Alan Mendelevich

Album of the year? Eargasm by @DONBROCO open.spotify.com/album/5PrXYFUy…

MacBook Pro is the most pragmatic choice when buying a new higher-end computer. Also, as exciting as buying a new dishwasher. blog.ailon.org/the-dullest-3-…

Always "nice" to get notifications like these. Especially from systems that know your age and that you have to actively grind for another 15+ years.

At work I have a mini keyboard (non-issue by omission), but at home I use a full keyboard and I just couldn't get used to the way Home/End buttons work on macOS. In no small part because it's incosistent between apps. Made them work like they do on Windows - Life is Good again!

Please consider supporting the launch of my new thing 🙏 producthunt.com/products/bopop…

A new place for cool #DataViz: DataViz Dojo by amCharts. All projects running on amCharts 5 library. Check it out: dojo.amcharts.com #charts

If you know what you are doing (at least directionally), you can "hire" a partner for $20/month to cover your knowledge gaps and make your long-shot ideas a reality. blog.ailon.org/your-old-insan…

I couldn't find the right tool to make lyric videos. It's either too complicated, too expensive, too time consuming. Usually all of the above. So I made one myself. Check out BopOps Lyric Videos and let me know what you think: bopops.com/lyric-videos

When you see a brand new software product launch in 2026, your first thought is that it's code is written primarily by...

TIL: A "reverse centaur" is an automation theory concept coined by Cory Doctorow describing a scenario where a human acts as the "peripheral" to a machine. Unlike a traditional "centaur" (human assisted by AI), a reverse centaur means the machine is the "master" and the human is the "slave," expected to work at the machine's relentless pace. Have a nice and productive day 😬

Musk wanted to name Tesla models so that hey read SEXY Apple named MacBook models so that they read NAP. 😴

After January M5 Pro MBP rumors turned out to be false, I decided not to wait any longer and got an M4 Pro MBP. Now that M5 Pro is out I thought at least I got mine noticeably cheaper. But looks like even that isn't true. Unless I'm not comparing apples to apples.

@DVilcinskis I actually have another pc I could use for that.. it's just that I don't want to.

@ailon Now you have an excuse to buy another pc and setup it as printer server.

Sold my 5-year-old desktop PC for half the price I paid back then (also kept one of the 1TB SSDs I had in it). Not too shabby. Thank you, AI, for messing up the RAM prices! 😭

@mituzas Me neither... had one scheduled last fall but got and accepted an offer from another place before that one could happen 😂

Interviewer: How do you… Me: sorry, I never had any real technical interviews in my life.

Oof. Apparently, not only my @Spotify API app will never go public, but also its dev-mode version that I use personally is likely going to get screwed in a week. developer.spotify.com/blog/2026-02-0… I can't be bothered to research whether it is affected (likely it is). I'll just see if it stops working on March 11th and go from there.

My brain before Claude Code: ah, ok, let's procrastinate and doomscroll for a bit. It's OK. My brain with Claude Code: what you can't even be bothered to write a fricking prompt and then doomscroll!? fucking loser! IDK if/when AI will take my job, but my sanity is already gone.

If you wear glasses and over-ear headphones... how?

How I missed that @spotify no longer cares about indie developers and spent weeks developing on their API just to find out that I can't release what I've made 🤦‍♂️ blog.ailon.org/full-me-twice-…