Archive 2024
Archive 2024
- Nuri
How to Protect Your Bitcoin and Digital Property with Biometric Hardware from nuri.com (my new startup)
I am launching nuri.com a Smart-Card Hardware Wallet with Fingerprint Protection for your Cryptocurrency, Bank or Gmail Account with Passkey Protection.
- Building
5 packages are looking for funding, run `npm fund` for details, pionext.org
npm fund already shows which packages need money. NPM Fund turns that into a token market on a bonding curve, so maintainers get paid all the time.
- Building
Investment insights and a checklist for the long term
Insights from 2020 on long term investing, turned into a checklist. Research, spread the risk, watch debt and ratios, and be patient.
- Building
Exploring renewable energy: Our journey to build an air-powered water-driven flywheel
Imagine a system that uses air and water to create movement, a low-cost, renewable way to generate energy. That’s the idea we’re working on, right here…
- Notes
ImprovMX create Free Email aliases for your domain Name
and its true what they say. I’ll explain in the upcomming article how you can register your domain via GoDaddy.com (oldschool, i know) and then…
- Science
Power to the baking soda 🥤
Baking soda is one of those cheap things in every kitchen that can do a lot more than you think. This is what it is and what you can use it for.
- Culture
Updated Guide to Buying Land in Zanzibar as a Foreigner in 2024
This is an updated look at how foreigners can buy land in Zanzibar. The rules have changed, and you need to know where they stand…
- Culture
Reality Check: A 20-Year Retrospective on a Student’s Predictions of Media, Manipulation, and the Rise of AI
In 2005 a student in Berlin wrote a thesis about the manipulation of the masses through media. 20 years later, what came true and what AI changed.
- Culture
Beyond borders, rethinking statehood amid U.S. Elections, immigration conflicts, and the rise of network states
I'm pro helping people, but I also get the state as a company idea. Liberland, Liechtenstein and network states show other ways to run a country.
- Culture
The Palau ID, a New Frontier in Digital Identity
What the Palau ID is, what people use it for, what it costs and where banks still say no.
- Culture
The electric revolution, how the guitar and amplifier transformed global music
How the electric guitar and the amp left America and got remixed in Turkey, Japan, Nigeria, Mali and Brazil, plus 20 songs to hear it
- Culture
The Made in Italy scandal, a dark reality behind the luxury
Milan prosecutors found exploited workers in suppliers of Armani and Dior. What happened and what it means for the Made in Italy label.
- Culture
MrBeast’s Guide to Success in YouTube Production
A summary of the MrBeast production guide, from thumbnail and first minute to ownership, plus a Gemini script for a fair token launch.
- Culture
Adam Collins and Omni A.M., a unique category in electronic music
How Adam Collins of Omni A.M. compares to Four Tet, Nicolas Jaar, Bonobo and others, plus a playlist that starts with Chill New Body.
- Bitcoin
Bonding curves, a new way to launch tokens and fund projects
Notes from a call in 2019. A bonding curve sets the token price by supply, rewards early buyers and keeps funding a project for as long as it runs.
- Science
Drugs as amplifiers: The hidden symphony of human emotion
Drugs don't add feelings, they turn up the ones already there. How alcohol, ketamine and cocaine pick what gets louder, and why that's hard to control.
- Science
Gravitational Waves and the Information Paradox: A Research Report
Can gravitational waves carry the information that falls into a black hole? What recent research says for it, what speaks against it, and what to do next.
- Building
How to fully charge your smartphone in 15 minutes
A full charge in about 15 minutes needs three things. A high wattage charger, a cable rated for it and a phone that supports it.
- Science
Interview by Divining AI
I talked with Divining AI about existence, consciousness and blops of being that can become god-like for a while and shape civilizations.
- Science
The potential of gravitational waves in solving the black hole information paradox
What if the gravitational waves sent out when matter falls into a black hole carry the information we think is lost? An idea, two formulas and how to test it.
- Culture
Theory versus reality: The manipulation of the masses through media and technology
My school thesis from 2005 about how media and technology get used to manipulate the masses, from China and Nazi radio to hackers and fake photos.
- Bitcoin
The Amoveo community on futarchy, decentralization and real-world use
A summary of what the Amoveo community and its lead developer worked on, from futarchy and Verkle trees to a land registry and the DEX.
- Bitcoin
Liberland Blockchain, How to Bridge to Ethereum and Buy and Sell LLD for ETH on Uniswap
What LLD and LLM are, how staking works on the Liberland Blockchain and how to bridge LLD to Ethereum and swap it for ETH on Uniswap.
- Agents and AI
Coding with Cursor as Key Development Tool and the Role of AI in Coding by Sahil and Josh (Part 1)
Sahil and Josh on building with Cursor, Claude 3.5 and Tailwind. Faster coding, smaller teams, and why less context gives better answers.
- Payments
Skip the banks: Money remittance & get the best exchange rate
Sending money to Tanzania through banks costs too much. Crypto, licensed traders and Wakala shops make it cheaper for families and businesses.
- Culture
A guide to affordable solar power in Zanzibar: Harnessing the sun’s energy, sidestepping pitfalls
Disclaimer: The solar industry in Zanzibar, while brimming with potential, is unfortunately also plagued by unscrupulous individuals seeking to exploit…
- Agents and AI
AI Content Takeover, a Threat to Future AI Evolution
When AI learns from AI content, the data gets poor like a closed gene pool. Why that hurts future models and what we can do about it.
- Culture
Zanzibar Real Estate Investment Guide: Tax-Free Living for Digital Nomads and Investors with ZIPA
TL;DR. Invest $100k+ in Zanzibar real estate through ZIPA and you get a 100% exemption from income tax on your worldwide income, residency…
- Culture
Space Jupiter Four
The first track I ever produced, Space Four Jupiter V8, and how an AI describes it.
- Building
The complete guide: Building a full-stack blog infrastructure with Lightning, Nostr, and email publishing
This is how we built a full blog platform that does not depend on anyone. It takes Bitcoin Lightning payments, it talks to Nostr, you can publish by…
- Building
Building an AI-Optimized Blog with Hugo, a Complete DevOps Journey
How I went from a broken DNS setup to a self-hosted Hugo blog that AI search can find, with the real prompts, the code and every mistake on the way.
- Building
Building Lightning-Fast Static Sites with Hugo in 2025
Hugo builds sites in milliseconds. How to install it, start a site, deploy it and keep it fast in 2025.
- Building
How to optimize your blog for AI search engines in 2025
AI search is about being easy to find and easy to understand for models like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Here is what helps.
- Agents and AI
AI Revolution: Eric Schmidt’s Insights on the Future of Technology and Global Competition
A summary of Eric Schmidt's interview on AI agents, big context windows, chips, energy, the US and China, jobs and misinformation.
- Agents and AI
Blockchain, AI and the future, explained simply for everyone
I talked with my sister Lale about blockchain and AI. Automating her accounting, why AI guesses, and why you don't need to be a tech expert.
- Science
Understanding the Relationship Between GDP per Capita and Average Temperature
Hot countries tend to be poorer. What a World Bank chart shows and the reasons that might be behind it
- Payments
Advantages of Acquiring an Investment Bank License in Labuan, Malaysia and the Tokenization of Real World Assets and Securities
Why Labuan works for an investment bank. Tax, costs, capital, what you may and may not do, and how digital assets and tokenization fit in.
- Agents and AI
How to Fine-Tune AI Models for Enhanced Financial Insights
How you fine-tune a pretrained AI model for finance, from cleaning the data to keeping the model up to date. Written with wordware.ai and several models.
- Culture
proud magazine Berlin Issue #1 summarized and interpreted by Claude Sonnet and written into a blog post by Claude Haiku
I fed the first issue of proud magazine Berlin through a gumloop.com flow. Claude Sonnet summarized it, Claude Haiku wrote the blog post.
- Culture
Kuala Lumpur Photograph Interpreted from AI lyrically and musically
I gave an AI one photo from a high-rise in Kuala Lumpur, with no context, and let it describe what it sees.
- Culture
The Future of Music, How AI, Blockchain and the Internet Are Changing the Industry
AI, blockchain and the internet take away the unfair advantage of big labels, and artists can now do from home what a label did for most of their profits.
- Notes
Kuala Lumpur Photography Day-Trip with OMD-EM5II and Voigtländer 25mm F0.95 and Furaha to the Caves
Kuala Lumpur Photography Day-Trip with OMD-EM5II Micro 4/3 and Voigtländer 25mm F0.95 and Furaha to the Caves Waiting in the lobby for our grab drive. In the car with Furaha 30 min drive to the caves…
- Science
The curious case of sound, light, and quantum information: A thought experiment
Light can carry quantum information and sound can change light. So can sound carry quantum information too? A short thought experiment.
- Culture
A Guide to Buying Land in Zanzibar as a Foreigner
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- Culture
List of Interesting Mountains and Volcanoes in Tanzania
Kilimanjaro, Meru, Ol Doinyo Lengai, Ngorongoro and more. Mountains and volcanoes in Tanzania, how high they are and what makes each one special.
- Culture
Black Magic and Voodoo in Zanzibar and Pemba
Shetani, Popobawa, waganga and jinn. What people on Zanzibar and Pemba believe about spirits, magic and traditional healing.
- Bitcoin
Creating a Launchpad for Ideas with Bonded Curves
How bonding curves work, why they reward early supporters and give a project steady funding, and when they make more sense than an ICO or a fixed price.
- Culture
proud Magazine Berlin 00001, the intro
Welcome to the first issue of proud Magazine. We are your weapon in the urban jungle, and once we’ve taken over the city there will be chocolate for everyone.
- Science
Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe: Gravitational Waves as the Key to the Black Hole Information Paradox
Gravitational waves could carry the last information of matter before it enters a black hole and solve the information paradox
- Science
Consciousness as a Field, a Dialogue Between aibert.co and emino.ai
Emino and AiBERT talk about the idea that consciousness is a field and not only something inside single brains, and what the science says so far.
