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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 09/05/2026

Working on sound today and realizing that JS volume control of the HTML web audio element which is problematic with iOS Safari. I'm using `howler.js` to try and remedy to no avail yet. Has anybody else has ever dealt with such a problem?

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 05/05/2026

Anyone want to playtest a game about dev culture? winky.vellandi.net Feedback appreciated 😀

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 06/04/2026

Are tech media influencers validly whining about Anthropic or is it just sad rage bait? I understand the updated TOS, enforcement, and 3rd party tool use pricing…I just thought the generous subsidies would eventually end and membership tiers would be limited to their products

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 05/04/2026

When I occasionally look at SWE job opportunities in Germany, I get sad how seemingly 95% involves PHP or Java 😒

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 04/04/2026

An extension to slow down animations and tech demos slowmo.dev

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 03/04/2026

I find it hilarious OpenAI bought the “tech bro PR net” TBPN. Reminds me of a16z buying Turpentine podcast net, a few years after shuttering a16z future.com It’s always about buying reach to influence editorial + ad impressions

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 02/04/2026

Last day of NYC vacation before flying home

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 18/03/2026

This week I've been learning where agent skills/plugins are installed, optimizing them, and reverse-engineering an image annotation skill from screenshots + descriptions with nano banana pro (very cool!). Now doing various remotion + agent tuts, optimizing github.com/remotion-dev...

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 13/03/2026

I just heard about "autoresearch" by @karpathy; here's a plausible notebooklm summary gist.github.com/mvellandi/84...

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 09/03/2026

I researched 84 different tactics and examples for brands to engage with people in the following categories: Market Validation Official Comms Media and Publishing Community and Identity Learning Interactive Engagement Innovation Operational Transparency docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Big Audience Engagement Map by Mario Vellandi

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 06/03/2026

In an age of endless media, I‘ve increasingly admired great interviewers whether it be Conan O’Brian, Ira Glass, or broadcast news journalists.

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 24/02/2026

It’s a bit cringe when I think of tech YouTubers who mix drama farming, sensationalism, rage baiting, mixed with occasional great insights. From the Economist style guide:

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

cant.stop.laughing

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 19/02/2026

Yeah, isomorphic JS apps without rsc mental overhead is better. I dig TanStack youtu.be/wkXvv0iJffg?...

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Frameworks don't matter anymore...

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 08/02/2026

The core of swe balances technical, economic, and ethical forces—a human-centric task that AI currently can't do. Those who master systems theory & high-level complexity mgmt are poised to thrive, as industry shifts focus from "plumbing" & raw code gen to orchestrating complex, large-scale systems

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 07/02/2026

I miss the band 311. their sound was fun and only slightly melancholc, “drugstore cowgirli“ aside

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 02/02/2026

Learned a little Pulumi infra-as-code today. Neat and high level

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 02/02/2026

I’m at an infra conference and a speaker expressed serious concern about a future inability to hire juniors, as ai-related automation will already reduce mid-level workforce

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Last summer, as OpenAI sought to transition from nonprofit to for-profit, civil society groups pressed the company for accountability. Tyler Johnston, the founder of an AI watchdog, was among them. Then OpenAI showed up with a subpoena at his door. My latest for @moreperfectunion.bsky.social.

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OpenAl Showed Up At My Door. Here’s Why They’re Targeting People Like Me

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 27/01/2026

Am enjoying this interview with Cursor's design lead, demoing an OS research project using agents and the internal browser, along with software and interaction design. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdh8...

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 27/01/2026

Gotta say, SponsorBlock is a neat example of crowdsourcing. It's a browser plugin for YT where people can easily submit time segments of a video to a central DB that's then synced to all other users, allowing the playhead to auto skip noted segments. sponsor.ajay.app Obv not fab for producers

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 26/01/2026

following this anthropic article on iterative agent dev www.anthropic.com/engineering/..., I'm trying to build a a meta-scaffold for greenfield projects, system isolated using local containers and mounts, used for pre-planning and subsequent dev

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 22/01/2026

Yay! I’m going to Fosdem next weekend in Brussels, followed a few days at “Configuration Camp” with a devops nerd friend who will be my translator (im an IaC noob)

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 21/01/2026

I want an sms service that’ll ping me to go look at the night sky for northern lights. There have been 3 events in last couple years and my wife and I only hear about it the next day

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 20/01/2026

I'm building a traditional wordpress theme for a 100+ collection of interactive stories...and there's no tailwind nor component files. Strange and tedious

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 16/01/2026

Following @codestirring.bsky.social thoughtful post on dev with AI www.chrisgregori.dev/opinion/code... I thought: "instead of building software components and sub-systems from scratch, how might we better take advantage of existing and new OSS software to build upon? Especially within an

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 04/01/2026

I'm creating/generating a documentation site on TanStack Router so I can better understand its mechanics for myself (bc the official docs are good but the design is busy with little contrast). In the generation process, it's funny and annoying how verbose and repetitive the content can get.

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 31/12/2025

I'm upgrading my shared Hetzner server to a larger instance using a snapshot. It was running Coolify for managing projects/services with docker. It's all relatively new to me, but it's nice having direct control.

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 28/12/2025

I dreamed that a team and I launched a difficult tech project for a large co., then the CTO said "you're the web guy right? We'll need this now for Spring Boot". In calm terror I asked "Can I use Kotlin instead of Java?". I got a 'no', and so I quit

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 17/12/2025

I'm really digging TanStack Start and its full frontend suite. I love Phoenix and all, but the ease of importing practical shadcn ui components is fab.

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 17/12/2025

anyone else notice the multiple choice questions in claude code? I saw it in vscode today and thought it was a reasonable way to efficiently get feedback

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 16/12/2025

So I'm learning some iOS and dang, Xcode is quite a beast (as expected compared to a simple editor). It kind of makes me feel this is where maybe Figma should be going if one actually wanted to build instead of just design prototypes

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Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Dan Janowski has stepped up to serve the community. He speaks on the topics we need to hear, he is doing invaluable voluntary work throughout the EEF. This talk is what he believes needs to be done. goatmire.bold.video/v/mex6e #goatmire #elixirlang

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Desirable Shores - Dan Janowski

"I will illustrate our shared challenge and how we can, and must, collaborate to realize the full potential of our ecosystem and ensure its long term health and sustainability."

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 08/12/2025

If you're a dev looking to host some videos for an app, consider Mux. Their free tier allows 10 videos with no filesize limit, and the customization options are great.

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 24/11/2025

Off to Munich to see my fam and two siblings flying in from U.S. looking forward to stories and Christmas markets for food and hot wine

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 22/11/2025

Work has me diving deep into TanStack Start, Zitadel with Better Auth, and API calls to a Go data service. Although there's no elixir, it's refreshing to be using something different and using latest features.

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 23/10/2025

started using Freeform on iPad, a great canvas/whiteboard app that I didnt know apple made

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

It's neat to see them encourage developers to add ARIA tags to pages though, an "agent" can be thought of as effectively another form of assistive technology

There was one other detail in the announcement post that caught my eye:

Website owners can also add ARIA tags to improve how ChatGPT agent works for their websites in Atlas.

Which links to this:

ChatGPT Atlas uses ARIA tags---the same labels and roles that support screen readers---to interpret page structure and interactive elements. To improve compatibility, follow WAI-ARIA best practices by adding descriptive roles, labels, and states to interactive elements like buttons, menus, and forms. This helps ChatGPT recognize what each element does and interact with your site more accurately.

A neat reminder that AI "agents" share many of the characteristics of assistive technologies, and benefit from the same affordances.

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 19/10/2025

We need more of this type of sarcastic commentary replacement.ai

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 19/10/2025

Great resource for learning about Effect TS github.com/PaulJPhilp/E...

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 18/10/2025

The newish claude code behavior of creating multiple docs files seems reasonable, but the growing problem is stale, outdated content with tmi

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 18/10/2025

in ”age of ai”, it’s disturbing to read about how there wasn’t nearly enough data to train gpt-3, so tons of low quality, illegal, and psychologically harmful content was used and the model later rlh-tuned using cheap, desperate foreign workers, just like FB did earlier for content moderation

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 17/10/2025

Wow, I'm impressed with @zitadel.com as a comprehensive self-hosted auth service. I'm setting it up with tanstack and better-auth, but I reckon it could be used with Phoenix via an auth lib over oidc

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Erlang Ecosystem Foundation @erlef.org · 16/10/2025

💜 @elixir-lang.org v1.19 is the first release with OpenChain certification — bringing more transparency and trust to the BEAM ecosystem. Big thanks to @maennchen.dev and our sponsor Herrmann Ultraschall for making this milestone possible! 👏 🔗 elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/02... #Elixilang

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 10/10/2025

Building a concept gadgetbot rental service using tanstack start, effect, and some ddd. It won’t be easy to wire up like Ash+Phoenix, but im interested in the architecture of effect workflows and playing with shadcn

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 09/10/2025

In a NotebookLM summary of this convo w/Figma www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGEn..., I agree brand UX, voice, and details will become stronger differentiators as software copycats increase, tho imo it's marketing and PR have always been user growth factors. Regarding Figma, the gen UI thing is neat but..

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Mario Vellandi @vellandi.net · 04/10/2025

whoah, I just installed Helium browser and noticed uBlock origin installed and active by default 😀

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