worked a bit harder not to break the links now :)

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    I'm the guy who built the original XKCD-inspired bot -- the original blog post is still around at http://bieh.net/wordpress/2010/11/08/xkcd-576/ , though the images have since brok…

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    http://www.flickr.com/groups/landscapes_and_seashores_of_the... gives a half-decent idea of what it looks like. But yeah, it's much more impressive in person.

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    Yeah, more information is coming. It'll be ready for the HN Who's Hiring thread in a few days -- I just saw this story pop up so I figured I'd link it in here too even though most …

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    Hey, thanks! I just finished up six months in Thailand as a freelance dev myself, though in Bangkok mostly rather than an island. Seychelles is a nice change of pace :) A few month…

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    Yeah, I've had more people say that than have actually applied for the job :)

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    The internet is unbearably slow for the next two weeks until the fiber to the mainland[1] comes online -- right now there's a 600ms satellite link, which is no fun. At the moment I…

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    If anyone doesn't want to wait for this to get started to come hack on a tropical island, we're[1] hiring iOS/Android developers to come work on Mahe, Seychelles [2]. Flights on us…