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Building the Ultimate Remote Office in Thailand

Building the Ultimate Remote Office in Thailand

As someone who was always moving to new places and had never stayed in the same place for more than a year, I always looked at those "Youtuber desk setups" with jealousy. How cool would it be to build a workplace, optimized for your needs? Last year, I have finally

SaaS Trials: How To Design Trials That Convert to Paying Customers

SaaS Trials: How To Design Trials That Convert to Paying Customers

We are in the middle of a massive shift in the way people try and buy software. No longer are executives or purchasing teams in charge of what software to buy; the end-users are now the ones evaluating and choosing what software they think is best for their job, and

The 4 Hour Workday

The 4 Hour Workday

Some of the most prominent creatives of the 20th century showed that three or four hours of focused work was enough to produce both high-quality as well as a large quantity of work.

How I Get My House Chores Done in Half the Time

How I Get My House Chores Done in Half the Time

House Chores. We all do them, probably every day and maybe even multiple times a day. It's boring, repetitive, and adds up to hundreds of hours every year. A little thoughtfulness and cleverness can save you hundreds of hours a year that you would have wasted, and yet, house chores

Partial WFH – All Downsides, No Benefits

Partial WFH – All Downsides, No Benefits

As most of the west is emerging from the grips of a pandemic, we see many changes made at the start of the pandemic being reversed. One of them is the widely adopted work-from-home policy as more and more companies ask their employees to come back to the office. Many

Learning a New Language in 6 Months

Learning a New Language in 6 Months

Last year I went from knowing how to say "hello" and "thank you" in Thai to B2 level [https://www.efset.org/cefr/b2/] proficiency. I can make small talk with Thai people, read and understand news articles, and have basic conversations about various topics. Good enough to get through

Smart End of Year Business Expenses to Pay Less Tax

Smart End of Year Business Expenses to Pay Less Tax

As we're wrapping up 2020, you might be looking into some ways you can make your tax bill a little smaller. Although many sectors were hit hard by the pandemic, many companies experienced rapid growth because of the pandemic. If you are fortunate enough to be part of the latter,

Design Featured

Everything Developers Need To Know About Figma

This article was originally published on Smashing Magazine [https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/09/figma-developers-guide/] as a guest post written by me. With permission from Smashing Magazine I'm also publishing it here. Figma is a design tool that is rapidly gaining popularity and becoming more common in companies around the

Creating a Figma Community Profile Banner [Free Template]

Last year, Figma announced [https://www.figma.com/blog/introducing-figma-community/] they were creating a community where everyone can easily share their designs with the world. Every member of the community also has a public profile where they can showcase their work. This profile has some options for customization such as

How to Create a Custom Thumbnail in Figma [Free Template]

Every file in Figma has a thumbnail that shows you a preview of the file's contents. By default Figma will display the contents of the first page in your file as the preview thumbnail but that doesn't provide a lot of information about the file's contents. Setting a custom thumbnail

How to Make Gifs 95% Smaller for Blog Posts

I recently wrote a blog post about Figma animations [https://blog.jurn.io/figma-animation-examples/] that was very heavy on GIFs, checking the network tab in dev tools revealed that the total page size was 87.6mb and took around 36 seconds to load... Yikes! Although it's possible to make GIFs

Mastering Animations in Figma by Building 7 Common UI Animations

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Mastering Animations in Figma by Building 7 Common UI Animations

Most designers will spend many hours perfecting every pixel of their static UI designs but will barely spend any time perfecting the transitions between these pages. When you design a mobile menu you design both states, the opened menu and the closed menu. But if a user clicks to open

The Best Way to Accept Payments for Remote Freelancers

The Best Way to Accept Payments for Remote Freelancers

Once you start working with international clients you'll run into many issues you will never experience when contracting for clients in the same country. Language barriers, time zone differences or different cultures which could lead to different styles of communicating or different expectations to name just a few. But the

Should You Use Your Real Name Online?

Career Development

Should You Use Your Real Name Online?

Most people, especially in tech, can benefit significantly from having a professional online presence that shows their expertise. Anyone can put "Javascript" or "Financial Modeling" on their resume. Having a blog, side project, or youtube channel about one of your skills shows employers, investors or clients much more accurately just

Let’s Make One of Those Fancy Scrolling Animations Used on Apple Product Pages

Let’s Make One of Those Fancy Scrolling Animations Used on Apple Product Pages

Note: I wrote this article as a guest author for CSS-Tricks and the article was first published on CSS-Tricks [https://css-tricks.com/lets-make-one-of-those-fancy-scrolling-animations-used-on-apple-product-pages/] . Apple is well-known for the sleek animations on their product pages. For example, as you scroll down the page products may slide into view, MacBooks fold open

Saving Money on International Payments as a Remote Freelancer

Saving Money on International Payments as a Remote Freelancer

As a remote freelancer you likely receive payments from other countries and convert these different currencies into your own currency. These international payments and currency conversions often have hidden fees and unfavorable exchange rates which can cost you hundreds or even thousands a year. Luckily for banks and payment providers,

Why I Am Reconsidering My Online Presence

Why I Am Reconsidering My Online Presence

Who inspires you? It's a question I've never given much thought but I managed to think of a couple of people when I was asked. As I thought more about why these people came to mind, something else stood out to me on a much more meta-level. I know most

Games Are the new Social Networks

Over the past decade, social media went from something that barely existed to being used across the world Facebook counts over 2.2 billion users. Instagram has more than 1 billion users and is rapidly growing. There is Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter, Pinterest and also Twitch and Youtube. Even though it's

Launching My New Personal Website

I recently redesigned my personal website since I hadn't updated it on over 3 years. A lot had changed in that time so it was about time to create a new site. Here is the process I went through

Digital Minimalism: Declutter Your Devices and Your Mind

Digital Minimalism: Declutter Your Devices and Your Mind

A lot of content about minimalism focusses on material possessions. But as we throw away items we never use and "Kon Mari" it up, there is one area in our lives that we often overlook. Our digital world. Physical clutter is usually pretty obvious whereas digital clutter isn't. It doesn't

5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Learning How to Code

5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Learning How to Code

Learning to code is hard. You will feel overwhelmed. Confused. Frustrated. All three at the same time. You'll think about quitting. More than once. As a self-taught developer that knows how difficult it can be. I believe it could be a little bit easier if I could give my younger

How to Backup Your Ubuntu VPS to Amazon S3

How to Backup Your Ubuntu VPS to Amazon S3

After moving some of my websites to my own servers [https://jurn.blog/how-to-move-your-wordpress-site-to-a-vps/], I needed to make sure I always have good back-ups. I already use the Vultr automatic backups [https://www.vultr.com/docs/vps-automatic-backups] but those backups are kept in the same data center as where your

How I Built Screely and Got 31,000 Users the First Week

Projects Featured

How I Built Screely and Got 31,000 Users the First Week

Recently, I launched a new side-project and was able to get 31,000 users in the first 7 days after launching. The website I built is called Screely. It allows you to instantly turn a screenshot into a beautiful design mockup, without the hassle of using Photoshop or Sketch templates.

How To Move Your Wordpress Site to a VPS

How To Move Your Wordpress Site to a VPS

Many beginners start their first few websites on shared hosting. A good choice because you likely don't have the technical skills to setup and maintain your own private server, configure nginx/apache, host your own mail, set up your own nameservers and many other things you will have to do

How I Cut Down on Mindless Browsing Time

How I Cut Down on Mindless Browsing Time

Many websites now employ armies of psychologists, data scientists and behaviour experts that try to improve 'engagement'. Engagement sound pretty innocent until you realize there is a human on the other end that must supply that 'engagement'. In other words, the only goal these companies have is to keep you