Author: Pieter Borremans
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I did more in 30 days with Claude than I did in a year.
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in ThinkingI’ve been on a long, slow struggle. What to do, where to look, how to calibrate myself, all while dealing with some personal issues and clearing up the wreckage of a few rough years. Then I pulled the trigger on Claude AI and Claude Code, and ditched every other AI agent. Context When OpenAI took…
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I built a doc writing app that’s tailored to my vision. (now in BETA)
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in WorkingIt’s been a while since I posted, and I’m sharing a progress update this week. But I am back after focusing on building the first application of my life. I got hooked on vibe coding a while back. Not the “learn to code in 30 days” kind of hooked. More like I started poking at things, building…
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Going to Experiment With Ridiculous Apps
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in ThinkingI don’t know how to code. I want to get that out of the way right now. I’ve made three attempts at building a note-taking app for language learners. Nothing flashy, just a genuinely useful tool with some AI running quietly in the background. All three went sideways in ways that were both humbling and,…
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My iPad Pro Went Back to Being a Secondary Device
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in WorkingFor a few years, I wore it like a badge. “I run everything on my iPad Pro.” And I meant it. Not as a flex, but because it was genuinely true. Reading, research, writing, light editing, and media consumption. Somewhere around 80% of everything I did on a daily basis happened on that one slab…
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Progress Update #1: What’s Been Going On So Far
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in UpdatesThe last few weeks have been a strange mix of hectic and energising. The kind of busy that doesn’t feel like a grind because you chose it. I’ve been going deep on content creation: recording my personal audio journal, building a note-taking app for language learners (more on that soon), and finally committing to YouTube, Spotify, and…
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Ep 10 | Taking a Break to Fix the Sound
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in ListenI’m hitting pause on the release schedule. After some testing, I noticed consistent echo and room noise in my recordings. It’s affecting both the audio journal and a separate project I’ve been working on, so I can’t ignore it. I spent two days going down the rabbit hole of sound isolation, acoustic treatment, and microphone…
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Ep 09 | The Reset (Kinda)
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in ListenWhat started as canceling one media subscription turned into a full-scale audit of my digital life: too many email addresses, files scattered across Dropbox and an external SSD, and accounts I forgot existed. In Episode 09, I talk about the decision to do a complete reset: consolidating everything under one dedicated email, cutting tools I…
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Ep. 08 | Too Many Subscriptions
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in ListenA movie I’d seen on another platform showed up on Netflix as a “new arrival.” That was enough to make me stop and count how many streaming subscriptions I’m actually paying for. In this episode, I talk about subscription overload, the paralysis of too much choice, and why I’m cutting down to just one platform, and…
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Google Workspace Is Out. iCloud Mail and Spacemail Are In
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in WorkingI’ve been paying for Google Workspace for years. Not because I needed it. Not really. It just sat there, month after month, quietly billing me for features I never opened. It was one of those subscriptions that survives not because it earns its place, but because cancelling it always feels like a task for another…
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Is It Too Late to Start on YouTube? (I Asked Myself the Same Question)
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in ThinkingThe question came up again recently, and this time it hit differently, because I’m the one starting. Not just thinking about it. I’ve been building out my content presence across platforms: writing here on the blog, recording my audio journal as a podcast, and pushing it all to YouTube. So when someone asks, “Is it…