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Alex Suzuki

@alexsuzuki.com
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Solo founder/dev of strich.io Husband, father, reptile lover 🦎🐊🐍 Based in Switzerland 🇨🇭

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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 21/08/2026
It's crazy how shady meetup.com has become. Clicking on virtually any element of a meetup's page (e.g. Attendees) opens a blocking modal asking you to sign up for Meetup+. There's no option to close or cancel. But hey, at least you get some random AI-generated image slop with it...
Screenshot of blocking "Join Meetup+" modal, with no option to close and no light dismiss.
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 05/08/2026
So much of the AI stuff thrown at me is basically "X is dead - here's why you should mindlessly go all-in on Y". No thanks!
screenshot of a youtube teaser with the prominent text "Loops Are Dead", titled "Matt Pocock's Agentic Engineering Workflow (just copy him)"
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 20/07/2026
Still image from a Terminator moving showing an aerial HK (Hunter-Killer)
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 14/07/2026
I'd be surprised if it wouldn't? I imagine most downloads are from CI pipelines, and when there's less people committing (due to holidays), there's less downloads? The hypothesis holds for my package, at least. 🙂
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 12/07/2026
Black & white still showing one of the Harkonnen arena barb men with their characteristic moon-shaped headgear
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 09/07/2026
Rage Click detected by Sentry... interesting, first one for me. Couldn't figure out why the user did what they did though. docs.sentry.io/product/issu...
A Sentry notification email with "Rage Click Detected" in its subject.
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 30/06/2026
hey @microconf.com , I would like to watch that video :-)
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 21/06/2026
Whhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
A screenshot of a Thai restaurant in the Uber Eats app, with a tagline “Authentic Thai cuisine bursting with flavor. Signature dishes crafted with care.” and a note “Generated by AI”
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 20/06/2026
AI is revolutionizing software and surely anytime now will bring an explosion of quality and productivity. Meanwhile, in a Google Doc far, far away...
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 18/06/2026
Slowly preparing to move to a new office, closer to my home. I’m going to miss the 🌊 😩
Photo of an office wall decorated with a tapestry of Hokusai’s Great Wave
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 18/06/2026
Migrated STRICH's NPM deployment pipeline to staged publishing today. Doing my part! 🫡
Screenshot of NPM's staged packages interface, showing the STRICH Barcode Scanning SDK package with the Approve button highlighted.
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 15/06/2026
Rückseite sieht auch aus als könnte es laut sein... (aktive Kühlung?)
Front and back views of Ubiquiti's Dream Machine Beast router
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 12/06/2026
I am so looking forward to my first flight on an AI-built airplane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/t... 😱🫠
NYT front page screenshot, saying: "Jeff Bezos Wants to Build an ‘Artificial General Engineer’
As co-chief executive of the start-up Prometheus, the Amazon founder is using A.I. to improve how devices ranging from computers to jet engines are made."
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 11/06/2026
Huh, #GitLab down for me this morning. Well, I wanted to go for a walk anyway. 🌳
Screenshot of a GitLab error page showing "503 - An internal server error occured"
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 10/06/2026
One can hope!
Screenshot of a fictional Hacker News frontpage
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 29/05/2026
Bro!
Screenshot of HN with Mastro.js's article "is AI causing a repeat of Frontend's Lost Decade?" on top
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 28/05/2026
I never type Alistair, but Alex... oh well! This technology is going to replace us.
Google AI overview for search query "ok but how many k's in alex" answering "There is exactly 1 'k' in the name Aelx (A-l-e-k-s)"
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 19/05/2026
Working on an upcoming presentation for a local meetup (working title: "Monetizing JavaScript – Building Profitable Products as a Solo Dev"). Slides are a bit over the top. 😂
A presentation slide containing an image of Darth Vader along with text: "Commercial Software, Join the dark side: code for cash, not GitHub stars."
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 10/05/2026
"I mourn the death of an art form" - This HN comment sounds cheesy, but it encapsulates perfectly how I feel about most stuff coming out now. If it's zero effort to do <thing>, then <thing> becomes worthless and uninteresting to me. Source: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4808...
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 02/05/2026
Can we start admitting that customer support chatbots, no matter how "smart", are a failed experiment that should be filed under "Kill it with Fire"? It's so annoying to have to "insist" on a human to solve a problem that a chatbot claims there's no way to fix.
Screenshots from a Ahrefs customer support conversation, with a chatbot on the left claiming an issue with a spam tag on a domain is not resolvable, on the right a human just solving the problem.
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 17/04/2026
*shocked face emoji*
Screenshot of upper part of Atlassian customer information email containing the following text:

Hi, You trust Atlassian with some of your most business‑critical work, and we take that responsibility seriously, especially when it comes to keeping your data safe. AI is already multiplying what teams can accomplish, from agents that simplify complex workflows to enterprise search and chat that quickly surface the right context when it matters. With richer, more diverse customer data and usage patterns, we can deliver enhanced AI capabilities that unlock greater value across your organization. As a result, we're updating how we use customer data so we can improve our apps and AI experiences for all customers.
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 07/04/2026
I've had three months time to prepare this presentation, of course I only start working on it for real 2 days before the date... why does it always have to be like this. 😫
A screenshot of a presentation titled "Scanning QR Codes in the Browser"
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 05/04/2026
Got an Earthquake warning on iOS last night, but the warning was suppressed by Do Not Disturb mode. I think that might be taking it a bit too far 🙂. The shaking woke me up (magnitude 5.4, all good).
Screenshot of iOS earthquake notification in Chinese: “Earthquake Detected Nearby

If the shaking intensifies: "Get down, cover, hold on." The earthquake is estimated to be magnitude 5.4, with its epicenter 105 km away.

- Central Meteorological Administration”
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 27/03/2026
Huh, first time this popped up, don’t remember agreeing to Siri reading my mal. 😠
An iOS notification banner saying that Siri found a flight to Taiwan in Mail and suggesting the user buy an eSIM to “stay connected while traveling”
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 26/03/2026
Playing some Fortnite with my daughter and then the job creeps in. <img id=“VBucksIcon” for the win!
Photo of Fortnite on a TV with a glitch, an HTML fragment is displayed on the pricing screen.
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 18/03/2026
Ok, you made me dig up an iPhone 6S and iPhone SE 1st-gen, both updated to iOS 15.8.7! Strangely these have an issue with my CSS. I am not investigating. 🙂
iPhone 6S and iPhone SE 1st gen next to a prominently featured vintage Vectrex console
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 12/03/2026
It's 2026 and I can't even empty Trash reliably anymore.
Screenshot of macOS Trash error message saying Trash can't be opened right now because it's being used by another task
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 03/03/2026
One of the reasons I love working on my product (strich.io) is that it's rooted in the physical world. To test it, you need to go out in the field. The store manager of the supermarket that I just went to for testing asked me "what the hell are you doing?" 😂
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 27/02/2026
Maybe it's time to call it a day.
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 26/02/2026
Enough is enough. Price increases for AI features I don't use, and now "special offers in your inbox"??? Moving to Proton this year.
Screenshot of Gmail showing a mail with subject "The price of your subscription has changed", along with a banner "Unlock special offers right in your inbox".
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 25/02/2026
10yr old iPhone 7 which I use as a low-end iOS test device just received an OS update. Appreciated, but usually means there's some catastrophic exploit in the wild. 👹
An iPhone 7 (released in 2016) receiving a system update to iOS 15.8.6
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 11/02/2026
Interesting phishing attempt – it's not being detected as such by Google's spam/phishing filter. And just visually, it fooled me upon first glance.
Screenshot of a phishing mail pretending to be from Google, about an account approaching its "pooled storage limit"
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 06/02/2026
🍪 Got a cookie banner, selected "Reject All" (thanks for that!), then I get another popup with a spinner saying that the "request is being processed" and it may take a few minutes. The popup is still there, spinning at 92%. Oh dear god how did we end up with 💩 like this?
Popup showing a cookie preference dialog after user selected "reject all", showing a processing progress of 92%. It's unclear why there should be any processing at all.
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 04/02/2026
I'm getting tired of this trend of update popups that contain zero information about the actual contents of the new release. Yes, I know I can click on the link, but chances are I'll be greeted with a cookie popup first, and will need to scroll where the info is. Lazy.
Screenshot of a JetBrains update dialog with no information at all about the new release, just a link to the release notes
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 28/01/2026
“Technical error” when clicking on the unsubscribe link of an email for which I never signed up for… what’s not to love? 😡
Screenshot of Air France website showing “Technical error” after attempting to unsubscribe from unsolicited email
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 21/01/2026
Helicopters spotted over Zurich. The clown is coming to WEF.
Helicopters of US WEF delegation over Zurich
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 19/01/2026
I struggle to believe there is a single soul who wants “AI to plan their next getaway”.
screenshot of AI trip planner CTA in Singapore Airlines app, “Let AI plan your next getaway”
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 16/01/2026
Been reading through "How AI Destroys Institutions" and this passage resonated with me. Full article (40 pages, but ~20 effectively, a lot is citations): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 07/01/2026
Oddly they mention Cloud Hosting as well, but it does not appear on the pricing page.
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 07/01/2026
That’s right, we’re now in the era of “learn nothing - work forever anyway”…
screenshot of a news app headline from CES quoting unnamed execs that “learn once, work forever” is over
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 05/01/2026
Off to a good start in 2026 with a bowl of steaming-hot Chashu Miso Ramen and ignoring everything else.
A steaming hot bowl of Chashu Miso Ramen
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 18/12/2025
I now consider myself a l33t TypeScript coder
Screenshot of an IDE showing a TS1337 error message
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 11/12/2025
🕸️ Got a bit excited when I found this 13 year old LG Nexus 5 Android at the bottom of my "Test Devices" drawer. It boots and everything is surprisingly snappy. Unfortunately no recent browser versions can be installed on it – would have made for a great "worst case" test device.
Photos of an ancient LG Nexus 5 Android smartphone, showing the About Chrome and Play Store screens.
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 08/12/2025
Yeah, it's fun...
screenshot of Chrome DevTools console showing return type of Date.now() to be overridden to an ISO8601 string.
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 05/12/2025
Holy shit, again? #cloudflare #down
screenshot of HTTP 500 on cloudflare.com
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 04/12/2025
New STRICH (strich.io) release undergoing QA. Important to test with real, physical devices, especially low-end ones. @infrequently.org has great guidelines for device selection here: infrequently.org/2025/11/perf...
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 21/11/2025
Finally adding Micro QR Code support to STRICH (strich.io), my library for barcode scanning in the browser. Error correction is buggy, that's why it's scanning gibberish. Seems like I'll have to deep-dive into Reed-Solomon error correction – pretty fascinating stuff.
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 17/11/2025
💾 Strong swag game by CashCtrl (cashctrl.com/en), Makes me want to switch my accounting software. (not affiliated)
A 3.5" floppy disk, part of the marketing effort of CashCtrl, an online accounting software.
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 15/11/2025
I'm unreasonably excited about my new RPN calculator, a SwissMicros R47. In high school (1995) I got an HP 48G (still works) and was initially confused... RPN is a stack machine, to calculate 1 plus 1, you enter 1 <ENTER> 1 <ENTER> <PLUS>. To the left is my dad's HP 32S II, which unfortunately died.
three generations of RPN calculators: an HP 32S II, an HP 48G+, and a recent SwissMicros R47
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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 12/11/2025
OpenAI: „Trust, security and privacy guide every product and decision we make.“ OK. 😂
Screenshot of an OpenAI article claiming that trust, security and privacy guide every product and decision they make.
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