🇪🇺 Great data and actually I think we should use this kinds of data to completely turn around Europe's immigration policy: We should have s…

I think he's right With regulatory capture we will speedrun to a new feudalist time Regulatory capture is where you pass regulation, or cre…

✨ I replaced all these SaaS with my own vibe coded now, so about $25,000/mo savings: Weather API My own vibe coded weather service using No…

✨ Okay with lots of help from @javilopen and his Spanish scraping friends I've managed to vibe code my own @Scrapingbee alternative and rep…

Congrats!!! And it's great to see this perpetual ☃️ snowball happening Back in 2013, I was inspired by @patio11 @yongfook @johnonolan @jenn…

🎒After a decade, I have made free for everyone now! Well almost free, it's $1 to sign up to avoid getting lots of spam The reason is 1) I h…

37,000 people watched Infinite Slop yesterday! So I consider it a success and I registered a domain name for it: 🫟 Let me know if you have …

Airbnb deletes negative reviews so everything is always 4.7 Google Maps removes negative reviews in many countries as defamation so everyth…

The more dysfunctional public services are the more you force people to go private and fend for themselves This moves you into the directio…

I normally don't do these things but this guy is really special! His name is Lito (@avioesemusicas) and he's famous in Brazil for making re…

When buying interior for our house we discovered most sofas, chairs, rugs, carpets, curtains now use materials that are almost without exce…

I remember as a PC guy how I bought my first Apple device, a MacBook Pro, in 2013 I bought it because that's what my brother had (a pro VFX…

I liked this chart so much I had to recreate it I flipped the axis so that top right is best (tip by @marckohlbrugge and @daniellockyer) My…

The American College of Cardiology just confirmed this: Even normal weight people with belly fat (aka the famous "padel body") now have a s…

Oh dudeeee no way! So me and @theannalux our trip in December last year was: 🇨🇳 Fly into Beijing (we came from Japan) Stayed in Aman Summer…

Yesterday me and my friends talked about the Dead Internet Theory If nobody asks questions anymore on Stack Overflow, and sites like Reddit…

It's fascinating to see how the reward function of rich kids are so messed up I'd go as far to say if you raise a rich kid it's kinda like …

All this talk about AGI destroying moats and everything made me want to ship again One of the conclusions from all of you was, if you can u…

Today @fireship dev covered this: Indie hackers may be the first type of developer to go extinct The classic indie hacking playbook (last d…

Essentially most guys over 35+ now have this body or worse You really have to fight this and become ripped to avoid this fate, which means …

Things I learnt after buying a house after 1 year and going through lots of shitty products and things and what I'd do know if I bought or …

Incredible interaction here between @ mattwelter and @pedrotech showing exactly what's going on No judgement on both btw, just interesting …

Last week I got to look through 80+ applications from a seed level incubator batch, through a friend Every website was a 8/10, all vaguely …

Like good odds I'm wrong but I wanted to write this down: It's pretty clear to me that superintelligence is here and it's more powerful tha…

Open an IBKR account, then buy: S&P500 If US citizen: buy VOO If non US citizen: buy VUAA on LSEETF (search VUAA on IBKR) Tech If you want …

Google Maps has finally started showing how many takedown requests they get for reviews. In Germany and many other countries in the Europea…

💸 Today I invested in a new thing: Ethereum is essentially a public spreadsheet with every transaction being visible for everyone forever B…

🇵🇹 Carta aberta ao Governo de Portugal @LMontenegroPSD @Leitao Amaro @miguelluz Senhor Primeiro Ministro Luís Montenegro, Senhor Ministro A…

I'm pretty bad at a lot of things but one thing I've (accidentally or not) have been pretty good at is being early at trends. I went digita…

Here's a fully functional Atari ST inside a blog post. It's one of the first personal computers from 1985 and was a direct competitor to th…

Are we in a bubble right now that's about pop? Well, there's some known indicators that flagged during previous bubbles just before crashes…

As someone who lives in Portugal which already stops every single package you get from outside EU with no exceptions for a decade or more: …

Roughly every four years Bitcoin goes through a "halving", where the reward miners get is cut in half. Historically each halving has kicked…

✨ I think I've been coding almost solely on my VPS with Claude Code for almost a year now All I can say it's just fantastic: no need to kee…

The winners of the Vibe Jam 2026 sponsored by @cursor ai + @boltdotnew + @heyglif + @tripoai are.... 🥁 🥁🥁 🥁🥁🥁 🥁🥁🥁🥁 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 🥁🥁🥁…

I'm back in America My hotel room has: AC that goes down to 18°C/64°F but my sensor shows it's 16°C/61°F! Ice cold means perfect sleep $100…

I have to stop boring all of you with my game ports but I ported another game to web with multiplayer, after Quake 1 yesterday and Quake 2 …

🔌Today I created a virtual web based null modem so now you can finally play Quake I (from 1996) in multiplayer in the browser with other pe…

My friend went to an indie hacker meetup this week and said this: "i went to indie hacker meetup so what’s really interesting is that almos…

🖨️ It took over a year and lots of help from Claude Code but I have now been able to create a real dot matrix printer on the web that print…

So deserved, Revolut is an amazing company and significantly changed my life Before Revolut I had so many problems with banks I used to hav…

It's not just luxury hotels that are a scam, it's almost everything that's luxury that's a scam Gf bought Rimowa suitcases, expensive and s…

Agreed, and I can prove that luxury hotels are mathematically literally very bad value For the amount of "more" money you pay for this luxu…

So here's my latest set up Every site I have is a profile on Termius like hoodmaps .com I click it and immediately I'm in my server and I g…

✉️ Trying @Cloudflare's new Email Sending feature today If you send 1,000,000 emails per month: Postmark: $1,206/mo Resend: $650/mo SendGri…

I got the @airthings Plus (unaffiliated, I just like the product), I think @norbertdragan recommended it I been through so many air sensors…

🏆 For the first time in a decade on @Stripe I've started winning disputes with my vibe coded dispute responder I used to ignore disputes so…

✨ I open sourced my first Chrome extension 🚀 SuperLevels I vibe coded it to replace all my Chrome extensions that are increasingly being bo…

✅ Done 💳 Made an auto dispute response system for Interior AI to see how easy it'd be It syncs old disputes but also catches new disputes v…

🇧🇷 My friend booked a very nice upscale hotel in Rio de Janeiro But to pay for the booking online they required to enter a Brazilian taxpay…

🇵🇹 If you have ever dealt with any Portuguese business (and I have with many in my 5 years here) you know why Portuguese in Portugal simply…

✨ 7 years after I set up a Quake III server, I have it running again, but now in the web browser, much easier 😊 👉 👈 Back in 2019 we'd play …

I've ran OpenClaw for over a month now I've had it in a group chat with 26 friends who all played with it, tried to hack it, made a pretty …

This week I decided to just permanently switch to running Claude Code on the server mostly on bypass permissions mode: c() { IS SANDBOX=1 c…

how to build a bootstrapped startup without funding: 1. pick a problem you personally have. if you don't use your own product daily, quit n…

🇧🇷 Yesterday I visited the biggest indie hacker meetup of Brazil called Comunidade de Micro SaaS It's organized by @brunomicrosaas who is a…

My dad is a cardiologist and when I was a kid we had holidays paid for by Pfizer, Bayer, Novartis, Merck etc. There'd be a 2 hour presentat…

What's VERY interesting here Last few years the European Commission tried to censor speech on social media platforms with the Digital Servi…

Same in large parts of Europe Europeans are NOT lazy But the tax system here actively discourages people from working harder because it lit…

We buy like 5 loafs from the local bakery every few months Then cut all loaf in slices, I got this bread cutting machine for it on Amazon T…

So I bought over $1M in Google today Kinda crazy but also not so crazy I've been the biggest Google hater for years, it was completely mism…

I'm always surprised why the Koreans didn't get richer I studied there, I lived there and I don't really have a real strong reason why They…

🇨🇳 Chinese EVs have been taking the world by storm, whether you like it or not When I look around here on the street in China I try recogni…

Me 5 minutes after meeting somebody new: it's of utmost importance for you to open a broker account and buy Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF (USD…

🇪🇺 So good to see the world wake up to the terrors of the European Commission I hope all the attention helps European people via their coun…

🇨🇳 Chinese tourism is 95% domestic: this means most of the tourists you see in China are not foreigners but just other Chinese Even if we'd…

🇨🇳 Chongqing in the day without the lights honestly looks a lot different It's more gray and dare I say a lot of the buildings look quite d…

🇨🇳 Many people don't know this but Chinese high speed trains are now the fastest in the word and officially faster than even the 🇯🇵 Japanes…

🇨🇳 🚆I took the high speed train in China today We booked business class tickets, which was relatively cheap, just $90 for 3.5 hours You cou…

🇨🇳 We want to take the high speed train in China The problem is we bought this kitchen knife in Japan (not the smartest decision of my life…

🇨🇳 Chinese brands seem to be replacing Western brands in China Just like Chinese owned Luckin Coffee replacing American owned Starbucks in …

🇨🇳 Okay we lost about $150 in power banks and got them confiscated from us at the airport flying to the next city in China because the powe…

🇨🇳 Okay got Alipay to work Alipay is nice because it acts as a proxy to use other apps like Didi, and Didi won't let me sign up directly, s…

I've been annoyingly saying this on X for years and people never believe it Most people are still fat or cardioholics and only run or play …

🇪🇺 More great news from Europe 😊 Gradually, then suddenly. Nothing changed for 2 years and now a lot of things are finally changing: The Ne…

💻 I just wanted to show how easy it is getting a GPU in the regular way compared to the 🇪🇺 EU's "AI Factory" plan where you have to apply f…

What in the F is an AI factory? I had to investigate what the unelected @EU Commission is talking about today So according to them, it's so…

🇪🇺 As a European citizen and AI founder, I can apparently use these "AI Factories", so I just signed up to use them! Every "supercomputer" …

A few years ago I started angel investing in interesting projects, and I'm mostly investing in AI startups. My philosophy is mostly to inve…

🇧🇷 It turns out @markmanson was mostly right about Brazil Over the last 2 years my Brazil ETF lost 16%, so I sold it I also visited Brazil …

John Collison of Stripe had me on A Cheeky Pint for a beer and business chat about indie hacking, running a one person company at scale, ch…

So a few things: I think the uncomfortable truth is that many of the immigrants that come to Portugal (and rest of Southern Europe) particu…

✨ This week I visited my API provider @FAL in San Francisco It's funny to go visit the ACTUAL physical place where you send tens of thousan…

✨ This week I visited @OpenAI's office to finally meet @edwinarbus Edwin used to work at @Stripe for I think almost 10 years and we jokingl…

📣 The winners of the 2025 Vibe Code Game Jam sponsored by @boltdotnew + @coderabbitai + @lambdaapi from over 1,000+ games submitted are... …

✨ Yesterday we had a VERY special guest at the 9th edition of the Weekly Coworking in my house @karpathy dropped by!!! It's an extreme hono…

Finally got to meet @bryan johnson I invited him for me and my girlfriend's favorite food in Asia, which are 🥟 Xiaolongbao dumplings at Din…

🇧🇷 The Brazilian Real currency should be on crypto exchanges because it's the biggest shitcoin ever Imagine losing 19% of your money every …

This comes down to Europe actually being ruled by rich nepotist families who own the big private corporations here They have access to the …

Realistically I feel how Elon does it is smartest: Stay out of politics directly but align with the right politicians and support them to g…

🇪🇺 eu/acc @EmmanuelMacron is the only European leader who gets the seriousness of the situation right now: The EU has only 2 or 3 years to …

Best thing I did was actively surround myself with builders I used to waste my time with people that talk but don't build Talkers cling on …

Here's @balajis and my fireside talk from The Network State conference: 🇪🇺 eu/acc I made eu/acc to Make Europe Great Again (MEGA) 🏴‍☠️ Noma…

✨ I hit a new $420,000/mo revenue record 🍀 420=nice At 80% profit now: 📸 AI $161K/m 📕 $93K/m 🌍 $61K/m 🏡 $43K/m 🎁 $34K/m (merch + X) 🛰 $29K/…

🇪🇺 eu/acc A few weeks ago Mario Draghi asked my recommendations for his report that came out today about European competitiveness I had a c…

Lex Fridman interviewed me for his podcast. We had a fun and wide ranging conversation about my startup philosophy, doing 12 startups in 12…

This blog is a rough collection of tweets describing how I built my retro computer project pieter.com. It started with buying pieter.com an…

✨ Finally met my hero @patrickc, founder of 💳 @Stripe He saw I was in Los Angeles and invited me for dinner so we flew to San Francisco of …

A majority of the worst ranked airports in the world are run by a single company Interesting thing I discovered making when indexing airpor…

This photo was taken in 1997 at the Great Wall of China. It shows Jack Ma (the founder of Alibaba) and Jerry Yang (the founder of Yahoo) Tw…

The rise and fall of 🇵🇹 Lisbon (2020 2024) Lisbon arrivals have now returned to the levels of 4 years ago, just before it started to explod…

✨ I made a new site called 🧳 💨 It's a live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing right now So you can avoid flying with t…

The difference between European and American cafes is so stark In Europe many don't allow laptops anymore In America they usually do and pe…

Also so many stories like this Guy sells his $50K/mo business to a VC funded unicorn Gets offered $10M for it, e.g. 16x multiple on revenue…

So many VC funded exits you hear about are actually massive failures and nobody made any money Which is completely fine if they weren't the…

I grew up thinking Italy was the center of great coffee It took me decades to understand that like French, Portuguese and Spanish coffee, I…

The Euro kinda destroyed Southern Europe's economies The reason is that if you have big differences in wealth/income between two areas like…

The European company landscape is ran by dinosaurs and today I studied it so I can produce you with my evidence 🦖 🇪🇺 80% of top EU companie…

My first interaction with a journalist was 10 years ago on WIRED in 2014! I was so excited they wanted to write about me, the journalist sa…

🗽 It's exactly 400 years ago this month that New York City was founded: As a Dutch person I have to insufferably keep reminding everyone th…

The most concerning part about this is that most Europeans don't realize how stagnant Europe has now become Europeans are literally blue pi…

Open source LLMs reaching GPT 4 levels way earlier than we thought is the most exciting thing now to me With open source RAGs (plugins for …

With all the OpenAI drama, time for me to try self hosting Alpaca, a finetuning ChatGPT type model of LLaMA, which is Facebook's leaked GPT…

Arvid Kahl had me on The Bootstrapped Founder to talk about whether indie hacking is dead in the age of AI, what comes next for solo founde…

Today I learnt why national postal services are SO bad at delivering packages and Amazon is so good Yesterday a CTT (Portugal's national po…

🇧🇷 Invested in Brazil now because I think Brazil is a good investment after traveling here for a month with my gf My TL;DR of Brazil after …

Just in time, my new project! 📸 Photo AI I spent the last 2 months w/ 🩸blood, 🥵 sweat and 🥲 tears building a photorealistic AI Photo studio…

TL;DR I created a new project called This House Does Not Exist which uses AI to generate modern architecture homes. Just 2 weeks ago Stabil…

✨ Here's how to generate A.I. images with Stable Diffusion on your MacBook M1/M2 in less than 30 seconds for free: Upgrade MacOS to the lat…

Sam Parr has been trying to get me to come on his podcast for a year: You& 39;ll have to come on. — Sam Parr (@thesamparr) December 8, 2021…

I was a guest on the Life Done Differently podcast with Neil Witten. I know him because he acquired Sheet2Site from my friend Andrey. I rea…

I went on the Building Remotely podcast with Sondre Rasch to discuss Rebase, my immigration service that helps people move to new places th…

After 4 years I finally got back on the Indie Hackers podcast. The last time, back in in 2018, time was very different. It was 2 years befo…

Tiago from Wannabe Entrepreneur interviewed about the origins of my bootstrapping and moving to Portugal (as he's Portuguese) and starting …

It's been almost a decade now that we've all been promoting the benefits of remote work and location independent living. With the pandemic …

You may have noticed it's practically impossible to contact me. I did that on purpose so I can spend my time how I want to spend it. I don'…

Here's a list of my sites, apps, side projects etc. I make a lot of stuff so it's fun to keep track. I'll try to keep it up to date from la…

Many tried to build coliving startups from 2014 and most failed. Real estate doesn& 39;t scale like software so doesn& 39;t work w/ VC fund…

TL:DR I made a site called InflationChart.com to see if stock markets actually grew when you discount for inflation by the Fed printing rec…

This week I did a live AMA with Twitch celebrity @roxkstar74. We talked for 4 hours about startups, life, drugs, hiring and pretty much any…

No one should ever work. Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you’d care to name comes from working or…

This year I reached several milestones. My revenue grew to over $1 million per year. Traffic increased to 1.4 billion requests per year and…

One of the most common things I see with people launching startup landing pages is that it's completely unclear what the product or service…

"Entrepreneurs are the heroes, not the villains" John Mackey, founder of @WholeFoods pic.twitter.com/TwlllkqyC4 — ؜ (@levelsio) November 30…

Here's my thesis on the next decade of remote work and how it'll transform society. I think we're on the verge of the greatest migration in…

I spoke with Sondre Rasch from Safetywing on their podcast Building Remotely about the future of remote work and how society changes as the…

✨ I'm building a new mini startup this week I found a new idea while 🛣 road tripping in 🇵🇹 Portugal A thread 👇 At lots of restaurants/cafes…

This week I was proud to be a guest for the first time on Product Hunt Radio. The awesomely smart Abadesi asked me lots of questions and we…

It was almost New Year's Eve and I wanted to do something special on Twitter. I had 69,800 followers and because I admittedly am an imperfe…

Coffee is one of my addictions. It's not that I drink it because I'm tired, it's that I drink it because it gives me motivation to go do or…

A very common thing I hear is how hard it is to get a remote job. People seem to apply to many job posts, but very few actually get the job…

In the future writing actual code will be like using a pro DSLR camera, and no code will be like using a smartphone camera. Some pros will …

People have repeatedly asked me for years why now that I can afford it, I don't hire people, build a team and stop coding myself. Instead e…

Anne Laure wrote about having time anxiety: I suffer from time anxiety. Writing this article was cathartic. 😌 ⏳Why we obsess over spending …

I still see people think "talking to customers" works when validating an idea, but people don't always know what they want.  I think real v…

Bali gets internet through a number of sea cables. The most important one is called the Indonesia Global Gateway (IGG). Indonesia consists …

💫Today, exactly 5 years ago, I launched the first version of Nomad List on Product Hunt. Now, 5 years later, I present you with 🌴Nomad List…

I’ve won 2x Product Hunt Awards this year: 🏆 Maker of the Year 🏆 Side Project of the Year 💖 Thank you Product Hunt and everyone for support…

Ever since I visited my first one in Korea with my Dutch friends Sam and Hasse, I’ve been in love with bath houses. In 🇰🇷Korea, they’re cal…

I just did a presentation at Dojo, a coworking space in Canggu, Bali about how to build a side project and turn it into a profitable startu…

I went on the Indie Hackers podcast with Courtland Allen — episode 43, "Confronting Your Fears and Taking a Leap." We talked about how to u…

About a year ago, I met @andreyazimov in Dojo, a coworking space in Bali. He wanted to make web products like me too. So I gave him some ti…

If you want to learn how to 📦 3d scan any object with just your phone's 📸 camera: in this thread I will explain how to do that for free 🙃 p…

If you want to learn how to do 🏥👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️healthcare as a digital nomad or stateless person: in this thread I will explain how to do that ✌️ …

If you want to learn how to 📦 3d scan any object with just your phone's 📸 camera: in this thread I will explain how to do that for free 🙃 Y…

It seems like every week there’s a new hot issue that dominates the social timeline of Facebook and Twitter. And it’s odd. Everyone gets an…

It’s been about 4 years since I left Netherlands to travel around the world. It’s really not travel anymore as much as it’s living for a fe…

I show how I built a mini startup called Hoodmaps in public from the first line of code to a functioning web app that I got to the frontpag…

We’re entering a future of tech workers living luxury lives in private cities isolated from the rest of the world, with corporations reachi…

Today I tweeted a giant thread where I tried to summarize what I learned during my MBA (or MScBA in Europe) at Rotterdam School of Manageme…

TL;DR we need a digital work permit for remote workers since they don’t compete with the local labor markets in the countries they work fro…

I can’t count the amount of times people have told me to add unit tests to my code. Wikipedia describes unit tests as: In computer programm…

Namecheap supports an outdated form of 2FA, namely SMS based authentication. It doesn’t support the modern crypto based 2FA you probably kn…

I lived in 🇹🇼 Taiwan for 3 months. Here’s my TL;DR on Taipei: great food, friendly people, mellow vibes, great for working, great infrastru…

This is Stormzy. A 23 year old grime MC from Croydon, London, UK. This is his most famous track. It has over 50 million plays. It doesn’t h…

This is an short story on how ICANN acts like mafia and has taken my site Nomad List hostage for 2 days now. Here’s how my site used to loo…

The Coworking Unconference 2017 in Chiang Mai invited me to speak. Since it’s a coworking space conference and I’ve been to many coworking …

I got a message today from Archie (@suparchie): Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920) was a Dutch artist who co founded Situationism in 1957. This wa…

I am Pieter Levels, Nomad List founder and indie maker. Nomad List is a site dedicated to the rising trend of traveling remote workers, als…

I’ve used Olark extensively. It’s simple, minimalistic and great to get quick feedback from users on my sites. Olark is a little chat box /…

Flying can be stressful and I think we can make it less so if airlines and airports adjust things for the future. Here’s a quick note/draft…

Developers these days have to do everything. We used to just develop, now some of us (me) design have become designers and we operate our o…

Four years ago I graduated from university. I did a master’s in business, majoring in entrepreneurship. Yes, LOL, studying entrepreneurship…

@ 2h32m03s Dan Bilzerian on hedonic adaptation Dan Bilzerian: The sweet is never as sweet without the bitter. I have an interesting outlook…

Somebody asked me what I would do if I was 18 in 2016. It’s a good question because it’s such an odd time where old institutions and tradit…

I presented about bootstrapping startups to profit at Dutch startup school Growth Tribe. Here’s the transcript. It’s pretty rough because I…

Eddie Bravo: All you guys out there, I’d say, live single lives and experience everything and travel the world. And once you do all that sh…

2020 Update: I've now also tried CBT therapy to go a bit deeper and it's been really helpful to vacuum clean my brain After the last post o…

What happens if you Google “coworking space”? You see people working hard. I see lots of necks, backs, arms, wrist and hands that will need…

I got this pesky problem this week where PHP doesn’t like to json encode erroneous infinite (Inf) and not available (NaN) values. These mig…

A few months ago I went into a float tank for the first time. It was pretty intense. Then I went again. It’s a tank full of salt water wher…

Filipe Carmona (@filcarmona) asked me: @levelsio these img summaries you added to nomadlist , which lang/lib did you use to form it? i'm tr…

A year ago, I made a travel chatbot called Taylor. It uses data from Nomad List to give you recommendations on where to go and also tells y…

A few months ago I set myself the challenge to recreate this photo (shot by Masashi Wakui) By modeling it in 3d! At the end I had this (I p…

A few weeks ago, I went into a float tank for the first time. It was pretty interesting. I had about 5 minutes of true relaxation back then…

Today is day 30 of my challenge to learn 3d in a month. I want to create a Tokyo street scene in 3d. I’ve never done any 3d before. A day a…

Today is day 29 of my challenge to learn 3d in a month. I want to create a Tokyo street scene in 3d. I’ve never done any 3d before. Two day…

Today is day 27 of my challenge to learn 3d in a month. I want to create a Tokyo street scene in 3d. I’ve never done any 3d before. A few d…

Today is day 23 of my challenge to learning 3d in a month. I want to create a Tokyo street scene in 3d. I’ve never done any real 3d before.…

Today is day 22 of my challenge to learning 3d. I want to create a Tokyo street scene in 3d. I’ve never done any real 3d before. Yesterday,…

Today is day 21 of my challenge of learning 3d. I want to create a Tokyo street scene in 3d. I’ve never done any real 3d before. Yesterday …

We’re now a few weeks in to my challenge of learning 3d. I want to create a Tokyo street scene in 3d. I’ve never done any real 3d before. A…

I’ve been hearing about float tanks, sensory deprivation tanks or isolation tanks for years. They’re like enclosed bath tubs, square or rou…

We’re now a few days in to my challenge of learning 3d. I want to create a Tokyo street scene in 3d. I’ve never done any real 3d before. My…

Today is day 4 of my challenge of learning 3d. Today @shoinwolfe from Tokyo tweeted me that he was going to visit the street in Tokyo that …

Today is the first day of my challenge to learning 3d. I want to create a Tokyo street scene in 3d. I’ve never done any real 3d before. Her…

I’m learning 3d and it’s going to be great. The end goal is to get a scene modeled in 3d and then walk around it in VR. I’m starting with t…

Around the world, national governments are moving away from sending physical post to its citizens, to sending it by email. We’re increasing…

Instead of paying $150 getting Apple TV to watch Netflix on your TV, there’s a cheaper and better way. Especially if you’re moving around a…

Here's a crazy idea: automatically pause recurring subscription of users when you detect they aren't actually using your app/service — leve…

When I was a kid, I’d wake up at 7AM every day. If it’d be weekend, I’d run downstairs to watch cartoons. And when we got a computer when I…

In front of me are copies of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Tolkien’s The Hobbit, and Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey (the wonderfully condense…

I did a presentation on the future of digital nomads (and remote workers) in the next 20 years. I used public data to show actual social an…

Tobias van Schneider, one of the most iconic (and beardy) user experience designers of our time, interviewed me for his new podcast NTMY (o…

Twitter is struggling. It’s a public company, with millions of shareholders, and these shareholders want to see user growth. Why? Because i…

Punk died the moment we learnt that the world WAS in fact getting better, not worse @MaxCRoser — levels.io (@levelsio) October 17, 2015 I l…

Stop trying to work you way to the top by being everyone’s friend: it doesn’t work. And on top of that, it’s not honest. Because, you can’t…

I can try write all I want about how living in the the gigantic Asian cities of Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong make me feel as a Dutch kid t…

This generation has been raised to pursue happiness, we should “follow our passions” and we would get there. Us Millenials, we more than ev…

Someone just showed me this: GlocalMe, a device that lets you roam globally (with data) all over the world without having to deal with the …

My chat community on Slack for digital nomads, called \ nomads, has almost 4,000 members now. And it’s been going for almost a year now (ac…

Until 2 years ago, I used to be a PC person. I had a giant tower desktop computer with fans with flashing lights. I replaced that with a ma…

In February of this year, I arrived in Seoul to live there for two months. We could house sit my girlfriend’s friend’s house in Hongdae, th…

These days building an MVP is easy, launching it is a challenge but if you succeed, usually your site will stay up (since it’s such a basic…

So I know by now I do most things in programming in a weird and unconventional way, but somehow that has worked pretty well for me. My site…

I just spent the last week moving ALL my sites to be HTTPS by default. It’s tedious to set up and pricey ($10/y per domain). But it’s worth…

Don’t grow up The idea that you need to do anything is stupid. And people always used to tell me that, like “oh you need to grow up”. To do…

Lots of remote work retreats have popped up lately. They’ve started to attract many people interested in working remotely from exotic locat…

Ruchika Tulshyan argues in WSJ how we still lack the right word to describe people traveling and working in different places: The word “exp…

Almost a year a go, I set a goal to launch 12 startups in 12 months. The story was covered well by WIRED previously. They’re all MVPs, buil…

ANDREW: There’s all these studies showing that if you give a rat unfettered access to drugs and alcohol, the rat will hit the lever until i…

This just happened: 29d ago @meerkat replaced “Pete”‘s app, 2d ago @periscopeco replaces @meerkat , makers have become the invisible hand p…

This is the story about how technology is shaping a completely new kind of future. One that we didn’t really expect at the onset. At the ce…

Katy Bowman: I’m all about natural movement and alignment being a component of that. But I would say that the reason we moved up there was …

This year, 2014, a year in review seems appropriate with everything that has happened. It might seem that this year was 100% awesome for me…

This year I learnt how to build, run and maintain my own server. It now runs on Linode and runs all websites for my projects including all …

The dawn of the twenty first century has proved unsettling. It was not what we expected. Only a few years ago, the world was full with appa…

In the last few weeks I built a Slack community around digital nomads called \ nomads. It now has over 1,250 members that talk to each othe…

You can sign up to the \ nomads community here The hardest part of startups these days is not building the product or app. It’s getting peo…

Paul: People tend to go “if I had this, I would be happy” . The great thing about “having that” is finding out or not if you truly are happ…

Update: Todd from FlightFox has apologized This just happened: lol @flightfox just plagiarised NomadList and so (after a previous horrific …

A few months ago, I set a goal to launch 12 startups in 12 months. They’re all minimum viable products, built to test a hypothesis and see …

\ \ Update: \ \ Thailand’s immigration has stated “People working remotely or running online businesses in Thailand can legally work there …

The self is highly adaptable to its external environment, and ironically, the more you change your external environment, the more you lose …

Since I’ve launched my 12 startups in 12 months challenge, the \ 1 question I get asked is about my work flow and how I can ship so fast. I…

A few months ago, I set a goal to launch 12 startups in 12 months. They’re all minimum viable products, built to test a hypothesis and see …

It’s been a crazy two weeks. I just launched my 4th startup called Nomad List as part of my goal to launch 12 startups in 12 months. They’r…

Today, Hacker News saw an anonymous post rise to the top titled “I’m 25 years old and I am lost”. What do you do when you believe that you …

Manila. How did I get here? Well, randomly. Someone tweeted me that there was a startup competition and you could meet VCs like 500 Startup…

I had just been 6 months back from traveling and living from friend’s couches in Amsterdam. My life at home wasn’t really working out. I wa…

There’s a very good chance the ideals you have when you’re young do not necessarily match society’s script of what an average life should b…

I am a massive fan of Telegram Mesenger. When Facebook announced it acquired WhatsApp, I immediately switched for privacy reasons. Miraculo…

This post on HN today hugely resonated with me. Achievement oriented people are given to depression both when they fail and when they succe…

Today, for the first time, I was asked to sell one of my startups as part of 12 startups in 12 months. Congrats on a great site w/ Go Fucki…

I’m not ready to write about this myself, so here’s some words by another blogger that sum up the most complex set of feelings I’ve had sin…

(..) be wary of following the careers advice your college gives you. In journalism school, for example, students are routinely instructed t…

To reduce procrastination and become faster at launching my projects, I’ve set the goal to launch 12 startups in 12 months. This month, I’m…

To reduce procrastination and become faster at launching my projects, I’ve set the goal to launch \12 startups in 12 months\. A month after…

A few years back I was completely disillusioned with living and working in a big city, basically just to buy more stuff. It still boggles m…

With funded startups often founders get into business purely because there’s a big opportunity. Some growing market in need of a solution. …

If I had to give any advice, it would be to run through ideas quickly . If they’re not gaining traction, or they’re a struggle to grow, dro…

I get these emails every week: From: W.B. Lumbergh To: Me Love your project! We’d love to talk to you about it. Could you jump on a call wi…

To reduce procrastination and become faster at launching my projects, I’ve set the goal to launch 12 startups in 12 months. This month, I’m…

To reduce procrastination and become faster at launching my projects, I’ve set the goal to launch 12 startups in 12 months. A month after e…

Since I’m back in Amsterdam and my birthday was coming up, I thought it’d be fun to celebrate it in a special way. Ever since I studied in …

For the last year, me and many people around me with startups and online businesses have been working hard to automate the daily tasks that…

To reduce procrastination and become faster at launching my projects, I've set the goal to launch 12 startups in 12 months . Each month wil…

I liked the idea of Jennifer Dewalt’s 180 websites in 180 days. However, unlike Jennifer who learned web development from scratch, I can al…

I have about 3TB of data. It holds almost everything I have made digitally, from work files to photos to chat logs, all dating back to 1994…

We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth. —Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s new CEO This is my position on the…

It took 6 months for me to get from 300 to 100 things. It took just 5 minutes for me to get from 100 to 0 things. I just spent the last 9 m…

One of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen is the series All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Adam Curtis. It ties in well wit…

It was late November. I had flown out of Bangkok into Singapore to pickup my new pre ordered iPhone 5S. Four weeks of Singapore and without…

We’re in the middle of a huge Bitcoin bubble resembling Tulip mania. There’s now huge demand in the mainstream to buy bitcoin for speculati…

Drum and Bass has split into two scenes again. As the genre went completely pop in the last few years — with girly tunes like Wilkinson’s A…

I have been obsessed by Rinse FM for the last six months. With the current state of electronic music, where every producer is using the sam…

Since I forgot to extend my booking in the hostel I was staying, I ended up moving to another hostel dorm somewhere around Singapore’s cent…

I like to travel but I don’t like to fly. Flying is one of the most stressful activities for anyone and especially for me. Firstly, I don’t…

Ever since I visited Singapore for the first time three years ago, I’ve been obsessed by it. In 2010, like so many kids during college, I w…

Since Bitcoin is such a new currency, it is still heavily affected by media coverage surrounding it. Usually an article will hit a non main…

After 6 months of Thailand, I had to leave as my visa expired. I decided to visit Vietnam’s capital to see how the remote working scene was…

Dreaming of traveling My friend Kim works at the My My Arthouse in Ho Chi Minh. It’s a guesthouse with private rooms straight in the center…

Last Sunday, my post “What I learnt from bootstrapping my startup in Thailand for 6 months” hit \ 1 on Hacker News and then stayed there fo…

The Bay Area, center of tech, has become too expensive to live for many. Most other big cities like New York, London, Paris are not far beh…

It’s been 6 months now since I moved from Amsterdam to Asia to work remotely. I chose Thailand for its low cost of living and safety. Since…

In 2009, I begun aggressively saving 50% of my income. I will soon reach a substantial figure. People always wonder why I don’t just spend …

We don’t have to have fast food workers. We don’t have to have people who work shit jobs. We don’t have to. We just need to figure out how …

In the last week, Charlene deGuzman’s video “I Forgot My Phone” has received much attention showing us a mirror of our abusive behaviour wi…

Silicon Valley lawyer grellas on the closing of Groklaw due to the NSA’s surveillance of all emails sent over the Internet (Hacker News): G…

I could not think of an email making me happier than when I found this message from Stripe in my inbox today. I was literally jumping of jo…

I started the 100 Thing Challenge 3 months ago after I sold all my stuff and moved to Bangkok, Thailand. With about 300 kg of 200 items whe…

After my bad experiences with renting an apartment in Chiang Mai, I was definitely turned off on renting anything here for a long time. Ret…

“Calling things “professional” is just more of the same – trying to enforce some kind of convention on others by trying to claim that it’s …

After my horrendous experience of renting my first apartment in Chiang Mai, I was lucky to get out. But this time I was forced to. I had a …

If you ask me, automation (e.g. robots) will kill the majority of jobs this century. When the majority of the world population will be unem…

The concept of exploiting purchasing power arbitrage between your income and expenditures seems obvious, logical and fool proof. These days…

After a week of staying at the great Parami Guesthouse, I started asking around for the best places to stay around here. At PunSpace, the c…

\ \ Update 2016/05/01: Please DO NOT follow this post as it’s outdates! StartSSL is considered to be buggy and legacy these days, don’t use…

On my third day, I decided to finally visit the co working space I had heard so much about: PunSpace. It was located near the Nimman area, …

When I came to Thailand after moving from Amsterdam in April, my plan was to transit through Bangkok and move on to Chiang Mai in the North…

Returning in Bangkok from visiting Koh Samui and Koh Phangan, I was in night mode. I wanted to work at night but couldn’t. Both of Bangkok’…

“The technology sphere is one of the few in the US economy that is still fully functional, dynamic, often fast growing, highly innovative, …

After visiting Koh Samui on my trip with roommie 4 life Timo and my Thai friend Mandie, we took the boat to Koh Phangan. Timo was begging t…

After 4 weeks in Bangkok, Timo came to visit me. He is my old roommate from Amsterdam from the house I left in April, and one of my best fr…

After finding places to work in Bangkok, I wanted to have some fun during Bangkok’s nightly hours. So on Saturday, I met up with Jasmine, w…

After discovering Bangkok’s most famous co working space HUBBA and working there for a few days, I decided to check out other spaces too. A…

“If there’s anything young people can hear that can benefit them, the big one is: do what you’re drawn to. Whatever you’re drawn to. Go to …

While resetting my life, I got rid of most of my possessions and without even realising I passed the 100 Thing Challenge. I love what Ronan…

After resetting my too comfortable life I arrived in Bangkok. I quickly tried to figure out where I could work comfortably on my MacBook. I…

Last year, late 2012, I was working on some projects in the night when I suddenly became short breathed and anxious. I never had experience…

I have been on a PC since I was 6 years old. That’s over 20 years now. I was aware of Linux, I even tried Ubuntu every few years for the la…

Here’s my list of tips to optimise OSX for PC users that can help you transition from Mac to PC like I did. DISABLE AUTO ARRANGING DISPLAYS…

Here’s my list of tricks I use in the OSX terminal to work faster since switching from PC to Mac. SHOW FILE CONTENTS IN BASH cat filename Z…

Whitney Johnson on Why Innovators Love Constraints: Constraints lead to faster feedback. Whether they are limits on space, time, money or o…

Great bit by tsunamifury on Hacker News: Most people fail, most projects go unfinished, most beyond that never make enough money to sustain…

A small gem by capred on Hacker News today, responding to Google’s new offices in Ireland: What flashes through my mind when I see this typ…

On Hacker News today, calinet6 writes an insightful comment on why attention to details matters and that it even if most people don’t notic…

Joshua Glenn and Elizabeth Foy Larsen, the creators of the kids activity book Unbored have written a very inspiring article on why educatio…

Rob Fitz “How to Screw Up Your Life by Getting Promoted” (The Startup Toolkit): Maybe the smartest thing I’ve done over the past few years …

“(..) things started changing rapidly in the 1980s with technological advances and the first big wave of corporate downsizing. Corporations…

Watching BBC’s Robert Peston’s brilliant documentary “How the West Went Bust”, it strikes me as the first documentary which actually densel…

My master's thesis at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, September 2012, for an MSc in Business Administration specializin…

For my music channels on YouTube I receive music and video submissions daily. They’re mostly from unknown musicians and you never know when…

Before I left Amsterdam to live in San Francisco for three months with my friend Jim in December of 2011, I sub let my room and packed up a…

It’s funny how the topics of conversations you speak about with friends change significantly through time. Jared has been a long time frien…

Ever since I was a kid I was busy making stuff and when I was introduced to computers at 6 years old, it turned into a passion for creating…

After publishing my debut (drum & bass) album in 2008, I had to finish university. But since I am almost graduating now and I am starting t…

After I released my drum & bass album back in 2008, I took a long timeout from writing music. I had delivered this huge project with 12 tra…

My bachelor thesis at the Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship, VU University Amsterdam, September 2010. I interviewed business leaders at…

Eclectro asked me — making drum & bass as Panda at the time — for an exclusive 20 minute minimix. In their words: With great pride Eclectro…

Back when I made drum & bass as Panda , DNBforum.nl had me on their podcast to present my concept album Retake Manhattan — a themed journey…

Collecting the drum and bass gigs I played as PandaDNB so I don't forget them. Most of these come from my original PandaDNB site: | Date | …