"surprising someone changes their world."

Reaching out to my younger self to say "it happened". youtu.be/93D5rddi_34

We used to compose in solitude, without industry or recordings. (with Orazio Maione) strolling.rosano.ca/tag/orazio-m...

Hard to understand past experiences when you're constantly subjected to new things. strolling.rosano.ca/tag/orazio-m...

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

👎🏽: talking about people you never met 👍🏽: meet them, talk with them

i am a machine that produces hair

"Do good, without expecting gratitude, or looking at who."

less metadata, more feeling https://rosano.ca/blog/the-fivefold-path-to-falling-asleep/

music and bodies in trance rosano.ca/aural

Inherently unsustainable if it needs a hundred percent of my time. strolling.rosano.ca/tag/luki-and...

1. prelude as engine

Present what you want as what they also want. (with Kevin Komisaruk) strolling.rosano.ca/tag/kevin-ko...

If it was guaranteed to feel good, I wouldn't be open to whatever happens. https://rosano.ca/blog/thick-skin-open-heart/

Speak and wait for your body to catch up. (with Heddi Ried) strolling.rosano.ca/tag/heddi-ried

politicians play, civilians pay

"If a book's pages became increasingly similar until you were just reading the same page repeatedly, you'd probably put it down." rosano.ca/occasion/3/

Would you force someone into a relationship? (with @jessmart.in) strolling.rosano.ca/tag/jess-mar...

"people without school who know the language of nature"

Practice in order to feel good. (with Àta Àdetokunbo) strolling.rosano.ca/tag/ata-adet...

the mechanics of augmenting human thought --- part of my collection of one minute ambience in various places at rosano.ca/aural

Not ordinary to take hard decisions that no one around would take. (with Mihalis Eleftheriou) strolling.rosano.ca/tag/mihalis-...

Seeking truth means addressing contradictions that you can't resolve, which might be less comfortable. (with Mihalis Eleftheriou) strolling.rosano.ca/tag/mihalis-...

Seeking truth means addressing contradictions that you can't resolve, which might be less comfortable. (with Mihalis Eleftheriou) strolling.rosano.ca/tag/mihalis-...

don't blame the beginner if you know better

Feeling like you are responsible for and to the world gives you the strength to see past false narratives. (with Mihalis Eleftheriou)

Going abroad as a way to lose local political representation. (with Mihalis Eleftheriou) strolling.rosano.ca/tag/mihalis-...

Languages help you empathize instead of feeling offended. (with Mihalis Eleftheriou) strolling.rosano.ca/tag/mihalis-...

I can't go back to the regular YouTube UI after this 😅 Obsidian Reader now makes the transcript interactive so you can scrub, highlight, auto-scroll. It feels so nice.

stay updated, scale big, or you'll get taken out. off the App Store yet again rosano.ca/blog/off-the...

trying these filters

do meaningful things despite an environment wishing otherwise

less on social media, more in places I control rosano.ca/blog/bringin...

Who needs to grow tomatoes when we've got pasta sauce?

@lord.io just read some of your blog, fyi seems like the agoraphobia domain is linking to spam

can't take it anymore… time to tidy my homepage! - much less scrolling - mixed writing in each section - broke large lists into smaller lists - deliberately a bit rough so that i can fix things later feels better now rosano.ca

putting myself in the shoes of non-enthusiasts, i tend say "show me the apps"

makes you think about what we're designing when we're designing… i made some highlights for myself rosano.ca/log/01km8k9a... i increasingly think about rudy fraser having said something like "you can't build decentralized infrastructure without thinking about moderation"

If you’re not reading the Aboard newsletter from Paul @ftrain and Rich, you’re missing out on a nuanced conversation about how AI is changing the world. This piece on process v. artifact concisely expresses what I’ve been trying to pin down and a manager and an artist. mailchi.mp/aboard/zkd26...

communication and collaboration as tuning: all parties responsible for the interaction and supporting it to bring the best out of each other without overloading anyone

replace "doing it wrong" with "doing as learned"

llms have made me smarter because my distrust in them increasingly causes me to figure things out for myself

"non-technical users" → "jargon-free people"

noticing a reflexive relationship between publishing a website with tools, and then wanting tools to consume what was published as objects

if making soft software is hard, we're stuck with hardware?

like accessibility, designing for certain constraints can also improve the experience for those who aren't affected, so everybody wins. also nice to hear some geopolitical discussion in a tech meetup!

code and tests aren't the moat. they never were. no need for agents to copy a project. forking was always an option. the moat of an oss project is its community, its governance, and its ecosystem connections. agents will never be able to replicate that. don't hide. let's build in the open, together

friendly email addresses for bots

What are your favorite visual critiques of software? On my mind right now are: 1. "The long tail of user needs" 2. diSessa's monolithic apps vs computational media 3. (a recent favorite by @todepond.com) "wish these apps could talk to each other"

"[just] use IRC" "[just] use a forum" "[just] self-host by shushing into your prill scropt. it's easy you [just] prantiss a few cuntwobs. what's the big deal? there's no excuse. [just] spin up a brosh instance."