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."

new riff on my site, where i talk about how i have a fondness for the simplicity of *non-realtime* sync joodaloop.com/riffs/collab...

@bmann.ca do you have an example of a github actions + surfer workflow yml file somewhere? bmannconsulting.com/notes/using-...

the mold grows toward food not because it knows where food is but because it dies everywhere else call that intelligence call that art call that the only freedom that matters the shape left by everything you couldn't do

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

What can you do? Ship your own solution with its own trade offs. Including - actually onboarding people and getting usage. Your code is not a perfect pearl without actually serving a community.

i have an impression that ai-assisted coding is so far most enjoyed by either people who can't debug anything, or, people who can debug absolutely everything

no more killer apps, kill the app

if ai-generated open-source code is incomprehensible to review, does that effectively make it closed-source?

puting the con back into context

One surname is not "where you're from". rosano.ca/blog/visual-...

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

trio improvisation (with Jack Rusher and Andrey)

Skip pages, read anything, don't read that, read anywhere, don't finish, repeat, read aloud… 📖 rosano.ca/occasion/2/

projects solve the creator's need. products are the intersection of the creator's capacity to build a solution, solving other people's needs, and their means to compensate you for it. no intersection, no product.

My iOS apps are on the App Store again; if you ever wanted to have sonogrid or the others, now might be a good time to get a copy. rosano.ca/blog/audiosc...

learning and teaching are two sides of the same coin, so caring or not caring about one implies the same about the other

technical or nerdy ones mind might enjoy "reading the docs/spec/manual" while everyone else looks for "show me how to be amazing"

some pretty good anecdotes here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervers...

new to me: when the mind wanders while reading, skip ahead instead of going back

one strategy is to keep doing your thing much longer than anyone thought you would

mind now open to stickers 👍🏽

anyone i know on nostr? njump.me/npub1mzxyx0e...

② It seems to me someone should explain the something similar to humanity in a broader context. You do not exist in the earthly environment. Rather, you are a part of it — and inseparable from it. Its destruction is your destruction, and no space colonization fantasy will save you.

a notepad you can't edit + three little web apps sharing a filesystem rosano.ca/blog/introdu...

Focus, reps, optimistic vortex, strong signal, ripple effects. rosano.ca/blog/year-th...

if a project evolves continuously, it may be worth tracking changes for who the audience is: it currently serves x, y, and z people, but new possibilities or priorities would trigger different messaging. coming from the question "who can benefit while this is incomplete?"

No computing after lunch. Shower thoughts for the whole afternoon and evening. https://rosano.ca/blog/work-then-dont/

a bridge goes both ways

please add gifs

come with your cup

From 'trapped in my notes' to 'public data' that anyone can use. 📖 rosano.ca/blog/bringin...

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

nobody can take away your files

I just need to allow them to flow by themselves. Enough motivation will create the kind of atmosphere that everything goes smoothly. (with Mauricio Jimenez Motta) strolling.rosano.ca/tag/mauricio...

@schickling.dev any thoughts about lexicon as a format for storing schemas? atproto.com/guides/lexicon

There is a limit to what can be destroyed. There is no limit to what can be created.

Keep moving. Go for a walk. Stay connected and someone will come talk to you. (with Mauricio Jimenez Motta) strolling.rosano.ca/tag/mauricio...

atproto, nostr, webxdc, solid, remotestorage, and 'dapps' each have a different focus and data flow but i can't help but see them as collections of "web apps" and think it'd be possible and cool to give each web app the combined user base of the others

Help them learn faster and skip unnecessary steps. (with Mauricio Jimenez Motta) strolling.rosano.ca/tag/mauricio...

My time in Berlin definitely gave me an appreciation for public spaces, as they aren't so common in other places I've visited. And yeah, public sofas… Why not? --- part of my one minute ambience collection from personal travels between 2018 to 2020 rosano.ca/aural #aural

anyone connected to @tumblr.com who can help me figure out why two of my blogs vanished without a trace or notice? support hasn't acknowledged anything…