I don't get why banks and car companies adore putting PDFs all around their websites as if their CMS is on strike. As if anybody prints anything anymore...

Every time someone says something bad about you, just remember that cats think we are their pets.

Hired a business/life coach last week. Best thing ever. Energy & clarity up. Stress way down.

Our beloved earth has doubled its population over the past 50 years adding over *4 billion* new people. Gas emissions have doubled as well. But people believe that recycling some bottle caps will help save the environment.

The best server software is made by "server people", not UI/UX people. The best AI software is made by "AI people", not UI/UX people. The best software is likely a bit harder to use. UX is a nice-to-have, not a necessity. Obsessing over ease of use makes one lose focus from real value.

I've completely replaced OpenAI with Anthropic. Two cars can be both running at 100km/h but pointed at different directions. Benchmarks would be helpful *IF* chatGPT & codex were tuned in the direction of providing results. OpenAI seems focused on market share, not on providing value.

As (probably) the only Cretan on your feed I'd like to gift you my latest olives #wallpaper for your phone. You can now have a touch of the mediterranean islands right in your pocket. If ever move away from my island, I'll always miss this exact shade of green which always helps me focus.

"Traditional" SaaS behemoths like Zendesk, Quickbooks, Asana and others should already be firing people. They are getting disrupted as we speak and will lose the lower end of their customer base in the next few years. The AI-gloss-features they are adding now can only delay the inevitable.

Just threw 90% of my "great app ideas" to the trash. Anything your target customer's IT dept can do in a week using claude code (aka 99% of "simple" software) is simply a bad idea from a business perspective. Software devs need to up our game and find a new gen of *really* hard problems.

The more I try to understand the world instead of trying to change it, the easier my life gets. 🍸

Have you noticed how "traditional" tech news are now pointless noise nobody cares about like "Youtube comes to vision pro". This is now a mature boring market just like cars. The age of shinny innovations is way in the past. The world is changing rapidly and so should we.

Wordpress disrupted content sites 23 years ago. We still hire people to make those sites, but the price has dropped underground. For the same reason, software/SaaS is no longer a great option business-wise long term. Simply because now there is no barrier to entry. You compete with millions.

After using Claude code in real web apps of mine for a couple of weeks, I have to say that I honestly wasn't expecting that level of quality and performance. This has nothing to do with the experience of asking chatGPT to write you some code. Claude code is real serious shit.

In our modern first-world societies, the main problem is abundance. Hardware, software, content, data, products, stimulation, whatever. We used to fight to have those things. Now we drown in them. The ability to quickly cut through the noise and find value is the new hot skill for the modern age.

If everyone else sells a service for 10€/m you can't sell it for 5€/m yourself as you won't be making any money with that price. But it is possible to sell it for 20€/m if you manage you convince people that your service can provide better quality or ROI.

Just asked claude code Opus 4.6 to analyze a very big mature project with more than 3000 commits. It produced in 2 minutes a very high quality document which could be perfect in case I'd even need to onboard a new dev. Mind blown. 🤯

Sam Altman says "we need to bring AI to billions of people who can’t pay for subscriptions", omitting the part where those people become the product.

Absolutely loving the new ads by Anthropic. Finally someone found the guts to call out the dystopian future that some AI companies envision. The ad-model in web search lead to privacy disaster. Ads in AI will have an extremely worse impact on societies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBSa...

AI got popular > new datacenters are made > RAM & hardware got pricey > Cost to mine crypto skyrockets > Crypto prices crashing > Next: The real economy ??? The turbulence has started: bibakis.com/en/writing/t...

Easily fix Claude's web UI with any css browser extension and the following CSS: * { filter: grayscale(100%) !important; font-family: system-ui, sans-serif !important; }

Tried the new Codex desktop app. Approval policy & sandbox failed to work as documented. Ouch! Back to claude it is....

3 months have passed since I started reforming the web hosting unit in early November. Active customers: -4,5% Revenue per month (average): +16% With some fast estimates, it appears that non taking those actions from the very start, has cost me a respectable amount I could use to grow much faster.

Very happy to hear that Greece & Portugal are about to completely ban social media for everyone younger than 16 years of age. Social media are damaging our societies so some unethical corporations can profit. Facebook/Instagram and the rest are the Marlboro/Camel/Winstons of our times.

During 2025 I kicked the following products out of my life. - iPhone - iPad - Apple watch - Apple notes - Gmail Life is simpler with less stuff.

Oh the irony! It was 1995. Tim Cook was working in a decaying IBM back then and completely missed this interview with the NeXT CEO. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlBj... This is why I always say "Never buy from the market leader". They simply don't have a motive to be competitive anymore.

Little known metrics that matter. 👇 Average amount per order. Constantly rising 8% to 12% YoY for the web hosting unit for the past 10 years. Why it matters ? It is a trust metric and verifies that you are getting the better kind of customers. The ones who demand quality and value.

This is "Ευφρόσυνος" (Happy man). An ancient Greek mosaic from the 3rd century. The ironic message it conveys is crystal clear: Enjoy life *now* before you turn into a happy skeleton. No amount of money can buy us "a little more life".

You also fail if you start blaming "competition", "market conditions" or "bad luck" for your mistakes. Our mistakes are just variables with negative value. Own them. Process them. Learn from them. Fix your functions. Get back on your desk the next day improved, ready to "carpe diem".

Michael Jordan missed 16.000 shots in his NBA career. Over 13 per game. It is the same in business. You will lose customers every day. You will produce bugs in your software every day. It is the same for everyone else. This is the game we play. The only real failure is when you stop "failing".

Many people think that by starting a business they will make more money. Therefore they will be able to have more free time by working less. In reality competition forces founders to work 12 hours at the very least. Otherwise you simply can't make it. A new business is not the place you go to rest

The entire crypto market is crashing today. 😮

I'm becoming a big fan of the "People & Blogs" newsletter. Weekly interviews with very interesting people who still publish unique handcrafted quality articles on their blogs. It is really an oasis in the ocean of low-quality content that algorithms try to push. peopleandblogs.com

Apple announces record-setting profits for the quarter. Yet Mac revenue was down 6.7%. Could it be related to a disastrous MacOS 26 release and dark patterns which scared pros away ? They even labeled the button "Restart" to fool you into thinking that the update is already installed. 🤡

Writing a new shell script to email me every morning with the status of all plesk backups on the web hosting unit. I estimate this should further reduce my stress levels by an additional ~1% and save me 20 minutes daily. Which equals to months of work saved over the next 10 years. It compounds ™️

Just woke up thinking about this. It reminded me of an old UX-related blog post of mine called "The human layer". This was essentially always the bottleneck to complete tech-adoption by mankind. And IMHO the top reason that conversational interfaces will gradually replace all other forms of HCI.

10 years from now, websites rich in AI functionality will make today's sites look like the old static sites with no database. IKEA cloud implement this functionality on their website and allow people to mix-and-match products. It's easy, fun, and obviously can increase sales.

This is what we consumers created. We voted with our wallets that we demand the lowest price possible. It is insanity to pay 14€/m for your phone's plan and at the same time expect a company to provide you skilled personnel on the phone which costs twice as much per hour. Nothing is free in life

Very happy to see disastrous Q4 2025 results for Tesla. Profit down 46% YoY. Musk did "ride-the-wave" perfectly for a while but overestimated his abilities. He thought he could play God, completely forgetting that overconfidence is the ultimate form of stupidity. Hubris spares none.

Very happy to see open source tik-tok "clones" on ATproto becoming popular after the government takeover of tik-tok. Nobody should control the means people have to communicate. It seems people are fed up with the dystopia people like Elon Musk tried to establish.

Just came across the first phishing page masqueraded as cloudflare's challenge.

Nobody disagrees that vibe-coding is amazing for prototyping. Is it ready for prime time though ? "A security benchmark of popular AI coding agents—Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Replit, and Devin—found 69 vulnerabilities across 15 apps." blog.tenzai.com/bad-vibes-co...

Just deleted all delivery numbers of pizza, burger, suvlaki places. Now I have to either cook or walk to get food. I also added a daily mini workout routine. I'm starting to treat my health as a key business metric (as I'm a key part of the business). 💪

This is a recent photo of Israel's president with tape over his phone's cameras. If their secret services feel safer with tape on cameras, imagine how safe we simple people are. "Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you" Kurt Cobain

With this load, the UPS easily gives me a few hours of emergency power. Also Starlink gives me net connectivity even if Greece is taken off the internet. I really hope all that stuff to simply stay there and collect dust.

Btw this is my new "poor man's server rack". 😄 The Raspberry Pi acts as a secondary uptime monitor & also fetches critical remote database backups and stores them on the NAS. On the very top, my backup ubuntu laptop already configured and ready to go.

Nice touch by APC. They include the print of the quality assurance test results of your UPS, along with the signature of the technician. Very high quality, buy-and-forget products indeed.

Anyone can come up with a million ROI facts/stats/numbers. But he is trying to sell a version of reality where he ends up taking money from you. And you also don't have the data or skills or time to validate them anyway. So indeed people are wise to ignore facts and say "What's in it for me?"

We all eat meat almost every day. We all know that innocent animals have to die for it. But if you simply put an alive lamb picture on the menu most people would pass. People buy a nice "reality" that suits them and selectively ignore facts that don't. Which is why ROI-based marketing often fails.

Free monyz? Count me in! 😎

Based on cloudflare's stats for the domains of content sites of many of our customers, it appears that **99%** of traffic is bots/crawlers obviously mostly used for AI-training. This wasn't the case one year ago. This is a general pattern and not tied to a specific language/TLD/industry.