Tech

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25 Aug There are more apps than ever but less sales than ever 𝕏
24 Aug Claude Code treats you like a child getting lootboxes so I'll probably switch to xAI 𝕏
24 Aug I kinda missed at what point the Linux community turned into cosplaying furries 𝕏
21 Aug I'm starting to feel we're reaching a similar moment with Apple 𝕏
20 Aug Being real on the internet is special 𝕏
18 Aug Helicopters are a fundamentally unstable design 𝕏
15 Aug My X revenue hit a new record of about $25,000 this month 𝕏
13 Aug DHH shared a cool tip to hook Claude Code up to your Ubiquiti router and improve your WiFi 𝕏
8 Aug The Dead Internet Theory could become real if AI replaces all human content creation 𝕏
8 Aug I'm deleting Claude
6 Aug Meta is allegedly building its own search engine so its AI queries don't train Google's models 𝕏
6 Aug Meta is doing heavy scraping on my sites including url2og possibly for image video or world models 𝕏
4 Aug Claude's AI output is so verbose and jargon dense that I have to look up every word 𝕏

28 May EU AI fund is all cronyism and taxpayer money burnt 𝕏
26 May My friend's Lisbon office got burglarized and Portuguese police refused to recover his Airtagged Apple display 𝕏
22 May My daily laptop and iPhone setup for sites on a VPS with Claude Code 𝕏
22 May My latest Termius and tmux setup for every site 𝕏
17 May Barcelona has drug dens and violent crime in El Raval that Google Maps won't show 𝕏
17 May Hoodmaps.com now has crime data 𝕏
10 May Cloudflare is now the cheapest email provider at $354/mo 𝕏
9 May Most EV chargers in Portugal are out of service thanks to EU subsidies 𝕏
6 May I installed Cloudflare Tunnel to secure my VPS even further and block all inbound traffic on Hetzner 𝕏
5 May My gf banned from reviewing places on Google Maps in Europe after one 1-star review 𝕏
2 May Airthings is the best air sensor after trying fakes and dodgy ones 𝕏
1 May I still haven't solved the CO2 bedroom challenge 𝕏

28 Mar Give us more data to make sure it's you after we've been breached 𝕏
26 Mar ChatControl is back with a vengeance 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
6 Mar Photoai.com is a 40,870 line index.php making 105,000/mo revenue and 80,000/mo profit 𝕏

28 Feb I ran Claude Code on the server in bypass mode and outran my todo list 𝕏
24 Feb Built my own gaussian splat viewer for Interior AI 𝕏
24 Feb How to build a bootstrapped startup without funding 𝕏
21 Feb 1983 Wall Street Raiders game reverse engineered from 115,000 lines of BASIC 𝕏
17 Feb Steipete on why Europe can't retain talent due to regulations and labor laws 𝕏
16 Feb Added dark mode to my http proxy for reading on kindle 𝕏
3 Feb EU countries are now trying to censor speech on social media nationally after DSA failed 𝕏

20 Jan Europe's 28th regime could create a Delaware for startups 𝕏
15 Jan The era of fake e-girl influencers has started 𝕏
13 Jan Moved all my sites LLM APIs now to xAI 𝕏

23 Dec I glued an AirTag to a yogurt box to track if recycling is real 𝕏
17 Dec I bought over $1M in Google because Sergey returned and they're winning AI 𝕏
15 Dec Sergey Brin got so bored of his $450M yacht he had to create things again 𝕏
13 Dec I got 100+ mbps plane internet on Qatar Airways with Starlink 𝕏
13 Dec Amap is my favorite navigation app in China 𝕏
13 Dec Chinese EVs are beating German cars with better software and innovation 𝕏
13 Dec The EU is in control of what you see online thanks to the Digital Services Act 𝕏
13 Dec NIO is another very popular EV brand in China 𝕏
4 Dec Chinese high speed trains are now faster than the Japanese Shinkansen 𝕏

29 Nov Rich BigTech wives destabilizing society from 2016 to 2023 via giant NGO donations 𝕏
28 Nov Chinese brands replacing Western brands in China 𝕏
28 Nov Rentable powerbanks in China scan with Alipay but would get stolen in US or Europe 𝕏
27 Nov Beijing uses robot arms at toll booths 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
25 Nov China isn't easy to travel 𝕏
21 Nov Netherlands changes stock options tax to US system for startups 𝕏
20 Nov EU is finally scaling down GDPR, AI Act and cookie banner laws 𝕏
17 Nov Only the US and China have actual substantial startup activity now 𝕏
13 Nov EU ChatControl is back with even more far reaching surveillance through the back door 𝕏

27 Oct European Commission denies my request for GPUs 𝕏
24 Oct EU's AI factory plan requires proposals while Lambda gives you 8x H100s in 5 minutes 𝕏
24 Oct I can't use the EU's GPUs because Horizon 2020 closed in 2020 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

29 Sep Get a VPS at Hetzner already 𝕏

25 Aug Correlation between screen size and your importance in the company 𝕏

22 Jun I made a trailer for the future of humanity (e/acc) 𝕏
15 Jun I randomly discovered Dubai has an absolutely massive solar farm 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

10 Apr Europe wants to reduce its anti-AI act and GDPR to compete in AI 𝕏
10 Apr Andrej Karpathy visited my weekly coworking in Portugal 𝕏
7 Apr Europe to slash GDPR privacy law in weeks to compete with US and China 𝕏

11 Jan Europe slowly realizing it's losing the last control it had on the world with ignored censorship requests 𝕏

29 Dec The only planes left with zero fatal accidents now 𝕏
22 Dec A tractor is a great parallel to AI because it helps people do their work easier and faster 𝕏
18 Dec Self driving cars react 150x faster than a human driver 𝕏
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
9 Dec I got 1 billion views on X in the last 12 months 𝕏
9 Dec Both a16z and YC's request for startups for 2025 just came out 𝕏
8 Dec I put an AirTag in my plastic recycling to see if it actually gets recycled 𝕏

31 Oct Rent an empty office space and invent the future 𝕏
6 Oct Macron warns EU has only 2 or 3 years before total US and China dominance 𝕏

26 Sep Will there be anyone left at OpenAI in the future? 𝕏
26 Sep Sam Altman will give himself 7% of OpenAI worth $10.5B 𝕏
22 Sep Fireside chat with Balaji Srinivasan at Network State Conference 2024
16 Sep Thierry Breton resigns after EU AI Act and DSA criticism 𝕏
12 Sep Arresting Jack Ma was the dumbest thing China has ever done 𝕏
9 Sep My recommendations for mario draghi's EU competitiveness report 𝕏
5 Sep Bali broke ground on a subway that will connect the entire island 𝕏
5 Sep Google APIs are the worst APIs on the web to work with 𝕏

31 Aug European founder had to move to the US to build a humanoid robot company 𝕏
25 Aug Pavel Durov arrested in France 𝕏
24 Aug I still meet programmers who are not using AI to code 𝕏
24 Aug The web development industrial complex has lied to your face 𝕏
20 Aug Lex Fridman Podcast 𝕏
19 Aug Apple Maps vs Google Maps in 2024 𝕏

30 Jun I made luggage losers a live ranking of airlines by lost luggage 𝕏
15 Jun Learn Python for remote AI jobs paying median 80k 𝕏
13 Jun So many VC funded exits are actually massive failures 𝕏
5 Jun US proposes ban on DJI drones after it became world's biggest manufacturer 𝕏

19 May US bans Chinese companies after they become market leaders 𝕏

27 Mar Wayfair used my AI interior design tool to build their own 𝕏
21 Mar Uber is completely useless in Argentina because of a hardcoded price check 𝕏

22 Dec AI generated images are 10,000x cheaper than any human could charge 𝕏
10 Dec Open source LLMs reaching GPT-4 levels way earlier than we thought is the most exciting thing now to me 𝕏
9 Dec There are more regulators in this room than AI scientists in all of EU 𝕏
6 Dec Nobody will build apps on Gemini because Google always shuts things down 𝕏
2 Dec You're just lucky 𝕏

27 Nov Open sourced my entire ChatGPT code for image text adventures 𝕏
21 Nov Trying self hosting alpaca a finetuned llama model after OpenAI drama 𝕏
16 Nov I made my first video game with ChatGPT DALL-E RunwayML and ElevenLabs 𝕏
13 Nov How I'd validate 30 startup ideas in 2023 with TikTok and Stripe preorders 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

24 Jun Wagner coup is like when you hire a web dev and give GitHub access and he takes over your site 𝕏
20 Jun Big Dutch dairy company wants me to help create their AI strategy 𝕏
17 Jun While the EU fights about nuclear energy China plans 150 new reactors 𝕏
15 Jun I wish everywhere had these power outlets that accept any plug from US UK EU plus USB-C 𝕏
14 Jun Photo AI adds try on mode for AI clothing models 𝕏
13 Jun So why do you have a sticker over your webcam 𝕏

29 Apr Easiest hack to save lots of money is registering as a company 𝕏
15 Apr Casio watch face for Apple Watch 𝕏

18 Mar Two types of people now 𝕏

18 Feb VC startup $100M exit nets 4 cofounders $47 per hour after dilution and taxes 𝕏
10 Feb My new project Photo AI a photorealistic AI photo studio 𝕏
6 Feb Google AI launches are all press releases without functioning products 𝕏

16 Jan My new AI model is great 𝕏

11 Nov My GitHub contribution graph from 2014 to 2022 𝕏
7 Nov Sold $100,000 in AI-generated avatars with AvatarAI.me in 10 days 𝕏

28 Oct Create your own AI avatars with my new mini project avatarAI.me 𝕏
10 Oct Asking successful people about their tech stack is focusing on the wrong thing 𝕏
4 Oct How I built Interiorai.com from scratch in 5 days 𝕏

26 Sep Don't make the goddamn app build a functional mobile site instead 𝕏
18 Sep This House Does Not Exist
5 Sep My new project thishousedoesnotexist.org lets you generate AI ArchDaily style houses 𝕏
3 Sep Ordered custom tailored 100% cotton shirts from son of a tailor 𝕏
2 Sep How to generate AI images with Stable Diffusion on MacBook M1/M2 for free 𝕏

17 Aug Craigslist has the most usable UX ever made 𝕏

28 Jul Todo.txt users sit at both ends of the IQ bell curve 𝕏

23 Nov Web4 will be finally closing our computer and going outside 𝕏

31 Oct Me when I deploy to production without testing 𝕏
30 Oct Pov building an immigration-as-a-service startup 𝕏

12 Apr Photopea makes almost $1M/y built by Ukrainian indie maker with vanilla JS 𝕏
12 Apr Remote OK is a single PHP file generating $101,101 this month 𝕏

10 Jan I did a live 4+ hour AMA on Twitch w/ @roxkstar74

19 Dec This is the most exciting time in history to start a company online 𝕏
10 Dec Normalization of non-deviance

2 Nov Overengineering everything is the disease of modern day developers 𝕏

21 Oct Quibi burned 2 billion dollars of VC funding in 6 months 𝕏
2 Oct 2020 sucked so I'm giving away another MacBook Pro 16" to cheer people up 𝕏

21 Sep RemoteOK.io is a single PHP file generating $65,651 this month 𝕏

28 Aug This week I built a startup idea generator with GPT-3 𝕏

11 Apr Product Hunt Podcast: 5 years in startups with Abadesi

11 Jan Twitter giveaways can be hacked to win every time

21 Dec How to remove the macOS screenshot delay 𝕏

1 Nov Current MacBook Pro status with broken keyboard and frozen shrimp 𝕏

16 Mar How my video went viral with 150,000 RTs and 10 million views but Facebook pages bait-and-switched me for $0 𝕏

5 Dec Photopea is a 100% free browser version of Photoshop and it's better 𝕏

24 Nov In Beijing you can add your public transit card to Apple Wallet 𝕏
23 Nov Every receipt in Beijing gives you a QR code for digital bookkeeping 𝕏

1 Oct Visited my favorite fintech Revolut's office in London and met the co-founder 𝕏

26 Sep Launched no more Google on product hunt 𝕏

18 Aug Why Europe can't do tech: low risk tolerance chart 𝕏

29 Jul Internet speed vs murder rate 𝕏
27 Jul Barriers of entry to building a startup have never been so low 𝕏
18 Jul The internet complains about facebook selling data but wants indie apps for free 𝕏
4 Jul EU is making it impossible for startups to operate 𝕏

27 May Went to a robot hotel with self check-in and no humans 𝕏

6 Mar Brazil hackers built an AI bot that finds anomalies in public spending 𝕏

29 Jan I'm Product Hunt's Maker of the Year again!
26 Jan Using osx’s screenshot tool as a screen ruler 𝕏
24 Jan Turning side projects into profitable startups
3 Jan What I learnt from 100 days of shipping

27 Sep I 3d scanned my parents' house and now I can walk through it in VR from inside Telegram 𝕏
21 Sep IKEA’s ARKit app is 🔥🔥🔥 𝕏

3 Apr I battled a 20-ppl million-dollar VC-funded team building the same product for 2 years 𝕏

17 Feb The ICANN mafia has taken my site hostage for 2 days now

12 Dec Make your own Olark feedback form without Olark

17 Jul Fixing "Inf and NaN cannot be JSON encoded" in PHP the easy way

15 Jun How to add shareable pictures to your website with some PhantomJS magic

29 May My chatbot gets catcalled

2 Feb I'm Learning 3d 🎮

23 Dec Here's a crazy idea: automatically pause recurring subscription of users when you detect they aren't actually using your app

1 Sep Why global roaming data solutions don't make any sense

2 Sep How I build my minimum viable products

22 Jun How to access anyone's Telegram messages without unlocking their phone

2 Apr How Automation Left Us Feeling Empty

1 Mar I'm Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months

14 Feb How to protect your backups from solar flares with a faraday cage

4 Jan All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

19 Oct What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day
19 Oct Remote working is the future

7 Aug Stripe launches beta in the Netherlands

22 Jul Google+ spamming people every 2 weeks to put up a profile photo

23 May "There simply are no other fields in which I can spend $100 tomorrow and set up a new business..."

9 Mar How I switched from PC to Mac in less than 7 days
9 Mar OSX for Windows users
9 Mar OSX Terminal Tricks

18 Oct The death of the corporate drone
4 Oct New Panda Mix Show branding and website

24 Sep My 2012 master's thesis on how technology changed the music industry

5 Jul Why buying YouTube views is bad

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

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

14 Mar I made my first homepage in 1996