Mário Melo (Guma)

@melomario
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Software Developer and Agilist
Desenvolvedor de Software e Agilista
My Bloghttps://mariomelo.com
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No, in case you wonder, we haven't changed our minds.

#AI #browser #technology #Google

A routine reminder that it's always a good idea to boycott #Substack.

We have long known that it platforms and profits from Nazi publications. And now: #manosphere influencers with multiple accusations of serious crimes... so much so that there is a dedicated Wikipedia page about them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_the_Tate_brothers

No problem for #Substack though! They happily take a 10% cut from all paid subscriptions.

There are many great alternatives to SS: Ghost, Buttondown, beehiiv, Patreon... no more excuses

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@TJ1001/116379854618421614

Fuck this and fuck Oracle in particular.

It's been more or less 3 years since we have publicly available AI. The amount of outputs we produce increased drastically during these time, but...

Can you enumerate 3 good outcomes AI brought to your life?

Never before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”

Here's a thought experiment.

Imagine a stamp mark with the words "Made with #AI" on it.

If you see this mark on a picture, illustration, mobile app, song, movie, or story - do you get the notion that this product is of higher, lower or unchanged quality?

If you see two identical products for the same price, where one has an AI mark and the other doesn't - which one would you buy?

(Please retoot this #LLM #poll for wider reach)

AI mark signals HIGHER quality
0.2%
AI mark signals NO DIFFERENCE in quality
2.6%
AI mark signals LOWER quality
97.3%
Poll ended at .

Whenever the topic of OKRs comes up, I think about Drucker vs Deming. Not a particularly topical thing to write about, but I think it's evergreen.

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/16/poor-deming-never-stood-a-chance/

Poor Deming never stood a chance

This post is an elaboration of a shorter post I wrote about five years ago. The two management giants of the mid-twentieth century were Peter Drucker and W. Edwards Deming. Ironically, while Drucke…

Surfing Complexity

I finally migrated all my posts and left substack! :)

https://mariomelo.com/en/why-i-left-substack

Why I left Substack and what are the alternatives? – Mario Melo

I haven't written in a while, and there's a reason for that: I was feeling discouraged about continuing to publish on Substack.

Selecting developers through interviews made of questions, instead of pair programming with them, is like recruiting basketball players by sitting them at a table for two hours and asking: “So, are you good at dribbling? Please, impress me with your words.”