bieh

SEEKING WORK | Lisbon, Portugal or Remote (originally from New Zealand!) | Full stack -- and I mean full stack, from BIOS-dev to biz-dev.

I've done a bunch of interesting stuff over the years. Drones, VR, OS development, low level network mobile/server stuff, reverse engineering, large-scale VPN DPI, streaming video, speech-to-text, automatic cloud optimisation, deep tech, etc. If you've got some interesting networking or low-level-system stuff, that'd be fun. But I'm open to all discussions :)

Ping me and we'll talk! https://paulh.consulting or paul@bieh.net

For me, I had to keep copying a text file of terminal output off a machine I didn’t have keys or SSH agent forwarding on, but I did have a scp binary.

I made https://scpbin.com — a fun little hack, for a very niche usecase :)

SEEKING WORK | Lisbon, Portugal or Remote (originally from New Zealand!) | Full stack -- and I mean full stack, from BIOS-dev to biz-dev.

I've done a bunch of interesting stuff over the years. Drones, VR, OS development, low level network mobile/server stuff, reverse engineering, large-scale VPN DPI, streaming video, speech-to-text, automatic cloud optimisation, deep tech, etc. If you've got some interesting networking or low-level-system stuff, that'd be fun. But I'm open to all discussions :)

Ping me and we'll talk! https://paulh.consulting or paul@bieh.net

Yeah, for sure. But I can't build houses (to the scale required), I can only build tech :)

Obviously this would 100% be a problem better solved by government. But I don't see any evidence that they're planning to do that, so ...

Hey, thanks for the reply! Yeah, absolutely -- with hindsight, the phrasing that I used was far too negative.

I suspect I need to go with something very carefully phrased around "helping give back", rather than "you're a terrible person, make recompense for your crimes!", haha.

I moved to Lisbon in 2020, and I've become increasingly aware of the impact that high-income remote-worker immigrants like me are having on the city, and other similar places. I've been thinking of building something to try and help:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PortugalExpats/comments/vy0i5r/crit...

It's proved... controversial! I'd be interested to get HNs take.

SEEKING WORK | Lisbon, Portugal or Remote (originally from New Zealand!) | Full stack -- and I mean full stack, from BIOS-dev to biz-dev :)

I've done a bunch of interesting stuff over the years. Drones, VR, OS development, low level network mobile/server stuff, reverse engineering, large-scale VPN DPI, streaming video, speech-to-text, automatic cloud optimisation, deep tech, etc. If you've got some interesting networking or low-level-system stuff, that'd be fun. But I'm open to all discussions :)

Ping me and we'll talk!

https://paulh.consulting or paul@bieh.net

SEEKING WORK | Full stack + Remote

Location: Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹 (originally from New Zealand!)

Skills/Tech: Pretty much everything except "super pretty UI". I've built everything from mobile fitness tracking to speech recognition desktop software, to full TCP/IP stacks (that last one for fun, not production...). If you've got some interesting networking or low-level-system stuff, that'd be fun. But I'm open to all discussions :)

https://paulh.consulting or email me direct, paul@bieh.net

+1 :)

Yeah, I phased out the blog a year or so back, hence why it's not on http://bieh.net any more. I wish I'd worked a bit harder not to break the links now :)

I'm the guy who built the original XKCD-inspired bot -- the original blog post is still around at http://bieh.net/wordpress/2010/11/08/xkcd-576/, though the images have since broken.

Possibly the web service you mean is http://www.eachdayisagift.com/ ?

http://www.flickr.com/groups/landscapes_and_seashores_of_the... gives a half-decent idea of what it looks like. But yeah, it's much more impressive in person.

Yeah, more information is coming. It'll be ready for the HN Who's Hiring thread in a few days -- I just saw this story pop up so I figured I'd link it in here too even though most of the site is still a placeholder.

Oh, and we're open to negotiation on timeframes -- though we wouldn't be looking to accept less than six months, ideally at least 12.

Hey, thanks! I just finished up six months in Thailand as a freelance dev myself, though in Bangkok mostly rather than an island. Seychelles is a nice change of pace :)

A few months back in civilization per year is probably a good idea. I'll make a note to try and do it -- probably the US is a little far, but Asia/EU is probably doable.

Yeah, I've had more people say that than have actually applied for the job :)

The internet is unbearably slow for the next two weeks until the fiber to the mainland[1] comes online -- right now there's a 600ms satellite link, which is no fun. At the moment I've only got about 2-3mbit (though at least there's no data cap), but I'm hoping that'll improve drastically soon.

Visas are no problem. There's visa-free entry for any nationality, and we'll sort out new hires work permits once they get here.

And yeah, I really need to finish adding content to the website. Up until yesterday it was just a static splash page :)

[1] http://www.nation.sc/index.php?art=27434

If anyone doesn't want to wait for this to get started to come hack on a tropical island, we're[1] hiring iOS/Android developers to come work on Mahe, Seychelles [2]. Flights on us, bonus points if you can start ASAP!

[1] http://blackgranitestudios.com/2012/07/we-are-hiring/ (though that website is still being set up)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah%C3%A9,_Seychelles

Hey, I'm also trying to hire coders to work on a remote tropical island [1], although for a little longer term than you. Where is this located? I can recommend some places in the Seychelles if you haven't yet decided on a spot :)

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/jobbit/comments/x2x1w/hiring_mobile_...

My old blog post about this: http://bieh.net/wordpress/2010/11/08/xkcd-576/

Good questions!

1) 20mb cap at the moment - typically ebooks are small though, <1mb. If I start running out of space on the machine I'll re-evaluate that - for reference, there's about 11gb used at the moment, with around 20k books total uploaded. Plenty of capacity left.

2) See 1.

3) Free while it's in beta. I only launched a week ago, so there's still a bunch of things that need to be done. And I'm not making money off it, but the total investment is a small AWS instance and a domain name, so I won't go hungry as a result of it quite yet :)

4) No. They're automatically sorted into public/private based on copyright status at the moment. Fairly high up on my TODO list is a "make this private" button for things that you upload.

5. It uses Calibre (well, ebook-convert, part of the Calibre suite) behind the scenes. So pretty much any document type should be able to be used. In practice because I use epub internally, you'll get the best results with that - and you won't have to wait for the conversion process when you upload.

At some point soon I'm adding a 'follow other users public lists' feature, hence the nickname.

And yeah, you have to login just after you register, perhaps I should change that. You only have to do it once, though.

You can use OPDS (http://opds-spec.org/) to sync with iOS - Stanza works pretty well, although not so well on iOS5. Shubook works okay to read with on iOS5, though it's not the best.

There's a few other pay apps too that should work (generally under some 'network library') function, though I haven't tested them.

Aw, what's wrong with the logo? It was the only bit of the design I did myself :)

(the rest is based off Transdmin - https://github.com/zapnap/transdmin)

I launched this a week or so ago, it's neatly solved my annoyance at having to juggle folders full of reading material between phone/tablet/laptop.

AddictiveTips did a nice writeup last night which explains how it works - http://www.addictivetips.com/internet-tips/codexcloud-lets-y...

It's pretty rough, I hacked it together over dinner last night, then haphazardly bolted on a few more things this morning. I'm amazed it works as well as it does.

Shoot me an email if you want the code regardless though - paul [at] bieh.net :)

Hmm, they're supposed to be down the bottom of the page in the footer. Perhaps it doesn't render correctly in older Firefox, I'll have a look at it.

I did it, monocles included :) - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2897549

It was somewhat overloaded a few minutes ago, but I just upgraded the instance and it's a lot more responsive now. Hopefully that holds it.

Uh, I mean http://mustachify.me/

I was quite inspired by Mustachio.me (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2878140), and decided to take it one step further :)

There's a Greasemonkey script linked off the site that replaces images in webpages automatically, much like their Chrome extension.