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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 13/09/2025

Hit the speed limit. Check my birthday present to you here distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 26/08/2025

A brand-new tool from me - BopOps Lyrics. Write lyrics to a backing track, loop sections, align timings, and get help from a "passive" AI co-writer when you get stuck lyrics.bopops.com

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 14/07/2025

Alan's list of random firsts: ... 134. Drive a Chinese car ✅

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 03/07/2025

These shoes are quite likely the most comfortable walking shoes I ever owned. Also the hardest to put on. Strained my wrist putting my shoes on yesterday 😅

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 24/06/2025

Copilot is fishing for our darkest secrets 😂

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 20/06/2025

The Apple Developer saga continues... Tried to apply through the macOS app (had to bring a webcam from home) and got this as the final step. The most bizare part (imho) is that *I* have to contact them because the enrollment is under review. Like WTAF!?

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 03/06/2025

TFW you stop RTFMing at "It is the cheapest option for code signing on Windows..." and proceed to signup 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 02/06/2025

Apparently there's some process on the web and it didn't ask for ID photos (I suspect that is still coming). Feels like it just sent my credit card info by email to some dude who will now "process it"

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 02/06/2025

LOL. I'm on a Mac Mini. "You'd need to buy an iPhone for us to let you pay $99/year for our developer program"

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 02/06/2025

Trying to enroll in Apple's developer program and getting this "extremely informative" error message. After reading through all the requirements and not seeing what's missing it turns out I figure I need to enter "Shipping address" for my Apple Account 🤦‍♂️

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 29/05/2025

LOL. Just a few hours after setting up a new Mac. I was told that this is a Windows thing...

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 29/05/2025

Sooo... very reluctantly I got this. Let's see how it goes...

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 24/05/2025

TIL that the Clock app's icon on Android (Samsung?) shows actual time. Windows Phone Live Tile vibes.

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 23/05/2025

Trying to run a little experiment with AdWords and getting this. LOL. OK, Google...

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 21/05/2025

It's been many years since the first number was anything but 8. #achievementunlocked

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 20/05/2025

A year+ too late for me. It's kinda weird when a city has no proper app-based taxi service. I was surprised that there was no Uber or Bolt in Ljubljana in 2024.

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 01/05/2025

Wow, Logitech. This is low. I've unsubscribed from Logitech newsletters a few times but keep getting them. Turns out when you click on unsubscribe you get to this page that says "Unsubscribe from all Logitech emails" it doesn't include Logitech G. You must click the G logo and unsubscribe again.

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 30/04/2025

Last day to get the 50% introductory discount on marker.js 3. markerjs.com

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 30/04/2025

To "compensate" for this great enhancement someone really smart decided to remove a 1x1 magnifier icon/widget and now it's 2x1 and not resizable. Clearly improved usability... NOT

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 30/04/2025

Finally got the One UI 7/Android 15 update on the Galaxy S24 Ultra and my most anticipated "feature" is there 😅

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 26/04/2025

TFW this "plaque" is the most impressive thing you can show for 5+ years of nonstop learning 😂 To be fair, on 1,800+ of these days I did the bare minimum to keep the streak going. I guess gamification works. Kinda.

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 11/04/2025

TFW you spend half an hour trying to figure out what you messed up and it turns out it's not you, it's "them" 🤦

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 08/04/2025

Especially, when it's also the default (iirc) shortcut for PowerToys Run which is also a Microsoft product (albeit nerdy).

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 08/04/2025

I get that Copilot is "native" on Windows but having a non-configurable quite trivial keyboard shortcut smells.

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 05/04/2025

Watching the best Val Kilmer movie and I don't think I saw it mentioned once in any of the obituaries. RIP.

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 25/03/2025

TIL that you can use an earbud case as a stand for your phone. (at least it works with mine) Did you know this? And if you did, why didn't you tell me?

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 24/03/2025

After a month of WFH my outie requested to be severed from my innie. Application was approved and I'm back to the co-working life.

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 21/03/2025

Testing @todoist.com as my potential todo app and encountered something that contradicts my understanding of what "next <day of the week>" means. According to todoist "next Tuesday" is "skip one Tuesday and the one after it is next". IMHO, "next Tuesday" is just the first upcoming Tuesday. WDYT?

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 17/03/2025

The Windows Perplexity app would be cool if it worked when you needed it and not just when you open it up and satisfy its desires before it satisfies yours :) Logs you out, asks for updates multiple times a day, etc.

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 13/03/2025

Likely a record just for this current phone/watch but not too shabby for a quiet vacation day.

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 11/03/2025

Even the thermometer behaves like a tourist trap. 😅 It was like 20°C at best.

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 10/03/2025

It should be illegal for Google (and Apple) to charge for this "brand protection racket". I've searched for exact app name which is not a common word and the company still has to buy an ad to make sure it's the first result. 😡

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 07/03/2025

UX axiom: language selector label should never be in the current UI language. At the very least add some flag icon like you did with the currency. It's easy for me cause it's Spanish but what if it wasn't even a Latin alphabet?

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 28/02/2025

Music marketing technique/note-to-self: release a single on the same week as an album and you get 2 songs in the people's Release Radar.

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 28/02/2025

Spotify's AI is very smart and knows exactly who my favorite artist is 😝

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 25/02/2025

Even the thing itself is cagy about it. 🤦 My credit count went down by 1 after asking this though. 😅

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 25/02/2025

Is there some guide on how Office Copilot credit usage is calculated? Feels like some random number being substracted from another random number.

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 16/02/2025

Let's be honest, I'm not going to decorate my strip mall practice wall with these. Time to say goodbye... #mvpbuzz

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 08/02/2025

Is this UI pattern of long-pressing on a button with a little triangle in the bottom right corner well understood by a casual modern software user? Or is it better to opt for something like what Word does with a dropdown arrow/button? Any other approach?

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 01/02/2025

It's been "only" 2.5 years of full scale war in Ukraine when iPhone 16 launched but phones sold in Eastern Europe still come "russian first" on the box 🤦

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 08/01/2025

Like, really, Amazon? Just say you don't have it in stock and have no idea when you will.

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 02/01/2025

Nice! The Windows Photos app now has an AI eraser built in.

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 01/01/2025

My yearly whine that I will gladly subscribe to YouTube Premium but not before they stop this monopolistic BS and unbundle YouTube Music from it.

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 31/12/2024

2025 reflection goals (aka new year resolutions):

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 27/12/2024

Checked another suitcase - no dots. But... there are these holes. If you align all three and then rotate them together, eventually you arrive at the right combination (10 tries max). 🤦🤦🤦

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Alan Mendelevich @ailon.org · 27/12/2024

The lock on my suitcase decided that my code was wrong (no, I didn't forget it). TIL: 1. if you pull the zipper pulls one-by-one hard enough you can just extract them from the lock 🤦 2. if you look with a magnifying glass, you can see these dots under the correct numbers 🤦🤦

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