Rosano / Journal

191 entries for 2025

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

posted to Strolling

baking for neighbours

"There's no negative side effects to this, except maybe you have too many sweets."

Monday, September 8, 2025

posted to Strolling

waiting for likes

"Hours of my life were being pulled into this thing that did not serve me."

Friday, September 5, 2025

posted to Strolling

complex complicated people

People we know are complex and complicated, but somehow those we don't are simple.

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Vance is Worse

[If the thought of him dying pleases you] because you think it will end our present horror, you are the problem.

Have you heard the expression self-defeating prophecy? It's a prediction that prevents what it predicts by predicting it.

posted to Strolling

openness leading to depth

How do you make sense of changing someone's life through a random encounter?

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

You no longer need JavaScript

CSS can do nesting now!

posted to Strolling

cooking to connect

Your food can bring people together.

Monday, September 1, 2025

posted to Blog

don't fear the docs

I feel powerful, as if I can tackle anything. I can get answers by simply reading. I can just look at the code.

Sunday, August 31, 2025

the hard thing about starting a habit is often unclarity on how to integrate, more so than the action itself.

Saturday, August 30, 2025

How We Encourage Self-Improvement at Buffer

Unlimited books

Every teammate receives a free Kindle when they join Buffer and can expense any digital or audiobooks they choose. No approvals needed. No need to tie it directly to work.

Entropy Piano Tuner

David Braid told me he uses this open-source software to tune pianos in the following way:

  1. Play each note to calibrate.
  2. Let the software analyze and then you can preview with MIDI.
  3. Adjust each string until the feedback shows a positive result.

Friday, August 29, 2025

posted to Vibrations

piano improvisation

enjoying simple percussive piano textures

is it really FOSS?

[Seeing whether projects are as open-source as advertised.]

Thursday, August 28, 2025

[Kris realized that micro-businesses weren't a good fit as they are often run by one or two people with less resources to risk on services. Switching to multi-location owners made her offering more appealing and an easier sell.]

[Industries or movements with many fans and haters always present a good business opportunity.]

Part of Chris Guillebeau: The $100 Startup.
posted to Strolling

who reads the tax code?

When a politician says they'll tax the rich, they're not actually taxing the rich.

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

How the head of Obsidian went from superfan to CEO

[It was fortuitous that we generally appealed to developers because we launched our plugin system to many power users who also could build new functionality for themselves and share them with the community.]

[The Obsidian team gets by with one meeting a year in part by having one or two goals at any time: this way, the focus is often clear and people can be self-motivated to push things forward.]

posted to Strolling

price versus value

Be cautious when "number goes up" but value does not.

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

i find this counterfeit money logic a bit weird where the seller avoids accepting large bills for small purchases, but if they accept them for large purchase it seems equally bad

posted to Strolling

working in prison

What kind of environment does it breed when we hire people to watch other people do time?

Saturday, August 23, 2025

"having a platform profile is like living in a single-room apartment, whereas having your own site is a castle with unlimited rooms."