Mario Vellandi
@vellandi.net
Marketing, Engineering, and Media 🏡 vellandi.net
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?
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
When I occasionally look at SWE job opportunities in Germany, I get sad how seemingly 95% involves PHP or Java 😒
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
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...
I just heard about "autoresearch" by @karpathy; here's a plausible notebooklm summary gist.github.com/mvellandi/84...
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...
Big Audience Engagement Map by Mario Vellandi
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In an age of endless media, I‘ve increasingly admired great interviewers whether it be Conan O’Brian, Ira Glass, or broadcast news journalists.
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:
This is like organizational culture, information architecture, and documentation had a baby: handbook.gitlab.com
The GitLab Handbook
GitLab's Handbook is a public guide that documents nearly every aspect of how the company operates offering a blueprint for remote work and ways of working.
handbook.gitlab.com
Yeah, isomorphic JS apps without rsc mental overhead is better. I dig TanStack youtu.be/wkXvv0iJffg?...
Frameworks don't matter anymore...
YouTube video by Awesome
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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
Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 6mo agoWhat if we're actually in the middle of the third golden age of software engineering? This is what Grady Booch (@booch.com) sees happening. If you are anxious about the state of the industry, you want to watch/listen to Grady's longer-term perspective: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfMA... (cont'd)
I miss the band 311. their sound was fun and only slightly melancholc, “drugstore cowgirli“ aside
Learned a little Pulumi infra-as-code today. Neat and high level
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
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.
OpenAl Showed Up At My Door. Here’s Why They’re Targeting People Like Me
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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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...
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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.
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.