I think this can be generally true for business applications and yet thoroughly untrue for apps that you - the human - need to interact with to learn The hard part for me is figuring if language learning can be done like this, thru an agent. It's an interesting thought exp

While true, remember to exericse + meditate/journal regularly, eat healthy, and be present in your close relationships When I forget to do that, I find I always end up taking 1 step forward, 2 steps back, even with AI tools I don't wanna be the person with the $1M ARR and no

Wife suddenly tells me that we're going on a holiday next week. My B2 presentations happen right after the holiday and i haven't prepped 6/8 topics. So I did what every normal person would do... → tell Claude to websearch the 8 topics for beruflich B2 deutschtest → tell it to

someone I respect asked me to consult for his company because his devs respects shopify devs (I was one), but honestly i don't remember how things were done much anymore nowadays I'm just like a typical vibe coder, just *slightly* more able to steer agents due to my professional

I just built my own version of a habit tracker in 3 hours. It's going on the App Store now for review Soon enough building will be done with such intuitive workflows that everyone will truly be building The window is tightening on this know-how being a competitive advantage

Looking back, this wasn't a good decision. Way too early to internationalise before finding product-market fit

Just had a long discussion with my wife about one of our parents' insensible decisions at near end of life While discussing, an image of a bell curve of life came to mind, below is it visualised. I think it makes sense When you start sliding, you lose control

I've been using Wispr Flow a lot, but recently found its performance slightly degraded. Sometimes I'll lose my transcription Meanwhile I already knew of MacWhisper from work, which runs full local inference. Accuracy is almost on-par with Wispr Flow too Once my lenny

I already see myself upgrading to the Claude 20x plan next month, or trying Codex at that level too Key reason being I'm unchained from my obligatory German B2 classes by end of Feb. i'm soooo excited :)

It took me a year to build a morning routine I'm proud of. But i didn't externalise any structure (e.g. to an app) Next: build one! A bit on this in my latest substack nickang.substack.com/p/the-3-hours-…

marketing an app feels disjointed from reality and for me, it's the most tedious part at the moment I wish it works like this: - build sth good for customers - post a video, a blog post, and a tweet about it - done, back to improving the product how it actually seems to work: -

Hands down the biggest endowment I've had is being born Singaporean. It's made me capable of speaking native English AND Mandarin In my German class when I speak in English with an Indian and later Mandarin with a Chinese, the Europeans in the room are always in awe

Throughout my 10yr career in tech as SWE, I've mostly kept to myself sth that I find a little embarrassing to admit to coworkers - I see programming just as a means to an end Creating and putting products out there to improve lives slightly has always been the motivation AI is

I really like seeing videos/ads that make use of AI to make super creative but ultimately realistic, believable scenes This one in particular feels as if it visualise what I had already in my mind but could never visualise for other people

Wrote a brief summary of what the last 7 months has been like since I quit my SWE job to go solo open.substack.com/pub/nickang/p/…

Can somebody pls teach me how you're supposed to use German hotel pillows?? I always have a neck ache when I travel in the country

Currently writing a substack about the damage I've let my dad do to me. It's a heavy one and will require a bit more time to get right, but it'll be a heavy hitter

A shopkeeper with her son in Salzburg has a book she wants to take pre-orders for I'm chatting with her casually after ordering a cuppa coffee She learns that I'm a SWE and starts telling me how she's found a content creator who taught her how she can build a pre-order site