Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 17hWhomever 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. 010
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The 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. 120
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I 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. 031
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026What’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. 000
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 000
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026📍 Joodooboo Restaurant · Oakland, California, US ☀️ 68°F ★★★★★ beaconbits.app/beacon/obfv7f5awqn2j… #BeaconBits 001
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 030
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 010
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Having to buy “in-season” produce imported from Chile is a special kind of cursed 000
Reposted by Alessandro Mingioneghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 24/03/2026look, 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 592177238
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 24/03/2026This is how we do it at Tailscale, though we still use Tailwind (yes we also get confused all the time). 130
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 22/03/2026If 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. 000
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Used 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. 330
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Not 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! 200
Reposted by Alessandro MingioneAlessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Surprised 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. 121
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Sometimes 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. 000
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Important 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 140
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 27/12/2025True. 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. 000
Reposted by Alessandro MingioneNPR @npr.org · 15/11/2025The 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/43T2xmDn.prPope Leo returns 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from CanadaThe 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. 6752031338
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Oh 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. 110
Reposted by Alessandro Mingionesam henri gold @samhenri.gold · 06/09/2025Did 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. 11675621936
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Weird 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 010
Reposted by Alessandro MingioneThomas Ragon @thomasragon.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Georges Beuville 314618
Reposted by Alessandro MingioneBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2025I 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. 636371426792
Reposted by Alessandro Mingionejenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 31/05/2025I 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...phirephoenix.comkill the metrics in your headGet 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... 26923
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Back then you committed harakiri. Today you sell your company for scraps to HP. 000
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 27/04/2025A 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 1102
Reposted by Alessandro MingioneDave Infante @dinfontay.com · 25/04/2025Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though: 8773493300
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 27/03/2025apparently 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 😌 100
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Ever grateful for the @archive.org. Donate if you can! www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...npr.orgAs the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save themThe 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. 010
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Spent 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 120
Reposted by Alessandro Mingionekelin @kelin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025i love bsky it's like my 2013 twitter experience... a social media version of those retirement homes decorated like the 50s 2402
Reposted by Alessandro MingioneIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 20/01/2025Hey real quick, I noticed your joke is incompatible with Kant's categorical imperative 341975255
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 19/01/2025The 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. 020
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 13/01/2025This is what happens when you ask a simple question on a hobbyist forum 010
Reposted by Alessandro MingioneFilippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 12/01/2025The 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. 1116533
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 11/01/2025While 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. 020
Reposted by Alessandro MingioneJ. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 04/01/2025my personal favorite comic of 2024 127228793727
Reposted by Alessandro MingioneJess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Clearly, this was a global issue. 8990062709
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 31/12/2024New year new me, and by new me I mean a whole year without panettone 😭 120
Reposted by Alessandro Mingionehi their BOO! @mikemay.bsky.social · 28/12/2024heaven forbid guys have hobbies 0479
Alessandro Mingione @sonovawolf.bsky.social · 29/12/2024www.kaseyklimes.com/notes/2024/1... this piece by @kasey.bsky.social reminded me of this funny quote from Christophe Loiron, founder of Mister Freedom: 161