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2026

30 Jul Indie hackers may be the first type of developer to go extinct as AI lowers the cost of execution 𝕏
24 Jul Most guys over 35 now have the padel body and you need to fight it 𝕏
23 Jul Things I learnt after buying a house and going through lots of shitty products 𝕏
21 Jul AI raises everyone's app quality but customers now vibecode their own clones to skip paying 𝕏
20 Jul Looking through 80+ seed incubator applications shows everyone's building similar AI slop 𝕏
20 Jul Superintelligence has passed us and we're all running after the carrot 𝕏
17 Jul How to buy S&P500, tech, bonds and commodities ETFs on IBKR as US or non-US citizen 𝕏
17 Jul Google Maps in Germany now shows defamation complaint amounts, so here's a calculator to find a place's real rating
14 Jul I invested in EthSystems to make Ethereum private for banks 𝕏
11 Jul Open letter to the Portuguese government to approve Tesla FSD 𝕏
9 Jul The Everything Chart
4 Jul A working Atari ST inside a blog post with full internet
2 Jul Is the stock market in a bubble right now?
1 Jul Portugal's EU customs blocks every package from outside making modern products impossible to order 𝕏
28 Jun Bitcoin's 4-year cycles 𝕏
28 Jun I've been coding almost solely on my VPS with Claude Code for almost a year now 𝕏
17 Jun Vibe Jam 2026 winners and how the games are getting close to real production quality 𝕏
14 Jun US hotels give way more value than Europe now with better AC and amenities 𝕏
11 Jun I ported Return to Castle Wolfenstein to the web with multiplayer in an hour using AI 𝕏
10 Jun I built a web-based virtual null modem to play Quake I in MS-DOS in multiplayer online 𝕏
8 Jun Indie hackers build fancy AI factories but have no money or traffic 𝕏
7 Jun I built a web-based dot matrix printer that prints from Windows 3.11 𝕏
4 Jun Revolut fixed my banking nightmares after Rabobank froze my card in Bali and made me homeless in the US 𝕏
29 May Luxury brands like Rimowa and LVMH are mostly a scam 𝕏
29 May Luxury hotels are mathematically bad value 𝕏
22 May My latest Termius and tmux setup for every site 𝕏
10 May Cloudflare is now the cheapest email provider at $354/mo 𝕏
2 May Airthings is the best air sensor after trying fakes and dodgy ones 𝕏
30 Apr Winning my first big Stripe dispute in a decade with a vibe coded responder 𝕏
23 Apr I open sourced my first Chrome extension SuperLevels 𝕏
6 Apr Made an auto-dispute response system for Interior AI to see how easy it'd be 𝕏
2 Apr Brazil's CPF catch-22 makes booking hotels impossible for tourists 𝕏
30 Mar Why Portuguese businesses don't want more customers or to grow 𝕏
16 Mar Quake III server now runs in the browser 7 years later 𝕏
6 Mar OpenClaw's real power user is my girlfriend chatting with it in Telegram 𝕏
28 Feb I ran Claude Code on the server in bypass mode and outran my todo list 𝕏
24 Feb How to build a bootstrapped startup without funding 𝕏
7 Feb Visiting Brazil's biggest indie hacker meetup 𝕏
5 Feb My dad the cardiologist got free family holidays from Pfizer to prescribe their drugs 𝕏
3 Feb EU countries are now trying to censor speech on social media nationally after DSA failed 𝕏
20 Jan Europe's tax system discourages hard work and new businesses 𝕏
11 Jan Freezing bread from the local bakery solves sellouts and lowers blood sugar spikes 𝕏

2025

17 Dec I bought over $1M in Google because Sergey returned and they're winning AI 𝕏
14 Dec Why Koreans didn't get richer 𝕏
13 Dec Chinese EVs are beating German cars with better software and innovation 𝕏
11 Dec Advice I give 5 minutes after meeting somebody new 𝕏
9 Dec The European Commission is the cancer rotting the EU from within 𝕏
7 Dec Chinese tourism is 95% domestic making China feel like the only foreigner there 𝕏
5 Dec Chongqing looks gray and derelict without its night lights and needs better maintenance 𝕏
4 Dec Chinese high speed trains are now faster than the Japanese Shinkansen 𝕏
4 Dec I took the high speed train in China today 𝕏
3 Dec China's train security is stricter than TSA 𝕏
28 Nov Chinese brands replacing Western brands in China 𝕏
27 Nov China airport confiscated our power banks without CCC certification 𝕏
26 Nov Got Alipay to work in China as proxy for Didi Meituan and Baidu 𝕏
26 Nov I started lifting weights at 30 and gained 30kg of muscle 𝕏
21 Nov Netherlands changes stock options tax to US system for startups 𝕏
24 Oct EU's AI factory plan requires proposals while Lambda gives you 8x H100s in 5 minutes 𝕏
23 Oct EU AI factories have 500x less compute than xAI 𝕏
23 Oct EU AI factories require proposal calls and endless ethical questionnaires instead of simple GPU access 𝕏
1 Oct levels.vc - my investment fund
18 Sep It turns out Mark Manson was mostly right about Brazil 𝕏
9 Jul Stripe Podcast: A Cheeky Pint with John Collison
17 Jun South Asian immigrants in Portugal game welfare for passports and EU access 𝕏
21 May Visiting my API provider FAL in San Francisco 𝕏
11 May Visiting OpenAI's office in San Francisco and seeing the city's improvements 𝕏
23 Apr Winners of the 2025 vibe code game jam 𝕏
10 Apr Andrej Karpathy visited my weekly coworking in Portugal 𝕏
17 Jan Meeting Bryan Johnson at Din Tai Fung and his don't die health cult 𝕏
9 Jan The Brazilian real currency should be on crypto exchanges because it's the biggest shitcoin ever 𝕏

2024

14 Dec Europe is ruled by rich nepotist families and unelected corporatist cronies killing startups 𝕏
10 Dec How Elon does politics is smartest and my 6 goals for Europe 𝕏
6 Oct Macron warns EU has only 2 or 3 years before total US and China dominance 𝕏
2 Oct Surround yourself with builders not talkers 𝕏
23 Sep Nomad List is one of the first network states 𝕏
22 Sep I hit a new $420,000/mo revenue record thanks to the Lex Fridman podcast 𝕏
9 Sep My recommendations for mario draghi's EU competitiveness report 𝕏
20 Aug Lex Fridman Podcast 𝕏
30 Jul Building Pieter.com, my retro PC in the browser 𝕏
24 Jul Finally met my hero Patrick Collison founder of Stripe 𝕏
7 Jul A majority of the worst ranked airports in the world are run by Da Vinci Airports 𝕏
2 Jul Jack Ma met Jerry Yang at the great wall of China in 1997 𝕏
1 Jul The rise and fall of Lisbon (2020-2024) 𝕏
30 Jun I made luggage losers a live ranking of airlines by lost luggage 𝕏
14 Jun Guy sells his $50k/mo business for $10m but it's just an acquihire 𝕏
13 Jun So many VC funded exits are actually massive failures 𝕏
17 May The euro kinda destroyed southern Europe's economies 𝕏
14 May EU company landscape is run by dinosaurs founded 50 years before US ones 𝕏
14 May My first interaction with a WIRED journalist 10 years ago 𝕏
5 May New York City was founded by the Dutch as New Amsterdam 400 years ago 𝕏
29 Apr Most Europeans don't realize how stagnant Europe has become 𝕏

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2012

30 Dec Unless the job itself is your dream, stay the fuck away from salaried jobs
18 Oct The death of the corporate drone
13 Oct The West's unemployment problem is permanent
5 Jul Why buying YouTube views is bad
5 Jul I love minimalist living
19 Jun Today is the first day of the rest of your life
17 Jun Happiness maximization vs. profit maximization
16 Jun Music genres are dead
15 Jun Make a great product

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2004

16 Jan I started DJing as Peet/PandaDNB