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so... I audited Garry's website after he bragged about 37K LOC/day and a 72-day shipping streak.
here's what 78,400 lines of AI slop code actually looks like in production.
a single homepage load of garryslist.org downloads 6.42 MB across 169 requests.
for a newsletter-blog-thingy.
1/9🧵
Thomas retweeted
Higher testosterone makes men do what they believe is right rather than what others believe is right
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Two weeks ago, I said EU-Inc might need your help.
That moment is now. 🥁
We need you to submit feedback to the European Commission on what startups need.
To get you up to speed what happened since last time:
The EU Parliament published their own suggestion how a pan-european legal entity standard should look like.
How you ask? By introducing 27 different entities, instead of one. By improving as little as possible, keeping as much legacy and differences as possible, and hot-patching on top of them in different ways.
Why did they publish that? No idea. It's unusual at this moment. Likely Brussels-internal power-plays.
But the timing is perfect, because the European Commission (the guys actually in charge of this) asked for feedback publicly now.
How should a pan-European legal-entity look like?
Our answer is simple:
1) ONE EUROPEAN STANDARD
So that investors know how it works and you can easily raise globally, so that ecosystems can form around a centralized registry, so that stock-options can be done europe-wide, etc etc
2) FOR EVERYONE
Because nobody knows, how startups look like in future and we don't want to have governments niche down access to the entity in oblivion. A downside-compromise of this is btw that we do push not standardization of employment and taxes.
I explain the details in the blog post
Here your task:
1) Go here to the feedback website
2) Login (they support Google Auth btw which is funny imho)
3) Write a few lines what you expect a true standard for startups should support
4) Share this with friends, coworkers, etc and ask them to also fill it out.
The form needs like 1-2 minutes. If we hit a few hundred feedback submissions we already have the most feedbacked consultation in this field ever. If we hit 1000 we break the bank and they can't avoid talking to the startup ecosystem about this. 🏴☠️
Feel free to name drop us. Us asking for your support isn't even cheating the system. That's how this process is meant to be done. Politics is weird. 🙈
Feedback Website link – 2 Minutes of your time max. ec.europa.eu/info/law/better…
Please like & share! 🙏
EU-Inc is close to the finishing line (of the first stage) 🇪🇺
All the politicians in Brussel want "something like it". It's the #1 item on the commission's strategy. Now the hard part is to make sure the politicians have the ambition to get the details right.
You can have the same goals, but if you stack-rank priorities differently, don't understand details, or simply lack political ambition you easily end up with something useless.
We will need your help – now and over the next weeks.
First up, I wrote up a quick primer that gets you up to speed with everything that happened so far and WHICH details are important to get right.
It also gives a bit of insight into the repeating discussions we constantly have with Brussels and member states.
If we as European startup scene get this right, and implement EU-Inc cleanly – as something that startups can actually use – we will create the biggest leapfrog improvement for startups and tech-innovation in Europe in our lifetime.
Here the details: klinger.io/posts/eu-inc
Let's get this done.
Please RT/like this post 🙏
Thomas retweeted
Photographers crying into their overpriced lenses rn.
Built an AI agent in n8n that turns trash phone pics into $10K studio shots.
Upload blurry photo → digital sweatshop creates cinematic masterpieces adapted to your brand's liking.
No lighting. No photographer tantrums.
Follow + RT + Comment "shots", need to do all 3 for my agent to find your handle.
Thomas retweeted
Everyone's building static ad agents while I just created a fucking marketing department.
This thing turns ideas into content an agency would take a week (and 3 calls) to deliver.
Drop a Follow, RT and Comment "team" for the workflow. (Need to do all 3 or my agent won't find your handle to send the DM, give it 20 mins)
Feed this thing a voice note or text on Telegram (easily changed to Slack, WhatsApp, Gmail) and watch it:
- Generate headlines and copy that actually convert.
- Creates cracked statics ads - thanks Mr Escobar (@pablo_rothbart) for agent.
- Create product videos people don't skip - thought "fuck it, let's see how it goes" and now they outperform my statics.
- Write SEO posts Google actually ranks
Why hire freelancers when you got me?
Just got an early Black Friday code for @nativewindui and already shipped:
- complete app shell
- privacy compliance screen
- main user flow
In less than 3hrs
It's like tailwind UI for Expo
If you're building a mobile app in Expo watch our for their BF offer
Thomas retweeted
I’m born and raised in Norway. I think it’s a beautiful country that I would love to live/build in but right now that’s not possible. Sadly Europe as a whole is falling behind due to innovation hostile policies/culture. If you all help calling it out it might improve eventually🙏
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Freedom of speech is under rampant attack. The UK is locking up its own citizens for “hate speech”, Pavel Durov has been arrested and @X has been banned in Brazil.
But did you know there’s already a law in place that would allow the globalists to ban @X in the EU as well?
Let me tell you about the DSA. 👇🏻
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Dear Americans, please pay attention to what’s happening in Europe right now. The globalist takeover is happening at an incredibly fast pace over here.
France just arrested Pavel Durov, founder & CEO of Telegram.
The UK is locking up its own citizens for years and years for the ‘crime’ of standing up against mass migration and writing posts about it online.
In the meantime Europeans keep getting randomly stabbed by immigrants on a daily basis and since the legacy media does nothing but protect the establishment and hide the truth from us, their next main goal is to ban @X. The only platform where we can find and speak the truth.
It’s so clear what they’re doing and frankly it’s not looking good for us - especially because we don’t have a Second Amendment that could protect us against tyranny.
So please, vote wisely in November. For your sake and ours: Vote for @realDonaldTrump.
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The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.
The other platforms accepted that deal.
𝕏 did not.
In our view @X doesn’t comply with the DSA in key transparency areas. It misleads users, fails to provide adequate ad repository and blocks access to data for researchers. It’s the first time we issue preliminary findings under the Digital Services Act. 👇 europa.eu/!CGPVCV
Thomas retweeted
How do you incubate a mind virus? How do you cause a culture to self-destruct? In 1984, this KGB defector exposed the 4-stages identified by Soviet intelligence as the necessary steps to cause the psychological implosion of American society.
Stage 1: Demoralization (15–20 yrs)
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The EU is investigating Apple’s decision to disable PWAs in the EU
theverge.com/2024/2/26/24083…
Thomas retweeted
Managing a relationship with men is simple:
Give me praise in public.
Give me feedback in private.
And space when you’re not sure.
That’s it.
Thomas retweeted
@Apple closed our developer account and removed all apps
→ Apple has not paid us $108,878 revenue (this amount is for 3 months).
→ Our 6 applications had a total of $33,680 MRR as of September 20, 2023.
→ One day before removal, we had 1209 active trials.
→ We are left without means of existence. The applications were our sole source of income. I cannot convey the challenges that we and our families have faced due to the account termination.
We hired a lawyer and are currently filing a pre-trial claim against Apple. Please, read our story and sign the petition bit.ly/sarafan-apple
#buildinpublic #iosdev #apple #indiehackers
Thomas retweeted
Before and after photographs of the fire damage in Lahaina, Maui.
Absolutely devastating.
