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mezod

936 karma · joined October 26, 2016

webdev wanting to do and learn more things

http://joanboixados.com - portfolio https://everyday.app - habit tracker https://listlogs.com - my approach merging delicious with twitter https://multikanban.com - my approach to kanban boards https://eventradr.com - producthunt for events

from Barcelona, Catalonia

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mezod··on Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?
oh thanks for asking! I have never been very goal oriented, and despite how this may sound, I am quite satisfied with what I have accomplished. That's sort of the problem, I am in a too comfortable position at the moment. So for me to pull the trigger in any direction I'll need some real motivation. Most of what I am exposed to at the moment seems irrelevant or not worth my effort. I need to keep trying things and find a way to break out of my comfort zone as cliche as it sounds ;d
mezod··on Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?
- General lack of integrity at higher spheres (and where this can lead the world to)

- The current situation where distribution matters way more than product quality

- Lack of clear personal goals

mezod··on My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix
been there, done that

unfortunately, the karabiner workaround will work for a little while, but the rest of the keys will start failing until it's impossible to remap the keys :/

mezod··on The Xkcd thing, now interactive
this is the best thing internet since the last best thing in the internet
mezod··on Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov
if Spain does that to protect LaLiga football games, god knows what they do against political rivals or movements such as Catalonia in 2017...or now?
mezod··on 25 Years of Wikipedia
Since we as a culture will be forgotten, a reminder that the catalan wikipedia was the 2nd one to have an article after the english version :)
mezod··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://joanboixados.com
mezod··on EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages
if that's the argument, let's drop all the languages and focus on english :)
mezod··on The Sagrada Família takes its final shape
I walk by it every week and I still stop every single time. I was born and live in the neighbourhood and I've seen it progress. It's really inspiring to see man can conceive such beauty and wonder. I agree with other comments mentioning we software developers can/should especially appreciate it for the humongous endeavour, work in progress and feat of engineering it means. I also like to think Gaudi and Barcelona have impacted the way I see and appreciate design, and how I lamely try to embed it into my work!
mezod··on The Sagrada Família takes its final shape
are you sure Orwell wasn't referring to the actual Cathedral of Barcelona? (not Sagrada Familia)
mezod··on Models of European metro stations
Really state of the art project and available in catalan, hell yeah! Hats off
mezod··on iPhone Air
haha nice one, but mine is already struggling with all the glass effects
mezod··on iPhone Air
looks like my iPhone SE 2nd gen will need to survive a 6th year lmao
mezod··on Our love letter to Internet Relay Chat [video]
would be nice to find it :P
mezod··on Our love letter to Internet Relay Chat [video]
yeh, but not really... just channels with idlers and bncs
mezod··on Our love letter to Internet Relay Chat [video]
IRC is the epitome of the internet. Only downhill from those times. :/
mezod··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
this is simply great! godspeed with the project!
mezod··on My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]
We are in a crisis of morals.

There has always been trashy people but since 2020 it feels like a lack of morals is rewarded more than ever.

mezod··on Are Americans Still Welcome in Europe?
That's a whole other topic. There's a relevant part of Barcelona's society who reject tourists in general (not Americans specifically) because of the impact tourism has had in the city. Note that many still haven't recovered of the impact of 2008 GFC, 2010-2012 slump, with incomes still under pre-2008, and who are now having serious trouble to even afford a roof. So even though there might be some minor hostility towards tourism, it has nothing to do with americans. It's a problem in every major european city I believe.
mezod··on Are Americans Still Welcome in Europe?
TLDR: Yes, of course.

PS: Happy to show you around if visiting Barcelona.

mezod··on Ask HN: How do you handle VAT / Sales Tax accounting as B2C SaaS?
AFAIK fees are put by banks not the Paddle/Stripe. Stripe also 'charges' $15 for any dispute, even if won.
mezod··on Ask HN: What have you recently failed at?
That was the spirit of the question, failing is good because it means we are trying :) Failure is part of the process to success (whatever success means to you)
mezod··on Barcelona buys apartment building at center of eviction protests
Never let a good crisis go to waste. If you can use this one to finish the catalan middle class, go for it!
mezod··on 20 years working on the same software product
Living legend! Lifestyle biz bootstrappers ftw.

Since I cannot ask you your actual ARR, can you answer if you believe it's feasible to reach high 7 figures/low 8 figures in ARR as a solopreneur over a long period of time? I don't mean 1 year $10M ARR AI trendy apps, but a consistent $10M ARR business year after year >20 years.

mezod··on Ask HN: Solo bootstrappers, who was your first hire? Learnings?
What are you good at?
mezod··on I still like Sublime Text
Yesterday, I got laughed at for "still" using ST. Today, HN delivers.
mezod··on Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith
for what I understand, this is it.

I am not entirely sure of what you refer to with 'scripting' though (I assume crypto related), pretty broad word in our tech world :P

mezod··on Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith
great take, do you mind to elaborate on the last point? :)
mezod··on Byzantine-Sassanian War (602-628 CE): The Last Great War of Antiquity (2023)
For anyone enjoying this type of content, I just happen to be reading The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan and damn, I never thought I could be so interested in all its cultural and religious context. So much to learn from history... but this time is different hehe ;)
mezod··on Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History
There seems to be an obvious mistake which is that Catalonia is shown as part of Spain.

/joke

great job! :D

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