2023 Year Review
What a year, I spent most of my time on a sail boat, cruising around the Caribbean etc, and working part-time for Wikimedia on Wikibase. WBStack became Wikibase.Cloud and the team now working behind it has continued to iterate on the platform, which finally made its way out of its early alpha state. That also…
Blogging without the Internet
I planned on blogging being one of my relaxing hobbies while sailing around the Atlantic Ocean ⛵, and though we managed to keep a sailing blog up to date I found it extremely hard to write tech-related blogs while crossing oceans without a speedy or any internet connection. The setting (of writing these blog posts)…
Sailing: Months 2 & 3
It’s been a while since my first personal sailing post, life is busy as ever, just now on a boat. Lots of sailing, exploring, relaxing, resting, working and boat jobs. We have written lots of adventure content at sailinghannahpenn.co.uk, but now for my own summarised take on the past few months and general thinking of…
Global “unlimited” data options: Wraptel, Keepgo & Solis
Ahead of this year of sailing, I wanted to ensure I had as many high quality connectivity options as possible. As already mentioned I bought a Digital yacht WL510 and 4G Connect, the latter of which needs sim cards in order to connect. The world seems to be half way between using physical sim cards,…
Sailing: Month 1
I’m writing a lot of content over on sailinghannahpenn.co.uk, and I want to share some of that here, linking to most of the posts and adding a little more. We actually wrote most of the initial blog posts in Month 1, as we had already set off before creating the blog. I’m looking forward to…
A digital nomad boat experience
I have always been somewhat of a digital nomad in my working life, an opportunity that mainly exists due to my very flexible job as a software engineer at Wikimedia Germany. Over the years I have been primarily based in the UK but have travelled with work to California, South Africa, Israel and many places…
Santa Elena (Monteverde, Costa Rica) to Granada (Nicaragua)
I’m writing this post in the hope that someone making the same journey will find it somewhat useful. We were a bit uncertain how our journey was going to pan out, but it ended up working pretty well. If you want to know what we ended up doing, skip the “Initial research” section, and head…