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Alessandro Mingione

@sonovawolf.bsky.social
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☼ Designer at Tailscale ☼ Mostly thinking about croissants ale.fyi 📍 Oakland / Remote

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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 17h
Whomever decided to make the Q button map to the lasso tool in @figma.com has made my day. 10/10 epic, software milestone, no notes.
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The longer you are at a company, the longer you will accrue legitimacy and influence. The upsides are obvious, but there are also downsides. For example, your words will have more weight, so you will have to be more careful about what you say and how you say it.
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I love when I can make people smile just by walking around the streets with unusual objects. Most effective so far: • An old school, super thick cowichan in 100% wool. Probably reminds them of their grandpa. • A whole pie, uncovered. • A single frozen pizza.
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What’s so off-putting about the idea of AI “democratizing” something is that it’s often said when the only barrier to entry is skill. Nearly any able-bodied person can hold a pencil and learn to draw.
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
📍 Miharu Other · Berkeley, California, US 🌙 63°F ★★★★★ Cantaloupe, honeybush, and whipped cream beaconbits.app/beacon/obfv7f5awqn2j… #BeaconBits
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
📍 Joodooboo Restaurant · Oakland, California, US ☀️ 68°F ★★★★★ beaconbits.app/beacon/obfv7f5awqn2j… #BeaconBits
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📍 Heytea Cafe · Berkeley, California, US ☀️ 63°F ★★★★★ Taking new pants on a walk beaconbits.app/beacon/obfv7f5awqn2j… #BeaconBits
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
📍 Milk Cloud Bakery Bakery · Berkeley, California, US ☀️ 70°F ★★★★★ Got the Yuzu basque cheesecake and pineapple shokipan bun 👌 beaconbits.app/beacon/obfv7f5awqn2j… #BeaconBits
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
PSA
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Having to buy “in-season” produce imported from Chile is a special kind of cursed
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dan @danabra.mov · 03/04/2026
political compass meme. bluesky according to twitter users (auth-left), bluesky according to mastodon users (auth-right), bluesky according to bluesky users (lib-right), bluesky actually, imo (lib-left)
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
look, things suck, everybody is allowed to feel hopeless once in a while, but I do think you have some responsibility to limit the contagion caused by offgas from your personal slough of despond
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This is how we do it at Tailscale, though we still use Tailwind (yes we also get confused all the time).
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
If you are thinking about switching I've recently given kagi, brave search, and duckduckgo a try. they were all pretty good! and better than I expected going in. ended up with brave and haven't looked back. I only use google for images and shopping. for those it's still unmatched, unfortunately.
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Used Claude Code on a side project and it completely ruined it, and by ruined it I mean that it oneshotted it. Now I have this thing, but it doesn't feel mine at all, nor did I learn anything while making it… but the thing it made *is* very useful. AI can be all destination and no journey.
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Not only did I discover Eastern Sounds by Yusef Lateef today—mesmerizing, a must-listen, very approachable even for the uninitiated—but for the first time I recognized a Nujabes sample in the wild. Weird feeling!
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Surprised to be touched by a David Lynch movie as much as I have been having watched “The Straight Story” (1999). A tender and seemingly simple quintessential American story about an old man driving a lawn mower across state lines to see his estranged brother.
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Sometimes if it sounds like a duck and it swims like a duck, it’s still not a duck, most people intuitively know that. And yet—for everyone’s sanity—we need to come up with a better definition of “consciousness” soon, or the few that think an LLM is conscious and has feelings won’t leave us alone.
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Important to actually read the article. Proton *is* private and encrypted, *and* they support payment methods other than cards… which is what you should use if your threat model includes any government
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
True. Also we need a Merlin for plants. Yes there’s a ton of plant ID apps out there but they all suck. Big hopes for a sufficiently sophisticated AI solution here.
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NPR @npr.org · 15/11/2025
The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture. n.pr/43T2xmD
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Pope Leo returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada
The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture.
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Oh boy, here we go. On typefaces: Everything is a remix but some things are “more remix” than others. If you create a typeface that’s inspired by another typeface, it needs to be meaningfully different for you to profit from it, and even so you should acknowledge those influences.
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sam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 06/09/2025
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Weird how there always seems to be only one probable cause for everything, and it’s always the thing that I’ve been obsessing over last week
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Thomas Ragon @thomasragon.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Georges Beuville
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. 

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. 

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. 

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. 

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 31/05/2025
I wrote a new thing about killing the metrics in your head, and how our inherent desire to know that we are being seen can be the thing that prevents us from caring as well and as much as we actually do. phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-05...
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kill the metrics in your head
Get in, loser, we’re doing an old fashioned conversation by blog post. Dan Sinker wrote recently about the Who Cares Era: The writer didn’t care. The supplement’s editors didn’t care. The biz people o...
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Back then you committed harakiri. Today you sell your company for scraps to HP.
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
A friend (@dmnplb.bsky.social) made me aware of the bad kerning on Pope Francis's tombstone and I cannot unsee it FR A NCISC VS
The tombstone with the inscription "FRANCISVS" badly spaced. There's too much space around the A and on the left of the V.
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 25/04/2025
Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:
Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores.

This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Mill Valley isn’t real
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Dunsmuir, July 2024 — Fishing adventures
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🍑
A snippet of code showing an autocomplete suggestion gone wrong resulting in writing "capture;ass"
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
apparently the GBUAPCD (Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District) monitors air pollution with camera that take pictures every 30 seconds. they also compile them into videos at the end of every day… you can just pick a location and a date and watch the clouds move over the sierras 😌
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Ever grateful for the @archive.org. Donate if you can! www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
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As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them
The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Spent a good half an hour debugging a CSS issue with AI gaslighting me the whole time and then I finally solved it by adding a wrapper div
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kelin @kelin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
i love bsky it's like my 2013 twitter experience... a social media version of those retirement homes decorated like the 50s
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 20/01/2025
Hey real quick, I noticed your joke is incompatible with Kant's categorical imperative
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
The year is 2025. Computers are more advanced than ever. You have a supercomputer in your pocket. Eliezer Yudkowsky believes the human race will go extinct in 10 years because of extremely advanced AI. It's still nearly impossible to move a photo from one computer to another.
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
😩 *slowly takes out the credit card*
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
This is what happens when you ask a simple question on a hobbyist forum
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 12/01/2025
The one commercial VPN I trust is Mullvad. Full disclosure: not an ad™ but they fund part of my work on transparency logs, because they want to run transparent systems (www.system-transparency.org). IMHO, if anything, this *adds* to the endorsement. You can get it via Tailscale and Mozilla, too.
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
While I still believe you shouldn't automatically put people in a marketing list for paying for coffee… I'm starting to find pleasure in unsubscribing from marketing emails. There's probably a German word for this.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
my personal favorite comic of 2024
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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Clearly, this was a global issue.
A screenshot of a Tumblr post from user thehmn. It depicts two carved ivory figurines of foxes dressed as monks. The caption reads, Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
New year new me, and by new me I mean a whole year without panettone 😭
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hi their BOO! @mikemay.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
heaven forbid guys have hobbies
What is Captain Ahab's mental illness?
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Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
www.kaseyklimes.com/notes/2024/1... this piece by @kasey.bsky.social reminded me of this funny quote from Christophe Loiron, founder of Mister Freedom:
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