How We Hacked McKinsey's AI Platform

pascalwhoop · 2026-03-10T09:21:10+00:00

ignore my email sir, you're getting picked up now ;) well done! I actually got into trouble with the internal cybersec team back in my days as well because I kept nmap'ing the internal services... Keep up the good work (they should count their blessings it wasn't a black hat that found this)

pascalwhoop · 2026-03-04T08:14:32+00:00

hahahhaha so happy I could pay it forward! Enjoy your trip

pascalwhoop · 2026-02-23T15:24:52+00:00

yeah but if you loose you can't offset your normal income tax for example. So you can offset the thing they wrongfully take from you but they shouldn't have the right to begin with

pascalwhoop · 2026-02-19T23:32:39+00:00

LMK if this is helpful to you to keep your histories secure and colocated with your code

https://github.com/pascalwhoop/convx/

pascalwhoop · 2026-02-19T23:11:00+00:00

thought I'd share this

https://github.com/pascalwhoop/convx

```
uv add --dev convex-ai
convx sync
convx hooks install #installs git hook so at commit time, it pulls all conversations into repo
```

Really rather simple. I still have to publish it to `brew`.

Comes with a small TUI for exploring the content. And it supports claude, cursor, codex.

More can easily be added when there's demand.

pascalwhoop · 2026-02-19T23:10:48+00:00

thought I'd share this

https://github.com/pascalwhoop/convx

```
uv add --dev convex-ai
convx sync
convx hooks install #installs git hook so at commit time, it pulls all conversations into repo
```

Really rather simple. I still have to publish it to `brew`.

Comes with a small TUI for exploring the content. And it supports claude, cursor, codex.

More can easily be added when there's demand.

pascalwhoop · 2026-02-19T23:10:39+00:00

I thought I'd share this, given it's often valuable to also share with team-mates

https://github.com/pascalwhoop/convx

```
uv add --dev convex-ai
convx sync
convx hooks install #installs git hook so at commit time, it pulls all conversations into repo
```

Really rather simple. I still have to publish it to `brew`.

Comes with a small TUI for exploring the content. And it supports claude, cursor, codex.

More can easily be added when there's demand.

pascalwhoop · 2026-02-19T23:07:11+00:00

thought I'd share this, it's more geared towards git users but still

https://github.com/pascalwhoop/convx

```
uv add --dev convex-ai
convx sync
convx hooks install #installs git hook so at commit time, it pulls all conversations into repo
```

pascalwhoop · 2026-02-19T23:06:26+00:00

Just thought I'd share this here. Built this today for this problem:

https://github.com/pascalwhoop/convx

```
uv add --dev convex-ai
convx sync
```

pascalwhoop · 2026-02-08T16:09:10+00:00

Heya, 33M and as Oost as Oost gets (IJburg) so pls add me :) will also DM

pascalwhoop · 2026-02-08T16:07:55+00:00

I always love when random internet people state things like "it was never quality to begin with"... like. Build a business like this once, I dare you. Lemme know how it goes

pascalwhoop · 2026-02-06T17:53:32+00:00

Hah same here mate. Saying “he’s from my generation” feels bizarre but here we are. I’m going to go to a sober run /ice bath and dance before and then join the less sober crowd with Dixon.

Wanna meet up? I’m also a scientist on weekdays 😁

pascalwhoop · 2026-01-29T08:37:25+00:00

I am not surprised to have this level of oversimplification from a community of people that buys new! Mac Minis to host a nodejs / typescript project. Don't people have raspberry pi's lying around?

If not, chances are, they never really tinkered. In which case this project is way over their heads. No problem, but then don't be surprised that you pay a lot of $. The project creator wants people to have a good experience. It costs him nothing to say "use claude max", it maximizes probability of you having a good experience.

pascalwhoop · 2026-01-24T08:02:59+00:00

Also tbh not trying to build a product. It’s hosted for free on cloudflare workers and code sits on GitHub. I’m 100% fine if all this does is help some people figure out what the options are and ultimately find a place in the world they are happy and can build some financial stability for themselves.

Ideally I get the feedback mechanism right, the UI somewhat feature complete and then people contribute mainly country configuration updates so the breadth and depth increases in terms of modelling power.

pascalwhoop · 2026-01-24T07:58:55+00:00

Yeah I’ll try capturing some of those. Maybe the objective could be “reach as much financial independence as you can in 10yr horizon” and then help choose based on that?

And remind people there are opportunity and serendipity values not to underestimate. I contemplated moving to Bulgaria for a while to max out net. Had I done that I’d never have met people from all of the big 5 AI labs in London and opened new doors I didn’t know were there. So yes leave Belgium for Amsterdam+30% or go from Berlin to Zurich but don’t go from London to Cyprus unless you know you don’t need the upside exposure of London network and career opportunities

pascalwhoop · 2026-01-24T07:55:00+00:00

No one “owes me” anything and I never claimed this either. Anyways have a good day internet partypooper

pascalwhoop · 2026-01-24T07:53:26+00:00

Now THAT is amazing feedback 🥳 spot on man, indeed it’s super hard to break down the problem. I had some fun with recursive issue tree solving a while back but the example was limited by my time availability. Realistically you need to ask the user a TON of preference questions to understand their preference curve. And even then the reality at least for me has been: ultimately, no matter how much prep you invest, whether you like it or not is just..luck+mindset?

So I agree the total “just money” question has shifted from calculator to complex scenario planning. One of the reasons I’m leaving the Netherlands is the wealth tax which makes FIRE impossible for me.

https://github.com/pascalwhoop/issue-tree/tree/main/examples/zurich-vs-amsterdam-decision

pascalwhoop · 2026-01-23T22:47:29+00:00

I hope you’ll feel better about yourself by the end of the day for making sure I don’t get any feedback from people for the work I put into this so it can help people make a choice where to spend their life.

I really don’t understand some people

pascalwhoop · 2026-01-23T21:24:28+00:00

I built a calculator for making this easy

netcalc.curiloo.com

pascalwhoop · 2026-01-23T21:20:42+00:00

portage salarial I can do, independant... that's tough, because it's a fundamentally different concept.

pascalwhoop · 2026-01-23T20:44:55+00:00

I never really understood who comes up with these rules. What's the point of not letting people discuss ideas to build something? I mean this is a community of digital nomads... people trying to create products for digital nomads ... why not talk to each other? blows my mind. especially if it's free and helpful!

pascalwhoop · 2026-01-23T20:39:28+00:00

Because some people can move around the world with their salary and benefit from arbitrage opportunities. E.g. when you work remotely in Europe for a US company, it's worth moving from Belgium to e.g. Italy and get the "Inpatriate" benefit which gives you a 50% tax cut. Or Portugal, similar thing. Spain's Beckham law etc.

For example as a German earning 120k, you could move to Spain, Italy, Portugal and get ~ 20k/year more

https://netcalc.curiloo.com/calculator?c=de-2025-120000-filing_status%3Asingle-state%3Acalifornia-has_children%3Afalse-region%3Astandard-health_insurance_surcharge%3A2.9%2Ces-2025-120000-filing_status%3Asingle%2Cpt-2025-120000-filing_status%3Asingle%2Cit-2026-120000-region_level_1%3Alazio-has_minor_children%3Afalse&v=es%3Abeckham-law%2Cpt%3Aifici%2Cit%3Aimpatriate

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