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2026
6 Jun
Everyone can build apps but distribution is the real challenge
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4 Jun
Revolut fixed my banking nightmares after Rabobank froze my card in Bali and made me homeless in the US
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3 Jun
This is how you do a great startup video
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28 May
EU AI fund is all cronyism and taxpayer money burnt
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26 May
My friend's Lisbon office got burglarized and Portuguese police refused to recover his Airtagged Apple display
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22 May
My daily laptop and iPhone setup for sites on a VPS with Claude Code
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22 May
My latest Termius and tmux setup for every site
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17 May
Barcelona has drug dens and violent crime in El Raval that Google Maps won't show
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17 May
Hoodmaps.com now has crime data
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10 May
Cloudflare is now the cheapest email provider at $354/mo
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9 May
Most EV chargers in Portugal are out of service thanks to EU subsidies
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5 May
My gf banned from reviewing places on Google Maps in Europe after one 1-star review
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2 May
Airthings is the best air sensor after trying fakes and dodgy ones
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1 May
I still haven't solved the CO2 bedroom challenge
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30 Apr
Winning my first big Stripe dispute in a decade with a vibe coded responder
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23 Apr
Claude was dumbified on March 4 exactly when we noticed
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23 Apr
I open sourced my first Chrome extension SuperLevels
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18 Apr
My sites get 4 billion requests a year but I only pay $2,932 to host them on my own VPS
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6 Apr
Made an auto-dispute response system for Interior AI to see how easy it'd be
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5 Apr
Tech insiders avoid touchscreens and smart homes because they know the downsides
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1 Apr
I made a free open source xdr boost app for macOS using claude code in 5 minutes
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28 Mar
Give us more data to make sure it's you after we've been breached
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26 Mar
ChatControl is back with a vengeance
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16 Mar
Quake III server now runs in the browser 7 years later
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6 Mar
OpenClaw's real power user is my girlfriend chatting with it in Telegram
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6 Mar
Photoai.com is a 40870 line index.php making 105000/mo revenue and 80000/mo profit
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28 Feb
I ran Claude Code on the server in bypass mode and outran my todo list
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24 Feb
Built my own gaussian splat viewer for Interior AI
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24 Feb
How to build a bootstrapped startup without funding
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21 Feb
1983 Wall Street Raiders game reverse engineered from 115000 lines of BASIC
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17 Feb
Steipete on why Europe can't retain talent due to regulations and labor laws
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16 Feb
Added dark mode to my http proxy for reading on kindle
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3 Feb
EU countries are now trying to censor speech on social media nationally after DSA failed
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20 Jan
Europe's 28th regime could create a Delaware for startups
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15 Jan
The era of fake e-girl influencers has started
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13 Jan
Moved all my sites LLM APIs now to xAI
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2025
23 Dec
I glued an AirTag to a yogurt box to track if recycling is real
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17 Dec
I bought over $1M in Google because Sergey returned and they're winning AI
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15 Dec
Sergey Brin got so bored of his $450M yacht he had to create things again
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13 Dec
I got 100+ mbps plane internet on Qatar Airways with Starlink
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13 Dec
Amap is my favorite navigation app in China
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13 Dec
Chinese EVs are beating German cars with better software and innovation
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13 Dec
The EU is in control of what you see online thanks to the Digital Services Act
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13 Dec
NIO is another very popular EV brand in China
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4 Dec
Chinese high speed trains are now faster than the Japanese Shinkansen
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29 Nov
Rich BigTech wives destabilizing society from 2016 to 2023 via giant NGO donations
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28 Nov
Chinese brands replacing Western brands in China
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28 Nov
Rentable powerbanks in China scan with Alipay but would get stolen in US or Europe
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27 Nov
Beijing uses robot arms at toll booths
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27 Nov
China airport confiscated our power banks without CCC certification
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26 Nov
Got Alipay to work in China as proxy for Didi Meituan and Baidu
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25 Nov
China isn't easy to travel
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21 Nov
Netherlands changes stock options tax to us system for startups
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20 Nov
EU is finally scaling down GDPR, AI Act and cookie banner laws
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17 Nov
Only the US and China have actual substantial startup activity now
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13 Nov
EU ChatControl is back with even more far reaching surveillance through the back door
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27 Oct
European Commission denies my request for GPUs
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24 Oct
EU's AI factory plan requires proposals while Lambda gives you 8x H100s in 5 minutes
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24 Oct
I can't use the EU's GPUs because Horizon 2020 closed in 2020
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23 Oct
EU AI factories have 500x less compute than xAI
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23 Oct
EU AI factories require proposal calls and endless ethical questionnaires instead of simple GPU access
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29 Sep
Get a VPS at Hetzner already
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25 Aug
Correlation between screen size and your importance in the company
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22 Jun
I made a trailer for the future of humanity (e/acc)
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15 Jun
I randomly discovered Dubai has an absolutely massive solar farm
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21 May
Visiting my API provider FAL in San Francisco
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11 May
Visiting OpenAI's office in San Francisco and seeing the city's improvements
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10 Apr
Europe wants to reduce its anti-AI act and GDPR to compete in AI
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10 Apr
Andrej Karpathy visited my weekly coworking in Portugal
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7 Apr
Europe to slash GDPR privacy law in weeks to compete with US and China
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25 Mar
What ChatGPT says the devil would do to keep an entire nation sick
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4 Mar
What's crazy when you read about Taiwan Semiconductors is you realize Nvidia are essentially dropshippers
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25 Feb
Full multiplayer Python websockets game built almost 100% by AI
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16 Feb
Man investigated after calling German vice-chancellor ‘idiot’
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11 Jan
Europe slowly realizing it's losing the last control it had on the world with ignored censorship requests
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2024
29 Dec
The only planes left with zero fatal accidents now
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22 Dec
A tractor is a great parallel to AI because it helps people do their work easier and faster
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18 Dec
Self driving cars react 150x faster than a human driver
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14 Dec
Europe is ruled by rich nepotist families and unelected corporatist cronies killing startups
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10 Dec
How Elon does politics is smartest and my 6 goals for Europe
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9 Dec
I got 1 billion views on X in the last 12 months
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9 Dec
Both a16z and YC's request for startups for 2025 just came out
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8 Dec
I put an AirTag in my plastic recycling to see if it actually gets recycled
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22 Nov
My minimal solo founder setup with 100% automation and 99% profit margins
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1 Nov
What is happening to Google now is pretty much textbook of what happened to Xerox PARC, but worse
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1 Nov
Sundar Pichai fumbled Google's AI head start and it'll be studied for decades
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31 Oct
Rent an empty office space and invent the future
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6 Oct
Macron warns EU has only 2 or 3 years before total US and China dominance
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26 Sep
Will there be anyone left at OpenAI in the future?
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26 Sep
Sam Altman will give himself 7% of OpenAI worth $10.5B
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22 Sep
Fireside chat with Balaji Srinivasan at Network State Conference 2024
16 Sep
Thierry Breton resigns after EU AI Act and DSA criticism
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12 Sep
Arresting Jack Ma was the dumbest thing China has ever done
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9 Sep
My recommendations for mario draghi's EU competitiveness report
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5 Sep
Bali broke ground on a subway that will connect the entire island
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5 Sep
Google APIs are the worst APIs on the web to work with
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31 Aug
European founder had to move to the US to build a humanoid robot company
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25 Aug
Pavel Durov arrested in France
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24 Aug
I still meet programmers who are not using AI to code
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24 Aug
The web development industrial complex has lied to your face
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20 Aug
Lex Fridman Podcast: My entire life story
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19 Aug
Apple Maps vs Google Maps in 2024
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30 Jul
Amazon is a showroom for Aliexpress which is a showroom for Taobao
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30 Jul
Building Pieter.com, my retro PC in the browser
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24 Jul
Finally met my hero Patrick Collison founder of Stripe
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13 Jul
Thierry Breton represents 100+ year old European dinosaur companies as EU tech policy director
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10 Jul
All Airbus models made in the last 25 years have zero fatal crashes
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9 Jul
If cars were invented today the European Union would have regulated them out of existence in favor of horses
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4 Jul
Japan is not futuristic it's a fossil stuck in 1990 unlike China Korea and Vietnam
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2 Jul
Jack Ma met Jerry Yang at the great wall of China in 1997
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30 Jun
I made luggage losers a live ranking of airlines by lost luggage
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15 Jun
Learn Python for remote AI jobs paying median 80k
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13 Jun
So many VC funded exits are actually massive failures
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5 Jun
US proposes ban on DJI drones after it became world's biggest manufacturer
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19 May
US bans Chinese companies after they become market leaders
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27 Mar
Wayfair used my AI interior design tool to build their own
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21 Mar
Uber is completely useless in Argentina because of a hardcoded price check
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2023
22 Dec
AI generated images are 10000x cheaper than any human could charge
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10 Dec
Open source LLMs reaching GPT-4 levels way earlier than we thought is the most exciting thing now to me
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9 Dec
There are more regulators in this room than AI scientists in all of EU
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6 Dec
Nobody will build apps on Gemini because Google always shuts things down
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2 Dec
You're just lucky
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27 Nov
Open sourced my entire ChatGPT code for image text adventures
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21 Nov
Trying self hosting alpaca a finetuned llama model after OpenAI drama
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16 Nov
I made my first video game with ChatGPT DALL-E RunwayML and ElevenLabs
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13 Nov
How i'd validate 30 startup ideas in 2023 with tiktok and Stripe preorders
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25 Sep
Actionable marketing tactic to get tiktok videos about your app for $100-$300
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9 Sep
I asked GPT4 which countries you should invest in real estate
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7 Sep
Unbothered writing vanilla JavaScript while web dev Twitter fights over TypeScript
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4 Aug
Good example is GoJEK a super app in Asia where you can do everything from ordering an Uber to massage and investing
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13 Jul
Luxury restaurant in Portugal won't accept Visa or MasterCard but barefoot food cart guy in Brazil does
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13 Jul
MacBook adaptor costs $220 in Brazil instead of $99 due to import taxes
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3 Jul
Photo AI is almost 14000 lines of raw php making $61808 per month
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24 Jun
Wagner coup is like when you hire a web dev and give GitHub access and he takes over your site
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20 Jun
Big Dutch dairy company wants me to help create their AI strategy
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17 Jun
While the EU fights about nuclear energy China plans 150 new reactors
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15 Jun
I wish everywhere had these power outlets that accept any plug from US UK EU plus USB-C
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14 Jun
Photo AI adds try on mode for AI clothing models
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13 Jun
So why do you have a sticker over your webcam
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29 Apr
Easiest hack to save lots of money is registering as a company
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15 Apr
Casio watch face for Apple Watch
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18 Mar
Two types of people now
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18 Feb
VC startup $100M exit nets 4 cofounders $47 per hour after dilution and taxes
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10 Feb
My new project Photo AI a photorealistic AI photo studio
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6 Feb
Google AI launches are all press releases without functioning products
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16 Jan
My new AI model is great
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2022
19 Dec
I proved people now have AI bots using ChatGPT to reply to tweets
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15 Dec
Music generated by finetuning Stable Diffusion on spectrograms then generating any song possible
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10 Dec
The real opportunity in AI for most people is building a front end around it
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11 Nov
My GitHub contribution graph from 2014 to 2022
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7 Nov
Sold $100,000 in AI-generated avatars with AvatarAI.me in 10 days
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28 Oct
Create your own AI avatars with my new mini project avatarAI.me
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10 Oct
Asking successful people about their tech stack is focusing on the wrong thing
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4 Oct
How I built Interiorai.com from scratch in 5 days
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26 Sep
Don't make the goddamn app build a functional mobile site instead
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18 Sep
This House Does Not Exist
5 Sep
My new project thishousedoesnotexist.org lets you generate AI ArchDaily style houses
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3 Sep
Ordered custom tailored 100% cotton shirts from son of a tailor
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2 Sep
How to generate AI images with Stable Diffusion on MacBook M1/M2 for free
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17 Aug
Craigslist has the most usable UX ever made
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28 Jul
Todo.txt users sit at both ends of the IQ bell curve
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2021
23 Nov
Web4 will be finally closing our computer and going outside
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31 Oct
Me when I deploy to production without testing
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9 Sep
Made a fully functional fake VS Code to browse remote jobs without your boss finding out
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6 Sep
Chinese companies are silently ending US tech dominance
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26 Jun
3 of my close friends were hacked this month because they didn't have 2FA
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6 Jun
I just bought my first billboard in front of Apple's headquarters
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12 Apr
Photopea makes almost $1M/y built by Ukrainian indie maker with vanilla JS
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12 Apr
Remote ok is a single php file generating $101101 this month
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10 Jan
I did a live 4+ hour AMA on Twitch w/ @roxkstar74
2020
19 Dec
This is the most exciting time in history to start a company online
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10 Dec
Normalization of non-deviance
2 Nov
Overengineering everything is the disease of modern day developers
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21 Oct
Quibi burned 2 billion dollars of VC funding in 6 months
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2 Oct
2020 sucked so I'm giving away another MacBook Pro 16" to cheer people up
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21 Sep
RemoteOK.io is a single PHP file generating $65,651 this month
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28 Aug
This week i built a startup idea generator with GPT-3
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12 May
Twitter will allow employees to work from home permanently
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2 May
I added a fake Japanese city called Dorobō to Nomad List to catch data thieves
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11 Apr
Product Hunt Podcast: 5 years in startups with Abadesi
11 Jan
Twitter giveaways can be hacked to win every time
2019
21 Dec
How to remove the macOS screenshot delay
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1 Nov
Current MacBook Pro status with broken keyboard and frozen shrimp
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12 Sep
The odds of getting a remote job are less than 1% (because everyone wants one)
8 Sep
In the future writing actual code will be like using a pro DSLR camera, and no code will be like using a smartphone camera
7 Sep
In the future writing code will be like using a pro dslr and no code like a smartphone camera
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29 Aug
Instead of hiring people, do things yourself to stay relevant
18 Aug
Europe is very risky when monetary policy is almost out of gas, political fragmentation and missing the technology revolution
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5 Aug
Monitoring Bali's undersea internet cable
16 Mar
How my video went viral with 150,000 RTs and 10 million views but Facebook pages bait-and-switched me for $0
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2018
5 Dec
Photopea is a 100% free browser version of Photoshop and it's better
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24 Nov
In Beijing you can add your public transit card to Apple Wallet
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23 Nov
Every receipt in Beijing gives you a QR code for digital bookkeeping
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1 Oct
Visited my favorite fintech Revolut's office in London and met the co-founder
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26 Sep
Launched no more Google on product hunt
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18 Aug
Why Europe can't do tech: low risk tolerance chart
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29 Jul
Internet speed vs murder rate
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27 Jul
Barriers of entry to building a startup have never been so low
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18 Jul
The internet complains about facebook selling data but wants indie apps for free
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4 Jul
EU is making it impossible for startups to operate
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27 May
Went to a robot hotel with self check-in and no humans
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6 Mar
Brazil hackers built an AI bot that finds anomalies in public spending
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29 Jan
I'm Product Hunt's Maker of the Year again!
26 Jan
Using osx’s screenshot tool as a screen ruler
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24 Jan
Turning side projects into profitable startups
3 Jan
What I learnt from 100 days of shipping
2017
22 Dec
Half the people in Asian coworking spaces are now working on crypto
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9 Dec
The narrative of 20 year old founders is false most are over 36
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7 Dec
Devsplaining is high brow elitist behavior that keeps normal people out of programming
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7 Dec
RemoteOK.io is a single PHP file generating $2,342.04 a day
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22 Oct
How to 3d scan any object with just your phone's camera
21 Sep
IKEA’s ARKit app is 🔥🔥🔥
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9 Aug
In a world of outrage, mute words
26 Jul
Building a startup in public: from first line of code to frontpage of Reddit
24 Jul
Facebook and Google are building their own cities: the inevitable future of private tech worker towns
12 Jul
We did it! Namecheap has introduced 2FA
23 May
Using Uptime Robot to build unit tests for the web
8 May
Namecheap still doesn't support 2FA in 2017 (update: they do now!)
3 May
Taipei is boring, and maybe that's not such a bad thing
3 Apr
I battled a 20-ppl million-dollar VC-funded team building the same product for 2 years
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17 Feb
The ICANN mafia has taken my site hostage for 2 days now
2016
12 Dec
Make your own Olark feedback form without Olark
29 Oct
How to fix flying
19 Oct
Robots make mistakes too: How to log your server with push notifications straight to your phone
11 Oct
From web dev to VR: How to get started with VR development
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 🎮
27 Jan
The things I have to do to read an email sent to me by my government
12 Jan
How to use your iPhone as a better Apple TV alternative (with VPN)
5 Jan
My 2015 revenue was $202,785 with one Linode server one MacBook no office no house hardly any expenses and $0 funding
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2015
23 Dec
Here's a crazy idea: automatically pause recurring subscription of users when you detect they aren't actually using your app
9 Nov
WordPress's success shows it doesn't matter how great the code is, it's about the user experience first and foremost
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8 Nov
Speedtest on slow internet
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28 Oct
First a cookie law then VATMOSS now a net neutrality law that's against net neutrality
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25 Oct
There will be 1 billion digital nomads by 2035
21 Oct
Tobias van Schneider interviewed me about everything
18 Oct
Why doesn't Twitter just asks its users to pay?
15 Oct
Stop being everyone's friend
1 Sep
Why global roaming data solutions don't make any sense
26 Aug
How to export your Slack's entire archive as HTML message logs
24 Aug
How to play GTA V on your MacBook (and any other PC game)
14 May
I uploaded 4 terabyte over Korea's 4G, and paid $48
8 May
How I sped up Nomad List by 31% with SPDY, CloudFront and PageSpeed
4 May
My weird code commenting style based on HTML tags
1 May
Now is probably the time to make HTTPS the default on all your sites and apps
28 Mar
Makers have become the invisible hand
7 Mar
How technology is shaping our future: billions of self-employed makers and a few mega corporations
2014
15 Dec
How to backup your Linode or Digital Ocean VPS to Amazon S3
1 Dec
The total chaos that the dawn of the 21st century has become
27 Oct
The ideal place to start a startup is not necessarily in Silicon Valley
14 Oct
This is what happens when FlightFox copies your entire site without attribution
1 Oct
On Thailand's immigration police targeting digital nomads
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
2013
28 Nov
It's practically impossible for regular people to buy Bitcoin
21 Nov
How I predict Bitcoin's price by tracking Twitter mentions
19 Oct
What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day
19 Oct
Remote working is the future
16 Sep
National Borders Have Become Irrelevant
4 Sep
A Culture of Distraction is Not The Problem
7 Aug
Stripe launches beta in the Netherlands
22 Jul
Google+ spamming people every 2 weeks to put up a profile photo
24 Jun
With jobs gone, will robot owners pay people's income?
13 Jun
Add 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 Mar
How I switched from PC to Mac in less than 7 days
9 Mar
OSX for Windows users
9 Mar
OSX Terminal Tricks
21 Feb
Black Mirror is the best TV series I have seen in years
11 Feb
Watch The Pirate Bay: Away From the Keyboard
2012
18 Oct
The death of the corporate drone
4 Oct
New Panda Mix Show branding and website
5 Jul
Why buying YouTube views is bad