Dalan Mendonca
dalanmendonca.com
Dalan Mendonca
@dalanmendonca.com
Aspiring avid reader
Activating a card, the bank prints domain A in large letters on the card for activating. Land there and it immediately redirects to another domain B. WHY? You're making it harder for customers to know if they're in the right place! Self-phishing.
October 14, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Used to fix my typos but now I'm leaving them in because it show I didn't just sloppypaste something
October 14, 2026 at 11:24 PM
The Citroën 2CV concept looks so gorgeous! Even the logo is well designed!
October 13, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Might be one of only three human beings who know the shortcut to the OS level emoji picker on both Mac and Windows.
October 13, 2026 at 6:03 PM
The new Alfa Romeo Cuorerosso looks like a Mazda MX-5 Miata :D
October 13, 2026 at 5:46 PM
October 13, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Passkeys are fine, and of course better than passwords; but OS/Browser level implementations were built for lock-in and don't work elegantly across platforms, confusing everyone.
October 12, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Homelab projects with agents have done more for my computer science education than my undergraduate degree. I've even exited vim thrice!
October 11, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Achieved my dream scenario where Claude takes over a project when Codex runs out of usage, all while execution is happening on a remote machine and I manage things from my laptop
October 10, 2026 at 11:50 PM
That Bruno Guimarães goal for Arsenal today was such a firecracker!
But please don't celebrate like Enzo Fernández :/
October 10, 2026 at 9:19 PM
I wake up. LiveScore tells me Arsenal won. Life's good,
October 10, 2026 at 8:53 PM
I do concede that this is extremely pro user / early adopter behavior and most don't want to "configure an inference provider" but this feels like the correct setup with full ownership
October 10, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Hermes powered by Deepseek works so well over email and Telegram, I have very little appetite for Muse or Instinct or ...
October 10, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Discovering this cycle with AI all over again https://xkcd.com/2044/
October 8, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Atlassian Rovo has this good skeuomorphic UX pattern where the cursor moves fast as the doc is created; they should go one step further and pause after every doc section to make me read. Feels better than scanning a whole doc at once.
October 7, 2026 at 6:28 PM
This AI Doom discourse is the second closely observed mass hysteria event in my life. First one was Delhi Monkey Man, which eventually gave us nice music (Masakali). Fingers crossed.
September 16, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Still thinking about that absolute screamer of a debut goal from Bruno Guimarães for Arsenal 🤌
September 13, 2026 at 6:39 PM
OpenAI prestigemaxxing on Navier-Stokes because they can't impactmax on world hunger shows the exact ceiling of AI and nerds.
September 11, 2026 at 10:09 PM
All the cool kids like math genius Terence Tao and me are on mastodon
September 10, 2026 at 4:34 AM
Thank you to Matt Mullenweg for adding drama to the tech industry but not in the apocalyptic way that AI people do
September 9, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Using a folding phone is a self-declaration of unc
September 9, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Doomsday predicting AI workers are:
(1) Literal embodiment of tech company in fabled Torment Nexus tweet
(2) Narrowly correct, broadly wrong
September 9, 2026 at 5:38 PM
With Astra, OpenAI is so back
September 8, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Listening to Pepas by Farruko, still a banger and Farruko is basically Puerto Rican Badshah
September 4, 2026 at 11:05 PM
New York now has more tech jobs than SF Bay area (!!!) per CBRE

Another win for Mamdani 😃
August 21, 2026 at 5:21 PM