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20 September
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
Cheap hotels are now generally better than expensive hotels because they're not run by ESG eco hotel brands whose ACs gaslight you and make you wake up at night in sweat! Crazy Quoting @johnkonrad My month-long California vacation is over. I spent most of it on my yacht—but I also stayed in a number of motels. Yes. Motels. Cheap motels. I normally stay at Hiltons. The first week of my vacation, I did. Then I woke up sweating in the middle of the night because of lousy AC controlled by a gasl… Related
You're right, it was an elementary school not a military base. I'm sorry for the confusion. Would you like to learn more about elementary schools? Quoting @InsiderWN #BREAKING: Pentagon blames flawed intel and AI for strike that killed at least 123 Iranian children. Related
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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Lose the attitude, embrace optimism. Doctor's orders! Quoting @NTFabiano Repetitive negative thinking is linked to Alzheimer’s protein buildup in the brain. Related
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The age of agents belongs to Linux! Linux Related
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
19 September
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
I believe nation states will keep becoming less and less relevant and that in the future everyone will be a nomad Most nation states (and well governments) barely function anymore through 100+ years of democratic baggage from laws and regulation that can't be reversed People can't save their countries or governments anymore through people's initiatives or getting into politics, because the systems are so old and in full gridlock Globalism has deservedly gotten a really bad rep the last 5 years though as we were too naive about it, but I think we should keep the good parts from it We should no… Quoting @ramenlad Very cool. I’m curious: do you believe digital nomading will continue to grow given the potential disruption of all things digital that’s upon us? Sorry, had to quote to reply @levelsio :) Related
🌎 Now redesigning the https://t.co/HGCLKS5BD6 profile trips globe from scratch I've always wanted to add space trips, so starting with the moon here which you can add as a future trip, also adding Mars etc. Other trips also need to work here though like going into orbit like @satofishi did on @SpaceX's Dragon capsule which will be more in reach for more people hopefully pretty soon! Quoting @levelsio ✨ Finally built a timeline for https://t.co/HGCLKS5BD6 now I always wanted to make my site a bit more social, because I had profiles and trip overlaps and you could kinda see where other people went, but not something like this So on this new page you can see people near you, where everyone's trave… Related
Should have checked https://t.co/Q8UoUHMumR before I'd never go Quoting @martindonadieu Last night at the worst hotel of Lisbon: Novotel. 3 nights 621€ ac make loud noise but nothing cold get out of 13 degree setting. they clean the room with chlorine and you cannot open the windows to change the air of the room. I wish I had my airthing to show them this is toxic. It’s insane especia… Related
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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you gotta cut out regular milk chocolate, you're eating mostly sugar, it's not good for you
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The faster you get rid of milk chocolate the better, you can slowly adapt yourself to darker and darker chocolate
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Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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The human experience is why life is worth living (even for something as teeny tiny as a terminal).
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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X is better than Twitter ever was. Better company, better platform.
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Everything we've ever wanted to do with software is now possible. We can make anything. We can fix everything.
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18 September
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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Many times the calls were for those people to hit quotas in their schedule for their boss
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If you enjoy calls, you're probably a manager not a maker https://t.co/CmUTfFxVgZ https://t.co/ZslI1JXbZW
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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And before you ask, the pursuit of excellence requires no justification!
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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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We're going to put their new OrcaCyber Zero 1.0 model to great use with our security and kernel work 🤘
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17 September
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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Terminal programs bias to dark modes and explicit colors are hostile to light modes and themes.
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16 September
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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it'd so easy to compete with them because they're usually not even trying to do more
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Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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I should be able to pull you aside at any moment and ask you to explain any customer-facing system you've shipped. You should be able to clearly explain how it works and defend the decisions you made.
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Designers, your job is safe from AI. https://t.co/W7eAOnYvQW
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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The world needs more Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Maseratis, and Paganis 🇮🇹
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It's your moral duty to patronize the craftsman of Italy should you strike it big!
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15 September
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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The final boss will be getting DOOM running where every pixel is its own terminal. Software should be fun.
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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
14 September
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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And one Starlink Mini for travel which we used last month on a boat in the Mediterranean, we had a balcony with only a little bit sky horizontally and still got 25mbps, which was way faster than the onboard WiFi
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Also @mick__net used it when his MEO (or Vodafone? Or NOS) failed for weeks in Lisbon Get @starlink Only €35/mo!
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
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I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
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I trace my skills as a programmer, racer, and leader directly back to StarCraft, Quake, Unreal, and tens of thousands of hours of overall gameplay.
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13 September
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
12 September
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
11 September
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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I've never had a case on any iPhone, I've never cracked a screen or broken the phone.
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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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My favorite keyboard of all time is the @lofreeco Flow84 V1. But what if it was Omarchy? Would you buy one?
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9 September
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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My own $5/mo Uptime Canary app running on Kuma (saves ~$50/mo)
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Customer support -> @featurebasehq + AI support bot (saves $5,000/mo)
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Scrapingbee/SerpAPI -> My own $1/mo scraper with Patchright (save ~$250/mo)
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8 September
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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Today I'm rocking Petrol Lagoon. We usually share what our daily fit is in Discord.
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5 September
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
2 September
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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Superlogical makes it up at scale and there is an early breakpoint with busy terminals and clients where we use significantly less memory than tmux or anyone else.
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credit where credit is due tmux has excellent memory usage for empty states.
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Zellij simply does very poorly. There is no other way to put it.
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26 August
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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Start with Opus. I'd say start with Opus. It's the best frontier model.
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But to answer your question, the best model in general right now is Fable. The second-best model, in my opinion, is Opus 5.
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When I was instructing the agent, I was like, "Oh my God, Kimi's just as good as these other models."
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I thought all the ideas would originate with the humans. They would tell their agents what to build, and off they went.
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25 August
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
24 August
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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I think I've been coding almost solely on my VPS with Claude Code for almost a year now
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I won't use SnekAI but I'll probably switch to @xAI soon
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23 August
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
22 August
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Omarchy running on 2011 X220 2GB RAM (with room to spare) Omarchy Related
17 August
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
9 August
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Endless execution The age of agents has brought us endless execution. Every idea, every hunch, every experiment is now within immediate reach. For people with endless ideas, this is nirvana. It's also the most fucking sci-fi thing I've e…
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29 July
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
27 July
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
26 July
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
22 July
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
21 July
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
Wolves, sheep, and gypsies In 2012, the first Danish wolf in nearly two hundred years was discovered in the northwestern part of the country. Their numbers increased slowly in the years that followed, and by 2020, fewer than ten wolves were still…
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20 July
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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I think the challenge is that everyone can now build apps But 1) almost nobody has distribution (like an audience), or 2) the money to pay for distribution (ads or UGC), or 3) the creative genius to get distribution for free (classically called guerilla marketing)
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I thought it'd be distribution but who knows, obviously creativity and ideas, but if you can copy a successful app in an hour, then how does that differentiating work?
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17 July
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
16 July
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
8 July
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
21 June
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
28 April
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
15 April
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
8 April
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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It may no longer have as much economic value as it once did. I think that I'm quite convinced is true that we perhaps have seen the peak.
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So, I do think it is correct for the average programmer to think maybe we've seen the best of the golden days.
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The joy of a programmer, of me as a programmer, is to type the code myself. If I elevate myself, if I promote myself out of programming, I turn myself into a project manager. A project manager of a murder of AI crows as I wrote the other day.
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I have been hyper accelerated as a programmer. It's a different kind of programmer, but it still has the same affinity to aesthetics, at least when I'm producing Ruby code.
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18 June 2022
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
16 September 2010
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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