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Alan Mendelevich

@ailon

⚒️ Building @markerjs, and more
🎹 Making music as Alan Jacobs
🪦 Previously: founder & CEO of AdDuplex

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You may use the latest trendy JavaScript framework on your website, but then "smartly" show prices in the customer's local currency that makes your site feel neglected for the last 10 years. That's how long since that currency was "discontinued".

You may use the latest trendy JavaScript framework on your website, but then "smartly" show prices in the customer's local currency that makes your site feel neglected for the last 10 years. That's how long since that currency was "discontinued".
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PSA TWIMC: Italian car rentals (at least anecdotally) still refuse to treat Revolut credit cards as "real" credit cards. AI says you should threaten them with some EU regulation, but I didn't get a chance to do that as I had full insurance and ended up not needing CC at all.

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Random thought on Macs/macOS: every time it craps out and you want to complain, you realize that some part of your setup is not from Apple and you don't have a right to whine, bitch! /s

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The "regular" Bring Me The Horizon works fine as the background work music for me. But if you need something more mellow, they have you covered now open.spotify.com/album/34pF0wOG…

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Every year I have to go to Germany and there's no "ideal" airport for where I need to go. I have at least 5 manageable options for where I can fly. Between 5 destinations, different airline pricing models, and vastly different car rental options, comparing total prices is hard.

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Heads of State is a fun mindless movie. It's funny though, how a russian director made sure that all episodic characters speak perfect russian but couldn't care less that Belarus is not on the way from London to Warsaw and that there are literally zero mountains there.

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✅ Start the week on a high note. Spilled a full mug of hot tea on myself 🤦 At least it wasn't boiling hot so no injuries (as far as I can tell right now)

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Thank you, Google, for popping a confusing Gemini dialog when my dad tried to check his email. You gave me an opportunity to visit my parents when I wasn't planning. #connectingpeople

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I suspect some BS like "cultural differences" would be their excuse, but Airbnb not policing hosts marking studio apartments as "1 bedroom" is a total fail in UX. It's been like that forever and doesn't get better no matter how fancy their design language got over that period.

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Needed to look something up in my old Foursquare/Swarm checkins and discovered that quite a few of my "friends" there still check in regularly. I wonder if it's just force of habit or sunk cost fallacy or it really still is the best place to "mark" POIs in time?

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PSA: if you are using noise canceling AirPods for phone calls it is likely that you speak (scream) way louder than you think.