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Alex Burlis
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🇩🇪 building for 🇺🇸
Nerd with a hint of Aerospace Engineer / (prev prescene.ai)
Who is the best security research/pen tester you know and that I should talk to?

I want to create the go-to guide for VPS security.
September 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
kind of impressed what a single post can do
September 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Do you use any memory/task management MCP's?
September 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I've never had anything to do with the movie industry...

...but for two years I built software used by billion dollar production companies and some of the best talent agencies and producers in the world.

You can just build things as an outsider. Your niche can be autism.
September 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"how could this have happened?"
September 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I noticed something weird:
bad devs = bad vibe coders
great devs = great vibe coders
exceptional devs = horrible vibe coders
September 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I don't have a lot of followers at all and barely even grow here, most of my tweets get like 100 impressions.

I beg you to just post like once a week and reach out to people. It'll change your life. 99% of all the opportunity in the past two years came from here.
September 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Don't have good ideas? Just ship something.

A tool, a website, a real-time transcription app, a full fledged steam scraper so you and your friends can get better game recommendations than on Steam.

Your ideas will get better the more you do.
September 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Devs: you type 60-100 WPM.
You speak 150-180 WPM.

What's stopping you from just speaking into Cursor?
September 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Tracking workouts sucks. Pen and paper sucks and all the apps I've tried also suck.

I just want to workout while I'm in the gym and yet still have everything magically tracked...
August 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
One thing I learned from taking a long time off is that, no matter how autistic you are, you need hobbies in your life other than building stuff and you absolutely need to spend time with people who aren't builders.

It will replenish creativity faster than anything else

August 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
the real litmus test to know if you'll survive in the AI utopia is moving to the countryside.

if you're bored and don't know what to do with your life you're ngmi

go play some more minecraft and figure it out
August 20, 2025 at 4:03 AM
What are your favorite tools that you think have a super fair price and respect you as a user?
August 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Screen studio is such a nice product. You can just buy it once, get updates for a year, but own it forever.
August 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
My gf is really good at cooking so she is now cooking a meal planner app for us
August 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
'i will refactor later, trust me'
August 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
just bought sanetools.com and will make it a simple directory for tools that respect you:

1. no subscriptions if not necessary
2. if sub is necessary, it should have a sane price
3. no shady things or dark pattern bullsh*t (sorry adobe)

what else should I filter for?
August 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I haven't coded for over two months. This is the longest I've gone without coding since I was 13 and it feels weird.
August 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Bought new macbooks for gf and me.

A while ago when we decided to take a serious break, we wiped and sold our macbooks

We're starting from 0 again.

She wants to be a coder and indie hacker, so technically I'll be a duopreneur from now on.
August 18, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I think one of the most interesting learnings of Genie 3 + SIMA is that generalists beat specialists and it's not even close.

Maybe this will also hold true for humans over the next few decades.
August 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Ok, fk it, time to build again.

After exiting my last startup, I thought I'd just take some time off and travel, but oh boy my brain doesn't shut up about building stuff. On to new shores and fresh ideas.
August 18, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Let's stop making everything a damn subscription. Thank you for your attention.
August 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It is with great pleasure to inform you that I am an engaged man
August 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I'm 30, eat healthy, workout 5x a week, touch grass, go to the sauna, don't have money problems and enjoy building companies.

Last week I thought I got a flu (it wasn't), had to go to ER and now have heart damage. Waiting for someone to pull off the VR glasses so I can leave a bad review.
March 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Hailuo just casually dropped an llm with 4 MILLION token context length.

You can put 30 full length novels into that context length.

We're now just one OOM away from putting the whole source code of an operating system in the context window.
January 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM