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6 months ago I started building my own expense tracking app. Tried every app out there with my girlfriend for daily + travel expenses and something always felt off. So I just built the one I wanted. Used it every day since. Last week I rebuilt the whole backend. Here's why 🧵

The best way to avoid illegal tolls.

The difference between “having an audience” in two images.

Reading is going to be super important in the age of AI, unless you want your brain to atrophy.

Clip, Microsoft's answer to OpenAI Dots and Meta Muse

The internet is ironically becoming the worst place to sell things online. AI made content infinite, attention scarce, and trust expensive. Selling an app IRL can now be easier than reaching someone online, where they can just vibe-code an alternative. We went full circle.

The top tools that will get you prepared for the next decade.

Imagine finally beating the boss, cinematic kicks in… “This victory is brought to you by Raid Shadow Legends” Not only we don't own the games anymore, now some will get ads, gaming really is entering its Black Mirror era. www.polygon.com/microsoft-pa...

I've tried VR glasses, but I just can't see myself using them daily. I can get behind them for an immersive exhibition or specific experience, but not everyday life. Maybe growing up analog makes you appreciate IRL differently. Or maybe I'm just getting too old for this stuff. 😅

The strangest thing about refusing to try AI isn’t pride or craftsmanship. It’s forgetting that AI is a tool. Tools evolve. In a few years, AI may look nothing like it does today. Not experimenting now feels like a mistake, this is like designers refusing Sketch because Photoshop was the “real” tool

AI is slowly starting to look like a religion. Some people have heard of it. Some practice it daily. Some evangelize it. Some worship their preferred model. And some are waiting for AGI like the second coming.

“Well, it depends on how you define intelligence…”

The litmus test for AGI

It’s 98, you’re in school, eager to get home with this soundtrack stuck in your head. PS1-era game soundtracks are in a different league.

Once you hear someone say “in the beninging…,” you’ll never be the same.

Hetzner treats administrative work as a resource that has a cost, just like CPU, storage or bandwidth, this is the way.

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Coding was never the bottleneck. Deciding what’s worth building is, and always has been.

The fact this level of AI work was actually used for the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games Milano-Cortina 2026 is mind blowing.

When Wall Street gets the full NFT treatment.

You’re not an AI Artist, you are an AI Art Director commissioning a machine to create something for you, and there’s nothing wrong with it.

You can’t fix stupid. “I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.” - John Wanamaker

The Special One strikes again, he really mastered the art of making money by being fired, amazing.

Nano Banana is such a great product name.

Imagine using someone’s art to generate a prompt, then throwing a tantrum when everyone points out the result looks like… their art. Isn’t that the whole point of gen AI? To copy someone else’s style? Congrats, you reinvented tracing just with a higher electricity bill.

FC Copenhagen brand goes hard! design.fck.dk

Liquid glass UIs irl...

I don't know a single person using Canva.

macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta on a MacBook with touchbar was a painful experience; it took almost 5 seconds to load a slider with the new glass effect. Luckily, the latest update rolls it back to the old version. More often than not, less is more.

iOS26 forces me to use the iPhone less than iOS18 i guess that is a huge win.

Apple could replace every button in iOS with a gesture that involves blowing on your phone and blinking twice, and we’d still line up for it like “yes chef." That shows how bad the alternatives are.

One day with the iOS26 developer beta and i can fell the strain on my eyes, it's a sign my eyesight is wrecked above anything else but i really hope they improve the contrast in the GA version, in the meantime i will have to downgrade this back to the iOS18.

No words...

Dude is going to be a crazy player in the future, but not today… not today!

Gotta love the irony when people complain about VCs while building their products on top of AI models that only exist because of the same VCs.

It’s now easier to find the new Airbnb icons online than it is to find information about their pricing structure and fees.

Anyone has a invite to the private group chat were they manipulate the stock market? Asking for a friend.

If the IMDB categories matched the content properly.

You can now own a piece of smokin’ History!