Mohnish Thallavajhula

Mohnish Thallavajhula
Mohnish Thallavajhula
@mohnisht@iam.mt

I enjoy working on creative and fun side projects. I love exploring new tech and creating Cool eXperiences.

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  • Succeeding at building good software

    The key to succeed at building good software lies in its ability to change.

  • Blogging myths by Julia Evans

    I’ve always said blogging is a creative outlet for me. It helps me put down my thoughts and is sort of a calming and fun process. Recently, I came across this post by Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/06/05/some-blogging-myths/ I’ve unknowingly always been bound by similar principles while blogging and it felt very nice reading this post. It…

  • Twitter alternatives

    I tried out the Twitter alternatives such as Bluesky (finally got an invite), T2.social, Posts, and Mastodon. Bluesky and T2 definitely have potential, but I don’t see Twitter going away anytime soon.

  • WWDC 23

    I attended the first day of the WWDC 23. I got to learn a lot about Apple’s new Software and Hardware updates and also got to meet iJustine, MKBHD, and Phil Schiller. Overall, it was an amazing experience.

  • Platinum blonde

    I got my hair bleached and went blonde. This is the second part of the process to get to platinum blonde. While waiting, I put my thoughts down.

  • World Cup 2026 logo

    The new Fifa 2026 World Cup log is so bad and bland. It has no character. It’s just low effort and lacks taste.

  • We are the Champions of Spain

    FC Barcelona have won the 2022/23 season of La Liga, the Spanish league title.

  • Poor design or versatile design?

    I’ve gathered a few places where the “upload” or the “outbox” icon is being used. It’s being used for different purposes and I have no idea what the original purpose of the icon is.

  • Experiment

    I blog about whatever comes to my mind. The only constraint is that I wrap it up in 45 mins.

  • Doodling

    I’ve started collecting my doodles and saving them in one place.

  • Orson Welles

    The Enemy of Art Is the Absence of Limitations

  • Facebook cleanse

    I cleaned out my FB account to make it usable again. During this process I noticed the flaws in FB’s UX.

  • Went blonde

    I went blonde for the summer. That’s it.

  • 1Password’s “unlock with Apple Watch” feature is a thing of beauty

    1Password’s “unlock with Apple Watch” feature provides a fantastic UX and makes it easy to lock/unlock your 1Password account from your wrist.

  • Twitter Blew

    My views on what’s wrong with Twitter Blue and how to fix these issues.

  • FUT 23

    I lost interest in playing FUT 2023. FIFA 23’s regular mode is still ok.

  • Invitation to WWDC 2023

    After applying for 13 years, Apple has picked up my application for WWDC 2023 and I’m going!

  • CX.MT

    I own both the domain names CX.MT and MT.CX now!

  • Et tu, Gmail?

    I investigated a spam email that was sent to me and tried to make sense of why Gmail might’ve missed marking the email as Spam

  • Running

    My races from 2023 so far

  • How I removed friction when switching between computers – Part 1

    My review of the Logitech MX Master 3S and how I used it to solve my issue with switching between my personal and work computers

  • 100

    My 100th post on my blog after 14 years of running the blog.

  • Rearrange Tabs 3.0.0

    The chrome extension Rearrange Tabs has been upgraded to 3.0.0. This is a complete rewrite and addresses performance issues and bugs.

  • Two kinds of pain

    One of my favorite dialogues from the movie, The Equalizer 2 (2014), delivered by Denzel Washington

  • Happy New Year 2023

    A post on how my 2022 was and wishing you all a Happy New Year 2023

  • Argentina – World Cup 2022 Champions

    Argentina have won the World Cup 2022 and Leo Messi is the greatest footballer ever to set foot on earth

  • Telegram channel for IAM.MT

    Looks like WordPress has a new Jetpack Bot that posts updates to Telegram. This is convenient for people who use Telegram and follow my blog. You can now subscribe to the channel here: https://t.me/iam_mt_blog If you want to set one up for your own blog, here’s the official setup tutorial from Jetpack: https://jetpack.com/blog/publish-blog-posts-to-your-telegram-channel-automatically-with-jetpackwp-bot/

  • Happy New Year 2022

    A roundup of my 2021. Here’s to a fantastic 2022 – Happy New Year 2022! Cheers!

  • Personal Knowledge Management

    I have a habit of documenting ideas, thoughts, learnings, etc. Naturally, I tend to try out a lot of note-taking applications in an effort to find the perfect app. Over the years, I’ve used a lot of note-taking apps. Every single time, I saw myself coming back to the default Notes.app that ships with macOS/iOS.…

  • Inversion

    A while ago I was reading about mental models and came across this article about Inversion. The following sentence from that article intrigued me – Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance FS Blog If you go by the face value of it, it might seem like there isn’t much to it. More often than…