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."

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 👍🏽