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Posts tagged "travel" — 6 posts

China 2025 changed my life

Jan 19, 2026 • 30min read

A chronological brain dump, with real tips and real experience How difficult to start talking about my trip to China. There is too much to tell. This is a chronological account of my trip in Septemb...

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You have to go to Japan

Aug 1, 2025 • 9min read

Una de las buenas cosas de estar en europa es estar cerca de muchos destinos. Uno idealiza que se muda, y va estar buscando gangas para viajar, pasajes a 50 euros y todo eso. Pero en mi caso no termin...

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How to have your server at home - Homemade self hosting

May 4, 2025 • 4min read

Lately they have been writing to me a lot asking how I set up my “home datacenter”: what I use, how I keep it online and how I deal with the ISP. So I sat down to organize the entire idea, from end to...

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The combo of emigrating as a dev

Jan 24, 2025 • 7min read

(cover photo: Having coffee in Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco) I made it a goal to write a little every day, at least 500 words. I think that writing and creating non-GPT content (what is the name ...

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Open bank account in the USA

May 20, 2023 • 10min read

As I mentioned in the post on how to start collecting in USD, the next step after using Payoneer is to open a bank account in the United States. This is based on my opinion, and as I already establish...

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How to start charging in USD

May 19, 2023 • 3min read

The start: Finding the contractor job You already found that contracting job, you finally made the leap into the void, which gives so much uncertainty, but ultimately you are ready to get paid in USD....

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