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Daily manifesto
For me, life is a never-ending process of trying to be better than yesterday and a lot of people agree with this. Where people start to disagree is the meaning of “being better”. Should I read every day to feel I’m better? Am I a bad person if I skip a day? What about the…
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Stupid walk
One of the most rewarding things I’ve been doing lately is walking. I don’t do it for a specific reason. I walk, for walking. I don’t want to reach a specific destination, have a pre-defined route in mind, or do it to conserve steps streak on a health app. I just walk. And when I…
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Lockdown lesson #2: Family first
When it comes to priorities in life, we all have our own, and there is no one-fit-all solution. I remember how my priorities switched a lot in the past few years. From wanting to work at Google, starting my own company, doing freelance, having a six-pack body… you know. On the other hand, there is…
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Getting paid to write
Since the start of my career, I got paid to do one thing: making software. It is so far, the only knowledge I was able to learn and sell. And I’m thankful to the Internet and anyone who helped me go this far. In addition to software making, I was into writing. I started this…
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Lockdown lesson #1: Reducing grocery waste
I’ve been working from home since 2018, so you can say I was “used to” working from home when the lockdown happened in 2020. But no, that was different. It was brutal. It sucked. And it was lonely and stressful. We all have bad memories of that period, but I have a few good ones…
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Anything you want by Derek Sivers. Extended book resume
Anything you want by Derek Sivers, is one of my all-time favorite books. It’s a short book you can read in an hour and contains 40 lessons Derek learned while building and selling cdbaby.com, a platform for independent musicians to sell their albums. The following is a summary of the 40 lessons. This is an…
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Remote.ma: from a blog to a platform
It’s been two years since I started remote.ma, but I didn’t share why I started it before. So today, I’m going to share this with you. It all started when I wanted to work remotely: The story I applied to Automattic for three reasons: I wanted to work on something with an impact. And for…
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Is it bad practice to choose your own document ID in Firestore or a NoSQL database?
What if you’re left to choose the IDs of your documents on a NoSQL database like Firestore? Will you use a random string for your IDs, or try to use a combination of your document fields? Let’s take books for example. A good candidate for a unique ID is the ISBN, it’s a book identifier…
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Acquiring my first Internet project: okjob.io
A few months ago, I acquired my first project ever: okjob.io, a remote jobs board. The following is a recap of why I acquired it instead of building it myself and how I’m planning to use it. But first… Why the heck a job board? It’s been a while since I wanted to build a…
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Show Your Work by Austin Kleon. Extended book resume
A new way of operating. This is one of the books every creator should read. It is full of information for those trying to build an online audience. In this new world where information is abundant, it’s hard to be spotted. How to get people to notice your work? How can you get your stuff…