2015
Launching Foody
What the beginning of Foody taught me about starting with the transaction people already understand.
2012 to now
Writing.
Recovered articles as they were written, followed by new retrospectives about the companies, decisions, and lessons that came after.
Looking back · 2026
The missing chapters.
Written in 2026 about earlier events. The chapter labels preserve the historical sequence; the articles carry their real publication date.
Read
2019
Selling Foody
A retrospective on the questions around selling a company without turning private negotiations into public theatre.
After 2019
The earnout years
Lessons about time horizons, incentives and identity after selling a company.
2019 to 2026
Learning scale at Delivery Hero
What changes when local product intuition meets the systems and constraints of a global company.
2022 to 2025
Opening Moving Doors
How advising Staycaee led to taking equity and an active technical co-founder role before the company rebranded to Moving Doors.
2024 to 2025
Lead, follow, or get the fuck out
Why I followed first, tried to lead next, and left when the values gap became impossible to ignore.
2026 to now
Terra now
How the earlier chapters inform current work on engineering, health data and AI at Terra.
Recovered · 2012 to 2015
The original archive.
Preserved from the former xatzis.com. These articles retain their original dates and wording.
2015
April 5, 2015
My plan to teach my 3 year old daughter programming looks promising.
February 3, 2015
How I learned how to work
2014
July 8, 2014
WTF Brazil
June 12, 2014
Brazil 2014: Probably the best World cup I will ever watch
June 2, 2014
PublicHD: My favourite public tracker is gone!
March 29, 2014
Submitting forms using iFrames on iOS devices
March 16, 2014
XBMC on android TV Boxes
February 7, 2014
Lease, rent or own
2013
December 8, 2013
Startup weekend Cyprus!
April 8, 2013
FIND_IN_SET. A handy little MySQL function
April 6, 2013
My first wordpress plugin
April 6, 2013
No one fights about the private sector
March 28, 2013
Good use for an iPad
March 27, 2013
Crisis needs a leader: Parody
March 22, 2013
The new Legislation proposal for Cyprus
March 10, 2013
Volkswagens POLO R WRC
February 24, 2013
Double edged knife
February 24, 2013
raspberry pi lego case
February 7, 2013
Convert all tables and fields in an sql database to utf8
January 24, 2013
Προεδρικές Εκλογές Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας 2013: Cyprus presidential elections 2013
2012
March 28, 2012
PHP: Object Oriented language or an HTMLTemplate engine?
March 17, 2012
What’s wrong with dreaming?
February 28, 2012
ActiveCyprus.com
February 24, 2012
Excellent Bosses
February 20, 2012
WTF?
January 4, 2012