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Blog by a guy who is bad at not going viral.

eu keeps resubmitting chat control after 5 rejections proving it's undemocratic

one more week to escape the underclass

an atari st inside a blog post

an atari st inside a blog post

degrowth is likely just masked foreign sabotage

europe fights for 6 years whether to install ac or not while china produces an ac every 6 seconds

is the stock market in a bubble right now?

korea's bus stops have ac to keep you cool in the heat

foreign funding is behind the degrowth movement in europe

portugal's eu customs blocks every package from outside making modern products impossible to order

degrowth killed 250,000 people by avoiding acs in europe

bitcoin's 4-year cycles

congratulations europe you killed 1,000 people with your degrowth bs

i made a dynamic chart to illustrate bitcoin's 4-year cycles

i've been coding almost solely on my vps with claude code for almost a year now

an entire herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time

degrowthers are literally opposed to life

bitcoin has always been operating in 4 year cycles where it crashes at the end

bus driver in france crashes after fainting from heat with no ac

far left french newspaper against air conditioning has roof covered in ac units

how did ac become the political battleground of choice in europe

using claude code to psychoanalyze 5 years of chat logs

europeans will ignore anti-ac rules and buy air conditioners in 2027

having an ac in europe now classifies you as far right

the craziest thing about quake is how many modern fps games originate from it

europe had 248,875 heat-related deaths vs 9,436 in the us from 2020 to 2025

lvmh buys luxury brands like tiffany and rimowa then 10x prices while cutting costs 10x

in san francisco everyone is saying software is commoditized by ai so smart people are moving to hardware

vibe jam 2026 winners and how the games are getting close to real production quality

america still has post offices unlike most of europe

my first real investment exit with cursor ai

spacex valuation seems crazy until you try airline wifi without starlink

europe's gdp per capita will stagnate while the us grows to twice as rich by 2030

europe has gotten very poor fast while america has only gotten richer

us hotels give way more value than europe now with better ac and amenities

i ported return to castle wolfenstein to the web with multiplayer in an hour using ai

i revived a 28 year old quake 2 map with ai into web-based multiplayer

i built a web-based virtual null modem to play quake i in ms-dos in multiplayer online

indie hackers build fancy ai factories but have no money or traffic

my drum & bass double drop edit: heavy sound system x shadow people

i built a dot matrix printer on the web that prints from windows 3.11

everyone can build apps but distribution is the real challenge

rimowa suitcase broke after copenhagen to lisbon flight and why avoid luxury brands

revolut fixed my banking nightmares after rabobank froze my card in bali and made me homeless in the us

this is how you do a great startup video

european commission lies and calls truth a narrative

aggressive inline skating

i cook friends a 400g steak with beef tallow and take them lifting to cure tiredness depression or lethargy

luxury brands like rimowa and lvmh are mostly a scam

luxury hotels are mathematically bad value

eu ai fund is all cronyism and taxpayer money burnt

western europe is so fucking tiring

build on the side until it makes money before quitting your job

hotel in the netherlands sets ac minimum at 23°c and locks windows for security

my friend's lisbon office got burglarized and portuguese police refused to recover his airtagged apple display

leiden might be the best dutch city to visit instead of tourist amsterdam

i don't write code anymore

my daily laptop and iphone setup for sites on a vps with claude code

my latest termius and tmux setup for every site

luxury products are really just meant for poor people to fake they're rich

barcelona has drug dens and violent crime in el raval that google maps won't show

hoodmaps.com now has crime data

ignoring mind viruses leads to a slippery slope of meat allergies from engineered ticks

cloudflare is now the cheapest email provider at $354 per million

most ev chargers in portugal are out of service thanks to eu subsidies

how keeping co2 low with a bathroom fan gave me 100% sleep score

my gf banned from reviewing places on google maps in europe after one 1-star review

airthings is the best air sensor after trying fakes and dodgy ones

i still haven't solved the co2 bedroom challenge

winning my first big stripe dispute in a decade with a vibe coded responder

claude was dumbified on march 4 exactly when we noticed

i open sourced my first chrome extension superlevels

my sites get 4 billion requests a year but i only pay $2,932 to host them on my own vps

europeans are all captivated by the mind virus

made an auto-dispute response system for interior ai to see how easy it'd be

tech insiders avoid touchscreens and smart homes because they know the downsides

brazil's cpf catch-22 makes booking hotels impossible for tourists

april fool's pizzas in us are real pizzas in brazil

i made a free open source xdr boost app for macos using claude code in 5 minutes

why portuguese businesses don't want more customers or to grow

give us more data to make sure it's you after we've been breached

argentinean meat is one of the worst in the world now

chatcontrol is back with a vengeance

daniel radcliffe makes $660,000/mo from investments in perfect fire story

quake iii server now runs in the browser 7 years later

the irony that traveling on less than $1000 a month is more fun than luxury travel

european governments reject net positive italian brazilians but welcome culture destroying immigrants

openclaw's real power user is my girlfriend chatting with it in telegram

photoai.com is a 40870 line index.php making 105000/mo revenue and 80000/mo profit

i ran claude code on the server in bypass mode and outran my todo list

built my own gaussian splat viewer for interior ai

how to build a bootstrapped startup without funding

1983 wall street raiders game reverse engineered from 115000 lines of basic

steipete on why europe can't retain talent due to regulations and labor laws

added dark mode to my http proxy for reading on kindle

things in your house slowly poisoning you and what to change them to

visiting brazil's biggest indie hacker meetup

my dad the cardiologist got free family holidays from pfizer to prescribe their drugs

my friend on ssris tried to convince me i have generational trauma

eu countries are now trying to censor speech on social media nationally after dsa failed

i'm so done with real estate agents

you absolutely cannot trust germans with nukes

europe's 28th regime could create a delaware for startups

europe's tax system discourages hard work and new businesses

the era of fake e-girl influencers has started

moved all my sites llm apis now to xai

women are most attracted to men who believe in astrology

freezing bread from the local bakery solves sellouts and lowers blood sugar spikes

luxury is absolutely done in the west but still exists in asia and the gulf states

map of south america as the united states of amazonia

i glued an airtag to a yogurt box to track if recycling is real

the oceans are full of plastic exactly because you recycle

i bought over $1m in google because sergey returned and they're winning ai

sergey brin got so bored of his $450m yacht he had to create things again

qatar airways business class gets you special arrival reception at doha

why koreans didn't get richer

amap is my favorite navigation app in china

chinese evs are beating german cars with better software and innovation

i got 100+ mbps plane internet on qatar airways with starlink

nio is another very popular ev brand in china

the eu is in control of what you see online thanks to the digital services act

advice i give 5 minutes after meeting somebody new

the european commission is the cancer rotting the eu from within

china can be very cheap with $300 chongqing hotel suites and $20 rooms

chinese tourism is 95% domestic making china feel like the only foreigner there

never fly directly into lisbon from outside europe to skip immigration

restaurants in china show their menus as photos on the wall

chongqing looks gray and derelict without its night lights and needs better maintenance

arriving in chongqing and china's led lit skyline versus europe saving energy

chinese high speed trains are now faster than the japanese shinkansen

i took the high speed train in china today

western double standards on china versus japan city lights

china's train security is stricter than tsa

getting the china flu after arriving and why to wear an n95 on planes

never bring a knife to china because dhl and customs make shipping impossible

i got the china cough after 4 days in china

rich bigtech wives destabilizing society from 2016 to 2023 via giant ngo donations

chinese brands replacing western brands in china

rentable powerbanks in china scan with alipay but would get stolen in us or europe

we've literally just lost power in europe

western people used in chinese marketing to represent quality

beijing uses robot arms at toll booths

china airport confiscated our power banks without ccc certification

the russian connection in china doesn't stop

woke up in beijing's summer palace built in 1750 as a birthday gift

got alipay to work in china as proxy for didi meituan and baidu

i started lifting weights at 30 and gained 30kg of muscle

russians are traveling to china a lot because they're blocked from most places

china isn't easy to travel

netherlands changes stock options tax to us system for startups

eu is finally scaling down gdpr, ai act and cookie banner laws

only the us and china have actual substantial startup activity now

eu chatcontrol is back with even more far reaching surveillance through the back door

singapore too is now compromised by degrowthers

european commission denies my request for gpus

eu's ai factory plan requires proposals while lambda gives you 8x h100s in 5 minutes

i can't use the eu's gpus because horizon 2020 closed in 2020

eu ai factories have 500x less compute than xai

eu ai factories require proposal calls and endless ethical questionnaires instead of simple gpu access

levels.vc - my investment fund

get a vps at hetzner already

counter-law to let all european citizens read any eu politician's chats

cdk podcast: a brutal foreigner's view on portugal

it turns out mark manson was mostly right about brazil

jesus was a jewish hippie that went backpacking in india

correlation between screen size and your importance in the company

10g of creatine per day

europe must stop restricting air conditioning or heat deaths will hit 500000 per year

stripe podcast: a cheeky pint with john collison

chinese pigs are treated better than the average european

spain's meteorological agency says healthy people should not use air conditioning

silence is high iq

more europeans die from heat than americans from shootings

my friend lives in a tent in his house in portugal because neighbors ban real ac

i made a trailer for the future of humanity (e/acc)

south asian immigrants in portugal game welfare for passports and eu access

i randomly discovered dubai has an absolutely massive solar farm

visiting my api provider fal in san francisco

visiting openai's office in san francisco and seeing the city's improvements

electricity is down in entire portugal and spain peninsula

the only thing young people in southern europe can do is drink and smoke

winners of the 2025 vibe code game jam

andrej karpathy visited my weekly coworking in portugal

europe wants to reduce its anti-ai act and gdpr to compete in ai

so trump is vibe presidenting

europe to slash gdpr privacy law in weeks to compete with us and china

europe is cooked as italy bans ac below 26°c

being an entrepreneur now has more job security than a job

what chatgpt says the devil would do to keep an entire nation sick

what's crazy when you read about taiwan semiconductors is you realize nvidia are essentially dropshippers

full multiplayer python websockets game built almost 100% by ai

fly.pieter.com, my first vibecoded flight simulator

man investigated after calling german vice-chancellor ‘idiot’

leaked eu competitiveness compass draft emphasizes accelerate and cut red tape

we need a federal union of europe to compete with us and china

europeans have collective memory loss from just 35 years ago

dating apps don't work in 2025 so meet people through hobbies and friends

meeting bryan johnson at din tai fung and his don't die health cult

make europe great again

europe slowly realizing it's losing the last control it had on the world with ignored censorship requests

the brazilian real currency should be on crypto exchanges because it's the biggest shitcoin ever

the only planes left with zero fatal accidents now

a tractor is a great parallel to ai because it helps people do their work easier and faster

renting saves you money over buying if you own the house for less than 15 years

self driving cars react 150x faster than a human driver

europe is ruled by rich nepotist families and unelected corporatist cronies killing startups

eu/acc goals now on euacc.com

how elon does politics is smartest and my 6 goals for europe

both a16z and yc's request for startups for 2025 just came out

i got 1 billion views on x in the last 12 months

i put an airtag in my plastic recycling to see if it actually gets recycled

onlyfans just hacked basic human biology

started lifting at 30 and that has avoided the pains most of my in-thirties friends have

europe's end game might be to become like japan a cheap tourist destination

my minimal solo founder setup with 100% automation and 99% profit margins

lift weights to grow neurons mit study shows

sundar pichai fumbled google's ai head start and it'll be studied for decades

the difference between free users and paying users is about 1000x from my experience

what is happening to google now is pretty much textbook of what happened to xerox parc, but worse

rent an empty office space and invent the future

every european with talent moves to the us for startups or bali and chiang mai for indie hacking

macron warns eu has only 2 or 3 years before total us and china dominance

the poor get free gov money the rich avoid taxes and the middle class gets rekt

surround yourself with builders not talkers

travel and fitness are two of the most important things you can do for your brain

met sam altman at openai office in san francisco

sam altman will give himself 7% of openai worth $10.5b

nomad list is one of the first network states

fireside chat with balaji srinivasan at network state conference 2024

i hit a new $420,000/mo revenue record thanks to the lex fridman podcast

thierry breton resigns after eu ai act and dsa criticism

arresting jack ma was the dumbest thing china has ever done

my recommendations for mario draghi's eu competitiveness report

bali broke ground on a subway that will connect the entire island

google apis are the worst apis on the web to work with

european founder had to move to the us to build a humanoid robot company

pavel durov arrested in france

i still meet programmers who are not using ai to code

the web development industrial complex has lied to your face

lex fridman interviewed me

apple maps vs google maps in 2024

i made a deadlift etf with ceos that lift weights or fight sports outperforming the s&p 500 by 140%

i only wear alo yoga shorts but they are made from polyester that disrupts your endocrine system

someone needs to invent cotton yoga shorts

europe's governments made energy expensive on purpose to stop you from using it

could air conditioning explain why more top us companies were founded after 1950 than in the eu?

if you wanna get rich install ac

in bali the heat puts your brain into power save idle mode

amazon is a showroom for aliexpress which is a showroom for taobao

building pieter.com, my retro pc in the browser

i'm on 6 grams of creatine per day for the last 2 years

finally met my hero patrick collison founder of stripe

thierry breton represents 100+ year old european dinosaur companies as eu tech policy director

all airbus models made in the last 25 years have zero fatal crashes

if cars were invented today the european union would have regulated them out of existence in favor of horses

a majority of the worst ranked airports in the world are run by da vinci airports

imagine traveling to europe to spend your hard-earned money and getting sprayed with water guns by degrowth protesters

american restaurants kick you out after one meal unlike europe

japan is not futuristic it's a fossil stuck in 1990 unlike china korea and vietnam

jack ma met jerry yang at the great wall of china in 1997

the rise and fall of lisbon (2020-2024)

i made luggage losers a live ranking of airlines by lost luggage

everything in europe comes from germany and everything in germany comes from china

degrowth propaganda is everywhere you look now

learn python for remote ai jobs paying median 80k

guy sells his $50k/mo business for $10m but it's just an acquihire

so many vc funded exits are actually massive failures

if you wanna get rich fastest make a premium product for switzerland uae us and singapore

us proposes ban on dji drones after it became world's biggest manufacturer

us bans chinese companies after they become market leaders

the euro kinda destroyed southern europe's economies

eu company landscape is run by dinosaurs founded 50 years before us ones

my first interaction with a wired journalist 10 years ago

new york city was founded by the dutch as new amsterdam 400 years ago

made eu/acc logo

most europeans don't realize how stagnant europe has become

south america uses remote security people and doormen

wayfair used my ai interior design tool to build their own

got scammed with the extra zero trick at órale juanito palermo in buenos aires

uber is completely useless in argentina because of a hardcoded price check

british people are now the 2nd most miserable people in the world

mma turned him from an awkward nervous wreck into a confident guy

every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day

ai generated images are 10000x cheaper than any human could charge

how i imagined my future million dollar startup office vs my actual million dollar startup office

open source llms reaching gpt-4 levels way earlier than we thought is the most exciting thing now to me

there are more regulators in this room than ai scientists in all of eu

nobody will build apps on gemini because google always shuts things down

minimal architect sketches turned into renders with interior ai v2

you're just lucky

open sourced my entire chatgpt code for image text adventures

trying self hosting alpaca a finetuned llama model after openai drama

i made my first video game with chatgpt dall-e runwayml and elevenlabs

how i'd validate 30 startup ideas in 2023 with tiktok and stripe preorders

nestle's nesquik gets nutri-score a from eu commission and who

the bootstrapped founder podcast: indie hacking is dead, now what?

headspace was started at 38 by former monk andy puddicombe who exited at 50

if i was 18 today i’d skip uni and go nomad building startups

actionable marketing tactic to get tiktok videos about your app for $100-$300

i asked gpt4 which countries you should invest in real estate

unbothered writing vanilla javascript while web dev twitter fights over typescript

why national postal services are so bad at delivering packages and amazon is so good

office trends cycle every 7 years from cubicles to open offices and back

invested in brazil after traveling there for a month

good example is gojek a super app in asia where you can do everything from ordering an uber to massage and investing

why fold into wall beds never became a big thing

$1,000,000 mortgage costs $2,217,160 total with interest

how to feel like you're getting ahead but actually procrastinate

luxury restaurant in portugal won't accept visa or mastercard but barefoot food cart guy in brazil does

macbook adaptor costs $220 in brazil instead of $99 due to import taxes

portuguese have a weird love/hate obsession with brazil

photoai.com is almost 14000 lines of raw php making $61808 per month

aspartame is proven to cause cancer in soda drinks

wagner coup is like when you hire a web dev and give github access and he takes over your site

almost nobody i know in asia wants to move to america anymore

big dutch dairy company wants me to help create their ai strategy

while the eu fights about nuclear energy china plans 150 new reactors

i wish everywhere had these power outlets that accept any plug from us uk eu plus usb-c

photoai adds try on mode for ai clothing models

so why do you have a sticker over your webcam

first class in america vs first class in asia

us flag stripes come from indonesia's majapahit empire

drinking alcohol negatively affects the liver and leads to fatty liver called cirrhosis

thailand is a third world country

only losers go to networking events

easiest hack to save lots of money is registering as a company

casio watch face for apple watch

buenos aires is now #1 on nomad list thanks to cheap currency

two types of people now

if i was just out of school i'd fly to bangkok to bootstrap my startup for $240 a month

we need more makers less coaches

vc startup $100m exit nets 4 cofounders $47 per hour after dilution and taxes

digital nomads you are fucking disgusting graffiti in portugal

my new project photo ai a photorealistic ai photo studio

google ai launches are all press releases without functioning products

my new ai model is great

airbnb hosts with strict rules and deposits versus easy hotels

i proved people now have ai bots using chatgpt to reply to tweets

music generated by finetuning stable diffusion on spectrograms then generating any song possible

the real opportunity in ai for most people is building a front end around it

indonesia makes sex outside marriage illegal even in bali while thailand gets more progressive

my biggest idea people aren't ready for is 2 dishwashers

my github contribution graph from 2014 to 2022

sold $100,000 in ai-generated avatars with avatarai.me in 10 days

create your own ai avatars with my new mini project avatarai.me

people asked me about my ergonomic desk set up

asking successful people about their tech stack is focusing on the wrong thing

how i built interiorai.com from scratch in 5 days

don't make the goddamn app build a functional mobile site instead

this house does not exist

this house does not exist

the best jobs are 100% remote 100% async with no scheduled meetings no whiteboard interviews and no monitoring systems

my new project thishousedoesnotexist.org lets you generate ai archdaily style houses

ordered custom tailored 100% cotton shirts from son of a tailor

how to generate ai images with stable diffusion on macbook m1/m2 for free

non-alcohol socializing will be a big industry as people drink less alcohol now and in the future

craigslist has the most usable ux ever made

edgy opinions that will be mainstream within 10 years

todo.txt users sit at both ends of the iq bell curve

sam parr + shaan puri asked me about bootstrapping, open startups and lifestyle inflation (my first million podcast)

sam parr + shaan puri asked me about bootstrapping, open startups and lifestyle inflation (my first million podcast)

the secret of portugal is to leave lisbon as fast as possible

why offices suck

european sign calls remote workers a plague and tells them to leave

thinking and doing for yourself (life done differently podcast)

thinking and doing for yourself (life done differently podcast)

top rising and falling destinations for remote workers in 2022

relocation of remote workers (building remotely podcast)

relocation of remote workers (building remotely podcast)

flying is so stressful it's not a luxury product anymore

how to avoid microplastics

i just became a supporter of ukraine's army for $1,000/mo

the endless loop of getting ideas starting projects and telling everyone

eu will require all job postings to show a salary range from august

a crazy thing i realized about people more and less successful than you

money, happiness and productivity as a solo founder (indiehackers podcast)

money, happiness and productivity as a solo founder (indiehackers podcast)

a corner office in 2002 vs 2022

bootstrapping, moving to portugal and setting up rebase (wannabe entrepreneur podcast)

bootstrapping, moving to portugal and setting up rebase (wannabe entrepreneur podcast)

what advertising wants you to think makes you happy

if you have $100,000 in savings you're losing $2,000 per month from inflation

if i didn't travel in my early 20s i'd be working an office job instead of a $10m+ business

web4 will be finally closing our computer and going outside

only 4 out of 70+ projects i ever did made money and grew

me when i deploy to production without testing

pov building an immigration-as-a-service startup

building a product in the dark without letting people use it early on is the best way to make something nobody wants

the more i learn the less advice i want to give

rich and anonymous is the new rich and famous

lisbon is now the most visited city on nomad list

made a fully functional fake vs code to browse remote jobs without your boss finding out

chinese companies are silently ending us tech dominance

you only need 26 customers paying you $99/mo to make an average u.s. income

3 of my close friends were hacked this month because they didn't have 2fa

fastest growing remote work hubs mexico canary islands dubai miami medellin

i just bought my first billboard in front of apple's headquarters

photopea makes almost $1m/y built by ukrainian indie maker with vanilla js

remote ok is a single php file generating $101101 this month

why i'm unreachable and maybe you should be too

the next frontier after remote work is async

the next frontier after remote work is async

why i'm unreachable and maybe you should be too

list of all my projects ever

list of all my projects ever

this is why i don't do calls

why coliving economics still don't make sense

why coliving economics still don't make sense

inflation chart: the stock market adjusted for the us-dollar money supply

inflation chart: the stock market adjusted for the us-dollar money supply

delete your day trading app, hit the gym, buy etfs and thank me in 20 years

i did a live 4+ hour ama on twitch w/ @roxkstar74

i did a live 4+ hour ama on twitch w/ @roxkstar74

i did a live 4+ hour ama on twitch w/ @roxkstar74

no one should ever work

no one should ever work

this is the most exciting time in history to start a company online

normalization of non-deviance

normalization of non-deviance

copywriting for entrepreneurs: explain your product how you'd explain it to a friend

copywriting for entrepreneurs: explain your product how you'd explain it to a friend

entrepreneurs are the heroes, not the villains

the future of remote work: how the greatest human migration in history will happen in the next ten years

will millions of remote workers become location independent in 2021?

overengineering everything is the disease of modern day developers

the floor is profit

i'm building a new mini startup this week after finding an idea road tripping in portugal

quibi burned 2 billion dollars of vc funding in 6 months

2020 sucked so i'm giving away another macbook pro 16" to cheer people up

remoteok.io is a single php file generating $65,651 this month

this week i built a startup idea generator with gpt-3

perfection paralysis stops you from getting things done

twitter will allow employees to work from home permanently

i added a fake japanese city called dorobō to nomad list to catch data thieves

5 years in startups with abadesi

asia had sars so they test and isolate but the west tries its own thing

air pollution before and after corona

twitter giveaways can be hacked to win every time

how to remove the macos screenshot delay

hotel lobbies as the new secret free coworkings after public libraries

nassim taleb on a single definition of success

current macbook pro status with broken keyboard and frozen shrimp

quick test to figure out why you're feeling down

lorn - the slow blade ✕ hong kong

most decaf coffee is made from paint stripper

the odds of getting a remote job are less than 1% (because everyone wants one)

in the future writing actual code will be like using a pro dslr camera, and no code will be like using a smartphone camera

in the future writing code will be like using a pro dslr and no code like a smartphone camera

instead of hiring people, do things yourself to stay relevant

nobody cares about you after you're dead and the universe destroys itself

the only real validation is people paying for your product

europe is very risky when monetary policy is almost out of gas, political fragmentation and missing the technology revolution

monitoring bali's undersea internet cable

nomad list 5 launches exactly 5 years after the first version on product hunt

nomad list turns 5

fukuoka hotel i randomly booked turned out to be coliving with beautiful coworking

the 'work hard enough to succeed' myth is used by the ownership class to exploit the middle class

tourist versus local maps for nyc, sf, amsterdam and tokyo

it took 4 years to reach $1m annual revenue with nomad list and remote ok

how my video went viral with 150,000 rts and 10 million views but facebook pages bait-and-switched me for $0

bali banned single-use plastics and this cassava bag is the biodegradable alternative

joe rogan podcast gets 1.5 billion listens and $50-100m revenue per year independently

overnight success is the biggest myth: 10 years and 98% failed projects to make $100k/mo

odds of launching something successfully

photopea is a 100% free browser version of photoshop and it's better

why is our entire society built around the idea that sleep literally doesn't matter?

in beijing you can add your public transit card to apple wallet

beijing air turned into hell on earth this weekend from weekend driving

every receipt in beijing gives you a qr code for digital bookkeeping

the foundations of geopolitics by aleksandr dugin describes our current world with scary accuracy

how to get an idea for your startup from craigslist

map of every european city

visited my favorite fintech revolut's office in london and met the co-founder

launched no more google on product hunt

walmart vs google revenue and profit per employee

the more religious a country, the less productive it is

why europe can't do tech: low risk tolerance chart

top 5 regrets before death

internet speed vs murder rate

barriers of entry to building a startup have never been so low

the internet complains about facebook selling data but wants indie apps for free

the first trillion dollar company is norway's oil fund

eu is making it impossible for startups to operate

you learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together

went to a robot hotel with self check-in and no humans

blocked by a member of the european parliament

sitting in traffic each morning to stare at a screen for 40 years is capitalism's greatest con

people forget how much advantage you have in 2018 as an indie business

building a startup: what people think vs reality

don't quit your job until side project revenue surpasses it for 6 months

my book make on bootstrapping startups is now live on product hunt

brazil hackers built an ai bot that finds anomalies in public spending

i just passed $52,843 in monthly revenue

i'm product hunt's maker of the year again!

why korean jimjilbangs and japanese onsens are great

using osx’s screenshot tool as a screen ruler

my presentation: turning side projects into profitable startups

turning side projects into profitable startups

indie hackers podcast: confronting fears and taking a leap

what i learnt from 100 days of shipping

money should buy freedom from employment not bentley cars and rolex watches

as decentralized as cryptocurrency is: so will be the people working on it

china overtakes us as biggest economy in 2032 while europe suffers

the european union's economy is shrinking as a share of the world market

half the people in asian coworking spaces are now working on crypto

nomad list 3.0 is now live on product hunt

the narrative of 20 year old founders is false most are over 36

devsplaining is high brow elitist behavior that keeps normal people out of programming

remoteok.io is a single php file generating $2,342.04 a day

speak at a conference reach 1,000 people write a blog post reach 100,000 people build a product reach 1,000,000 people

hipster is dead: the millennial is now a minimalist

how to 3d scan any object with just your phone's camera

12 fucking rules for success

most important skill i learnt is to keep shipping day in day out

ikea’s arkit app is 🔥🔥🔥

avoid accelerators incubators coaches bootcamps instead ship

in a world of outrage, mute words

vc startups vs bootstrapped startups

how to pack for world travel with just a carry-on bag

building a startup in public: from first line of code to frontpage of reddit

facebook and google are building their own cities: the inevitable future of private tech worker towns

we did it! namecheap has introduced 2fa

nyc's bossa nova civic club has similar dark techno vibes to shanghai's shelter

it's about time for a digital work permit for remote workers

using uptime robot to build unit tests for the web

namecheap still doesn't support 2fa in 2017 (update: they do now!)

taipei is boring, and maybe that's not such a bad thing

what we can learn from stormzy about transparency

i battled a 20-ppl million-dollar vc-funded team building the same product for 2 years

remote work is now the #1 thing people want when looking for a new job

the icann mafia has taken my site hostage for 2 days now

most coworking spaces don't make money; here's how they can adapt to survive the future

a society of total automation in which the need to work is replaced with a nomadic life of creative play

nomad list founder

make your own olark feedback form without olark

finally met them irl in chiang mai

finally my two hobbies merged: travel and vr with nomad list vr

how to fix flying

how long it takes to complete a task

robots make mistakes too: how to log your server with push notifications straight to your phone

vaporwave impression about my month in shanghai

choosing entrepreneurship over a corporate career

hong kong express - 上海 (shanghai)

"i can't buy happiness anymore. i've bought everything that i ever wanted. there's not really anything i want anymore."

from web dev to vr: how to get started with vr development

working from a free coworking space in shanghai

the shelter in shanghai is a cyberpunk bladerunner club from the year 2150

what i would do if i was 18 now

bootstrapping side projects into profitable startups

how i cured my anxiety (mostly)

we have an epidemic of bad posture

fixing "inf and nan cannot be json encoded" in php the easy way

biggest difference living in netherlands and western europe compared to us

my third time in a float tank and practicing visualizing the future

why dutch founders are not hiring dutch people

how to add shareable pictures to your website with some phantomjs magic

my chatbot gets catcalled

from web dev to 3d: learning 3d modeling in a month

basic income will be one of the greatest things to happen to people

my second time in a sensory deprivation chamber

day 30 of learning 3d 🎮 cloning objects 👾👾👾

day 29 of learning 3d 🎮 glass, reflectives, hd, coloring and more details

day 27 of learning 3d 🎮 details, details, details!

day 23 of learning 3d 🎮 filling up the street and adding shadows

day 22 of learning 3d 🎮 added rain, blinking lights, sound, textured menu sign and a vr web app

day 21 of learning 3d 🎮 high res textures, physical rendering and ambient occlusion

day 20 of learning 3d 🎮 objects and camera perspectives 🙆

my first time floating in a sensory deprivation tank ☺️

day 10 of learning 3d 🎮 making complex objects by combining shapes 🙆

day 4 of learning 3d: @shoinwolfe visits the actual street i'm modeling 🏮😎🏮

day 1 of learning 3d 🎮 i learnt how to make shapes, move, rotate and scale them + how to texturize, and add colored lights 💆

i'm learning 3d 🎮

the things i have to do to read an email sent to me by my government

how to use your iphone as a better apple tv alternative (with vpn)

my 2015 revenue was $202,785 with one linode server one macbook no office no house hardly any expenses and $0 funding

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

stop calling night owls lazy, we're not

we are the heroes of our own stories

beijing air quality hits 543 aqi

the myth that buying a house is a good idea: homes underperform investing in stock market indices over 10 - 25 years

wordpress's success shows it doesn't matter how great the code is, it's about the user experience first and foremost

speedtest on slow internet

first a cookie law then vatmoss now a net neutrality law that's against net neutrality

there will be 1 billion digital nomads by 2035

tobias van schneider interviewed me about everything

why doesn't twitter just asks its users to pay?

punk died the moment we learnt that the world was in fact getting better, not worse

stop being everyone's friend

vaporwave is the only music that fits the feeling futuristic asian mega cities give me

we live in a world built by dead people

why global roaming data solutions don't make any sense

how to export your slack's entire archive as html message logs

how to play gta v on your macbook (and any other pc game)

every eu country is now presenting themselves as startup friendly by doing promo events but how about rewriting the tax code?

i uploaded 4 terabyte over korea's 4g, and paid $48

how i sped up nomad list by 31% with spdy, cloudfront and pagespeed

wore my banana shirt and finally met yongfook who youjindo interviewed for her docu

my weird code commenting style based on html tags

now is probably the time to make https the default on all your sites and apps

do the economics of remote work retreats make any sense?

calling people "expat" or "nomad" is just as irrelevant as calling internet users "netizens"

how i built remote | ok and launched it to #1 on product hunt

our society is not in line with our natural reward systems, and alcohol and drug abuse proves it

makers have become the invisible hand

how technology is shaping our future: billions of self-employed makers and a few mega corporations

we are the orcas at sea world

why are you still in europe

love, anxiety and startups: my year in 50 tweets

how to backup your linode or digital ocean vps to amazon s3

if you're always working you're not crushing it you're just highly inefficient

the total chaos that the dawn of the 21st century has become

how i hacked slack into a community platform with typeform

how to successfully build a community around your startup

the ideal place to start a startup is not necessarily in silicon valley

"if i had this, i would be happy"

this is what happens when flightfox copies your entire site without attribution

what i learnt from launching products is that the real work starts when everyone has stopped talking about you

gifbook, the first animated gif flipbook

on thailand's immigration police targeting digital nomads

why traveling makes you feel lost

how i build my minimum viable products

how i built nomad jobs, a remote job board for 100% distributed startups

danism & rae - sirens

how i got my startup to #1 on both product hunt and hacker news by accident

why does generation y feel so lost? and what's the cure?

you won't reach success by socializing networking attending events and meeting ppl for coffee

bali is the magical voodoo spirit island of asia

ideals, fears and the script of life

how to access anyone's telegram messages without unlocking their phone

the achiever in crisis

how i did not sell my startup today

the free fall that is coming home after traveling the world

never dismiss your ideals as post-adolescent fantasy

my 3rd startup: tubelytics, the real-time dashboard for youtube publishers

how go fucking do it raised $30,000+ in pledges in less than a month

on self-funding startups

we have an ideologically broken and personally unfulfilling society

run through ideas quickly

if you can't express yourself by email, you're not worthy of anyone's time

my 2nd startup: go fucking do it, set a goal + deadline and if you fail, you pay

over 2,000 people played their inbox with play my inbox

celebrating my birthday north korean style

how automation left us feeling empty

play my inbox, collect music from your inbox and playlist them

i'm launching 12 startups in 12 months

how to protect your backups from solar flares with a faraday cage

linkoban - oh oh

nationality is an accident of birth

how i went from 100 to 0 things (or how i was robbed of all my stuff)

all watched over by machines of living grace

celebrating nye 2014 in hong kong

how i ended up in hong kong (or my adventures in the new york of the east)

it's practically impossible for regular people to buy bitcoin

2014 is the year techstep drum and bass makes its comeback

rinse fm, here's your podcast feed we've always wanted

how i spent the night with singapore's migrant workers

how i travel the world with just a carry-on bag

why i want to live in singapore

how i predict bitcoin's price by tracking twitter mentions

james blake & chance the rapper - life round here

sasha keable - careless over you

my not so great time in vietnam

the myth of a globalized world

wiley - and again

remote working is the future

what happens when you're #1 on hacker news for a day

steve summers - new surroundings

what i learnt from bootstrapping my startup from thailand in six months

cash means controlling your own destiny

palms trax - equation

you're just a piece of a heartless shitty machine that makes money

automation will free us from the endless consumption/production cycle we're in

national borders have become irrelevant

a culture of distraction is not the problem

governments are always ready to grab the greatest degree of power that the people will give them

you constantly need to be painting or it looks like total crap

oversight: thank you for volunteering, citizen

stripe launches beta in the netherlands

google+ spamming people every 2 weeks to put up a profile photo

the 100 thing challenge – from 200 to 20 things in 3 months

living in a hotel

the story of my visa run to tachileik in myanmar

this is what "acting professionally" results in

lockah - sly winking usury

stand-up comedians on creativity

money as an enslavement method

with jobs gone, will robot owners pay people's income?

make money where prices are high, spend it where prices are low. does income arbitrage work?

finding an apartment in chiang mai

add https to nginx for free and help make the world more secure

co-working spaces in chiang mai: punspace

moving to chiang mai

my bad day at the co-working space

if it's in the news, don't worry about it

the 24-hour coffee place in bangkok: too fast to sleep

nosaj thing x chance the rapper - paranoia

"there simply are no other fields in which i can spend $100 tomorrow and set up a new business..."

"speaking as a graduate of one, top schools teach you credentialing and ladder climbing..."

koh phangan is the disneyland of partying

visiting koh samui, the island of paradise

from dive bar to roof-top bar to roof-top pool in bangkok

"to awaken quite alone in a strange town..."

co-working spaces in bangkok: launchpad

"do whatever you're drawn to"

the 100 thing challenge

co-working spaces in bangkok: hubba

reset your life

how i switched from pc to mac in less than 7 days

osx terminal tricks

osx for windows users

black mirror is the best tv series i have seen in years

constraints make people more creative

why overnight success is a myth

dedicating our lives to what is essentially an organization to make money

kitty pryde & riff raff - orion's belt

watch the pirate bay: away from the keyboard

my new music video for rap duo rasa

what if money was no object in your life?

in the 21st century, maria montessori shows to be more relevant than ever

why attention to detail matters, even if no one notices the details

unless the job itself is your dream, stay the fuck away from salaried jobs

success is one big hoax

fml - octopu$$y

the death of the corporate drone

the west's unemployment problem is permanent

upskrt - brynn's theme

new panda mix show branding and website

headhunterz - power of music

essendle interview on my music and my youtube show

the xx - angels

anna lunoe & diamond lights - stronger (willy joy remix)

herve feat. ronika - how can i live without you (make it right) (death rose cult remix)

citizen - deep end

i love minimalist living

why buying youtube views is bad

d!rty aud!o intro

anybody can monetize their passion (now)

diplo - no problem

skream - thoughts of you

teed - blood pressure

today is the first day of the rest of your life

happiness maximization vs. profit maximization

music genres are dead

make a great product

redlight - get out my head (upskrt remix)

rasa - noem 't wat je wilt

tyga - coconut juice (crave x upskrt remix)

rasa - hard & soul

lights - siberia (upskrt remix)

upskrt - cockblockalypse

upskrt - skeezy fuck

my drum & bass and dubstep merch line on spreadshirt

my pandadnb dj dates collected

i got sub focus on my youtube channel panda mix show

i went studying abroad in korea

drum & bass tutorial: making a reese bass in propellerhead reason

solipsisticnation podcast: drum & bass interview with panda

playing drum and bass live at winston in amsterdam with mc don.skey

eclectro podcast: an exclusive drum & bass minimix by panda

dnbforum.nl podcast: panda drum & bass presents retake manhattan

my drum and bass track sequoyah on exegene records in 2004

my first ever music release: bermuda on foundname in 2004

ce n'est pas un femme, one of my collage designs for nowgocreate

i made the internet huis where you can walk around in my house online

i made a homepage for my brother jeroen in 1997

i made my first homepage in 1996