💸 Update: My total biz expenses have now dropped to just ~$300/mo! This is to run all my websites/apps serving per year: - 20,000 paying customers - 252 million visitors - 2.4 billion requests - 2.4 petabyte (PB) in bandwidth (~$8,000/mo if you add the $7,000/mo GPU bill and $800/mo R2 storage I pay for Photo AI, I exclude it above because it's one project that's so much more expensive in size than all the other sites together, but included in the chart below) Claude Code helped me to find smart ways to save more money, AI is just really really really good at finding cost savings by itself, which is not so great for the economy short-term, but long term it trims all the fat and opens up spending for better investments I think Anyway here's what it saved me in money, almost $34,000/mo: - $29,000/mo - switched to better and cheaper video models on Photo AI, video was very expensive and since I didn't update it ever it stayed expensive, also routed some image jobs to Google Cloud where I have some Google Cloud Credits, and also routed some jobs to Sume which sells AI models at market cost, very cool! This made my GPU bill go from $36,000/mo to $7,000/mo - $3,000/mo - consolidated my servers, cancelled Digital Ocean and Linode and moved everything to Hetzner saving about $3,000/mo - $1100/mo - analyzed my Backblaze B2 server backups, I had infinite versioning and lifecycle policies, that's reduced now to 30 days, this literally pushed the bill from $1,200/mo to $26/mo, about 50x cheaper! I had essentially versions of files for all my servers for over a decade, crazy! - $400/mo - similarly added Lifecycle Policies to my Cloudflare R2 bucket for Photo AI, pics are automatically put in cheaper Infrequent Access after 90 days, there was years of photos in there so this reduced the R2 bill from $1,200/mo to $800/mo - $118/mo - Claude analyzed all my Cloudflare Domain registrations, lots of domains I didn't use and didn't make sense to keep paying for, lots of things that also don't really make sense anymore in a post-AGI world, renewals for .io TLD are now $50/year which adds up fast! - $100/mo - Claude also analyzed my Claude subscription (yes!) and discovered I don't even use the Max 20x plan limits, so I downgraded from $200/mo to $100/mo Even including Photo AI, I have now cut my costs by 90% from last year, getting me close to my biz expenses amount from a decade ago when I started building things Costs slowly creep up over the years and you don't realize all the things you're spending on but AI is nice to help you figure all that out (also in your personal life!)

I think in 10 or 20 years the kitchen and living room combo layout will have disappeared from most homes Cooking is the primary source of indoor air pollution and you're essentially releasing microscopic toxic gases into your living room and the rest of your house On top of that 99% of kitchen vents don't do anything That is, unless we invent some better air cleaning system for kitchens that actually work

A very tragic crash with a private jet once again Before this crash the Learjet 60 was had fatal odds per trip of 1 in 1.1 million To compare a good commercial airline like Delta has a 1 in 25 million odds, many airlines never crashed though so the real odds are even lower like 1 in 40 million trips maybe So the Learjet 60 was already 40x less safe than commercial airliners That's something I keep repeating about private jets, they're simply not as safe as flying commercial because: - pilots require less flight hours - private aviation is less regulated - smaller airports with less or no instrument landing systems (ILS) - smaller planes are more affected by weather (in this case icing) The Learjet 60 now has fatal odds of 1 in 800,000 which is still about double as safe as the Cessna Citation (one of the most common private jets) Most Gulfstreams still have flawless safety records though, G500/G600, G550, G650/G700/G800 never crashed, so if you are boarding a private jet anytime soon, I'd say go with them!

Some people say they don't believe these numbers So calculate it for yourself: ~115 deaths ÷ ~35M high speed train trips = 1 in 300,000 is the statistical odds of death per trip in a Spanish high speed train this year You can then argue "why do you cherry pick only this year", well because it happened this year! It's new information and you have 2 highly similar fatal accidents happening in one year meaning the probability that's random is almost zero It's like saying after the 737 Max crashes that killed 346 people in 2018/2019 "That's just a random statistical oddity, I'll board the next one immediately" Of course you wouldn't What you'd do is board none at all until it's fully investigated why they crashed and the cause is solved, like the FAA did exactly by grounding them To all the Spanish nationalist keyboard warriors attacking me instead of their government: Pivot your energy to prosecuting the people responsible for killing 100+ innocent people this year instead of shooting the messenger!

Prepping is now mainstream With AI-assisted cyberattacks on infrastructure now the preppers turned out to be right Even the governments recently started recommend everyone to prep now: US, UK, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Finland, Denmark and EU recommend 3 days of water and food Norway, Sweden, Estonia recommend 7 days of water and food Germany recommends 10 days of water and food I personally would add if you can get batteries and solar that helps a lot

It’s almost incomprehensible how wide the distance is between someone who’s working at the frontier with AI and basically everyone else right now. The crazy thing is these lines are not converging, but only growing farther apart. If the curve of AI progress had leveled off, it would certainly have given most people and companies time to catch up or implement their workflows in a standardized way. The technology would have neutralized competitive advantage because everyone would be using it the same way. But what’s happened is the opposite. The curve of AI progress is basically going vertical right now, which means if you had codified your processes 3-6 months ago you’re likely already behind again. Now imagine most companies that kicked into gear a year ago and thought that they were done. Even further behind now. I’ve never seen a technology in my life and career that improves at this rate, which consequently means you need to upgrade your expectations at a similar rate. Our brains weren’t wired for this, and our organizational change management processes certainly weren’t either. With any form of recursive self improvement, things just get wilder. It’s a time when you will need to be constantly reevaluating the things that didn’t work just a couple months ago to see if they now can be solved. AI native companies certainly have a strong advantage due to this right now, so now it comes down to can the bigger companies keep up. Wild times.

I was talking with friends about this When we're reaching post-AGI where money becomes useless and almost everything free Money won't be a thing we compete on anymore I already have group chats where people are competing for how low their RHR is or how high their VO2Max Or of course how heavy their lifts are Status will be measured very differently in the future I think

Most ppl don't realize what is going on in software/SaaS, the market is totally fucked, any baseline from the last 5 years is gone There are 3 things going on at the same time: 1) The production cost of software are plummeting. AI makes devs more productive, meaning it takes less labour to create a software (labour being the most expensive part of building software). Cheaper to build = more competitors = prices go down 2) The economy is in a stagflation, meaning inflation (price increase) but without the growth. It's caused by lower supply in oil due to the war = more expensive to buy oil. Oil is used for transport, so everything tied to transport (which almost everything is) becomes more expensive, but it doesn't create growth/profit. 3) The central banks are increasing rates to contain inflation, meaning it's more expensive to borrow money, meaning less investments overall. For startup/SaaS/Tech it also means less VCs throwing money left and right cause they can get good ROI from bonds So if you add those 3 you get a situation where everything is becoming more expensive for everyone, EXCEPT for software. And now because money is tight, people have an even greater incentive to look for cheaper options/vibe code their own its so over (but if u play ur cards well can also be so back)

Kind of AI slop written thread but a good starter if you want to get deep into why cholesterol is mostly a hoax and the wrong indicator to follow if you want to avoid heart disease and strokes in the future My dad is a cardiologist and told me this for ages Best thing you can do is avoid processed foods, seed oils, sugar (and of course alcohol and smoking). It inflammes your body When you eat clean diet of whole foods: meat, eggs, vegetables, fruit and drink water or sparkling water and black coffee or tea, your body heals and inflammation disappears and you'll just feel better (and happier!) I still meet people who think eating meat daily is bad, when all the studies were based on processed meat like eating sausages, not whole cuts of unprocessed meat It doesn't help that eating meat means your cholesterol gets high (of course it does) but that doesn't mean you should blindly follow it and stop eating meat and go on statins (with its side effects) I get regular artery ultrasound scans for plaque, and mine are completely clean while I eat lots of meat, also I checked my LP(a) which shows I don't have the genetic marker for heart disease

X should have a zero tolerance policy for AI replies Like you do one and your account is suspended for life Replies are a nightmare now and it's never ever been this bad AI replies are an an existential threat to the future of this platform, because people will simply stop using it if the vast majority of replies are AI bots

In a very unexpected twist My web-based port of Quake 1 (powered by FTE) at has become one of the most popular servers in the QuakeWorld community @dsvensson messaged me and asked me to add some missing features like WebRTC and QTV so people can watch the games online: "Your server raised many questions in the small community when it started showing up. :)" "A new server showed up on the hub and, while small, the community is very active with tournaments, LANs etc, and hub is a gathering place to see what's up for the evening, then your server showed up there full every day with complete newbies and people started talking about what it might be, until the url to the web page was eventually found. " "Lots of people have been talking about your server, would be amazing if at least some of the people your server attracts gets introduced to competitive play." You can watch the live games here Maybe we should organize a tournament? 🏟️