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feel tired this morning, slow things down a bit cause realize been so intense for the last 6+ months non-stop like a machine and its quite taxing on my energy now, can def feel it — creativity needs a huge recharge, been half a year I didn't touch my side projects at all and they usually help a lot 🤡 
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try macOS Tahoe in light mode and get shocked at where we got at in terms of contrast, UI elements blend together and the difference between sections is not even visible, making all apps in light mode UI barely usable and hurting my designer eyes — I think it's only good-looking and usable in Dark Mode — missing the good old time of Jobs' Apple #life
realize I don't like X anymore because my timeline is full of non-dev background vibe-coders spreading the message that it's the end of SaaS. While the true SaaS builders still build strong, I'd be interested to see how many of those pure vibe coders will be left in the game in a few years.
Hacker News is my new timeline. Cancelled X subscription cause it's became the land of greed and click bait 😛 #life
wake up in off the grid forest lodge in costa rica but the internet is shit, latency is very high. It's very visible macOS apps eg. Apple Mail dont behave well at all under high latency, with synchronous UI freezes when it's waiting for the network, making it barely usable — showing the importance of careful software design cause 100% of the world doesnt have fiber or LTE internet #life
run yearly cleanup of personal and business mailboxes: remove old email I won’t need again, check Dovecot auto-cleanup rules still work fine (they did not!), keep spam filter optimal, all that to reduce the email clutter in 2026 and spend less time managing email #life
create a short email address on my short domain name vsa.name, pointing to my main email address on valeriansaliou.name, to be used at physical counter desks when I need to give my mail so that it's dead easy and not error-prone — maybe should buy vs.me now but it's 30k USD so maybe not worth it at all #life
cancel costly Gandi Mail offers cause sending personal mail shouldn't be so expensive, I've already been on Migadu for 1 year and working great #life
see migration of personal domain name out of Gandi.net complete, my domain is now managed by the Porkbun.com registrar cause people say so many good things about them and they are so cheap #life
chat with very dumb bank AI-powered / not-so-AI-powered chatbot and have a hard time calling for a human to help cause the chatbox wants an explanation first but it does not understand me #life
contact bank cause they have been blocking all my outbound wires since Christmas w/o giving me information about it, just "failed for technical reasons" #life
try local Costa Rica defunct but now re-opened Selina location in beach town, under a different name with different owner, and it's empty, its cowork is moldy as fuck and everything is in disarray, very sad to see what's left of Digital Nomad infrastructure in 2026. I've seen 2 people renting rooms, but it seems to have 20x the capacity #life
buy vsa.name domain name on namecheap cause they cost $9/yr for initial buy + renewal (w/ no VAT), and plan to migrate away all my domains from Gandi.net cause same .name costs 40€/yr to renew, excluding FR VAT so w/ VAT that's almost 50€/yr, a 5x price difference.
Gandi.net was bought by a PE firm a few years ago and it is slowly destroying what once was one of the best registrar in the world, with huge price increases and no new products having been built for ages #life
work on blessed 5G netgear router from Costa Rica remote tropical beach town because Airbnb internet gets very spotty when neighbors open TikTok, and I need to have my own dedicated LTE connection to avoid connection sharing issue due to poor bandwidth. Feels great that my FR cell service provider has 200GB international data packages for only 50€/mth while local SIMs are crazy expensive — \cc @LeCoupa best router in the world #life