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gain back grid electricity and thus charge up all batteries to be able to last the day if it falls down again 
#life
wake up and realize we lost all grid power for good in the village after the storm, I am glad I charged up all batteries to be able to keep going on and have internet cause 3G towers still on #life
charge all backup batteries to 100% because power just got cut and we are in the middle of a storm, and we got power back but maybe it'll go off again soon — that will power backup 5G router and charge phone for lights if power gets out for too long #life
reply to 3rd bank / broker this week about data request on origin of my funds, cause they all think I’m money laundering this month for some reason due to EU KYC regulation shit, send all the evidence to my bank and lose 20 minutes of time to EU bank compliance #life
cleanup personal Dropbox storage of all useless files and move some files locally on my Mac, only keep shared business stuff on Dropbox #life
take time off in nature to keep energy levels high cause too much work lately, and it’s very effective #life
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 🤡 #life
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