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All Traveling and Working Remotely Bootstrapping a Business Regulation and Compliance ETF Investing Rails and Ruby Agentic Coding Health and Biohacking Germany's Exit Tax Dokku and DevOps Founding and Running a Company in Germany Offshore Companies and Banking

An Efficient German Company Setup (GmbH)

Reduce German Exit Tax Through Low Company Valuation (vereinfachtes Ertragswertverfahren)

What is the German exit tax?

Patterns of Agentic Coding with Rails

Your SaaS Will Have an API, Whether You Build It Or Not

Notes on Agentic Coding (+ Rails)

The Ricoh Printing Experience

The Kafkaesque German Bureaucracy

Expat Bank Accounts For Digital Nomads

Founding a Company in Germany in 2026 Apparently Takes Three Months

Transparency, with a Paywall: The German Transparency Register

The Rise of Exit Taxes

Opening a Thai Bank Account on Thailand's DTV Visa

Rails 8: Setting up Litestream for SQLite on Hetzner S3 (on Dokku)

4 SQLite Databases: Is Rails 8 Taking SQLite Too Far?

Using SQLite On Dokku (With Rails 8)

What Amsterdam's Prostitution Taught Me About B2B SaaS Sales

Choosing a Business Bank Account For Your German GmbH

No More VAT IDs: Did Estonia Quietly Kill Its e-Residency For Digital Nomads? (August 2025)

Exit Tax: Leave Germany Before Your Business Gets Big

Equal Salaries For Remote Workers: What Is Equal, Anyway?

Using pgvector in dokku (migrating from vanilla Postgres)

Digital Dinosaurs Supervising Medtech: Getting Audited By The Berlin Authorities

An Optimized Setup For Bloodletting

Dokku: Set Up Postgres Backups To Hetzner S3

Build a Consulting Business Before You Build a Product Business

Bangkok Condo Reviews

No Co-Founder Needed: Being a Solo Founder

Holding-GmbH vs. Normal GmbH in Germany: Worth The Hassle?

Magic Benefits of ETF Investing You Didn't Know Of

Goodbye, DiGAs: The DiGA Bubble Is Bursting

Notes and Hacks on Germany's Exit Tax

Running a Profitable SaaS Company Is Brutal, Brutal Pain

Rails: How To Migrate S3 Providers Via ActiveStorage Mirroring

How To Find An Alternative Career As a Doctor

Using Hetzner S3 Object Storage in Rails

Acarbose: Life-Changing Farts You Will Remember

All My Hacks For Founding a Company In Germany (And Running It)

Vitamin B12: You Should Probably Be Injecting Hydroxocobalamin

The EU AI Act Is Here. We're Screwed

Is GDPR Saving 2,920 Lives Per Year?

Tokyo: Japanese Toilets And Express Trains

Estonia's e-Residency Is Awesome And Sucks, Too

How To Found a Company In Germany: 16 "Easy" Steps And Lots Of Pain

Don't Make These 9 Mistakes When Building Your Startup

How I Built a Bootstrapped Consulting Company: From Zero To 60k€ Revenue

Don't Take VC Funding - It Will Destroy Your Company

Six Years of Back Pain, Episode 1: Mouse Shoulder

From Two to Three

From Clojure to Ruby

From One to Two

Why I'm Publishing My Consulting Templates For Free (and Launching My Startup)

Regulation Is Killing Medical Software Innovation

Pioneers vs. Process People

Become a Full-Stack Person

The (Un-)Natural Progression of Machine Learning

I Wanted a CO2 Sensor, I Got a Fart Detector

The Rush of Shipping

Don't Be an Engineer, Be a Producer

Businesspeople Are Useless

Abstracting Light Switches: How to Solve Real Problems

We need more Hackers

Making My Own Glasses

Thread-safe queues in Clojure

The Correlation Project

Two Years of Sleep Optimization

Asking Stupid Questions

Writing a HTTP API Client in Elixir for the Noun Project

Dockerizing Django, uWSGI and Postgres the serious way

Open-Sourcing breast_segment

Framework Overflow

Bangkok Travel Advice for Non-Bozos

Parse.com Cloud Code Hell