bieh
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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
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 over the years. Drones, VR, OS…
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 fun little hack, for a very niche…
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 over the years. Drones, VR, OS…
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 evidence that they're planning to do…
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 "helping give back", rather than "you're…
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 been thinking of building something to…
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 over the years. Drones, VR, OS…
SEEKING WORK | Full stack + Remote Location: Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹 (originally from New Zealand!) Skills/Tech: Pretty much everything except "super pretty UI". I've built everything from mobile fitness tracking to…
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 :)
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 broken. Possibly the web service you mean is…
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.
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 of the site is still a placeholder. Oh,…
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 months back in civilization per year is…
Yeah, I've had more people say that than have actually applied for the job :)
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've only got about 2-3mbit (though at…
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, bonus points if you can start ASAP!…
Hey, I'm also trying to hire coders to work on a remote tropical island [1], although for a little longer term than you. Where is this located? I can recommend some places in the Seychelles if you haven't yet decided on…
My old blog post about this: http://bieh.net/wordpress/2010/11/08/xkcd-576/
Good questions! 1) 20mb cap at the moment - typically ebooks are small though, <1mb. If I start running out of space on the machine I'll re-evaluate that - for reference, there's about 11gb used at the moment, with…
At some point soon I'm adding a 'follow other users public lists' feature, hence the nickname. And yeah, you have to login just after you register, perhaps I should change that. You only have to do it once, though.
You can use OPDS (http://opds-spec.org/) to sync with iOS - Stanza works pretty well, although not so well on iOS5. Shubook works okay to read with on iOS5, though it's not the best. There's a few other pay apps too…
Aw, what's wrong with the logo? It was the only bit of the design I did myself :) (the rest is based off Transdmin - https://github.com/zapnap/transdmin)
I launched this a week or so ago, it's neatly solved my annoyance at having to juggle folders full of reading material between phone/tablet/laptop. AddictiveTips did a nice writeup last night which explains how it works…
It's pretty rough, I hacked it together over dinner last night, then haphazardly bolted on a few more things this morning. I'm amazed it works as well as it does. Shoot me an email if you want the code regardless though…
Hmm, they're supposed to be down the bottom of the page in the footer. Perhaps it doesn't render correctly in older Firefox, I'll have a look at it.