Dalan Mendonca
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Dalan Mendonca
@dalanmendonca.com
Aspiring avid reader
New blog post about my first year as a dad

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Life with a baby: First year update | Dalan Mendonca
Notes, feelings, and thoughts after a year of having a baby
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November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.
February 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.”

The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out
January 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Me at work today checking the score on my phone
January 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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the crazy part is this means the facebook we’ve all been experiencing for the past 5 years was the *good* version
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
January 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Watching climate disasters on your phone until it's your time to film
January 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Yup! Life was perfect few years ago and now we all need USB A to C adapters
Feels like every hotel, airplane, car, new home, etc implemented standard USB ports and literally the same year the entire tech world changed over to USB-C
December 25, 2024 at 6:26 AM
Looks like Coda was sort of a ZIRP and couldn't be a standalone business. Ultimately competing for Microsoft Office and Google Workspace dollars.
December 17, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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This is the perfect analogy.
If you want more people to run, you don’t give them mopeds.
If you want more people to make art, you don’t give them image generators.
This doesn’t “democratize” anything
December 16, 2024 at 11:12 AM
Lecture 🧵 that leaves students shocked & amused.

The salt-tequila-lime "shot" is a Marketing gimmick invented by cunning bartenders in Guadalajara to sell crappy tasting inferior tequilas to American businessmen.

Mexicans in Mexico don't drink tequila or mezcal like that.

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December 11, 2024 at 9:02 AM