I love traveling, text adventure games and building stuff on the internet. I work on web projects at my studio Baguette http://unebaguette.com. I used to brew coffee and bake cakes at my pop-up cafe called Tipi Coffee http://fb.com/thetipicoffee. I write about my travels and stuff that interests me at http://arturpaikin.com.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love meeting people from all over the world, having good conversations, sharing meals and drinks.

Interests

Traveling, coding, web design and development, programming micro-controllers (Arduino, ESP8266), home automation, robots, bicycles (I own a small folding bike called Strida), speciality (fancy beans) coffee, indie artists, developers and makers, exploring New York city.

• design
• coffee
• technology
• video games
• board games
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• blogging
• coding
• cycling
• hitchhiking
• open source
• home automation
• indie web

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Forrest Gump, The Terminal, Back to the Future, Interstate 60, Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis, Groundhog Day, Midnight in Paris, Her, Interstellar, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 12 Angry Men.

TV Shows: Better Call Saul, The Big Bang Theory, Breaking Bad, Lost, The Walking Dead, Everybody Hates Chris, Humans

Podcasts: atp.fm

Books: Naïve. Super, The Martian, Harry Potter, Steal Like an Artist, Night Watch, The Empire of the Angels

Music: mix of everything — Radiohead, Red Hot Chilly Peppers, Macklemore, Nickelback, The Beatles, Sting, Roxette

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Not one, but some:

* Hitchhiking across Europe, multiple times, always awesome, great people
* Traveling across the United States: from New York to Portland
* Visiting Morocco and Sahara desert
* Moving to Moscow on my own at 17
* Quitting my day job to start working on Baguette and Tipi Coffee
* Speaking at Brooklyn.js and Queens.js meetups, attending Brooklyn Beta conference in New York

What I Can Share with Hosts

Nice places in Moscow, life stories :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, Russian Federation, United States

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