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You sit down at a cafe, connect to the free WiFi, and start working. Twenty minutes later, the connection drops — there’s a 30-minute session limit. Now you have to wait, reconnect, or move on.
This is common at airports, hotels, cafes, and public spaces that offer time-limited free WiFi. Here’s how to get around it.
A while back I wrote a guide to backing up one’s important digital assets. In that post, I mentioned that I decided to go for Synology instead of the Drobo, specifically the Synology DiskStation DS916+.
Apart from the negative comments on the Drobo, I had also begun to understand the potential of NAS technology in a deeper way. I realized that I would want to do more things with my NAS box than the Drobo would allow. The Drobo is not really powerful enough or doesn’t have a good enough operating system for doing things like media encoding or handling a home surveillance system.
Some readers might also be familiar with the QNAP brand. They are also highly recommended, but most prosumer users tended to prefer Synology. I’ve also read comments saying that the Synology OS is better and more user-friendly. This might be more important to you depending on what you want to do with your NAS. For example Synology have very good functionality for creating a video surveillance system.
Synology also seems to release more frequent updates to their NAS products. Synology are generally regarded as the most popular NAS choice for Mac users.
I love working from coffee shops or just stopping by for a chat with my wife whenever we need a break from work. Barcelona has developed an incredible specialty coffee scene over the past decade, and these are the spots I keep coming back to.
My main criteria for this list is the quality of the coffee itself. Some of these aren’t ideal for working, but they all serve excellent coffee.
Looking for beans to brew at home? I’ve written a detailed guide to the best coffee roasters in Barcelona, covering where to buy exceptional beans and the stories behind the people roasting them.
If you know any other great coffee places I should try, please leave a comment.
I have the good fortune of currently living in the amazing city of Barcelona, with it’s outdoor life culture and tons of restaurants and cafes.
Armed with my trusty Brompton and uber-light Macbook, I frequently head out to work from the cafes that dot this city. In this post, I will be listing my favorite cafes and libraries.
If you’re an entrepreneur or digital nomad and you also live in Barcelona, make sure to join the Barcelona Digital Nomads and Entrepreneurs group, where you’ll find lots more advice on making the most of the city.
The following list will be periodically updated as I try out more places, but please do leave a comment if you know of any particular place that is pleasant to work from and has good Wi-Fi.
Here’s a Google Sheet by my friend Theo that lists several places that he tried out, it’s a good reference point too.
Looking forward to your suggestions!
I recently discovered that I’m color blind to a certain degree. There are several degrees of color blindness, and this congenital disease affects mostly males (up to 7% of the total male population).
The test you need to take at your eye clinic in order to determine whether you are color blind or not is called an Ishihara Test. You will be shown a number of slides and you will need to determine what number is shown on each slide.
If you want a free quick test to determine whether you are color blind or not, you can use the Enchroma color blindness test.
My test results put me in the mild deutan category. Here’s the description of moderate deutan color blindness:
Deutans are people with deuteranomaly, a type of red-green color blindness in which the green cone doesn’t detect enough green but is too sensitive to yellows, oranges, and reds.
As a result, greens, yellows, oranges, reds, and browns may appear similar, especially in low light. It can also be difficult to tell the difference between blues and purples, or pinks and grays
If color blindness causes you problems on a daily basis, or if you just want to experience what the world looks like to the vast majority of people, Enchrome makes special sunglasses that aim to correct color blindness. There are several videos on YouTube capturing the emotions of color blind people trying them out for the first time; they’re quite interesting.
Personally, my color blindness hasn’t significantly affected my daily life. In fact, I didn’t even know about the condition until I visited a museum that had some basic information about color blindness on display, and I realised that I couldn’t see the numbers shown, meaning that I had some degree of color blindness.
I am curious, however, to try out the Enchroma glasses, especially in a sports context. I’d love to see whether correcting my color blindness would help me in my padel play. It would also be interesting to know whether specific padel court surfaces are better and provide more contrast with the ball for a color blind person.
Anyone else tested positive for color blindness? Has it affected you in your daily life? Let me know in the comments section below!
