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Ashley Connor
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Ashley Connor's personal blog at ashleyconnor.co.uk covers programming. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “The Digital Nomad and Immigration Law”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in HN threads for a post on deploying a Phoenix app with Dokku on any Linux server. The comments only share the link, with one commenter saying they like Dokku.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The idle thoughts of a rambling developer.
Most-linked posts?
- The Digital Nomad and Immigration Law2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2014-09-07
What Hacker News says?
Don't let the article confuse you. It's 100% illegal to work in Thailand on a tourist visa despite the comments of the Chiang Mai immigration office. http://ashleyconnor.co.uk/blog/2014/09/07/working-in-thailan...
Comment linking /blog/2014/09/07/working-in-thailand-as-a-digital-nomad/
on “Working Remotely From A Tropical Island In Thailand”Submitted Local Rails Development with Docker and Docker Compose as a story · 34 points
HN discussionDokku implementation for any Linux server hosted locally or in the cloud. Not affiliated just really like the product. https://ashleyconnor.co.uk/2016/03/06/deploying-a-phoenix-ap...
Comment linking /2016/03/06/deploying-a-phoenix-application-to-dokku.html
on “Why I’m dumping Firebase for Web”Submitted The Digital Nomad and Immigration Law as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI wrote a blog post on this a few years back: https://ashleyconnor.co.uk/2014/09/07/the-digital-nomad-and-... You can't really work anywhere in South East Asia without a work permit. Cambodia used to be the easiest place but last time I looked they were changing the law. A lot of these laws were made before remote work was even a thing. Some countries do allow remote work. Canada being one of them.
Comment linking /2014/09/07/the-digital-nomad-and-immigration-law.html
on “Four-year professional visas get green light in Thailand”It's totally illegal to work in most of South East Asia on a tourist visa [1]. It used to be easier to work in Cambodia but that's changed recently [2]. [1] - http://ashleyconnor.co.uk/blog/2014/09/07/the-digital-nomad-... [2] - https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/work-permits-now-required...
Comment linking /blog/2014/09/07/the-digital-nomad-and-immigration-law/
on “Co-Working on Vacation: A Desk in Paradise”> So, a person with a tourist visa isn't able to do any work in their own hotel room, no matter what it is or for whom? Yep. > Is it that they aren't supposed to do a service for anyone else (such as cook for a friend, or translate anything for a relative back home) or that they can't receive money? You just can't get paid. If you were cooking for a "friend" but you were actually their personal chef...you would need…
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on “What's the cheapest living situation possible that still has basic utilities?”Exactly. It does indeed look like Chiang Mai will not enforce laws prohibiting digital nomads from working. If anyone wants to know more about Thai immigration law in regards to Digital Nomads: http://ashleyconnor.co.uk/blog/2014/09/07/the-digital-nomad-...
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on “Immigration Crackdown on Digital Nomads in Chiang Mai, Thailand”I wrote a post about people thinking of working in Thailand and South East Asia: http://ashleyconnor.co.uk/blog/2014/09/07/the-digital-nomad-... The good news in this case is that everyone was let go without charge. I'd still advocate caution. Thai law is flexible and sometimes what is tolerated today is not ok tomorrow.
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on “On Thailand’s immigration police targeting digital nomads”