Digital Nomads & Frequent Travellers (Tips/Advice/Chat)

[AstonJ]

@bunnylushington

I ended up in Phuket because I know people there but am really happy with the choice. It is a tourist mecca but along with that comes a ton of things to do and people who can either speak English or gently help me with my nascent Thai. (Ironically north Phuket where I’m at is a whole lot less touristy than New Orleans.) The outlying provinces are equally beautiful and fortunately very easy to get to.

I’ve heard the outskirts are really nice and a nice balance for many, especially those who still want to go into the city every now and again.

Were you affected by the recent earthquake at all? Hope you’re ok!

@tj0

Been traveling about 40%-50% of the year for the past 20 years

Ah nice! You and @sbuttgereit could start a podcast about it

@tj0

Regarding security, reading this thread is making me paranoid.

Sorry!

@tj0

Travel tips
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Awesome, thank you so much for sharing! It’s really handy having it all in one post!!

@tj0

Probably should make a blog post or something, I’m sure there’s tons of stuff I’m forgetting.

You really should! I am sure lots of people would be interested in hearing all about your adventures and any tips you’ve picked up along the way. You could probably get away with using something like Hugo on a free hosting tier, though I think there are some inexpensive cloud hosts that include a domain name as part of the costs should you want to use something like Wordpress (which is actually pretty good now).

Great thing about a blog is you can use it to post guides you use frequently yourself or for when not at your computer (or in the process of changing/upgrading computers) - two such posts I use fairly frequently are:

• Clean macOS install – the easy way – (via @AstonJ)
• How to set-up a Ruby and Elixir dev environment on macOS – (via @AstonJ)

@nwjlyons

re: VPNs. I can recommend setting up your own private VPN server with Outline (created by Google I believe). You create an account with some VPS provider. eg. Digital Ocean. Download Outline Manager. Link to your VPS account. Then it is essentially a one click process where it will create a VPS and install VPN software on it for you.

Nice! Thanks for sharing - I hadn’t heard of Outline.

@ppetrov

In my case i do work with a lot of travel (close to home but still in the are of 300 km around my current city). I don’t like to have my development kit installed on my local machine and since not required i keep it as clean as possible. However i do have a clone with all production requirements on a remote vps. This way i keep the same OS and settings the same as the production host. Remotely connecting to it via VPN so that is the only exposure on my machine (should anyone actually is able to take over it). So i keep it in the cloud. This way i can access it from anywhere and it will be the same environment as stage and production. And since i like vscode the only bit is that i have to eventually install it on the dev machine so i can use a tablet if i have to code but haven’t got to that requirement so far.

Sounds a bit like what @jdumont was doing with his iPad - using a thin client with a remote environment?

Web/software development with an iPad

Guide Using an iPad for web development can be easily split into two main parts: Setting up the iPad as a thin client Working in a remote environment iPad as a thin client Due to Apple’s lockdown of iOS and the lack of access to the native file system, you’re pretty much going to have to do the bulk of your development on a remote computer. Even with good, solid apps for working locally — and I don’t feel these are quite there —the filesystem is the common language that makes web developme…