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1996

14 Mar I made my first homepage in 1996

1997

24 Feb I made a homepage for my brother Jeroen in 1997

1998

2 Jan I made the Internet Huis where you can walk around in my house online

2004

2008

2009

2011

2012

15 Jan Rasa - Noem 't Wat Je Wilt
15 Jun Make a great product
16 Jun Music genres are dead
17 Jun Happiness maximization vs. profit maximization
19 Jun Today is the first day of the rest of your life
21 Jun TEED - Blood Pressure
27 Jun Skream - Thoughts of You
28 Jun Diplo - No Problem
1 Jul Anybody can monetize their passion (now)
3 Jul D!RTY AUD!O intro
5 Jul I love minimalist living
5 Jul Citizen - Deep End
5 Jul Why buying YouTube views is bad
9 Jul Pheo - Nyquil
10 Jul Herve feat. Ronika - How Can I Live Without You (Make it Right) (Death Rose Cult Remix)
2 Aug Spenzo - Ova
2 Aug Anna Lunoe & Diamond Lights - Stronger (Willy Joy Remix)
7 Aug The XX - Angels
21 Aug Essendle interview on my music and my YouTube show
29 Aug Headhunterz - Power of Music
4 Oct New Panda Mix Show branding and website
13 Oct The West's unemployment problem is permanent
18 Oct The death of the corporate drone
26 Oct FML - OCTOPU$$Y
30 Nov Success is One Big Hoax
30 Dec Unless the job itself is your dream, stay the fuck away from salaried jobs

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2 Jan Money should buy freedom from employment not Bentley cars and Rolex watches 𝕏
3 Jan What I learnt from 100 days of shipping
17 Jan Indie Hackers Podcast: Confronting fears and taking a leap
24 Jan Turning side projects into profitable startups
26 Jan Using osx’s screenshot tool as a screen ruler 𝕏
28 Jan Why Korean Jimjilbangs and Japanese Onsens are great
29 Jan I'm Product Hunt's Maker of the Year again!
26 Feb I just passed $52,843 in monthly revenue 𝕏
6 Mar Brazil hackers built an AI bot that finds anomalies in public spending 𝕏
12 Mar My book MAKE on bootstrapping startups is now live on Product Hunt 𝕏
20 Mar Don't quit your job until side project revenue surpasses it for 6 months 𝕏
21 Mar Building a startup: what people think vs reality 𝕏
1 Apr People forget how much advantage you have in 2018 as an indie business 𝕏
7 Apr Sitting in traffic each morning to stare at a screen for 40 years is capitalism's greatest con 𝕏
23 May Blocked by a member of the European Parliament 𝕏
27 May Went to a robot hotel with self check-in and no humans 𝕏
8 Jun You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together 𝕏
4 Jul EU is making it impossible for startups to operate 𝕏
14 Jul The first trillion dollar company is Norway's oil fund 𝕏
18 Jul The internet complains about facebook selling data but wants indie apps for free 𝕏
27 Jul Barriers of entry to building a startup have never been so low 𝕏
29 Jul Internet speed vs murder rate 𝕏
11 Aug Top 5 regrets before death 𝕏
18 Aug Why Europe can't do tech: low risk tolerance chart 𝕏
2 Sep The more religious a country, the less productive it is 𝕏
3 Sep Walmart vs Google revenue and profit per employee 𝕏
26 Sep Launched no more Google on product hunt 𝕏
1 Oct Visited my favorite fintech Revolut's office in London and met the co-founder 𝕏
8 Oct Map of every European city 𝕏
14 Nov How to get an idea for your startup from Craigslist 𝕏
18 Nov The foundations of geopolitics by Aleksandr Dugin describes our current world with scary accuracy 𝕏
19 Nov Beijing today 𝕏
23 Nov Every receipt in Beijing gives you a QR code for digital bookkeeping 𝕏
23 Nov Beijing air turned into hell on earth this weekend from weekend driving 𝕏
24 Nov In Beijing you can add your public transit card to Apple Wallet 𝕏
5 Dec Why is our entire society built around the idea that sleep literally doesn't matter? 𝕏
5 Dec Photopea is a 100% free browser version of Photoshop and it's better 𝕏
15 Dec Odds of launching something successfully 𝕏
27 Dec Overnight success is the biggest myth: 10 years and 98% failed projects to make $100k/mo 𝕏

2019

2020

11 Jan Twitter giveaways can be hacked to win every time
1 Mar Air pollution before and after Corona 𝕏
20 Mar Asia had SARS so they test and isolate but the west tries its own thing 𝕏
11 Apr Product Hunt Podcast: 5 years in startups with Abadesi
2 May I added a fake Japanese city called Dorobō to Nomad List to catch data thieves 𝕏
12 May Twitter will allow employees to work from home permanently 𝕏
24 Aug Perfection paralysis stops you from getting things done 𝕏
28 Aug This week i built a startup idea generator with GPT-3 𝕏
21 Sep RemoteOK.io is a single PHP file generating $65,651 this month 𝕏
2 Oct 2020 sucked so I'm giving away another MacBook Pro 16" to cheer people up 𝕏
21 Oct Quibi burned 2 billion dollars of VC funding in 6 months 𝕏
21 Oct I'm building a new mini startup this week after finding an idea road tripping in Portugal 𝕏
28 Oct The floor is profit 𝕏
2 Nov Overengineering everything is the disease of modern day developers 𝕏
5 Nov Building Remotely Podcast: Will millions of remote workers become location independent in 2021?
12 Nov The future of remote work: how the greatest human migration in history will happen in the next ten years
30 Nov Entrepreneurs are the heroes, not the villains
5 Dec Copywriting for entrepreneurs: explain your product how you'd explain it to a friend
10 Dec Normalization of non-deviance
19 Dec This is the most exciting time in history to start a company online 𝕏
20 Dec No one should ever work

2021

10 Jan I did a live 4+ hour AMA on Twitch w/ @roxkstar74
3 Feb Delete your day trading app, hit the gym, buy ETFs and thank me in 20 years 𝕏
14 Feb Inflation Chart: the stock market adjusted for the US-dollar money supply
8 Mar Why coliving economics still don't make sense
13 Mar This is why I don't do calls 𝕏
19 Mar List of all my projects ever
25 Mar Why I'm unreachable and maybe you should be too
25 Mar The next frontier after remote work is async
12 Apr Remote ok is a single PHP file generating $101,101 this month 𝕏
12 Apr Photopea makes almost $1M/y built by Ukrainian indie maker with vanilla JS 𝕏
6 Jun Fastest growing remote work hubs Mexico Canary Islands Dubai Miami Medellin 𝕏
6 Jun I just bought my first billboard in front of Apple's headquarters 𝕏
26 Jun 3 of my close friends were hacked this month because they didn't have 2FA 𝕏
20 Jul You only need 26 customers paying you $99/mo to make an average U.S. income 𝕏
6 Sep Chinese companies are silently ending US tech dominance 𝕏
9 Sep Made a fully functional fake VS Code to browse remote jobs without your boss finding out 𝕏
13 Sep Lisbon is now the most visited city on Nomad List 𝕏
6 Oct Rich and anonymous is the new rich and famous 𝕏
9 Oct The more I learn the less advice I want to give 𝕏
13 Oct Building a product in the dark without letting people use it early on is the best way to make something nobody wants 𝕏
31 Oct Me when I deploy to production without testing 𝕏
7 Nov Only 4 out of 70+ projects i ever did made money and grew 𝕏
23 Nov Web4 will be finally closing our computer and going outside 𝕏
12 Dec If i didn't travel in my early 20s i'd be working an office job instead of a $10m+ business 𝕏
15 Dec If you have $100,000 in savings you're losing $2,000 per month from inflation 𝕏

2022

11 Jan What advertising wants you to think makes you happy 𝕏
20 Jan Wannabe Entrepreneur Podcast: Bootstrapping, moving to Portugal and setting up Rebase
25 Jan A corner office in 2002 vs 2022 𝕏
26 Jan Indie Hackers Podcast: Money, happiness and productivity as a solo founder
7 Feb A crazy thing I realized about people more and less successful than you 𝕏
21 Feb EU will require all job postings to show a salary range from August 𝕏
22 Feb The endless loop of getting ideas starting projects and telling everyone 𝕏
24 Feb I just became a supporter of Ukraine's army for $1,000/mo 𝕏
28 Mar How to avoid microplastics 𝕏
16 Apr Flying is so stressful it's not a luxury product anymore 𝕏
10 May Building Remotely Podcast: Relocation of remote workers
15 May Top rising and falling destinations for remote workers in 2022 𝕏
16 May Life Done Differently Podcast: Thinking and doing for yourself
6 Jun European sign calls remote workers a plague and tells them to leave 𝕏
11 Jun Why offices suck 𝕏
5 Jul The secret of Portugal is to leave Lisbon as fast as possible 𝕏
14 Jul My First Million Podcast: Sam Parr + Shaan Puri asked me about bootstrapping, open startups and lifestyle inflation
28 Jul Todo.txt users sit at both ends of the IQ bell curve 𝕏
31 Jul Edgy opinions that will be mainstream within 10 years 𝕏
17 Aug Craigslist has the most usable UX ever made 𝕏
19 Aug Non-alcohol socializing will be a big industry as people drink less alcohol now and in the future 𝕏
2 Sep How to generate AI images with Stable Diffusion on MacBook M1/M2 for free 𝕏
3 Sep Ordered custom tailored 100% cotton shirts from son of a tailor 𝕏
5 Sep My new project thishousedoesnotexist.org lets you generate AI ArchDaily style houses 𝕏
9 Sep The best jobs are 100% remote 100% async with no scheduled meetings no whiteboard interviews and no monitoring systems 𝕏
18 Sep This House Does Not Exist
26 Sep Don't make the goddamn app build a functional mobile site instead 𝕏
4 Oct How I built Interiorai.com from scratch in 5 days 𝕏
10 Oct Asking successful people about their tech stack is focusing on the wrong thing 𝕏
18 Oct People asked me about my ergonomic desk set up 𝕏
28 Oct Create your own AI avatars with my new mini project avatarAI.me 𝕏
7 Nov Sold $100,000 in AI-generated avatars with AvatarAI.me in 10 days 𝕏
11 Nov My GitHub contribution graph from 2014 to 2022 𝕏
25 Nov My biggest idea people aren't ready for is 2 dishwashers 𝕏
2 Dec Indonesia makes sex outside marriage illegal even in Bali while Thailand gets more progressive 𝕏
10 Dec The real opportunity in AI for most people is building a front end around it 𝕏
15 Dec Music generated by finetuning Stable Diffusion on spectrograms then generating any song possible 𝕏
19 Dec I proved people now have AI bots using ChatGPT to reply to tweets 𝕏
29 Dec Airbnb hosts with strict rules and deposits versus easy hotels 𝕏

2023

16 Jan My new AI model is great 𝕏
6 Feb Google AI launches are all press releases without functioning products 𝕏
10 Feb My new project Photo AI a photorealistic AI photo studio 𝕏
11 Feb Digital nomads you are fucking disgusting graffiti in Portugal 𝕏
18 Feb VC startup $100M exit nets 4 cofounders $47 per hour after dilution and taxes 𝕏
5 Mar We need more makers less coaches 𝕏
11 Mar If I was just out of school I'd fly to Bangkok to bootstrap my startup for $240 a month 𝕏
18 Mar Two types of people now 𝕏
6 Apr Buenos Aires is now #1 on Nomad List thanks to cheap currency 𝕏
15 Apr Casio watch face for Apple Watch 𝕏
29 Apr Easiest hack to save lots of money is registering as a company 𝕏
14 May Only losers go to networking events 𝕏
20 May Thailand is a third world country 𝕏
4 Jun Drinking alcohol negatively affects the liver and leads to fatty liver called cirrhosis 𝕏
5 Jun US flag stripes come from Indonesia's Majapahit empire 𝕏
10 Jun First class in America vs first class in Asia 𝕏
13 Jun So why do you have a sticker over your webcam 𝕏
14 Jun Photo AI adds try on mode for AI clothing models 𝕏
15 Jun I wish everywhere had these power outlets that accept any plug from US UK EU plus USB-C 𝕏
17 Jun While the EU fights about nuclear energy China plans 150 new reactors 𝕏
20 Jun Big Dutch dairy company wants me to help create their AI strategy 𝕏
22 Jun Almost nobody I know in Asia wants to move to America anymore 𝕏
24 Jun Wagner coup is like when you hire a web dev and give GitHub access and he takes over your site 𝕏
29 Jun Aspartame is proven to cause cancer in soda drinks 𝕏
3 Jul Photo AI is almost 14,000 lines of raw PHP making $61,808 per month 𝕏
13 Jul Portuguese have a weird love/hate obsession with Brazil 𝕏
13 Jul MacBook adaptor costs $220 in Brazil instead of $99 due to import taxes 𝕏
13 Jul Luxury restaurant in Portugal won't accept Visa or MasterCard but barefoot food cart guy in Brazil does 𝕏
22 Jul How to feel like you're getting ahead but actually procrastinate 𝕏
29 Jul $1,000,000 mortgage costs $2,217,160 total with interest 𝕏
2 Aug Why fold into wall beds never became a big thing 𝕏
4 Aug Good example is GoJEK a super app in Asia where you can do everything from ordering an Uber to massage and investing 𝕏
8 Aug Invested in Brazil after traveling there for a month 𝕏
24 Aug Office trends cycle every 7 years from cubicles to open offices and back 𝕏
6 Sep Why national postal services are so bad at delivering packages and Amazon is so good 𝕏
7 Sep Unbothered writing vanilla JavaScript while web dev Twitter fights over TypeScript 𝕏
9 Sep I asked GPT4 which countries you should invest in real estate 𝕏
25 Sep Actionable marketing tactic to get tiktok videos about your app for $100-$300 𝕏
5 Oct If i was 18 today i’d skip uni and go nomad building startups 𝕏
24 Oct Headspace was started at 38 by former monk Andy Puddicombe who exited at 50 𝕏
25 Oct The Bootstrapped Founder Podcast: Indie hacking is dead, now what?
1 Nov Nestle's Nesquik gets nutri-score a from EU Commission and WHO 𝕏
13 Nov How i'd validate 30 startup ideas in 2023 with tiktok and Stripe preorders 𝕏
16 Nov I made my first video game with ChatGPT DALL-E RunwayML and ElevenLabs 𝕏
21 Nov Trying self hosting alpaca a finetuned llama model after OpenAI drama 𝕏
27 Nov Open sourced my entire ChatGPT code for image text adventures 𝕏
2 Dec You're just lucky 𝕏
4 Dec Minimal architect sketches turned into renders with Interior AI v2 𝕏
6 Dec Nobody will build apps on Gemini because Google always shuts things down 𝕏
9 Dec There are more regulators in this room than AI scientists in all of EU 𝕏
10 Dec Open source LLMs reaching GPT-4 levels way earlier than we thought is the most exciting thing now to me 𝕏
20 Dec How I imagined my future million dollar startup office vs my actual million dollar startup office 𝕏
22 Dec AI generated images are 10,000x cheaper than any human could charge 𝕏

2024

8 Feb Every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day 𝕏
14 Feb MMA turned him from an awkward nervous wreck into a confident guy 𝕏
10 Mar British people are now the 2nd most miserable people in the world 𝕏
21 Mar Uber is completely useless in Argentina because of a hardcoded price check 𝕏
21 Mar Got scammed with the extra zero trick at Órale Juanito Palermo in Buenos Aires 𝕏
27 Mar Wayfair used my AI interior design tool to build their own 𝕏
7 Apr South America uses remote security people and doormen 𝕏
29 Apr Made EU/acc logo 𝕏
29 Apr Most Europeans don't realize how stagnant Europe has become 𝕏
5 May New York City was founded by the Dutch as New Amsterdam 400 years ago 𝕏
14 May My first interaction with a WIRED journalist 10 years ago 𝕏
14 May EU company landscape is run by dinosaurs founded 50 years before US ones 𝕏
17 May The euro kinda destroyed southern Europe's economies 𝕏
19 May US bans Chinese companies after they become market leaders 𝕏
5 Jun US proposes ban on DJI drones after it became world's biggest manufacturer 𝕏
7 Jun If you wanna get rich fastest make a premium product for Switzerland UAE US and Singapore 𝕏
13 Jun So many VC funded exits are actually massive failures 𝕏
14 Jun Guy sells his $50k/mo business for $10m but it's just an acquihire 𝕏
15 Jun Learn Python for remote AI jobs paying median 80k 𝕏
17 Jun Degrowth propaganda is everywhere you look now 𝕏
24 Jun Everything in Europe comes from Germany and everything in Germany comes from China 𝕏
30 Jun I made luggage losers a live ranking of airlines by lost luggage 𝕏
1 Jul The rise and fall of Lisbon (2020-2024) 𝕏
2 Jul Jack Ma met Jerry Yang at the great wall of China in 1997 𝕏
4 Jul Japan is not futuristic it's a fossil stuck in 1990 unlike China Korea and Vietnam 𝕏
5 Jul American restaurants kick you out after one meal unlike Europe 𝕏
7 Jul Imagine traveling to Europe to spend your hard-earned money and getting sprayed with water guns by degrowth protesters 𝕏
7 Jul A majority of the worst ranked airports in the world are run by Da Vinci Airports 𝕏
9 Jul If cars were invented today the European Union would have regulated them out of existence in favor of horses 𝕏
10 Jul All Airbus models made in the last 25 years have zero fatal crashes 𝕏
13 Jul Thierry Breton represents 100+ year old European dinosaur companies as EU tech policy director 𝕏
24 Jul Finally met my hero Patrick Collison founder of Stripe 𝕏
28 Jul I'm on 6 grams of creatine per day for the last 2 years 𝕏
30 Jul Building Pieter.com, my retro PC in the browser 𝕏
30 Jul Amazon is a showroom for Aliexpress which is a showroom for Taobao 𝕏
5 Aug If you wanna get rich install AC 𝕏
5 Aug In Bali the heat puts your brain into power save idle mode 𝕏
5 Aug Could air conditioning explain why more top US companies were founded after 1950 than in the EU? 𝕏
6 Aug Europe's governments made energy expensive on purpose to stop you from using it 𝕏
8 Aug Someone needs to invent cotton yoga shorts 𝕏
8 Aug I only wear Alo Yoga shorts but they are made from polyester that disrupts your endocrine system 𝕏
19 Aug I made a deadlift ETF with CEOs that lift weights or fight sports outperforming the S&P 500 by 140% 𝕏
19 Aug Apple Maps vs Google Maps in 2024 𝕏
20 Aug Lex Fridman Podcast 𝕏
24 Aug The web development industrial complex has lied to your face 𝕏
24 Aug I still meet programmers who are not using AI to code 𝕏
25 Aug Pavel Durov arrested in France 𝕏
31 Aug European founder had to move to the US to build a humanoid robot company 𝕏
5 Sep Google APIs are the worst APIs on the web to work with 𝕏
5 Sep Bali broke ground on a subway that will connect the entire island 𝕏
9 Sep My recommendations for mario draghi's EU competitiveness report 𝕏
12 Sep Arresting Jack Ma was the dumbest thing China has ever done 𝕏
16 Sep Thierry Breton resigns after EU AI Act and DSA criticism 𝕏
22 Sep I hit a new $420,000/mo revenue record thanks to the Lex Fridman podcast 𝕏
22 Sep Fireside chat with Balaji Srinivasan at Network State Conference 2024
23 Sep Nomad list is one of the first network states 𝕏
26 Sep Sam Altman will give himself 7% of OpenAI worth $10.5B 𝕏
26 Sep Will there be anyone left at OpenAI in the future? 𝕏
30 Sep Travel and fitness are two of the most important things you can do for your brain 𝕏
2 Oct Surround yourself with builders not talkers 𝕏
5 Oct The poor get free gov money the rich avoid taxes and the middle class gets rekt 𝕏
6 Oct Macron warns EU has only 2 or 3 years before total US and China dominance 𝕏
6 Oct Every European with talent moves to the US for startups or Bali and Chiang Mai for indie hacking 𝕏
31 Oct Rent an empty office space and invent the future 𝕏
1 Nov Sundar Pichai fumbled Google's AI head start and it'll be studied for decades 𝕏
1 Nov What is happening to Google now is pretty much textbook of what happened to Xerox PARC, but worse 𝕏
1 Nov The difference between free users and paying users is about 1,000x from my experience 𝕏
12 Nov Lift weights to grow neurons MIT study shows 𝕏
22 Nov My minimal solo founder setup with 100% automation and 99% profit margins 𝕏
24 Nov Europe's end game might be to become like Japan a cheap tourist destination 𝕏
26 Nov Started lifting at 30 and that has avoided the pains most of my in-thirties friends have 𝕏
2 Dec OnlyFans just hacked basic human biology 𝕏
8 Dec I put an AirTag in my plastic recycling to see if it actually gets recycled 𝕏
9 Dec Both a16z and YC's request for startups for 2025 just came out 𝕏
9 Dec I got 1 billion views on X in the last 12 months 𝕏
10 Dec How Elon does politics is smartest and my 6 goals for Europe 𝕏
11 Dec EU/acc goals now on euacc.com 𝕏
14 Dec Europe is ruled by rich nepotist families and unelected corporatist cronies killing startups 𝕏
18 Dec Self driving cars react 150x faster than a human driver 𝕏
19 Dec Renting saves you money over buying if you own the house for less than 15 years 𝕏
22 Dec A tractor is a great parallel to AI because it helps people do their work easier and faster 𝕏
29 Dec The only planes left with zero fatal accidents now 𝕏

2025

9 Jan The Brazilian real currency should be on crypto exchanges because it's the biggest shitcoin ever 𝕏
11 Jan Europe slowly realizing it's losing the last control it had on the world with ignored censorship requests 𝕏
12 Jan Make Europe great again 𝕏
17 Jan Meeting Bryan Johnson at Din Tai Fung and his don't die health cult 𝕏
19 Jan Dating apps don't work in 2025 so meet people through hobbies and friends 𝕏
26 Jan Europeans have collective memory loss from just 35 years ago 𝕏
29 Jan We need a federal union of Europe to compete with US and China 𝕏
30 Jan Leaked EU competitiveness compass draft emphasizes accelerate and cut red tape 𝕏
16 Feb Man investigated after calling German vice-chancellor ‘idiot’ 𝕏
25 Feb Full multiplayer Python websockets game built almost 100% by AI 𝕏
4 Mar What's crazy when you read about Taiwan Semiconductors is you realize Nvidia are essentially dropshippers 𝕏
25 Mar What ChatGPT says the devil would do to keep an entire nation sick 𝕏
28 Mar Being an entrepreneur now has more job security than a job 𝕏
3 Apr Europe is cooked as Italy bans AC below 26°c 𝕏
7 Apr Europe to slash GDPR privacy law in weeks to compete with US and China 𝕏
9 Apr So Trump is vibe presidenting 𝕏
10 Apr Andrej Karpathy visited my weekly coworking in Portugal 𝕏
10 Apr Europe wants to reduce its anti-AI act and GDPR to compete in AI 𝕏
26 Apr The only thing young people in Southern Europe can do is drink and smoke 𝕏
28 Apr Electricity is down in entire Portugal and Spain peninsula 𝕏
11 May Visiting OpenAI's office in San Francisco and seeing the city's improvements 𝕏
21 May Visiting my API provider FAL in San Francisco 𝕏
15 Jun I randomly discovered Dubai has an absolutely massive solar farm 𝕏
17 Jun South Asian immigrants in Portugal game welfare for passports and EU access 𝕏
22 Jun I made a trailer for the future of humanity (e/acc) 𝕏
2 Jul My friend lives in a tent in his house in Portugal because neighbors ban real AC 𝕏
4 Jul More Europeans die from heat than Americans from shootings 𝕏
5 Jul Silence is high IQ 𝕏
6 Jul Spain's meteorological agency says healthy people should not use air conditioning 𝕏
6 Jul Chinese pigs are treated better than the average European 𝕏
9 Jul Stripe Podcast: A Cheeky Pint with John Collison
11 Jul Europe must stop restricting air conditioning or heat deaths will hit 500,000 per year 𝕏
19 Jul 10g of creatine per day 𝕏
25 Aug Correlation between screen size and your importance in the company 𝕏
18 Sep It turns out Mark Manson was mostly right about Brazil 𝕏
24 Sep CdK Podcast: A brutal foreigner's view on Portugal
28 Sep Counter-law to let all European citizens read any EU politician's chats 𝕏
29 Sep Get a VPS at Hetzner already 𝕏
23 Oct EU AI factories require proposal calls and endless ethical questionnaires instead of simple GPU access 𝕏
23 Oct EU AI factories have 500x less compute than xAI 𝕏
24 Oct I can't use the EU's GPUs because Horizon 2020 closed in 2020 𝕏
24 Oct EU's AI factory plan requires proposals while Lambda gives you 8x H100s in 5 minutes 𝕏
27 Oct European Commission denies my request for GPUs 𝕏
10 Nov Singapore too is now compromised by degrowthers 𝕏
13 Nov EU ChatControl is back with even more far reaching surveillance through the back door 𝕏
17 Nov Only the US and China have actual substantial startup activity now 𝕏
20 Nov EU is finally scaling down GDPR, AI Act and cookie banner laws 𝕏
21 Nov Netherlands changes stock options tax to us system for startups 𝕏
25 Nov China isn't easy to travel 𝕏
26 Nov I started lifting weights at 30 and gained 30kg of muscle 𝕏
26 Nov Russians are traveling to China a lot because they're blocked from most places 𝕏
26 Nov Got Alipay to work in China as proxy for Didi Meituan and Baidu 𝕏
27 Nov Woke up in Beijing's Summer Palace built in 1750 as a birthday gift 𝕏
27 Nov The Russian connection in China doesn't stop 𝕏
27 Nov China airport confiscated our power banks without CCC certification 𝕏
27 Nov Beijing uses robot arms at toll booths 𝕏
28 Nov We've literally just lost power in Europe 𝕏
28 Nov Western people used in Chinese marketing to represent quality 𝕏
28 Nov Rentable powerbanks in China scan with Alipay but would get stolen in US or Europe 𝕏
28 Nov Chinese brands replacing Western brands in China 𝕏
29 Nov Rich BigTech wives destabilizing society from 2016 to 2023 via giant NGO donations 𝕏
29 Nov I got the China cough after 4 days in China 𝕏
3 Dec Never bring a knife to China because DHL and customs make shipping impossible 𝕏
3 Dec Getting the China flu after arriving and why to wear an N95 on planes 𝕏
3 Dec China's train security is stricter than TSA 𝕏
4 Dec Western double standards on China versus Japan city lights 𝕏
4 Dec I took the high speed train in China today 𝕏
4 Dec Arriving in Chongqing and China's LED lit skyline versus Europe saving energy 𝕏
4 Dec Chinese high speed trains are now faster than the Japanese Shinkansen 𝕏
5 Dec Chongqing looks gray and derelict without its night lights and needs better maintenance 𝕏
6 Dec Never fly directly into Lisbon from outside Europe to skip immigration 𝕏
6 Dec Restaurants in China show their menus as photos on the wall 𝕏
7 Dec Chinese tourism is 95% domestic making China feel like the only foreigner there 𝕏
7 Dec China can be very cheap with $300 Chongqing hotel suites and $20 rooms 𝕏
9 Dec The European Commission is the cancer rotting the EU from within 𝕏
11 Dec Advice i give 5 minutes after meeting somebody new 𝕏
13 Dec NIO is another very popular EV brand in China 𝕏
13 Dec The EU is in control of what you see online thanks to the Digital Services Act 𝕏
13 Dec Chinese EVs are beating German cars with better software and innovation 𝕏
13 Dec Amap is my favorite navigation app in China 𝕏
13 Dec I got 100+ mbps plane internet on Qatar Airways with Starlink 𝕏
14 Dec Why Koreans didn't get richer 𝕏
14 Dec Qatar Airways business class gets you special arrival reception at Doha 𝕏
15 Dec Sergey Brin got so bored of his $450M yacht he had to create things again 𝕏
17 Dec I bought over $1M in Google because Sergey returned and they're winning AI 𝕏
23 Dec The oceans are full of plastic exactly because you recycle 𝕏
23 Dec I glued an AirTag to a yogurt box to track if recycling is real 𝕏

2026

3 Jan Map of South America as the United States of Amazonia 𝕏
4 Jan Luxury is absolutely done in the West but still exists in Asia and the Gulf states 𝕏
11 Jan Freezing bread from the local bakery solves sellouts and lowers blood sugar spikes 𝕏
12 Jan Women are most attracted to men who believe in astrology 𝕏
13 Jan Moved all my sites LLM APIs now to xAI 𝕏
15 Jan The era of fake e-girl influencers has started 𝕏
20 Jan Europe's tax system discourages hard work and new businesses 𝕏
20 Jan Europe's 28th regime could create a Delaware for startups 𝕏
2 Feb I'm so done with real estate agents 𝕏
2 Feb You absolutely cannot trust Germans with nukes 𝕏
3 Feb EU countries are now trying to censor speech on social media nationally after DSA failed 𝕏
4 Feb My friend on SSRIs tried to convince me I have generational trauma 𝕏
5 Feb My dad the cardiologist got free family holidays from Pfizer to prescribe their drugs 𝕏
7 Feb Visiting Brazil's biggest indie hacker meetup 𝕏
9 Feb Things in your house slowly poisoning you and what to change them to 𝕏
16 Feb Added dark mode to my http proxy for reading on kindle 𝕏
17 Feb Steipete on why Europe can't retain talent due to regulations and labor laws 𝕏
21 Feb 1983 Wall Street Raiders game reverse engineered from 115,000 lines of BASIC 𝕏
24 Feb How to build a bootstrapped startup without funding 𝕏
24 Feb Built my own gaussian splat viewer for Interior AI 𝕏
28 Feb I ran Claude Code on the server in bypass mode and outran my todo list 𝕏
6 Mar Photoai.com is a 40,870 line index.php making 105,000/mo revenue and 80,000/mo profit 𝕏
6 Mar OpenClaw's real power user is my girlfriend chatting with it in Telegram 𝕏
14 Mar European governments reject net positive Italian brazilians but welcome culture destroying immigrants 𝕏
16 Mar Quake III server now runs in the browser 7 years later 𝕏
16 Mar The irony that traveling on less than $1,000 a month is more fun than luxury travel 𝕏
21 Mar Daniel Radcliffe makes $660,000/mo from investments in perfect fire story 𝕏
26 Mar ChatControl is back with a vengeance 𝕏
27 Mar Argentinean meat is one of the worst in the world now 𝕏
28 Mar Give us more data to make sure it's you after we've been breached 𝕏
30 Mar Why Portuguese businesses don't want more customers or to grow 𝕏
1 Apr I made a free open source xdr boost app for macOS using claude code in 5 minutes 𝕏
1 Apr April fool's pizzas in US are real pizzas in Brazil 𝕏
2 Apr Brazil's CPF catch-22 makes booking hotels impossible for tourists 𝕏
5 Apr Tech insiders avoid touchscreens and smart homes because they know the downsides 𝕏
6 Apr Made an auto-dispute response system for Interior AI to see how easy it'd be 𝕏
16 Apr Europeans are all captivated by the mind virus 𝕏
18 Apr My sites get 4 billion requests a year but I only pay $244/mo to host them on my own VPS 𝕏
23 Apr I open sourced my first Chrome extension SuperLevels 𝕏
23 Apr Claude was dumbified on March 4 exactly when we noticed 𝕏
30 Apr Winning my first big Stripe dispute in a decade with a vibe coded responder 𝕏
1 May I still haven't solved the CO2 bedroom challenge 𝕏
2 May Airthings is the best air sensor after trying fakes and dodgy ones 𝕏
5 May My gf banned from reviewing places on Google Maps in Europe after one 1-star review 𝕏
5 May How keeping CO2 low with a bathroom fan gave me 100% sleep score 𝕏
9 May Most EV chargers in Portugal are out of service thanks to EU subsidies 𝕏
10 May Cloudflare is now the cheapest email provider at $354/mo 𝕏
15 May Ignoring mind viruses leads to a slippery slope of meat allergies from engineered ticks 𝕏
17 May Hoodmaps.com now has crime data 𝕏
17 May Barcelona has drug dens and violent crime in El Raval that Google Maps won't show 𝕏
21 May Luxury products are really just meant for poor people to fake they're rich 𝕏
22 May My latest Termius and tmux setup for every site 𝕏
22 May My daily laptop and iPhone setup for sites on a VPS with Claude Code 𝕏
23 May I don't write code anymore 𝕏
25 May Leiden might be the best Dutch city to visit instead of tourist Amsterdam 𝕏
26 May My friend's Lisbon office got burglarized and Portuguese police refused to recover his Airtagged Apple display 𝕏
27 May Hotel in the Netherlands sets AC minimum at 23°C and locks windows for security 𝕏
27 May Build on the side until it makes money before quitting your job 𝕏
28 May Western Europe is so fucking tiring 𝕏
28 May EU AI fund is all cronyism and taxpayer money burnt 𝕏
29 May I cook friends a 400g steak with beef tallow and take them lifting to cure tiredness depression or lethargy 𝕏
29 May Luxury hotels are mathematically bad value 𝕏
29 May Luxury brands like Rimowa and LVMH are mostly a scam 𝕏
1 Jun European Commission lies and calls truth a narrative 𝕏
3 Jun This is how you do a great startup video 𝕏
4 Jun Revolut fixed my banking nightmares after Rabobank froze my card in Bali and made me homeless in the US 𝕏
6 Jun Rimowa suitcase broke after Copenhagen to Lisbon flight and why avoid luxury brands 𝕏
6 Jun Everyone can now build apps with AI so now distribution is the real challenge 𝕏
7 Jun I built a dot matrix printer on the web that prints from Windows 3.11 𝕏