Tech

2026
• 6 JunEveryone can build apps but distribution is the real challenge 𝕏
• 4 JunRevolut fixed my banking nightmares after Rabobank froze my card in Bali and made me homeless in the US 𝕏
• 3 JunThis is how you do a great startup video 𝕏
• 28 MayEU AI fund is all cronyism and taxpayer money burnt 𝕏
• 26 MayMy friend's Lisbon office got burglarized and Portuguese police refused to recover his Airtagged Apple display 𝕏
• 22 MayMy daily laptop and iPhone setup for sites on a VPS with Claude Code 𝕏
• 22 MayMy latest Termius and tmux setup for every site 𝕏
• 17 MayBarcelona has drug dens and violent crime in El Raval that Google Maps won't show 𝕏
• 17 MayHoodmaps.com now has crime data 𝕏
• 10 MayCloudflare is now the cheapest email provider at $354/mo 𝕏
• 9 MayMost EV chargers in Portugal are out of service thanks to EU subsidies 𝕏
• 5 MayMy gf banned from reviewing places on Google Maps in Europe after one 1-star review 𝕏
• 2 MayAirthings is the best air sensor after trying fakes and dodgy ones 𝕏
• 1 MayI still haven't solved the CO2 bedroom challenge 𝕏
• 30 AprWinning my first big Stripe dispute in a decade with a vibe coded responder 𝕏
• 23 AprClaude was dumbified on March 4 exactly when we noticed 𝕏
• 23 AprI open sourced my first Chrome extension SuperLevels 𝕏
• 18 AprMy sites get 4 billion requests a year but I only pay $2,932 to host them on my own VPS 𝕏
• 6 AprMade an auto-dispute response system for Interior AI to see how easy it'd be 𝕏
• 5 AprTech insiders avoid touchscreens and smart homes because they know the downsides 𝕏
• 1 AprI made a free open source xdr boost app for macOS using claude code in 5 minutes 𝕏
• 28 MarGive us more data to make sure it's you after we've been breached 𝕏
• 26 MarChatControl is back with a vengeance 𝕏
• 16 MarQuake III server now runs in the browser 7 years later 𝕏
• 6 MarOpenClaw's real power user is my girlfriend chatting with it in Telegram 𝕏
• 6 MarPhotoai.com is a 40870 line index.php making 105000/mo revenue and 80000/mo profit 𝕏
• 28 FebI ran Claude Code on the server in bypass mode and outran my todo list 𝕏
• 24 FebBuilt my own gaussian splat viewer for Interior AI 𝕏
• 24 FebHow to build a bootstrapped startup without funding 𝕏
• 21 Feb1983 Wall Street Raiders game reverse engineered from 115000 lines of BASIC 𝕏
• 17 FebSteipete on why Europe can't retain talent due to regulations and labor laws 𝕏
• 16 FebAdded dark mode to my http proxy for reading on kindle 𝕏
• 3 FebEU countries are now trying to censor speech on social media nationally after DSA failed 𝕏
• 20 JanEurope's 28th regime could create a Delaware for startups 𝕏
• 15 JanThe era of fake e-girl influencers has started 𝕏
• 13 JanMoved all my sites LLM APIs now to xAI 𝕏
2025
• 23 DecI glued an AirTag to a yogurt box to track if recycling is real 𝕏
• 17 DecI bought over $1M in Google because Sergey returned and they're winning AI 𝕏
• 15 DecSergey Brin got so bored of his $450M yacht he had to create things again 𝕏
• 13 DecI got 100+ mbps plane internet on Qatar Airways with Starlink 𝕏
• 13 DecAmap is my favorite navigation app in China 𝕏
• 13 DecChinese EVs are beating German cars with better software and innovation 𝕏
• 13 DecThe EU is in control of what you see online thanks to the Digital Services Act 𝕏
• 13 DecNIO is another very popular EV brand in China 𝕏
• 4 DecChinese high speed trains are now faster than the Japanese Shinkansen 𝕏
• 29 NovRich BigTech wives destabilizing society from 2016 to 2023 via giant NGO donations 𝕏
• 28 NovChinese brands replacing Western brands in China 𝕏
• 28 NovRentable powerbanks in China scan with Alipay but would get stolen in US or Europe 𝕏
• 27 NovBeijing uses robot arms at toll booths 𝕏
• 27 NovChina airport confiscated our power banks without CCC certification 𝕏
• 26 NovGot Alipay to work in China as proxy for Didi Meituan and Baidu 𝕏
• 25 NovChina isn't easy to travel 𝕏
• 21 NovNetherlands changes stock options tax to us system for startups 𝕏
• 20 NovEU is finally scaling down GDPR, AI Act and cookie banner laws 𝕏
• 17 NovOnly the US and China have actual substantial startup activity now 𝕏
• 13 NovEU ChatControl is back with even more far reaching surveillance through the back door 𝕏
• 27 OctEuropean Commission denies my request for GPUs 𝕏
• 24 OctEU's AI factory plan requires proposals while Lambda gives you 8x H100s in 5 minutes 𝕏
• 24 OctI can't use the EU's GPUs because Horizon 2020 closed in 2020 𝕏
• 23 OctEU AI factories have 500x less compute than xAI 𝕏
• 23 OctEU AI factories require proposal calls and endless ethical questionnaires instead of simple GPU access 𝕏
• 29 SepGet a VPS at Hetzner already 𝕏
• 25 AugCorrelation between screen size and your importance in the company 𝕏
• 22 JunI made a trailer for the future of humanity (e/acc) 𝕏
• 15 JunI randomly discovered Dubai has an absolutely massive solar farm 𝕏
• 21 MayVisiting my API provider FAL in San Francisco 𝕏
• 11 MayVisiting OpenAI's office in San Francisco and seeing the city's improvements 𝕏
• 10 AprEurope wants to reduce its anti-AI act and GDPR to compete in AI 𝕏
• 10 AprAndrej Karpathy visited my weekly coworking in Portugal 𝕏
• 7 AprEurope to slash GDPR privacy law in weeks to compete with US and China 𝕏
• 25 MarWhat ChatGPT says the devil would do to keep an entire nation sick 𝕏
• 4 MarWhat's crazy when you read about Taiwan Semiconductors is you realize Nvidia are essentially dropshippers 𝕏
• 25 FebFull multiplayer Python websockets game built almost 100% by AI 𝕏
• 16 FebMan investigated after calling German vice-chancellor ‘idiot’ 𝕏
• 11 JanEurope slowly realizing it's losing the last control it had on the world with ignored censorship requests 𝕏
2024
• 29 DecThe only planes left with zero fatal accidents now 𝕏
• 22 DecA tractor is a great parallel to AI because it helps people do their work easier and faster 𝕏
• 18 DecSelf driving cars react 150x faster than a human driver 𝕏
• 14 DecEurope is ruled by rich nepotist families and unelected corporatist cronies killing startups 𝕏
• 10 DecHow Elon does politics is smartest and my 6 goals for Europe 𝕏
• 9 DecI got 1 billion views on X in the last 12 months 𝕏
• 9 DecBoth a16z and YC's request for startups for 2025 just came out 𝕏
• 8 DecI put an AirTag in my plastic recycling to see if it actually gets recycled 𝕏
• 22 NovMy minimal solo founder setup with 100% automation and 99% profit margins 𝕏
• 1 NovWhat is happening to Google now is pretty much textbook of what happened to Xerox PARC, but worse 𝕏
• 1 NovSundar Pichai fumbled Google's AI head start and it'll be studied for decades 𝕏
• 31 OctRent an empty office space and invent the future 𝕏
• 6 OctMacron warns EU has only 2 or 3 years before total US and China dominance 𝕏
• 26 SepWill there be anyone left at OpenAI in the future? 𝕏
• 26 SepSam Altman will give himself 7% of OpenAI worth $10.5B 𝕏
• 22 SepFireside chat with Balaji Srinivasan at Network State Conference 2024
• 16 SepThierry Breton resigns after EU AI Act and DSA criticism 𝕏
• 12 SepArresting Jack Ma was the dumbest thing China has ever done 𝕏
• 9 SepMy recommendations for mario draghi's EU competitiveness report 𝕏
• 5 SepBali broke ground on a subway that will connect the entire island 𝕏
• 5 SepGoogle APIs are the worst APIs on the web to work with 𝕏
• 31 AugEuropean founder had to move to the US to build a humanoid robot company 𝕏
• 25 AugPavel Durov arrested in France 𝕏
• 24 AugI still meet programmers who are not using AI to code 𝕏
• 24 AugThe web development industrial complex has lied to your face 𝕏
• 20 AugLex Fridman Podcast: My entire life story 𝕏
• 19 AugApple Maps vs Google Maps in 2024 𝕏
• 30 JulAmazon is a showroom for Aliexpress which is a showroom for Taobao 𝕏
• 30 JulBuilding Pieter.com, my retro PC in the browser 𝕏
• 24 JulFinally met my hero Patrick Collison founder of Stripe 𝕏
• 13 JulThierry Breton represents 100+ year old European dinosaur companies as EU tech policy director 𝕏
• 10 JulAll Airbus models made in the last 25 years have zero fatal crashes 𝕏
• 9 JulIf cars were invented today the European Union would have regulated them out of existence in favor of horses 𝕏
• 4 JulJapan is not futuristic it's a fossil stuck in 1990 unlike China Korea and Vietnam 𝕏
• 2 JulJack Ma met Jerry Yang at the great wall of China in 1997 𝕏
• 30 JunI made luggage losers a live ranking of airlines by lost luggage 𝕏
• 15 JunLearn Python for remote AI jobs paying median 80k 𝕏
• 13 JunSo many VC funded exits are actually massive failures 𝕏
• 5 JunUS proposes ban on DJI drones after it became world's biggest manufacturer 𝕏
• 19 MayUS bans Chinese companies after they become market leaders 𝕏
• 27 MarWayfair used my AI interior design tool to build their own 𝕏
• 21 MarUber is completely useless in Argentina because of a hardcoded price check 𝕏
2023
• 22 DecAI generated images are 10000x cheaper than any human could charge 𝕏
• 10 DecOpen source LLMs reaching GPT-4 levels way earlier than we thought is the most exciting thing now to me 𝕏
• 9 DecThere are more regulators in this room than AI scientists in all of EU 𝕏
• 6 DecNobody will build apps on Gemini because Google always shuts things down 𝕏
• 2 DecYou're just lucky 𝕏
• 27 NovOpen sourced my entire ChatGPT code for image text adventures 𝕏
• 21 NovTrying self hosting alpaca a finetuned llama model after OpenAI drama 𝕏
• 16 NovI made my first video game with ChatGPT DALL-E RunwayML and ElevenLabs 𝕏
• 13 NovHow i'd validate 30 startup ideas in 2023 with tiktok and Stripe preorders 𝕏
• 25 SepActionable marketing tactic to get tiktok videos about your app for $100-$300 𝕏
• 9 SepI asked GPT4 which countries you should invest in real estate 𝕏
• 7 SepUnbothered writing vanilla JavaScript while web dev Twitter fights over TypeScript 𝕏
• 4 AugGood example is GoJEK a super app in Asia where you can do everything from ordering an Uber to massage and investing 𝕏
• 13 JulLuxury restaurant in Portugal won't accept Visa or MasterCard but barefoot food cart guy in Brazil does 𝕏
• 13 JulMacBook adaptor costs $220 in Brazil instead of $99 due to import taxes 𝕏
• 3 JulPhoto AI is almost 14000 lines of raw php making $61808 per month 𝕏
• 24 JunWagner coup is like when you hire a web dev and give GitHub access and he takes over your site 𝕏
• 20 JunBig Dutch dairy company wants me to help create their AI strategy 𝕏
• 17 JunWhile the EU fights about nuclear energy China plans 150 new reactors 𝕏
• 15 JunI wish everywhere had these power outlets that accept any plug from US UK EU plus USB-C 𝕏
• 14 JunPhoto AI adds try on mode for AI clothing models 𝕏
• 13 JunSo why do you have a sticker over your webcam 𝕏
• 29 AprEasiest hack to save lots of money is registering as a company 𝕏
• 15 AprCasio watch face for Apple Watch 𝕏
• 18 MarTwo types of people now 𝕏
• 18 FebVC startup $100M exit nets 4 cofounders $47 per hour after dilution and taxes 𝕏
• 10 FebMy new project Photo AI a photorealistic AI photo studio 𝕏
• 6 FebGoogle AI launches are all press releases without functioning products 𝕏
• 16 JanMy new AI model is great 𝕏
2022
• 19 DecI proved people now have AI bots using ChatGPT to reply to tweets 𝕏
• 15 DecMusic generated by finetuning Stable Diffusion on spectrograms then generating any song possible 𝕏
• 10 DecThe real opportunity in AI for most people is building a front end around it 𝕏
• 11 NovMy GitHub contribution graph from 2014 to 2022 𝕏
• 7 NovSold $100,000 in AI-generated avatars with AvatarAI.me in 10 days 𝕏
• 28 OctCreate your own AI avatars with my new mini project avatarAI.me 𝕏
• 10 OctAsking successful people about their tech stack is focusing on the wrong thing 𝕏
• 4 OctHow I built Interiorai.com from scratch in 5 days 𝕏
• 26 SepDon't make the goddamn app build a functional mobile site instead 𝕏
• 18 SepThis House Does Not Exist
• 5 SepMy new project thishousedoesnotexist.org lets you generate AI ArchDaily style houses 𝕏
• 3 SepOrdered custom tailored 100% cotton shirts from son of a tailor 𝕏
• 2 SepHow to generate AI images with Stable Diffusion on MacBook M1/M2 for free 𝕏
• 17 AugCraigslist has the most usable UX ever made 𝕏
• 28 JulTodo.txt users sit at both ends of the IQ bell curve 𝕏
2021
• 23 NovWeb4 will be finally closing our computer and going outside 𝕏
• 31 OctMe when I deploy to production without testing 𝕏
• 9 SepMade a fully functional fake VS Code to browse remote jobs without your boss finding out 𝕏
• 6 SepChinese companies are silently ending US tech dominance 𝕏
• 26 Jun3 of my close friends were hacked this month because they didn't have 2FA 𝕏
• 6 JunI just bought my first billboard in front of Apple's headquarters 𝕏
• 12 AprPhotopea makes almost $1M/y built by Ukrainian indie maker with vanilla JS 𝕏
• 12 AprRemote ok is a single php file generating $101101 this month 𝕏
• 10 JanI did a live 4+ hour AMA on Twitch w/ @roxkstar74
2020
• 19 DecThis is the most exciting time in history to start a company online 𝕏
• 10 DecNormalization of non-deviance
• 2 NovOverengineering everything is the disease of modern day developers 𝕏
• 21 OctQuibi burned 2 billion dollars of VC funding in 6 months 𝕏
• 2 Oct2020 sucked so I'm giving away another MacBook Pro 16" to cheer people up 𝕏
• 21 SepRemoteOK.io is a single PHP file generating $65,651 this month 𝕏
• 28 AugThis week i built a startup idea generator with GPT-3 𝕏
• 12 MayTwitter will allow employees to work from home permanently 𝕏
• 2 MayI added a fake Japanese city called Dorobō to Nomad List to catch data thieves 𝕏
• 11 AprProduct Hunt Podcast: 5 years in startups with Abadesi
• 11 JanTwitter giveaways can be hacked to win every time
2019
• 21 DecHow to remove the macOS screenshot delay 𝕏
• 1 NovCurrent MacBook Pro status with broken keyboard and frozen shrimp 𝕏
• 12 SepThe odds of getting a remote job are less than 1% (because everyone wants one)
• 8 SepIn the future writing actual code will be like using a pro DSLR camera, and no code will be like using a smartphone camera
• 7 SepIn the future writing code will be like using a pro dslr and no code like a smartphone camera 𝕏
• 29 AugInstead of hiring people, do things yourself to stay relevant
• 18 AugEurope is very risky when monetary policy is almost out of gas, political fragmentation and missing the technology revolution 𝕏
• 5 AugMonitoring Bali's undersea internet cable
• 16 MarHow my video went viral with 150,000 RTs and 10 million views but Facebook pages bait-and-switched me for $0 𝕏
2018
• 5 DecPhotopea is a 100% free browser version of Photoshop and it's better 𝕏
• 24 NovIn Beijing you can add your public transit card to Apple Wallet 𝕏
• 23 NovEvery receipt in Beijing gives you a QR code for digital bookkeeping 𝕏
• 1 OctVisited my favorite fintech Revolut's office in London and met the co-founder 𝕏
• 26 SepLaunched no more Google on product hunt 𝕏
• 18 AugWhy Europe can't do tech: low risk tolerance chart 𝕏
• 29 JulInternet speed vs murder rate 𝕏
• 27 JulBarriers of entry to building a startup have never been so low 𝕏
• 18 JulThe internet complains about facebook selling data but wants indie apps for free 𝕏
• 4 JulEU is making it impossible for startups to operate 𝕏
• 27 MayWent to a robot hotel with self check-in and no humans 𝕏
• 6 MarBrazil hackers built an AI bot that finds anomalies in public spending 𝕏
• 29 JanI'm Product Hunt's Maker of the Year again!
• 26 JanUsing osx’s screenshot tool as a screen ruler 𝕏
• 24 JanTurning side projects into profitable startups
• 3 JanWhat I learnt from 100 days of shipping
2017
• 22 DecHalf the people in Asian coworking spaces are now working on crypto 𝕏
• 9 DecThe narrative of 20 year old founders is false most are over 36 𝕏
• 7 DecDevsplaining is high brow elitist behavior that keeps normal people out of programming 𝕏
• 7 DecRemoteOK.io is a single PHP file generating $2,342.04 a day 𝕏
• 22 OctHow to 3d scan any object with just your phone's camera
• 21 SepIKEA’s ARKit app is 🔥🔥🔥 𝕏
• 9 AugIn a world of outrage, mute words
• 26 JulBuilding a startup in public: from first line of code to frontpage of Reddit
• 24 JulFacebook and Google are building their own cities: the inevitable future of private tech worker towns
• 12 JulWe did it! Namecheap has introduced 2FA
• 23 MayUsing Uptime Robot to build unit tests for the web
• 8 MayNamecheap still doesn't support 2FA in 2017 (update: they do now!)
• 3 MayTaipei is boring, and maybe that's not such a bad thing
• 3 AprI battled a 20-ppl million-dollar VC-funded team building the same product for 2 years 𝕏
• 17 FebThe ICANN mafia has taken my site hostage for 2 days now
2016
• 12 DecMake your own Olark feedback form without Olark
• 29 OctHow to fix flying
• 19 OctRobots make mistakes too: How to log your server with push notifications straight to your phone
• 11 OctFrom web dev to VR: How to get started with VR development
• 17 JulFixing "Inf and NaN cannot be JSON encoded" in PHP the easy way
• 15 JunHow to add shareable pictures to your website with some PhantomJS magic
• 29 MayMy chatbot gets catcalled
• 2 FebI'm Learning 3d 🎮
• 27 JanThe things I have to do to read an email sent to me by my government
• 12 JanHow to use your iPhone as a better Apple TV alternative (with VPN)
• 5 JanMy 2015 revenue was $202,785 with one Linode server one MacBook no office no house hardly any expenses and $0 funding 𝕏
2015
• 23 DecHere's a crazy idea: automatically pause recurring subscription of users when you detect they aren't actually using your app
• 9 NovWordPress's success shows it doesn't matter how great the code is, it's about the user experience first and foremost 𝕏
• 8 NovSpeedtest on slow internet 𝕏
• 28 OctFirst a cookie law then VATMOSS now a net neutrality law that's against net neutrality 𝕏
• 25 OctThere will be 1 billion digital nomads by 2035
• 21 OctTobias van Schneider interviewed me about everything
• 18 OctWhy doesn't Twitter just asks its users to pay?
• 15 OctStop being everyone's friend
• 1 SepWhy global roaming data solutions don't make any sense
• 26 AugHow to export your Slack's entire archive as HTML message logs
• 24 AugHow to play GTA V on your MacBook (and any other PC game)
• 14 MayI uploaded 4 terabyte over Korea's 4G, and paid $48
• 8 MayHow I sped up Nomad List by 31% with SPDY, CloudFront and PageSpeed
• 4 MayMy weird code commenting style based on HTML tags
• 1 MayNow is probably the time to make HTTPS the default on all your sites and apps
• 28 MarMakers have become the invisible hand
• 7 MarHow technology is shaping our future: billions of self-employed makers and a few mega corporations
2014
• 15 DecHow to backup your Linode or Digital Ocean VPS to Amazon S3
• 1 DecThe total chaos that the dawn of the 21st century has become
• 27 OctThe ideal place to start a startup is not necessarily in Silicon Valley
• 14 OctThis is what happens when FlightFox copies your entire site without attribution
• 1 OctOn Thailand's immigration police targeting digital nomads
• 2 SepHow I build my minimum viable products
• 22 JunHow to access anyone's Telegram messages without unlocking their phone
• 2 AprHow Automation Left Us Feeling Empty
• 1 MarI'm Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months
• 14 FebHow to protect your backups from solar flares with a faraday cage
• 4 JanAll Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
2013
• 28 NovIt's practically impossible for regular people to buy Bitcoin
• 21 NovHow I predict Bitcoin's price by tracking Twitter mentions
• 19 OctWhat happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day
• 19 OctRemote working is the future
• 16 SepNational Borders Have Become Irrelevant
• 4 SepA Culture of Distraction is Not The Problem
• 7 AugStripe launches beta in the Netherlands
• 22 JulGoogle+ spamming people every 2 weeks to put up a profile photo
• 24 JunWith jobs gone, will robot owners pay people's income?
• 13 JunAdd HTTPS to NGINX for free and help make the world more secure
• 23 May"There simply are no other fields in which I can spend $100 tomorrow and set up a new business..."
• 9 MarHow I switched from PC to Mac in less than 7 days
• 9 MarOSX for Windows users
• 9 MarOSX Terminal Tricks
• 21 FebBlack Mirror is the best TV series I have seen in years
• 11 FebWatch The Pirate Bay: Away From the Keyboard
2012
• 18 OctThe death of the corporate drone
• 4 OctNew Panda Mix Show branding and website
• 5 JulWhy buying YouTube views is bad