Time to update the pinned post a bit. I'm Willem, a systems engineer from the Netherlands. My wife is from Thailand, and we're working towards leaving the 9-5 behind and moving there together. That probably won't happen because of one lucky launch, so I'm taking it one app at a time: building useful products, putting them in front of real people, learning from what breaks and trying again. Right now I'm working on three products: • Veldo helps Mac developers find better keywords and improve their App Store visibility. • Solenta gives coding agents shared memory, a GitHub-backed planboard and one place to run Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Kimi, Grok and OpenCode. It is completely free and open source. • Girder is a deployment platform I'm building to make shipping apps less annoying. Girder is still being tested. I'm using it for my own projects, and a small group of test users is helping me find the rough edges. If you want to test Girder as well, send me a DM. You'll get a free one-year license for helping me test it and sharing your honest feedback. I share the whole process here: launches, bugs, wrong decisions, small wins and the reality of building after a 9-5. There will probably be plenty of coffee and complaints about the Netherlands weather along the way too. Follow along if you're building your own escape route.

Opus 5.5

Thanks ventus. Gave you a follow back as well :)

Dogs!

mostly networking

Thanks Shashi and you are totally right

Yea it's hard to notice especially when you are someone that just keeps on pushing. You take care too! and thank you

Thanks Ashwini and yea it took a while because i'm always someone that just keeps going.

Never really thought I'd be someone who would come close to a burnout. I've always been the type of person who just keeps going. There's work to be done, problems to solve, and things that need attention. But I guess there's a limit to everything. The past few months at my 9-5 have been pretty rough. A toxic work environment, difficult customers, constant pressure and negativity. It all starts adding up after a while. And the thing is, you don't necessarily notice it happening. You just keep going, telling yourself things will get better or that you just need to get through another busy week. But eventually you start noticing that you're not really yourself anymore. Things that normally wouldn't bother you suddenly do. You're mentally exhausted, and even when you're not working, your mind is still occupied with everything going on at work. And for someone like me, who genuinely enjoys spending his free time building apps and working on his own projects, that becomes even more frustrating. Because after a full day of dealing with stress, there's often very little energy left for the things you actually enjoy. Today I finally went to the doctor to talk about it. And it seems like taking some rest and getting away from the stress for a while might be a good idea. Not exactly something I expected to be writing about, but here we are. I think sometimes we get so used to pushing through everything that we forget we're not machines. There's always another email, another problem, another customer who needs something urgently. But your health shouldn't be the price you pay for keeping everyone else happy. So I guess it's time to slow down a little, get some rest and figure out how to move forward. Not the kind of progress update I usually share here, but I also think it's important to share the less enjoyable parts of life sometimes. Take care of yourselves, everyone. ☕

Lets give this a try as well The portrait is off but the rest is pretty close

Yea this is just sad its not funny and makes me not trust anything these two say anymore

I think AI assistants are going to become much more useful when we stop treating them like chatbots. Right now, most people open ChatGPT, ask a question, get an answer and close it again. But what if your assistant actually remembered things, worked with the tools you already use, and handled recurring tasks without you having to start the conversation every time? That's a big part of what I'm building with Mimir. You can create routines using normal language, connect different AI providers, and keep your assistant's memory when switching models. And importantly, you decide what it's allowed to do. For me, the interesting part isn't having another AI chat window. It's having an assistant that becomes genuinely useful throughout the day. Still a lot I want to build, but I'm pretty excited about where this is going. I'm curious which recurring tasks people would actually trust an AI assistant to handle.

Most of them. I had the twilight cd's if you know those

Longest i had was around 17 days. But putting one up next week so curious to see how long it will take then

Had an entire setup to burn multiple cds at once

Your agents can build code faster than you can understand it. At what point do we stop pretending we understand all the code they’re building?

Right away if i have time or just let it do it overnight

Way to many and some half finished projects as well.

Nice going jack! and good morning to you too