Aleca

Director of Product Engineering @ Mozilla Thunderbird  https://youtube.com/c/AlessandroCastellani

Website: https://alecaddd.com
GitHub: https://github.com/Alecaddd

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2026-08-10 16:45:50 UTC

Testing some styles in Inkscape.
Is this too retro/plain/boring?
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2026-02-02 17:22:56 UTC

People keep updating this and I'm here for that
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2025-08-28 17:31:24 UTC

I'm thinking about restarting my YouTube channel to share positive tech news and be the positive force I would like to see.
...but boy if the mega corps are making it extra hard to find good things these days. Most of the tech news are riddled by dystopian initiatives.
What do you folks use to stay in the loop of "good" tech?

2025-08-26 18:25:39 UTC

It really sucks that culturally we're wired to only give feedback to developers or projects when things are broken.
A product with 15M users gets 100 complaints and only 1 nice "good job" message per month.
It's really demoralizing that we accepted the fact that "if you don't hear from them it means things are good".
People need positive reinforcement and to know that folks are happy about their work.
I understand it's fashionable to bitch about everything because hate brings views

2025-08-12 05:22:41 UTC

Just transferred my domain registrar from Squarespace to Porkbun.
Nest up is installing Ghost and migrating posts and pages so I can ditch WordPress

2025-08-06 00:16:03 UTC

Material 3 is one of the worst design systems I’ve ever seen

2025-02-19 16:59:19 UTC

As we go through hiring a few new people at Thunderbird, it's shocking to see how many P4 and P5 decide to apply for P2 and P3 roles, specifying in their cover letter that they're willing to get a lower salary and role, some because they can't find anything else, others because they come from abusive places and VC funded hellholes.
Folks, it's brutal out there and my heart goes to all the people looking for work and going through these painful times.

2025-01-17 18:58:58 UTC

I had the accidental "pleasure" of using YouTube on a device without any adblocker and holy shit what the hell was that?
I got serviced 15 ads (seriously, I counted them) on a 6 minutes video.
All of those ads were 20 seconds or longer, and only one of them was skippable.
The crappiest experience ever.
Are people really consuming it like that?
Insanity!

2024-12-17 22:22:00 UTC

🇨🇦 ✈️ 🇯🇵

2024-11-26 04:01:00 UTC

Work lunch and coffee with the wife
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2024-10-18 02:29:30 UTC

Oh boy, why nobody told me about this? https://friction.graphics/

2024-09-10 17:50:48 UTC

Oh boy, here we go
@npub15f7…m7wr
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