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dineth
@dinethmendis.com
I love making things, writing my blog and reflecting on how the world works...

I lead the Experience for Website Designers & Developers @GoDaddy (that is Hosting, WordPress, Security, Pro tools). Ran Hotel Shopping Experience at Expedia. Developer at 💗.
@reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz can't click on these links - bug? Safari 18.3, macOS 15.3.
May 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.
April 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Got a sweet #solar and battery setup. After spending a lot of time looking at consumption graphs on #HomeAssisistant and changing daily habits… we’re having the first 100% off grid day!!! 🥳
February 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
@reckless.bsky.social I’ve been waiting for someone to fix the browser back button working on dismissing article comments since the day verge’s redesign went live. 🙌🏽 congrats to the engineer who resolved that jira ticket.
January 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Went on @pablo.show to discuss the TikTok ban and my general discomfort with the reality that so much of news—and how society feels about many things!—is determined not by facts, but an algorithm.

Full pod: t.co/XuahklfkIt
January 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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There were better shows on Netflix when it cost $10 a month
January 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Was talking to friends about what will happen in our #AI powered #future… goes something like this but… worse? m.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2t...
IDIOCRACY Opening Scene (2006) Mike Judge
YouTube video by JoBlo Movie Clips
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January 22, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Interesting view of #rain yesterday.
January 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Not that useful, gets it wrong too often… time to turn this experiment off?
I love my hallucinated husband. Yes, Apple Intelligence keeps insisting I have one when summarizing my wife’s messages. Apple says it’s working on a fix and designed its AI to avoid reinforcing stereotypes and biases. More in my newsletter: techthings.cmail20.com/t/d-e-sjrttn...
January 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train

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January 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Too much political commentary no matter where I go on the internet. So here’s a picture from my backyard. Blue skies, 🐦 and a happy jacaranda.
January 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
We probably need to stop using the floppy disk icon for “save” actions. Not sure #kidsthesedays know what that is anymore… #ux
January 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Good holiday fun — EXIT advent calendar #boardgame — a puzzle a day for 24 days! Some rooms are quite challenging. Apparently I’m on the beginner box 🥹.
December 29, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Really good one for programmers out there from @stevesi.bsky.social about concepts that sound good but very challenging to get working in reality — hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/225-system...
225. Systems Ideas that Sound Good But Almost Never Work—"Let's just…"
Some engineering patterns that sound good but almost never work as intended
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December 29, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Curious if people prefer #Silo storyline in the books or #TVShow…? They are quite different! #AppleTV+
December 25, 2024 at 10:54 AM
This week, I wrote about how you have to make a different set of trade offs when writing software at a large company. Delivery is hard when there’s a lot of people involved. #Software #architecture has to take that to account! dinethmendis.com/blog/enterpr... #enterprise
Writing software at an enterprise require different architecture tradeoffs – Principles of Making
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December 18, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Playing with animations on #ProcreateDreams… fun!
December 17, 2024 at 3:27 AM
Crepe Myrtle time of the year again 💗 #flowers
December 16, 2024 at 12:08 PM
Wrote about my move to #wordpress and my experience rebuilding website with #gutenberg editor — dinethmendis.com/blog/wordpre... … writing is still a fun thing to do. #blog
I moved to WordPress – Principles of Making
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December 13, 2024 at 11:27 AM
I always followed the principles of drive: mastery, #autonomy and purpose as the basis for running teams. One of my recent learnings has been that these things are much harder to reach for if there isn’t a good base level of #discipline in our #execution. Get the basics right first.
December 12, 2024 at 4:06 AM