Author: Piotrek Bodera
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SimpleLogin: open-source email masking to increase your cybersecurity
Looking for a way to boost your online security and keep your email safe from data breaches? SimpleLogin offers an open-source solution to help you protect your privacy by generating email aliases. Instead of exposing your primary email address, SimpleLogin allows you to create unique email addresses for every site or app you use, significantly…
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Dirk Delisse – Online Therapist for Ambitious Singles and Couples seeking Healthy Relationships
Fostering healthy relationships is Dirk Delisse’s specialty. As an online therapist, he supports ambitious people who do have a partner, or have issues finding one. In this episode, Dirk addresses situationships, common in the digital nomad community, and the importance of spending quality time with aging parents. Furthermore, his entrepreneurial journey as an online therapist…
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Marc Wieland – Swiss location-independent web developer in his twenties roaming the globe
Passion for traveling, chatting with locals, and landscape photography is what inspires Marc to be nomadic. Thanks to his determination, he found a Swiss web agency, that allows him to work four days a week and from anywhere. Listen to Marc’s full story about how he started, how he uses Tinder to find local friends,…
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Why I switched from Gmail to Proton Mail to iCloud Mail?
I value privacy and was delighted to discover Proton Mail. Their solution sounded like a wonderful counterpoint to the dominance of Gmail and other ad-driven services. Once I read books about surveillance capitalism, I knew that I wanted to protect my data and experience what it means to use the end-to-end encrypted, open-source email provider…
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Nerd on Tour YouTube channel with all the Podcast Episodes
Back in 2012, the world was swept up by the Gangnam Style song. The two biggest winners were Psy, the Korean singer who started K-Pop mania, and YouTube, the streaming platform. Due to this social phenomenon, the latter needed to rapidly upgrade its tech infrastructure, as Gangnam Style was their first video to break the…
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Revolut eSIM: white-label telco service aimed at digital nomads
The mobile-first bank app addresses the roaming Internet access needs of location independent professionals. While legacy banks warn from using their services abroad, Revolut deeply understands their digital nomad customers’ needs. eSIM is a vital offering that can improve Revolut’s overall business, while easing access to mobile data around the globe.
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Beeper the universal chat app using Matrix protocol
Recently, I published my impressions about the Texts app and how well it addresses the chat apps market fragmentation. Which is especially crucial for digital nomads and our international outreach. Automattic, who acquired Texts in October 2023, just six months later bought another chat aggregator called Beeper. There’s more to that story.
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Texts.com: powerful inbox for all major messaging apps
Texting is my defualt method of communication. Same for the hundreds of millions of active users of WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessesage, and so on. It’s a real shame that in early 2000s many messenging apps were interoperable thanks to the XMPP (Jabber) protocol, and today users are kept in separate silos. Texts.com is the most practical…
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Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu: solid hard sci-fi with Chinese origin
There are very few sci-fi books that deliver an earth-shattering message. Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu is one of them. After hearing about it numerous times in Tim Ferris Show and other places, I finally read it in 2022. Its sci-fi concepts wrapped in an intriguing story captivated me so much that I finished the…
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One year of using AI tool in tech support
I’m Happiness Engineer at Octolize, where I provide tech and customer support for our Woo plugins. It’s a niche within a niche: shipping solutions for online stores. The inquires are about possible shipping scenarios, issues with carriers’ APIs, plugin configurations, and everything in between. About a year ago, our team decided to implement an AI…
