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Alessio Maffeis
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I love building teams and products.
Director of Engineering at motatos.com
Previously: happysocks.com, danielwellington.com
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I finally got around to editing some photos from my recent San Francisco & Maui trip 🤙🏻 Enjoy!

alessio.exposure.co/san-francisc...
San Francisco & Maui
A trip across two oceans
alessio.exposure.co
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Every day he plumbs new depths of Can You Believe This Loser Shit. You think you’ve reached the bottom of the Marianas Trench of Can You Believe This Loser Shit but then there’s a bang and a lurch and your little internet bathyscaphe plunges into a new fissure of Can You Believe This Loser Shit.
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“Surveillance Capitalism” will sound a lot like crying wolf, compared to what’s coming next.
There are blocks I won't go jogging down because it's just a wall of Ring cameras right up against the street with no setback and I do not need everyone and their grandmother recording me struggling at sunrise.

www.theverge.com/podcast/8220...
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“if we drop the AGI fantasy, we can evaluate LLMs and other generative models as solutions for specific problems, rather than all problems, with proper cost benefit analysis”

www.tomwphillips.co.uk/2025/11/agi-...
AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering
AGI is a harmful and wasteful fantasy that runs counter to the principles of efficient and effective engineering.
www.tomwphillips.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
And predictably, it’s already dead (in its original form, at least)

youtu.be/1piFEKA9XL0?...
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Yes, this is huge news. Passkeys continue to march forward.
Microsoft have finally released native support for password managers in Windows, starting with 1Password and Bitwarden. That's a massive step forward, and could really drive the adoption of passkeys within enterprise.
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I don’t mind the shading, but why break dark mode on iOS? 🤨
this new app icon sucks oh my god
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Rare to read a post arguing about the importance of software architecture BUT doing it without software architects than this one.

And you can just sense the hard-earned scars Matt got on the way: at Netflix, Twitter & other places:

Such a good read: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/what-is-go...
November 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM
"Tinted" Liquid Glass is a lot more subtle than I expected, but it helps a bit. It should arguably be the default and only option (short of accessibility adjustments).

I'd pay a lot of money to hear the internal discussions about this at Apple. 🍿
Very un-Apple-y to offer a toggle for this, but I’ll take it.
iOS 26.1 Beta 4 Lets Users Control Liquid Glass Transparency with New Toggle
November 4, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Meh
October 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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it’s OCR week! learn how we use verifiable rewards against unit tests to improve olmOCR’s PDF understanding

state of the art OCR, fully open model:
We’re updating olmOCR, our model for turning PDFs & scans into clean text with support for tables, equations, handwriting, & more. olmOCR 2 uses synthetic data + unit tests as verifiable rewards to reach state-of-the-art performance on challenging documents. 🧵
October 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Very un-Apple-y to offer a toggle for this, but I’ll take it.
October 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Twenty years ago today, Apple introduced Aperture. 📷
October 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I built a thing, try it out!

Lots to do still, but I’m proud of how far it’s come.

about.percy.chat
Percy Chat
Percy Chat is an intelligent chat application that lets you select from multiple AI models and have natural conversations. All in one easy subscription.
about.percy.chat
October 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
“Overall, Apple is prioritizing spectacle over usability”

www.nngroup.com/articles/liq...
Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
iOS 26’s visual language obscures content instead of letting it take the spotlight. New (but not always better) design patterns replace established conventions.
www.nngroup.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Politics isn't manipulation and backstabbing. It's understanding how decisions actually get made and learning to navigate that reality.

Refusing to engage doesn't make politics go away. It just means you lose by default.

terriblesoftware.org/2025/10/01/s...
Stop Avoiding Politics
Most engineers think workplace politics is dirty. They’re wrong. Refusing to play politics doesn’t make you noble; it makes you ineffective.
terriblesoftware.org
October 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Unsubscribe way of life
October 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Masterclass! 👏
New video is OUT! - How We're Building Audacity 4

youtu.be/QYM3TWf_G38?...
October 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
You can excuse someone for their lack of imagination or sense of humor, but not for both.
October 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Jubilee: 1 atproto dev vs. 20 Mastodon people
October 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Let’s look at the silver lining here: now it’s extremely easy to know what certain people actually believe. Another win for the marketplace of ideas, yay! 🙃
i know we're all tired of the DHH stuff, but… if you've written this off as a normal political disagreement or just been too overwhelmed to look into it (understandable!), i really think you should take five minutes to read firsthand exactly what these people are defending with their whole chests:
October 2, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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read this.

I was working on an extraordinarily similar post but jake's is much better.
October 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Does anybody have any experience with Koyeb? Looks interesting. www.koyeb.com
Koyeb: High-performance Infrastructure for APIs, Inference, and Databases
Deploy intensive applications across GPUs, CPUs, and Accelerators in minutes - scale in 50+ locations.
www.koyeb.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Helium is pretty much everything I've been looking for in a Chromium-based browser: minimal, user-first, private, and performant. 👌

helium.computer
Helium Browser
The web browser made for people, with love. Best privacy by default, unbiased ad-blocking, no bloat and no noise. Fully open source.
helium.computer
September 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
How did I miss this?!
My Twitter Bridge is out now!
(it's actually been out for a while but shhh)

You can find instructions as to how to use it here:
github.com/Preloading/T...

enjoy <3

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September 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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People calling iOS 26 the “worst iOS version ever” clearly do not vividly remember the clip art vomit that was iOS 7
September 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM