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  1. France will charge €0.055 per GB on all internet traffic
  2. What is happening in France will happen throughout Western and Southern Europe
  3. Spain's Transport Minister Oscar Puente gaslighting on rail safety is why nobody trusts politicians anymore
  4. I'm at the stage of AI psychosis that I feel I could vibe code a better government than Spain or the EU
  5. X should have a zero tolerance policy for AI replies
  6. Most of my Dutch friends are burnt out and get a year of fully paid salary to stay home
  7. Spanish trains are now one of the most dangerous modes of transport
  8. An Uber driver told me he killed a car thief in São Paulo and didn't feel bad about it
  9. If you understand basic economics the only one winning here is Big AI and Big Tech
  10. I spent all day having Claude Code security audit every VPS I have
  11. I recommend taking your VPS off the public internet with Tailscale and Cloudflare Tunnel
  12. If you say this as a European you're instantly banished from any social setting in Western Europe
  13. I pre-emptively disconnected all my sites and VPS servers from the web until PHP is patched
  14. People won't update PHP fast enough and so many sites will get hacked
  15. I asked Claude Code to make a new GTA: San Andreas mission where CJ has to vibe code a startup and raise money in SF
  16. Poland is booming and shouldn't make the same mistakes Western Europe did
  17. Never agree on an earn out when you sell your business
  18. Warsaw is completely safe at 1am and there's a lot to learn from Poland
  19. We must pace the frontier in Europe because we're advancing too fast
  20. I'm scrambling to chase any remaining moats as AI companies suck up everything else
  21. Data brokers are buying SaaS data sets for $100,000 to $2,000,000 and reselling them to AI labs
  22. You can run Windows XP inside a tweet
  23. I'd expand the moats left to proprietary data, network effects, distribution, hardware, capital, and regulation
  24. You can get very rich helping IRL businesses transition to AI
  25. I've cancelled almost all my SaaS subscriptions and now my money only goes to content, data centers, power and governments
  26. Software is dead and it's now the era of personal software
  27. Normies won't know they're building software because their AI will do it for them
  28. Everyone will mostly use personal ephemeral software inside AI chat apps
  29. I discovered that thousands of bots monitor every new link posted on X
  30. Airbnb removes guest reviews whenever a host asks and that will destroy trust
  31. I will keep buying scarce coastal and mountain land with clean air
  32. I analyzed booking site ratings and Yelp is the only one with a distribution you can trust
  33. I made hotelist.com to fix Airbnb's 4.5 to 5.0 rating scale
  34. Javier Milei is offering full Argentinean citizenship for $350,000
  35. City states are attracting skilled Europeans with better living, working and regulatory conditions
  36. It's such a weird experience that I can now build things faster than I get new ideas
  37. Westerners keep having lower standards every year and don't notice the declining quality of everything around them
  38. An Apple Store in Dubai leaves Apple Watches lying freely by the open door
  39. EU bankruptcies have reached the highest level since 2019 while new business registrations stagnate
  40. Americans have largely stopped having people over, and the same is probably happening in the EU
  41. I've been fighting age-related loneliness by organizing coworking days and nights with friends
  42. Every time AI can do something as well as humans it stops being special
  43. I got a Dell package from DHH
  44. It's really crazy how strongly wealth inverse correlates with regulatory burden
  45. Monthly payment volume of AI businesses on Stripe is exploding in the US while the EU stays flat
  46. Dymocks Tutoring told parents to save their money and use AI instead
  47. I passed $10M/y in revenue and investment gains with a 94.5% profit margin
  48. Gay acceptance is rapidly dropping in the Netherlands because of MENA immigrants
  49. I tried to make my own electrolyte drink for the gym
  50. This is why I never have and never will do calls
  51. We should use this kind of data to completely turn around Europe's immigration policy
  52. Y Combinator's batch only has harness or hardware startups, so software is mostly dead
  53. This Come and Take It flag has a GPU and a rattlesnake
  54. With regulatory capture we will speedrun to a new feudalist time
  55. Rockefeller used the government to block rivals a century ago
  56. Self driving will be the 4th wave of nomadism, I think
  57. Normies don't vibe code, they just ask their AI chat app to do it for them
  58. I replaced all these SaaS with my own vibe coded services, so about $25,000/mo savings
  59. I vibe coded my own Scrapingbee alternative and replaced my $249/mo plan with a $1/mo scraper
  60. Never connect an LG TV to the internet; use an Apple TV instead
  61. Anyone can try making money on the internet with AI, but entrepreneurship is still like pro sports
  62. The smartest people I know have strong opinions weakly held
  63. After a decade, I have made nomads.com free for everyone now
  64. I've tried for weeks to build my own ScrapingBee but I'll keep paying $99/mo
  65. When I see people build a "software factory"
  66. Portugal could have been the Silicon Valley of Europe
  67. If both xAI and Claude are down, does that mean the Colossus GPU farm is down?
  68. 153,000,000 American driver licenses leaked in KYC hack
  69. The new price for Minimax H3 Max dropped to $32,940/mo
  70. You stop wondering why the US is so insanely rich when you travel the rest of the world
  71. AI could permanently fix email by scoring and ranking every message
  72. I keep getting rejected by Claude for the most benign things now
  73. 37,000 people watched Infinite Slop so I registered InfiniteSlop.ai
  74. I think the hate for Dubai is mostly a Eurocope that can't deal with how dirty and unsafe Europe's cities have become
  75. I made infiniteslop.ai yesterday completely on my phone with Termius on my Hetzner VPS with Claude Code in the sauna
  76. You can now generate AI video faster than you can watch it
  77. I built Infinite Slop, an infinite interactive AI generated live stream
  78. Omarchy by DHH passes the irrational haters test with flying colours
  79. I added US Census median income data to Hoodmaps because Strava's data is protected
  80. It's 2026 and Spain still blocks Cloudflare IPs because of LaLiga
  81. Hotel ACs in Europe are designed to show rooms about 4°C/9°F colder than they really are
  82. Intelligence and competence are more rare than ever
  83. There are more apps than ever but less sales than ever
  84. Airbnb deleted our review of a threatening host but kept her negative review of us
  85. Claude Code treats you like a child getting lootboxes so I'll probably switch to xAI
  86. I made Hotelist.com because Airbnb, Google Maps, and booking sites delete negative reviews so everything is always a 4.7
  87. I kinda missed at what point the Linux community turned into cosplaying furries
  88. Never stop talking about hotelist.com until everyone finds out
  89. Testosterone is the hormone of honesty
  90. xAI was the only Western AI I was able to use when traveling in China
  91. The more dysfunctional public services are, the more you force people toward Brazilification
  92. I think the EU will try to add Worldwide Income Tax after the European Exit Tax
  93. Most high-skilled Europeans are happy to pay high taxes if the government does a great job like Singapore or Japan
  94. Greece now has the highest AC adoption rate in the entire Europe
  95. Lito is famous in Brazil for airplane videos and needs help getting into a Creutzfeldt–Jakob trial
  96. I think if you make a sportswear brand that is not plastic but organic materials you will become very rich
  97. We have to study why progressives will blatantly lie about the current state of their cities
  98. Most sofas, chairs, rugs, and curtains now use materials that are almost fully plastic
  99. Germany does not take 50% of everything you make, they take 49.3%
  100. We were chased by drug dealers in Lisbon after I said no thanks
  101. I'm starting to feel we're reaching a similar moment with Apple
  102. Being real on the internet is special
  103. Being without my girlfriend decreased my recovery by 17% but increased my productivity by 31%
  104. Georges St-Pierre's first 100kg/225lbs bench press PR shows how disconnected most people's perception of strength is
  105. This food is super basic, healthy, and nutrient-dense but no restaurants serve it
  106. Helicopters are a fundamentally unstable design
  107. The chart of housing affordability is almost a direct inverse of how many new homes are built
  108. Nomads and expats in Thailand seem to be in the crosshairs of the Thai government and Bank of Thailand this year
  109. Day trading and technical analysis are proven to be bullshit
  110. I remade a chart of the best and worst value cities based on Nomads.com data
  111. I learnt that blueberries are pesticide bombs and thicker fruit is better
  112. Your priority as a man is to avoid the padel body at all costs
  113. My X revenue hit a new record of about $25,000 this month
  114. One of the best coffee machines in the world is the Moccamaster but it's fully plastic
  115. Someone made a Moccamaster clone but without plastic
  116. We flew into Beijing from Japan, then went to Chengdu, Chongqing, Shanghai and Hangzhou
  117. DHH shared a cool tip to hook Claude Code up to your Ubiquiti router and improve your WiFi
  118. I'm not a paid CCP shill but China is having its moment for tourists now
  119. China is one of the highest value countries to travel to now
  120. The Dead Internet Theory could become real if AI replaces all human content creation
  121. I'm deleting Claude
  122. This prompt finally stopped Claude from getting more and more unintelligible every day
  123. It's crazy to think the entire West is literally leaning on one single guy to do things at the same level China does
  124. Meta is allegedly building its own search engine so its AI queries don't train Google's models
  125. Meta is doing heavy scraping on my sites including url2og possibly for image video or world models
  126. Raising a rich kid is kinda like child abuse because it messes up their reward function
  127. Claude's AI output is so verbose and jargon dense that I have to look up every word
  128. My accountant replied with a 100% AI answer so why not replace him with AI
  129. I vibecoded a full video editor into Photo AI that generates and edits videos with your trained models
  130. You should change your flight from Tokyo to Shanghai to visit actual China
  131. Indie hackers may be the first type of developer to go extinct as AI lowers the cost of execution
  132. The West's biggest blindspot is repeatedly underestimating China's speed and capabilities
  133. I've already seen Wispr Flow, Granola and WHOOP reverse engineered and open sourced with fully free versions today
  134. BigAI is cannibalizing everything that used to be apps for indiehackers
  135. I cancelled all my SaaS subscriptions and vibecoded 100% of them myself
  136. Most guys over 35 now have the padel body and you need to fight it
  137. The European union makes more money from fining us tech companies than taxing Europe's own public tech companies
  138. Things I learnt after buying a house and going through lots of shitty products
  139. The French and Germans will ban Tesla FSD to protect their car industry
  140. AI raises everyone's app quality but customers now vibecode their own clones to skip paying
  141. I increasingly have no idea about anything anymore because time is changing too fast with AI
  142. Looking through 80+ seed incubator applications shows everyone's building similar AI slop
  143. Superintelligence has passed us and we're all running after the carrot
  144. Yesterday at a party we said maybe software is dead and everyone pretty much agreed
  145. 5% ownership is probably the most common final stake for VC funded startup founders
  146. Good guy Google removes 151 to 200 reviews from kebap haus due to defamation complaints
  147. It's hard to imagine how much richer US is getting
  148. How to buy S&P500, tech, bonds and commodities ETFs on IBKR as US or non-US citizen
  149. How to code with Kimi K3 better than Fable and no restrictions
  150. Kimi K3 from China hammers through my Windows XP Simulator todo list while Claude wastes 2 weeks on safety guardrails
  151. macOS 27 in the browser created by Kimi K3
  152. Google Maps in Germany now shows defamation complaint amounts, so here's a calculator to find a place's real rating
  153. US restricts AI models so China builds better ones and everyone switches
  154. Every single time they have AC but you can't have AC
  155. All you need to build a business is free open source software a VPS an AI API and R2/S3
  156. How they want you to live tiny windows no AC vegan food nonstop work and medication
  157. How you should live with sunlight AC whole foods and exercise
  158. I invested in EthSystems to make Ethereum private for banks
  159. Places the most attractive rich and educated nomads visit vs the least
  160. 2 hours after a German signs up to your site
  161. Open letter to the Portuguese government to approve Tesla FSD
  162. EU chat control has passed allowing warrantless scanning of messages
  163. Testing my iOS app on web with Claude Code and serve-sim on a headless Mac Mini
  164. The Everything Chart
  165. EU keeps resubmitting Chat Control after 5 rejections proving it's undemocratic
  166. One more week to escape the underclass
  167. A working Atari ST inside a blog post with full internet
  168. Degrowth is likely just masked foreign sabotage
  169. Europe fights for 6 years whether to install AC or not while China produces an AC every 6 seconds
  170. Is the stock market in a bubble right now?
  171. Korea's bus stops have AC to keep you cool in the heat
  172. Foreign funding is behind the degrowth movement in Europe
  173. Portugal's EU customs blocks every package from outside making modern products impossible to order
  174. Degrowth killed 250,000 people by avoiding ACs in Europe
  175. Bitcoin's 4-year cycles
  176. I've been coding almost solely on my VPS with Claude Code for almost a year now
  177. Congratulations Europe you killed 1,000 people with your degrowth bs
  178. Degrowthers are literally opposed to life
  179. An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
  180. Bus driver in France crashes after fainting from heat with no AC
  181. Far left French newspaper against air conditioning has roof covered in AC units
  182. How did AC become the political battleground of choice in Europe
  183. Using Claude Code to psychoanalyze 5 years of chat logs
  184. Having an AC in Europe now classifies you as far right
  185. Europeans will ignore anti-AC rules and buy air conditioners in 2027
  186. The craziest thing about Quake is how many modern FPS games originate from it
  187. Europe had 248,875 heat-related deaths vs 9,436 in the US from 2020 to 2025
  188. LVMH buys luxury brands like Tiffany and Rimowa then 10x prices while cutting costs 10x
  189. In San Francisco everyone is saying software is commoditized by AI so smart people are moving to hardware
  190. Vibe Jam 2026 winners and how the games are getting close to real production quality
  191. America still has post offices unlike most of Europe
  192. My first real investment exit with Cursor AI
  193. SpaceX valuation seems crazy until you try airline WiFi without Starlink
  194. Europe's GDP per capita will stagnate while the US grows to twice as rich by 2030
  195. Europe has gotten very poor fast while America has only gotten richer
  196. US hotels give way more value than Europe now with better AC and amenities
  197. I ported Return to Castle Wolfenstein to the web with multiplayer in an hour using AI
  198. I revived a 28 year old Quake 2 map with AI into web-based multiplayer
  199. I built a web-based virtual null modem to play Quake I in MS-DOS in multiplayer online
  200. My drum & bass double drop edit: Heavy Sound System x Shadow People
  201. Indie hackers build fancy AI factories but have no money or traffic
  202. I built a web-based dot matrix printer that prints from Windows 3.11
  203. Everyone can now build apps with AI so now distribution is the real challenge
  204. Rimowa suitcase broke after Copenhagen to Lisbon flight and why avoid luxury brands
  205. Revolut fixed my banking nightmares after Rabobank froze my card in Bali and made me homeless in the US
  206. This is how you do a great startup video
  207. European Commission lies and calls truth a narrative
  208. Luxury brands like Rimowa and LVMH are mostly a scam
  209. Luxury hotels are mathematically bad value
  210. I cook friends a 400g steak with beef tallow and take them lifting to cure tiredness depression or lethargy
  211. EU AI fund is all cronyism and taxpayer money burnt
  212. Western Europe is so fucking tiring
  213. Build on the side until it makes money before quitting your job
  214. Hotel in the Netherlands sets AC minimum at 23°C and locks windows for security
  215. My friend's Lisbon office got burglarized and Portuguese police refused to recover his Airtagged Apple display
  216. Leiden might be the best Dutch city to visit instead of tourist Amsterdam
  217. I don't write code anymore
  218. My daily laptop and iPhone setup for sites on a VPS with Claude Code
  219. My latest Termius and tmux setup for every site
  220. Luxury products are really just meant for poor people to fake they're rich
  221. Barcelona has drug dens and violent crime in El Raval that Google Maps won't show
  222. Hoodmaps.com now has crime data
  223. Ignoring mind viruses leads to a slippery slope of meat allergies from engineered ticks
  224. Cloudflare is now the cheapest email provider at $354/mo
  225. Most EV chargers in Portugal are out of service thanks to EU subsidies
  226. I installed Cloudflare Tunnel to secure my VPS even further and block all inbound traffic on Hetzner
  227. How keeping CO2 low with a bathroom fan gave me 100% sleep score
  228. My gf banned from reviewing places on Google Maps in Europe after one 1-star review
  229. Airthings is the best air sensor after trying fakes and dodgy ones
  230. I still haven't solved the CO2 bedroom challenge
  231. Winning my first big Stripe dispute in a decade with a vibe coded responder
  232. Claude was dumbified on March 4 exactly when we noticed
  233. I open sourced my first Chrome extension SuperLevels
  234. My sites get 4 billion requests a year but I only pay $244/mo to host them on my own VPS
  235. Europeans are all captivated by the mind virus
  236. Made an auto-dispute response system for Interior AI to see how easy it'd be
  237. Tech insiders avoid touchscreens and smart homes because they know the downsides
  238. Brazil's CPF catch-22 makes booking hotels impossible for tourists
  239. April fool's pizzas in US are real pizzas in Brazil
  240. I made a free open source xdr boost app for macOS using claude code in 5 minutes
  241. Why Portuguese businesses don't want more customers or to grow
  242. Give us more data to make sure it's you after we've been breached
  243. Argentinean meat is one of the worst in the world now
  244. ChatControl is back with a vengeance
  245. Daniel Radcliffe makes $660,000/mo from investments in perfect fire story
  246. The irony that traveling on less than $1,000 a month is more fun than luxury travel
  247. Quake III server now runs in the browser 7 years later
  248. European governments reject net positive Italian brazilians but welcome culture destroying immigrants
  249. OpenClaw's real power user is my girlfriend chatting with it in Telegram
  250. Photoai.com is a 40,870 line index.php making 105,000/mo revenue and 80,000/mo profit
  251. I ran Claude Code on the server in bypass mode and outran my todo list
  252. Built my own gaussian splat viewer for Interior AI
  253. How to build a bootstrapped startup without funding
  254. 1983 Wall Street Raiders game reverse engineered from 115,000 lines of BASIC
  255. Steipete on why Europe can't retain talent due to regulations and labor laws
  256. Added dark mode to my http proxy for reading on kindle
  257. Things in your house slowly poisoning you and what to change them to
  258. Visiting Brazil's biggest indie hacker meetup
  259. My dad the cardiologist got free family holidays from Pfizer to prescribe their drugs
  260. My friend on SSRIs tried to convince me I have generational trauma
  261. EU countries are now trying to censor speech on social media nationally after DSA failed
  262. You absolutely cannot trust Germans with nukes
  263. I'm so done with real estate agents
  264. Europe's 28th regime could create a Delaware for startups
  265. Europe's tax system discourages hard work and new businesses
  266. The era of fake e-girl influencers has started
  267. Moved all my sites LLM APIs now to xAI
  268. Women are most attracted to men who believe in astrology
  269. Freezing bread from the local bakery solves sellouts and lowers blood sugar spikes
  270. Luxury is absolutely done in the West but still exists in Asia and the Gulf states
  271. Map of South America as the United States of Amazonia

2025 90

  1. I glued an AirTag to a yogurt box to track if recycling is real
  2. The oceans are full of plastic exactly because you recycle
  3. I bought over $1M in Google because Sergey returned and they're winning AI
  4. Sergey Brin got so bored of his $450M yacht he had to create things again
  5. Qatar Airways business class gets you special arrival reception at Doha
  6. Why Koreans didn't get richer
  7. I got 100+ mbps plane internet on Qatar Airways with Starlink
  8. Amap is my favorite navigation app in China
  9. Chinese EVs are beating German cars with better software and innovation
  10. The EU is in control of what you see online thanks to the Digital Services Act
  11. NIO is another very popular EV brand in China
  12. Advice I give 5 minutes after meeting somebody new
  13. The European Commission is the cancer rotting the EU from within
  14. China can be very cheap with $300 Chongqing hotel suites and $20 rooms
  15. Chinese tourism is 95% domestic making China feel like the only foreigner there
  16. Restaurants in China show their menus as photos on the wall
  17. Never fly directly into Lisbon from outside Europe to skip immigration
  18. Chongqing looks gray and derelict without its night lights and needs better maintenance
  19. Chinese high speed trains are now faster than the Japanese Shinkansen
  20. Arriving in Chongqing and China's LED lit skyline versus Europe saving energy
  21. I took the high speed train in China today
  22. Western double standards on China versus Japan city lights
  23. China's train security is stricter than TSA
  24. Getting the China flu after arriving and why to wear an N95 on planes
  25. Never bring a knife to China because DHL and customs make shipping impossible
  26. I got the China cough after 4 days in China
  27. Rich BigTech wives destabilizing society from 2016 to 2023 via giant NGO donations
  28. Chinese brands replacing Western brands in China
  29. Rentable powerbanks in China scan with Alipay but would get stolen in US or Europe
  30. Western people used in Chinese marketing to represent quality
  31. We've literally just lost power in Europe
  32. Beijing uses robot arms at toll booths
  33. China airport confiscated our power banks without CCC certification
  34. The Russian connection in China doesn't stop
  35. Woke up in Beijing's Summer Palace built in 1750 as a birthday gift
  36. Got Alipay to work in China as proxy for Didi Meituan and Baidu
  37. Russians are traveling to China a lot because they're blocked from most places
  38. I started lifting weights at 30 and gained 30kg of muscle
  39. China isn't easy to travel
  40. Netherlands changes stock options tax to US system for startups
  41. EU is finally scaling down GDPR, AI Act and cookie banner laws
  42. Only the US and China have actual substantial startup activity now
  43. EU ChatControl is back with even more far reaching surveillance through the back door
  44. Singapore too is now compromised by degrowthers
  45. European Commission denies my request for GPUs
  46. EU's AI factory plan requires proposals while Lambda gives you 8x H100s in 5 minutes
  47. I can't use the EU's GPUs because Horizon 2020 closed in 2020
  48. EU AI factories have 500x less compute than xAI
  49. EU AI factories require proposal calls and endless ethical questionnaires instead of simple GPU access
  50. levels.vc - my investment fund
  51. Get a VPS at Hetzner already
  52. Counter-law to let all European citizens read any EU politician's chats
  53. CdK Podcast: A brutal foreigner's view on Portugal
  54. It turns out Mark Manson was mostly right about Brazil
  55. Jesus was a Jewish hippie that went backpacking in India
  56. Correlation between screen size and your importance in the company
  57. 10g of creatine per day
  58. Europe must stop restricting air conditioning or heat deaths will hit 500,000 per year
  59. Stripe Podcast: A Cheeky Pint with John Collison
  60. Chinese pigs are treated better than the average European
  61. Spain's meteorological agency says healthy people should not use air conditioning
  62. Silence is high IQ
  63. More Europeans die from heat than Americans from shootings
  64. My friend lives in a tent in his house in Portugal because neighbors ban real AC
  65. I made a trailer for the future of humanity (e/acc)
  66. South Asian immigrants in Portugal game welfare for passports and EU access
  67. I randomly discovered Dubai has an absolutely massive solar farm
  68. Visiting my API provider FAL in San Francisco
  69. Visiting OpenAI's office in San Francisco and seeing the city's improvements
  70. Electricity is down in entire Portugal and Spain peninsula
  71. The only thing young people in Southern Europe can do is drink and smoke
  72. Winners of the 2025 vibe code game jam
  73. Europe wants to reduce its anti-AI act and GDPR to compete in AI
  74. Andrej Karpathy visited my weekly coworking
  75. So Trump is vibe presidenting
  76. Europe to slash GDPR privacy law in weeks to compete with US and China
  77. Europe is cooked as Italy bans AC below 26°c
  78. Being an entrepreneur now has more job security than a job
  79. What ChatGPT says the devil would do to keep an entire nation sick
  80. What's crazy when you read about Taiwan Semiconductors is you realize Nvidia are essentially dropshippers
  81. fly.pieter.com, my first vibecoded flight simulator which reached $1M ARR in 17 days
  82. Man investigated after calling German vice-chancellor ‘idiot’
  83. Leaked EU competitiveness compass draft emphasizes accelerate and cut red tape
  84. We need a federal union of Europe to compete with US and China
  85. Europeans have collective memory loss from just 35 years ago
  86. Dating apps don't work in 2025 so meet people through hobbies and friends
  87. Meeting Bryan Johnson at Din Tai Fung and his don't die health cult
  88. Make Europe great again
  89. Europe slowly realizing it's losing the last control it had on the world with ignored censorship requests
  90. The Brazilian real currency should be on crypto exchanges because it's the biggest shitcoin ever

2024 85

  1. The only planes left with zero fatal accidents now
  2. A tractor is a great parallel to AI because it helps people do their work easier and faster
  3. Renting saves you money over buying if you own the house for less than 15 years
  4. Self driving cars react 150x faster than a human driver
  5. Europe is ruled by rich nepotist families and unelected corporatist cronies killing startups
  6. EU/acc goals now on euacc.com
  7. How Elon does politics is smartest and my 6 goals for Europe
  8. I got 1 billion views on X in the last 12 months
  9. Both a16z and YC's request for startups for 2025 just came out
  10. I put an AirTag in my plastic recycling to see if it actually gets recycled
  11. OnlyFans just hacked basic human biology
  12. Started lifting at 30 and that has avoided the pains most of my in-thirties friends have
  13. Europe's end game might be to become like Japan a cheap tourist destination
  14. My minimal solo founder setup with 100% automation and 99% profit margins
  15. Lift weights to grow neurons MIT study shows
  16. The difference between free users and paying users is about 1,000x from my experience
  17. What is happening to Google now is pretty much textbook of what happened to Xerox PARC, but worse
  18. Sundar Pichai fumbled Google's AI head start and it'll be studied for decades
  19. Rent an empty office space and invent the future
  20. Every European with talent moves to the US for startups or Bali and Chiang Mai for indie hacking
  21. Macron warns EU has only 2 or 3 years before total US and China dominance
  22. The poor get free gov money the rich avoid taxes and the middle class gets rekt
  23. Surround yourself with builders not talkers
  24. Travel and fitness are two of the most important things you can do for your brain
  25. Will there be anyone left at OpenAI in the future?
  26. Sam Altman will give himself 7% of OpenAI worth $10.5B
  27. Nomad List is one of the first network states
  28. Fireside chat with Balaji Srinivasan at Network State Conference 2024
  29. I hit a new $420,000/mo revenue record thanks to the Lex Fridman podcast
  30. Thierry Breton resigns after EU AI Act and DSA criticism
  31. Arresting Jack Ma was the dumbest thing China has ever done
  32. My recommendations for mario draghi's EU competitiveness report
  33. Bali broke ground on a subway that will connect the entire island
  34. Google APIs are the worst APIs on the web to work with
  35. European founder had to move to the US to build a humanoid robot company
  36. Pavel Durov arrested in France
  37. I still meet programmers who are not using AI to code
  38. The web development industrial complex has lied to your face
  39. Lex Fridman Podcast
  40. Apple Maps vs Google Maps in 2024
  41. I made a deadlift ETF with CEOs that lift weights or fight sports outperforming the S&P 500 by 140%
  42. I only wear Alo Yoga shorts but they are made from polyester that disrupts your endocrine system
  43. Someone needs to invent cotton yoga shorts
  44. Europe's governments made energy expensive on purpose to stop you from using it
  45. Could air conditioning explain why more top US companies were founded after 1950 than in the EU?
  46. In Bali the heat puts your brain into power save idle mode
  47. If you wanna get rich install AC
  48. Amazon is a showroom for Aliexpress which is a showroom for Taobao
  49. Building Pieter.com, my retro PC in the browser
  50. I'm on 6 grams of creatine per day for the last 2 years
  51. Finally met my hero Patrick Collison founder of Stripe
  52. Thierry Breton represents 100+ year old European dinosaur companies as EU tech policy director
  53. All Airbus models made in the last 25 years have zero fatal crashes
  54. If cars were invented today the European Union would have regulated them out of existence in favor of horses
  55. A majority of the worst ranked airports in the world are run by Da Vinci Airports
  56. Imagine traveling to Europe to spend your hard-earned money and getting sprayed with water guns by degrowth protesters
  57. American restaurants kick you out after one meal unlike Europe
  58. Japan is not futuristic it's a fossil stuck in 1990 unlike China Korea and Vietnam
  59. Jack Ma met Jerry Yang at the great wall of China in 1997
  60. The rise and fall of Lisbon (2020-2024)
  61. I made luggage losers a live ranking of airlines by lost luggage
  62. Everything in Europe comes from Germany and everything in Germany comes from China
  63. Modern Europe bans working from cafes, but Old Europe invented it
  64. Degrowth propaganda is everywhere you look now
  65. Learn Python for remote AI jobs paying median 80k
  66. Guy sells his $50k/mo business for $10m but it's just an acquihire
  67. So many VC funded exits are actually massive failures
  68. I grew up thinking Italy was the center of great coffee but it's burnt Robusta
  69. If you wanna get rich fastest make a premium product for Switzerland UAE US and Singapore
  70. US proposes ban on DJI drones after it became world's biggest manufacturer
  71. US bans Chinese companies after they become market leaders
  72. The euro kinda destroyed southern Europe's economies
  73. EU company landscape is run by dinosaurs founded 50 years before US ones
  74. My first interaction with a WIRED journalist 10 years ago
  75. New York City was founded by the Dutch as New Amsterdam 400 years ago
  76. It's time to start EU/acc the European version of e/acc
  77. Most Europeans don't realize how stagnant Europe has become
  78. Made EU/acc logo
  79. South America uses remote security people and doormen
  80. Wayfair used my AI interior design tool to build their own
  81. Got scammed with the extra zero trick at Órale Juanito Palermo in Buenos Aires
  82. Uber is completely useless in Argentina because of a hardcoded price check
  83. British people are now the 2nd most miserable people in the world
  84. MMA turned him from an awkward nervous wreck into a confident guy
  85. Every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day

2023 54

  1. AI generated images are 10,000x cheaper than any human could charge
  2. How I imagined my future million dollar startup office vs my actual million dollar startup office
  3. Open source LLMs reaching GPT-4 levels way earlier than we thought is the most exciting thing now to me
  4. There are more regulators in this room than AI scientists in all of EU
  5. Nobody will build apps on Gemini because Google always shuts things down
  6. Minimal architect sketches turned into renders with Interior AI v2
  7. You're just lucky
  8. Open sourced my entire ChatGPT code for image text adventures
  9. Trying self hosting alpaca a finetuned llama model after OpenAI drama
  10. I made my first video game with ChatGPT DALL-E RunwayML and ElevenLabs
  11. How I'd validate 30 startup ideas in 2023 with TikTok and Stripe preorders
  12. Nestle's Nesquik gets nutri-score a from EU Commission and WHO
  13. The Bootstrapped Founder Podcast: Indie hacking is dead, now what?
  14. Headspace was started at 38 by former monk Andy Puddicombe who exited at 50
  15. If I was 18 today I’d skip uni and go nomad building startups
  16. Actionable marketing tactic to get tiktok videos about your app for $100-$300
  17. Indie hacking died after its 7-year cycle and became part of the status quo
  18. I asked GPT4 which countries you should invest in real estate
  19. Unbothered writing vanilla JavaScript while web dev Twitter fights over TypeScript
  20. Why national postal services are so bad at delivering packages and Amazon is so good
  21. Office trends cycle every 7 years from cubicles to open offices and back
  22. Invested in Brazil after traveling there for a month
  23. Good example is GoJEK a super app in Asia where you can do everything from ordering an Uber to massage and investing
  24. Why fold into wall beds never became a big thing
  25. $1,000,000 mortgage costs $2,217,160 total with interest
  26. How to feel like you're getting ahead but actually procrastinate
  27. Luxury restaurant in Portugal won't accept Visa or MasterCard but barefoot food cart guy in Brazil does
  28. MacBook adaptor costs $220 in Brazil instead of $99 due to import taxes
  29. Portuguese have a weird love/hate obsession with Brazil
  30. Photo AI is almost 14,000 lines of raw PHP making $61,808 per month
  31. Aspartame is proven to cause cancer in soda drinks
  32. Wagner coup is like when you hire a web dev and give GitHub access and he takes over your site
  33. Almost nobody I know in Asia wants to move to America anymore
  34. Big Dutch dairy company wants me to help create their AI strategy
  35. While the EU fights about nuclear energy China plans 150 new reactors
  36. I wish everywhere had these power outlets that accept any plug from US UK EU plus USB-C
  37. Photo AI adds try on mode for AI clothing models
  38. So why do you have a sticker over your webcam
  39. First class in America vs first class in Asia
  40. US flag stripes come from Indonesia's Majapahit empire
  41. Drinking alcohol negatively affects the liver and leads to fatty liver called cirrhosis
  42. Thailand is a third world country
  43. Only losers go to networking events
  44. Easiest hack to save lots of money is registering as a company
  45. Casio watch face for Apple Watch
  46. Buenos Aires is now #1 on Nomad List thanks to cheap currency
  47. Two types of people now
  48. If I was just out of school I'd fly to Bangkok to bootstrap my startup for $240 a month
  49. We need more makers less coaches
  50. VC startup $100M exit nets 4 cofounders $47 per hour after dilution and taxes
  51. Digital nomads you are fucking disgusting graffiti in Portugal
  52. My new project Photo AI a photorealistic AI photo studio
  53. Google AI launches are all press releases without functioning products
  54. My new AI model is great

2022 38

  1. Airbnb hosts with strict rules and deposits versus easy hotels
  2. I proved people now have AI bots using ChatGPT to reply to tweets
  3. Music generated by finetuning Stable Diffusion on spectrograms then generating any song possible
  4. The real opportunity in AI for most people is building a front end around it
  5. Indonesia makes sex outside marriage illegal even in Bali while Thailand gets more progressive
  6. My biggest idea people aren't ready for is 2 dishwashers
  7. My GitHub contribution graph from 2014 to 2022
  8. Sold $100,000 in AI-generated avatars with AvatarAI.me in 10 days
  9. Create your own AI avatars with my new mini project avatarAI.me
  10. People asked me about my ergonomic desk set up
  11. Asking successful people about their tech stack is focusing on the wrong thing
  12. How I built Interiorai.com from scratch in 5 days
  13. Don't make the goddamn app build a functional mobile site instead
  14. This House Does Not Exist
  15. The best jobs are 100% remote 100% async with no scheduled meetings no whiteboard interviews and no monitoring systems
  16. My new project thishousedoesnotexist.org lets you generate AI ArchDaily style houses
  17. Ordered custom tailored 100% cotton shirts from son of a tailor
  18. How to generate AI images with Stable Diffusion on MacBook M1/M2 for free
  19. Non-alcohol socializing will be a big industry as people drink less alcohol now and in the future
  20. Craigslist has the most usable UX ever made
  21. Edgy opinions that will be mainstream within 10 years
  22. Todo.txt users sit at both ends of the IQ bell curve
  23. My First Million Podcast: Sam Parr + Shaan Puri asked me about bootstrapping, open startups and lifestyle inflation
  24. The secret of Portugal is to leave Lisbon as fast as possible
  25. Why offices suck
  26. European sign calls remote workers a plague and tells them to leave
  27. Life Done Differently Podcast: Thinking and doing for yourself
  28. Top rising and falling destinations for remote workers in 2022
  29. Building Remotely Podcast: Relocation of remote workers
  30. Flying is so stressful it's not a luxury product anymore
  31. How to avoid microplastics
  32. I just became a supporter of Ukraine's army for $1,000/mo
  33. The endless loop of getting ideas starting projects and telling everyone
  34. EU will require all job postings to show a salary range from August
  35. A crazy thing I realized about people more and less successful than you
  36. Indie Hackers Podcast: Money, happiness and productivity as a solo founder
  37. A corner office in 2002 vs 2022
  38. What advertising wants you to think makes you happy

2021 27

  1. If you have $100,000 in savings you're losing $2,000 per month from inflation
  2. If I didn't travel in my early 20s I'd be working an office job instead of a $10m+ business
  3. Web4 will be finally closing our computer and going outside
  4. Only 4 out of 70+ projects I ever did made money and grew
  5. Me when I deploy to production without testing
  6. Pov building an immigration-as-a-service startup
  7. Building a product in the dark without letting people use it early on is the best way to make something nobody wants
  8. The more I learn the less advice I want to give
  9. Rich and anonymous is the new rich and famous
  10. Lisbon is now the most visited city on Nomad List
  11. Made a fully functional fake VS Code to browse remote jobs without your boss finding out
  12. Chinese companies are silently ending US tech dominance
  13. You only need 26 customers paying you $99/mo to make an average U.S. income
  14. 3 of my close friends were hacked this month because they didn't have 2FA
  15. I just bought my first billboard in front of Apple's headquarters
  16. Fastest growing remote work hubs Mexico Canary Islands Dubai Miami Medellin
  17. Photopea makes almost $1M/y built by Ukrainian indie maker with vanilla JS
  18. Remote OK is a single PHP file generating $101,101 this month
  19. The next frontier after remote work is async
  20. Why I'm unreachable and maybe you should be too
  21. List of all my projects ever
  22. This is why I don't do calls
  23. Why coliving economics still don't make sense
  24. Inflation Chart: the stock market adjusted for the US-dollar money supply
  25. Delete your day trading app, hit the gym, buy ETFs and thank me in 20 years
  26. I did a live 4+ hour AMA on Twitch w/ @roxkstar74
  27. Rest in peace Hubud Bali where I wrote the first lines of Nomad List

2020 21

  1. No one should ever work
  2. This is the most exciting time in history to start a company online
  3. Normalization of non-deviance
  4. Copywriting for entrepreneurs: explain your product how you'd explain it to a friend
  5. Entrepreneurs are the heroes, not the villains
  6. The future of remote work: how the greatest human migration in history will happen in the next ten years
  7. Building Remotely Podcast: Will millions of remote workers become location independent in 2021?
  8. Overengineering everything is the disease of modern day developers
  9. The floor is profit
  10. I'm building a new mini startup this week after finding an idea road tripping in Portugal
  11. Quibi burned 2 billion dollars of VC funding in 6 months
  12. 2020 sucked so I'm giving away another MacBook Pro 16" to cheer people up
  13. RemoteOK.io is a single PHP file generating $65,651 this month
  14. This week I built a startup idea generator with GPT-3
  15. Perfection paralysis stops you from getting things done
  16. Twitter will allow employees to work from home permanently
  17. I added a fake Japanese city called Dorobō to Nomad List to catch data thieves
  18. Product Hunt Podcast: 5 years in startups with Abadesi
  19. Asia had SARS so they test and isolate but the west tries its own thing
  20. Air pollution before and after Corona
  21. Twitter giveaways can be hacked to win every time

2019 25

  1. How to remove the macOS screenshot delay
  2. Hotel lobbies as the new secret free coworkings after public libraries
  3. Nassim Taleb on a single definition of success
  4. Current MacBook Pro status with broken keyboard and frozen shrimp
  5. Quick test to figure out why you're feeling down
  6. Lorn - The Slow Blade ✕ Hong Kong
  7. Most decaf coffee is made from paint stripper
  8. The odds of getting a remote job are less than 1% (because everyone wants one)
  9. In the future writing actual code will be like using a pro DSLR camera, and no code will be like using a smartphone camera
  10. In the future writing code will be like using a pro dslr and no code like a smartphone camera
  11. Instead of hiring people, do things yourself to stay relevant
  12. Nobody cares about you after you're dead and the universe destroys itself
  13. The only real validation is people paying for your product
  14. Europe is very risky when monetary policy is almost out of gas, political fragmentation and missing the technology revolution
  15. Monitoring Bali's undersea internet cable
  16. Nomad List 5 launches exactly 5 years after the first version on Product Hunt
  17. Nomad List turns 5
  18. Fukuoka hotel I randomly booked turned out to be coliving with beautiful coworking
  19. The 'work hard enough to succeed' myth is used by the ownership class to exploit the middle class
  20. Tourist versus local maps for NYC, SF, Amsterdam and Tokyo
  21. It took 4 years to reach $1m annual revenue with Nomad List and Remote OK
  22. Work life balance
  23. How my video went viral with 150,000 RTs and 10 million views but Facebook pages bait-and-switched me for $0
  24. Bali banned single-use plastics and this cassava bag is the biodegradable alternative
  25. Joe Rogan podcast gets 1.5 billion listens and $50-100M revenue per year independently

2018 39

  1. Overnight success is the biggest myth: 10 years and 98% failed projects to make $100k/mo
  2. Odds of launching something successfully
  3. Photopea is a 100% free browser version of Photoshop and it's better
  4. Why is our entire society built around the idea that sleep literally doesn't matter?
  5. In Beijing you can add your public transit card to Apple Wallet
  6. Beijing air turned into hell on earth this weekend from weekend driving
  7. Every receipt in Beijing gives you a QR code for digital bookkeeping
  8. Beijing today
  9. The foundations of geopolitics by Aleksandr Dugin describes our current world with scary accuracy
  10. How to get an idea for your startup from Craigslist
  11. Map of every European city
  12. Visited my favorite fintech Revolut's office in London and met the co-founder
  13. Launched no more Google on product hunt
  14. Walmart vs Google revenue and profit per employee
  15. The more religious a country, the less productive it is
  16. Why Europe can't do tech: low risk tolerance chart
  17. Top 5 regrets before death
  18. Internet speed vs murder rate
  19. Barriers of entry to building a startup have never been so low
  20. The internet complains about facebook selling data but wants indie apps for free
  21. The first trillion dollar company is Norway's oil fund
  22. EU is making it impossible for startups to operate
  23. You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together
  24. Went to a robot hotel with self check-in and no humans
  25. Blocked by a member of the European Parliament
  26. Sitting in traffic each morning to stare at a screen for 40 years is capitalism's greatest con
  27. People forget how much advantage you have in 2018 as an indie business
  28. Building a startup: what people think vs reality
  29. Don't quit your job until side project revenue surpasses it for 6 months
  30. My book MAKE on bootstrapping startups is now live on Product Hunt
  31. Brazil hackers built an AI bot that finds anomalies in public spending
  32. I just passed $52,843 in monthly revenue
  33. I'm Product Hunt's Maker of the Year again!
  34. Why Korean Jimjilbangs and Japanese Onsens are great
  35. Using osx’s screenshot tool as a screen ruler
  36. Turning side projects into profitable startups
  37. Indie Hackers Podcast: Confronting fears and taking a leap
  38. What I learnt from 100 days of shipping
  39. Money should buy freedom from employment not Bentley cars and Rolex watches

2017 42

  1. As decentralized as cryptocurrency is: so will be the people working on it
  2. China overtakes US as biggest economy in 2032 while Europe suffers
  3. The European Union's economy is shrinking as a share of the world market
  4. Half the people in Asian coworking spaces are now working on crypto
  5. Nomad List 3.0 is now live on Product Hunt
  6. The narrative of 20 year old founders is false most are over 36
  7. Devsplaining is high brow elitist behavior that keeps normal people out of programming
  8. RemoteOK.io is a single PHP file generating $2,342.04 a day
  9. My Revolut card was stolen in Bali but the app let me freeze it and ship a new one fast
  10. Speak at a conference reach 1,000 people write a blog post reach 100,000 people build a product reach 1,000,000 people
  11. Hipster is dead: the millennial is now a minimalist
  12. How to 3d scan any object with just your phone's camera
  13. How to get healthcare as a digital nomad or stateless person
  14. You can 3d scan any object with just your phone's camera for free
  15. 12 fucking rules for success
  16. I 3d scanned my parents' house and now I can walk through it in VR from inside Telegram
  17. Most important skill I learnt is to keep shipping day in day out
  18. IKEA’s ARKit app is 🔥🔥🔥
  19. My bank kept blocking me because I travel so I set up multiple backup banks
  20. What if I sold a 10-day shipping program to corporates for $200,000 and gave half to charity
  21. Avoid accelerators incubators coaches bootcamps instead ship
  22. Nomad List, Remote OK and MAKE generated $34,733 in revenue last month with $3,950 in expenses
  23. In a world of outrage, mute words
  24. VC startups vs bootstrapped startups
  25. How to pack for world travel with just a carry-on bag
  26. A new trend of fast food type web apps that are tiny single feature tools with no sign up and quick charging
  27. Building a startup in public: from first line of code to frontpage of Reddit
  28. Facebook and Google are building their own cities: the inevitable future of private tech worker towns
  29. The TL;DR MBA
  30. We did it! Namecheap has introduced 2FA
  31. NYC's Bossa Nova Civic Club has similar dark techno vibes to Shanghai's Shelter
  32. It's about time for a digital work permit for remote workers
  33. Using Uptime Robot to build unit tests for the web
  34. Namecheap still doesn't support 2FA in 2017 (update: they do now!)
  35. Taipei is boring, and maybe that's not such a bad thing
  36. What we can learn from Stormzy about transparency
  37. I battled a 20-ppl million-dollar VC-funded team building the same product for 2 years
  38. Remote work is now the #1 thing people want when looking for a new job
  39. The ICANN mafia has taken my site hostage for 2 days now
  40. Most coworking spaces don't make money; here's how they can adapt to survive the future
  41. A society of total automation in which the need to work is replaced with a nomadic life of creative play
  42. Nomad List Founder

2016 42

  1. Make your own Olark feedback form without Olark
  2. Finally met John O'Nolan in real life in Chiang Mai
  3. Finally my two hobbies merged: travel and VR with Nomad List VR
  4. How to fix flying
  5. How long it takes to complete a task
  6. Robots make mistakes too: How to log your server with push notifications straight to your phone
  7. Vaporwave impression about my month in Shanghai
  8. Choosing entrepreneurship over a corporate career
  9. Hong Kong Express - 上海 (Shanghai)
  10. "I can't buy happiness anymore. I've bought everything that I ever wanted. There's not really anything I want anymore."
  11. From web dev to VR: How to get started with VR development
  12. Working from a free coworking space in Shanghai
  13. The Shelter in Shanghai is a cyberpunk Bladerunner club from the year 2150
  14. What I would do if I was 18 now
  15. Bootstrapping side projects into profitable startups
  16. Kids
  17. How I cured my anxiety (mostly)
  18. We have an epidemic of bad posture
  19. Fixing "Inf and NaN cannot be JSON encoded" in PHP the easy way
  20. Biggest difference living in Netherlands and Western Europe compared to US
  21. My third time in a float tank and practicing visualizing the future
  22. Why Dutch founders are not hiring Dutch people
  23. How to add shareable pictures to your website with some PhantomJS magic
  24. My chatbot gets catcalled
  25. From web dev to 3d: Learning 3d modeling in a month
  26. Basic income will be one of the greatest things to happen to people
  27. My second time in a sensory deprivation chamber
  28. Day 30 of Learning 3d 🎮 Cloning objects 👾👾👾
  29. Day 29 of Learning 3d 🎮 Glass, reflectives, HD, coloring and more details
  30. Day 27 of Learning 3d 🎮 Details, details, DETAILS!
  31. Day 23 of Learning 3d 🎮 Filling up the street and adding shadows
  32. Day 22 of Learning 3d 🎮 Added rain, blinking lights, sound, textured menu sign and a VR web app
  33. Day 21 of Learning 3d 🎮 High res textures, physical rendering and ambient occlusion
  34. Day 20 of Learning 3d 🎮 Objects and camera perspectives 🙆
  35. My first time floating in a sensory deprivation tank ☺️
  36. Day 10 of Learning 3d 🎮 Making complex objects by combining shapes 🙆
  37. Day 4 of Learning 3d: @shoinwolfe visits the actual street I'm modeling 🏮😎🏮
  38. Day 1 of Learning 3d 🎮 I learnt how to make shapes, move, rotate and scale them + how to texturize, and add colored lights 💆
  39. I'm Learning 3d 🎮
  40. The things I have to do to read an email sent to me by my government
  41. How to use your iPhone as a better Apple TV alternative (with VPN)
  42. My 2015 revenue was $202,785 with one Linode server one MacBook no office no house hardly any expenses and $0 funding

2015 34

  1. Here's a crazy idea: automatically pause recurring subscription of users when you detect they aren't actually using your app
  2. Stop calling night owls lazy, we're not
  3. We are the heroes of our own stories
  4. Beijing air quality hits 543 AQI
  5. The myth that buying a house is a good idea: homes underperform investing in stock market indices over 10 - 25 years
  6. WordPress's success shows it doesn't matter how great the code is, it's about the user experience first and foremost
  7. Speedtest on slow internet
  8. First a cookie law then VATMOSS now a net neutrality law that's against net neutrality
  9. There will be 1 billion digital nomads by 2035
  10. Tobias van Schneider interviewed me about everything
  11. Why doesn't Twitter just asks its users to pay?
  12. Punk died the moment we learnt that the world WAS in fact getting better, not worse
  13. Stop being everyone's friend
  14. Vaporwave is the only music that fits the feeling futuristic Asian mega cities give me
  15. We live in a world built by dead people
  16. Why global roaming data solutions don't make any sense
  17. How to export your Slack's entire archive as HTML message logs
  18. How to play GTA V on your MacBook (and any other PC game)
  19. Every EU country is now presenting themselves as startup friendly by doing promo events but how about rewriting the tax code?
  20. Nomad List hit Reddit's frontpage
  21. I uploaded 4 terabyte over Korea's 4G, and paid $48
  22. How I sped up Nomad List by 31% with SPDY, CloudFront and PageSpeed
  23. Wore my banana shirt and finally met Yongfook who Youjindo interviewed for her docu
  24. My weird code commenting style based on HTML tags
  25. Now is probably the time to make HTTPS the default on all your sites and apps
  26. Don't grow up
  27. Do the economics of remote work retreats make any sense?
  28. Calling people "expat" or "nomad" is just as irrelevant as calling internet users "netizens"
  29. How I built Remote | OK and launched it to #1 on Product Hunt
  30. Our society is not in line with our natural reward systems, and alcohol and drug abuse proves it
  31. Makers have become the invisible hand
  32. How technology is shaping our future: billions of self-employed makers and a few mega corporations
  33. We are the orcas at Sea World
  34. Why are you still in Europe

2014 44

  1. Love, Anxiety and Startups: My Year in 50 Tweets
  2. How to backup your Linode or Digital Ocean VPS to Amazon S3
  3. If you're always working you're not crushing it you're just highly inefficient
  4. The total chaos that the dawn of the 21st century has become
  5. How I hacked Slack into a community platform with Typeform
  6. How to successfully build a community around your startup
  7. The ideal place to start a startup is not necessarily in Silicon Valley
  8. "If I had this, I would be happy"
  9. This is what happens when FlightFox copies your entire site without attribution
  10. What I learnt from launching products is that the real work starts when everyone has stopped talking about you
  11. GIFbook, the first animated GIF flipbook
  12. On Thailand's immigration police targeting digital nomads
  13. Why traveling makes you feel lost
  14. How I build my minimum viable products
  15. How I built Nomad Jobs, a remote job board for 100% distributed startups
  16. Danism & Rae - Sirens
  17. How I got my startup to #1 on both Product Hunt and Hacker News by accident
  18. Why does Generation Y feel so lost? And what's the cure?
  19. Manila
  20. You won't reach success by socializing networking attending events and meeting ppl for coffee
  21. Bali is the magical voodoo spirit island of Asia
  22. Ideals, fears and the script of life
  23. How to access anyone's Telegram messages without unlocking their phone
  24. The achiever in crisis
  25. How I did not sell my startup today
  26. The free fall that is coming home after traveling the world
  27. Never dismiss your ideals as post-adolescent fantasy
  28. My 3rd startup: Tubelytics, the real-time dashboard for YouTube publishers
  29. How Go Fucking Do It raised $30,000+ in pledges in less than a month
  30. We have an ideologically broken and personally unfulfilling society
  31. On self-funding startups
  32. Run through ideas quickly
  33. If you can't express yourself by email, you're not worthy of anyone's time
  34. My 2nd startup: Go Fucking Do It, set a goal + deadline and if you fail, you pay
  35. Over 2,000 people played their inbox with Play My Inbox
  36. Celebrating my birthday North Korean style
  37. How Automation Left Us Feeling Empty
  38. Play My Inbox, collect music from your inbox and playlist them
  39. I'm Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months
  40. How to protect your backups from solar flares with a faraday cage
  41. Linkoban - Oh Oh
  42. Nationality is an accident of birth
  43. How I Went From 100 To 0 Things (Or How I Was Robbed of All My Stuff)
  44. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

2013 70

  1. Celebrating NYE 2014 in Hong Kong
  2. How I ended up in Hong Kong (or my adventures in the New York of the East)
  3. It's practically impossible for regular people to buy Bitcoin
  4. 2014 is the year techstep drum and bass makes its comeback
  5. Rinse FM, here's your podcast feed we've always wanted
  6. How I spent the night with Singapore's migrant workers
  7. How I travel the world with just a carry-on bag
  8. Why I want to live in Singapore
  9. How I predict Bitcoin's price by tracking Twitter mentions
  10. James Blake & Chance The Rapper - Life Round Here
  11. Sasha Keable - Careless Over You
  12. My not so great time in Vietnam
  13. The myth of a globalized world
  14. Wiley - And Again
  15. What happens when you're #1 on Hacker News for a day
  16. Remote working is the future
  17. Steve Summers - New Surroundings
  18. What I learnt from bootstrapping my startup from Thailand in six months
  19. Cash means controlling your own destiny
  20. Palms Trax - Equation
  21. You're just a piece of a heartless shitty machine that makes money
  22. Automation Will Free Us From the Endless Consumption/Production Cycle We're In
  23. National Borders Have Become Irrelevant
  24. A Culture of Distraction is Not The Problem
  25. Governments are always ready to grab the greatest degree of power that the people will give them
  26. You constantly need to be painting or it looks like total crap
  27. Oversight: Thank You For Volunteering, Citizen
  28. Stripe launches beta in the Netherlands
  29. Google+ spamming people every 2 weeks to put up a profile photo
  30. The 100 Thing Challenge – From 200 to 20 things in 3 months
  31. Living in a Hotel
  32. This is what "acting professionally" results in
  33. The Story of my Visa Run to Tachileik in Myanmar
  34. Lockah - Sly Winking Usury
  35. Stand-up comedians on creativity
  36. Money as an enslavement method
  37. With jobs gone, will robot owners pay people's income?
  38. Make money where prices are high, spend it where prices are low. Does income arbitrage work?
  39. Finding an apartment in Chiang Mai
  40. Add HTTPS to NGINX for free and help make the world more secure
  41. Co-Working Spaces in Chiang Mai: PunSpace
  42. Moving to Chiang Mai
  43. My Bad Day At The Co-Working Space
  44. If it's in the news, don't worry about it
  45. The 24-Hour Coffee Place in Bangkok: Too Fast To Sleep
  46. Nosaj Thing x Chance the Rapper - Paranoia
  47. "There simply are no other fields in which I can spend $100 tomorrow and set up a new business..."
  48. "Speaking as a graduate of one, top schools teach you credentialing and ladder climbing..."
  49. Koh Phangan is the Disneyland of Partying
  50. Visiting Koh Samui, the island of paradise
  51. From dive bar to roof-top bar to roof-top pool in Bangkok
  52. "To awaken quite alone in a strange town..."
  53. Co-working spaces in Bangkok: Launchpad
  54. "Do whatever you're drawn to"
  55. The 100 Thing Challenge
  56. Co-working spaces in Bangkok: Hubba
  57. Reset your life
  58. How I switched from PC to Mac in less than 7 days
  59. OSX for Windows users
  60. OSX Terminal Tricks
  61. Black Mirror is the best TV series I have seen in years
  62. Constraints make people more creative
  63. Why overnight success is a myth
  64. Dedicating our lives to what is essentially an organization to make money
  65. Kitty Pryde & Riff Raff - Orion's Belt
  66. Watch The Pirate Bay: Away From the Keyboard
  67. My new music video for rap duo RASA
  68. What if money was no object in your life?
  69. Why attention to detail matters, even if no one notices the details
  70. In the 21st century, Maria Montessori shows to be more relevant than ever

2012 30

  1. Unless the job itself is your dream, stay the fuck away from salaried jobs
  2. Success is One Big Hoax
  3. FML - OCTOPU$$Y
  4. The death of the corporate drone
  5. The West's unemployment problem is permanent
  6. UPSKRT - Brynn's Theme
  7. New Panda Mix Show branding and website
  8. My 2012 master's thesis on how technology changed the music industry
  9. Headhunterz - Power of Music
  10. Essendle interview on my music and my YouTube show
  11. The XX - Angels
  12. Anna Lunoe & Diamond Lights - Stronger (Willy Joy Remix)
  13. Spenzo - Ova
  14. Herve feat. Ronika - How Can I Live Without You (Make it Right) (Death Rose Cult Remix)
  15. Pheo - Nyquil
  16. Why buying YouTube views is bad
  17. Citizen - Deep End
  18. I love minimalist living
  19. D!RTY AUD!O intro
  20. Anybody can monetize their passion (now)
  21. Diplo - No Problem
  22. Skream - Thoughts of You
  23. TEED - Blood Pressure
  24. Today is the first day of the rest of your life
  25. Happiness maximization vs. profit maximization
  26. Music genres are dead
  27. Make a great product
  28. Redlight - Get Out My Head (UPSKRT Remix)
  29. Rasa - Noem 't Wat Je Wilt
  30. Tyga - Coconut Juice (Crave x UPSKRT Remix)

2011 6

  1. Rasa - Hard & Soul
  2. Earth
  3. Lights - Siberia (UPSKRT Remix)
  4. UPSKRT - Cockblockalypse
  5. UPSKRT - Skeezy Fuck
  6. FML - Verder

2010 2

  1. My 2010 bachelor thesis on firm size and innovation
  2. My Drum & Bass and Dubstep merch line on Spreadshirt

2009 2

  1. I got Sub Focus on my YouTube channel Panda Mix Show
  2. I went studying abroad in Korea

2008 5

  1. Drum & Bass Tutorial: Making a Reese bass in Propellerhead Reason
  2. solipsisticNATION Podcast: Drum & Bass interview with Panda
  3. Playing drum and bass live at Winston in Amsterdam with MC Don.Skey
  4. Eclectro Podcast: An exclusive Drum & Bass minimix by Panda
  5. DNBforum.nl Podcast: Panda Drum & Bass presents Retake Manhattan

2004 4

  1. My drum and bass track Sequoyah on Exegene Records in 2004
  2. My first ever music release: Bermuda on Foundname in 2004
  3. Ce N'Est Pas Un Femme, one of my collage designs for NowGoCreate
  4. I started DJing as Peet/PandaDNB

1998 1

  1. I made the Internet Huis where you can walk around in my house online

1997 1

  1. I made a homepage for my brother Jeroen in 1997

1996 1

  1. I made my first homepage in 1996

Undated 5

  1. X posts
  2. long form
  3. presentations
  4. podcasts
  5. Ask me anything