The working, written down
A calculator gives you a number. These explain where the number comes from, which rule bites at which threshold, and when the answer changes. Written by the people who had to get it right for their own company.
Cyprus tax and payroll
We run a company and a payroll in Paphos, so this is the reading we had to do anyway. Every rate carries its source and the date it was last checked.
Cyprus vs Malta vs Dubai tax
Headline rates hide the answer. The three regimes compared on what a founder-owned company and its owner actually hand over, including the parts that are not income tax.
ReadUpdated CyprusCyprus expat tax exemptions
Three exemptions, three different qualifying tests, and one of them closed to new hires in 2026. What each is worth on a real salary, and the traps in the small print.
ReadUpdated CyprusCyprus employer contributions
Social insurance, GESY, redundancy, industrial training, social cohesion and the holiday fund. What each one is for, which are capped, and what they add to a salary.
ReadUpdated CyprusCyprus VAT on property
The reduced first-home rate, the 130 m² and €350,000 limits, what happens when you cross them, and why resale property is a different tax altogether.
ReadUpdatedRunning models yourself
What we learned buying GPUs, sizing memory and arguing about whether an API bill beats a graphics card. The numbers come from the same data as the calculators.
How much VRAM you need
Weights, KV cache and the memory the operating system keeps. The arithmetic behind the number, why unified memory is not the same GB, and what quantisation really costs you.
ReadUpdated Comparison4090 vs 5090 vs Mac
Two GPUs and a laptop, on the only two numbers that decide it: how much memory the model gets, and how fast that memory moves. With the models each one actually runs.
ReadUpdated ComparisonOllama vs LM Studio vs vLLM
One is a GUI, one is a model manager, one is a serving engine. The difference only shows up under concurrency, which is exactly where teams pick wrong.
ReadUpdated CostWhen self-hosting pays
The breakeven is not where people assume. Which API you are replacing decides it, and against cheap open-weight endpoints a GPU may never pay for itself.
ReadUpdatedWe build the software behind numbers like these
Dubir Group is a technology company in Paphos, Cyprus. Payroll systems, internal tooling, and AI that runs on your own hardware when the data cannot leave.