Co-founder of
@ScreenCloud
, hacking the open web OS of the future online and Silver Moon with ❤️ offline. Life is what you make it. Photo heavy personal feed.
Figured I will share this feel good story to counter all the war. Meet P’Ann (on the left) who has been our Mae Baan (housekeeper) since 2004 and now and part of the family. She is an amazing woman and today we get to surprise her on her birthday. (thread)
Bat 🦇 came for our bananas 🍌 in kitchen. Wouldn’t leave, tried to shoo it away, just flew back. Going round in circles looking for the bananas. So we gave it some and now it’s having dinner. The end.
Blocking Pita could potentially backfire big time. The path of least change is actually to let him take power. Blocking will result in backlash which will lead to greater desire for serious changes.
Meet Kung Gung, the guy who built our house in Bangkok 14 years ago and still gives a fuck. Over a decade later one call and he will turn up with a crew and help get things ship shape for sale. If you need a quality contractor who cares drop me a DM and I’ll send you his contact
We had a Chinese tourist in the garden. When the misses went to ask her what she was doing she broke down in tears.
Turns out she had lost her phone, was traveling solo, and had not spoken to anyone since arriving in Thailand. Was totally lost without her phone (translate,
Anyone else in Thailand getting tons of automated spam calls DHL etc? Sometimes Thai number often foreign. I’m on True network. Been happening for a month or so now.
Wife accidentally broke the top of the toilet so one of the workers used an off-cut bit of Acadia wood to fashion a replacement. Looks better than original toilet now
Zebra crossings. In most countries when a pedestrian is waiting to cross cars notice and stop by themselves. In Thailand cars often speed up and the pedestrian has to risk their life. I can only conclude it’s an education problem, thai drivers just don’t know. #หมอกระต่าย
Design of the way Thai ATMs work is so dumb. “Don’t forget to take your card” yeah maybe it could give out card before cash so nobody ever forgets like every other country 🤷
While what is happening in Ukraine is terrible and deserves attention let us not ignore the war being waged against the Burmese people by their own military. Where is the international coverage of
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
“An alleged contract killer, ranked 186 on the Royal Thai Police blacklist of gunmen for hire, has been arrested at a rubber plantation in Nakhon Si Thammarat province.” - I have so many questions. How does the ranking work is it based on claimed kills, customer reviews, price?
Samui is back in view, air has improved significantly 😎
This is my new working area, sit/stand desk, open door, xiaomi fan. Pretty minimal.
Can work either side of the desk, looking out to view or facing two walls on which there will soon be some sweet ScreenCloud displays.
Yesterday was a big day.
After 10 years of building
@screencloud
and a 20-year journey leading our tech team, I made the decision to step down from my role as CTO to focus on what comes next.
It's been a hell of a ride, and I'm proud of everything we have built as a team. I
Seems my tweet from last night has gone viral on actual Thai Twitter. Heartening to see regular Thai folk do recognize what these guys and gals do for the country. They deserve respect
(Backstory) P’Ann lost her husband in 2004, then in 2006 was kicked out by her landlord. The house we rented had a shoebox maids room which wasn’t used so we offered and she moved in. When we built a house in BKK in 2010 we added a decent sized room for her. We became family :)
Day 5 - so far EV has been amazing. Laughs at even the steepest hills without breaking a sweat. No gear changes or turbo needed. Feels like it’s glued to road. Not used more than 20% battery in a day. Recharges to full over night using regular 10a socket.
✈️ Bangkok to Samui then getting the 🚤 to Koh Phangan 🏝 where they will have a little family holiday. This is the first time they have flown, so it’s all quite exciting :) (tbc)
This old wood train bench at the office doesn’t get a lot of use but still brings me joy just looking at it. The big tree is similar, not much practical use but makes me smile. I think as humans we are wired to love nature.
Sunday ❤️ Goal for the day is to go from empty room to space fit for family dinner and movie night tonight. Need to finish this table, give room last clean, connect lan/wifi/IoT, mount tv, figure out sofa situation, maybe make a coffee table, agree on movie.
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@centralwOrld
feedback: if you care about your customers… for the love of god add bum guns in your toilets. This isn’t Europe, we are civilized. Thanks!
Last month the ScreenCloud team in Bangkok achieved our goal of raising over ฿100k in donations for
@BKK_community
. This was then matched by a ฿100k donation from ScreenCloud on top :)
That moment when you first take a shit outside of Thailand and you reach for the bum spray and it’s not there. Savages and barbarians. How can this be normal
Welcoming two puppies Mia & Isla into the family. Hand over from foster humans went smoothly :) Awesome people and organization “adopt a furry friend koh phangan fb group” hooked us up.
Not your typical office environment in the center of Bangkok. To think we could have ended up paying more for a concrete box in some boring office tower. Currently looking for smart web devs who would like to help us build the future of smart multi screen interfaces using
#AI
Shala mostly done. Deck needs finishing and in the center there will be a solid wood hexagon hiding electric sockets below floor. This took guys ~1 week to build
Inflation in Thailand is looking ugly. Add to this the baht weakening against the dollar and the government burning money trying to keep diesel fuel price low and high consumer debt and its only going to get worse.
Last month we started building her a small house (replacing a couple of dilapidated huts). I had hoped to have it finished by her birthday but the weather has been crappy slowing construction. It will hopefully be finished in a few weeks. (I’ll post more photo when it’s done)
I love this so much. It’s Thailand in a nutshell. Design a revolving gate that should is mostly to keep people only going one way but make it square rather than round so you can still go the other way. More of a suggestion than a fixed rule.
My son’s gf’s dad’s crocodile has escaped.
Her dad isn’t around anymore but the crocodile certainly is.
Island problem, island solution.
Call the village head and form a task force before chompy gets too hungry.
Can’t make this stuff up.
Yee spotted a bird of prey that seemed to be downing in the sea unable to take flight. Took the kayak out to get it and the poor bird is now recuperating in my son’s house with the window open. Hopefully it survives, seems totally exhausted.