Jean Galea

A 69-year-old posted the five things he’d tell his 49-year-old self, and the list is a good one.

Being good at something buys you about a year.

The number on a sunscreen bottle measures how well it stops you burning.

A Spanish mobile number is cheap to hold and easy to lose by accident.

Cascais sits about 30 kilometers west of Lisbon, and once you live here the city stops being a destination and becomes a routine.

A founder can sell a company for five million dollars and end up with nothing in the bank.

UZO sells mobile and home internet in Portugal on MEO’s network at sub-brand prices, and it’s what I’d point any new arrival at.

Four utilities, four different systems.

Cascais is a good place to pick up a campervan and a hard place to sleep in one.

Portugal has a reputation for treating investors gently.

This is a sponsored review.

Watching someone online for ten years gives you exactly one honest data point about them: whether their work is any good.

“What’s the best AI model” has no answer on its own, and chasing one costs founders money in both directions.

TL;DR: Blockpit is an Austrian crypto tax platform that reports in over 100 countries and goes properly deep in ten of them, producing prefilled national tax forms and applying local rules: Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, the…

The WordPress plugin directory has a trust problem hiding in plain sight.

Give a capable model a well-defined project and it can carry it from approved proposal to a result the client signs off on, with barely any help along the way.

A plugin that almost nobody chose to install is sitting near the top of WordPress.org’s search results for “AI agent.”

I don’t have a huge LinkedIn following.

I pay for five AI coding subscriptions: Claude Max, ChatGPT (which includes Codex), SuperGrok, Google AI Pro, and ClinePass.

Hiring remote workers outside Europe is straightforward.

I run WordPress headless in production, and speed, the reason people usually reach for it, is the weakest one on the list.

This is part of an ongoing series I am writing as I work my way through the modern web stack from a WordPress developer’s perspective.

This is part of an ongoing series I am writing as I work my way through the modern web stack from a WordPress developer’s perspective.

I shoot most of my video with a deliberately light kit.

I went looking for the current best way to grow on X, and what I found was a wall of 2026 “algorithm explained” posts that confidently contradict each other.

The question I get most often is some version of “should I build this in WordPress or Astro or Next.”

If you bought a Mac in the EU and went looking for iPhone Mirroring, the feature Apple demoed for controlling your iPhone from your desktop, you already know it isn’t there.

I use the sauna at my fitness club almost every day, usually right after a workout.

This is part of an ongoing series I am writing as I work my way through the modern web stack from a WordPress developer’s perspective.

Every real estate agent has lived this.

This is part of an ongoing series I am writing as I work my way through the modern web stack from a WordPress developer’s perspective.

A friend showed me his Claude Code setup and it was the cleanest version of an idea I’d been circling for a while.

If you earn or hold US dollars in Europe, you’ve probably noticed they tend to sit idle.

This afternoon I pointed Hermes, an AI agent running on my Mac, at a language model running on the same machine.

Did you know you can earn interest on the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other crypto you already hold?

TokenTax sits in a different part of the crypto tax market from most of the tools I cover.

This is part of an ongoing series I am writing as I work my way through the modern web stack from a WordPress developer’s perspective.

Most people who think they have a backup actually have sync.

Most subscription plans for AI coding tools meter you on a rolling window.

TL;DR: CoinTracking and Koinly are the two heavyweights of crypto tax software.

TL;DR: After years of using these tools for my own crypto taxes, six stand out in 2026.

TL;DR: Divly is a European crypto tax tool built around one thing most competitors treat as an afterthought: your country’s actual tax forms.

TL;DR: CoinLedger (formerly CryptoTrader.Tax) is a crypto tax tool built around one of the cleanest user experiences in the category.

TL;DR: If you’re tax-resident in Spain, your crypto gains are taxed under the savings income base at 19% to 28%, with no discount for holding long term.

This is part of an ongoing series I am writing as I work my way through the modern web stack from a WordPress developer’s perspective.

This is part of an ongoing series I am writing as I work my way through the modern web stack from a WordPress developer’s perspective.

I have built on WordPress for 20 years.

This is part of an ongoing series I am writing as I work my way through the modern web stack from a WordPress developer’s perspective.

There was a moment, somewhere around 2008 or 2009, when it felt like the internet was a secret that hadn’t fully leaked yet.

Nectaro and Afranga are two of the most interesting newer platforms in European P2P, and they’re remarkably alike on the surface: both regulated, both yielding roughly 14%, both with clean default records, and both concentrated on a single lending group.