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

drink specialty coffee #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

buy Costa Rican cacao #life

wake up and drink espresso coffee in off grid tropical jungle #life

see another nice dividend payout being planned end of January on my ETF portfolio #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

arrive in San Jose #life

super early wake up this morning and I like it #life

big home coffee machine cleanup #life

inbox zero to start clean in 2026 #life

slowly wake up and cleanup apartment after NYE #life

download all the books that I own physically and that I ordered from Amazon from the last few years, get them from pirate websites and upload them to my kindle as a portable duplicate of my physical books so that I can read all my home library when nomading, maybe I should now sell all my physical books to keep minimal but a home library full of physical books is beautiful too #life