Samo Korošec
@samokorosec.bsky.social
Product designer living and working in Vienna. Kicked PDF SDK UI standards up a notch, improved regulated software development tools, helped friends create Audio Plugins and Synths and drew hundreds and hundreds of icons in the process.
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Samo Korošec
@samokorosec.bsky.social
· Nov 12
my additive synth is in early access over at melatonin.dev more soon...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygr0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygr0...
Sine Machine is in "early access"
YouTube video by Melatonin
www.youtube.com
Stuff I worked on as a counterbalance to my last job (B2B SaaS for regulated software development yada yada).
Now gonna have to find a real job again, in case anyone needs help with complex B2B apps. Prolly means less colors at my disposal.
Ah well. 😄
Now gonna have to find a real job again, in case anyone needs help with complex B2B apps. Prolly means less colors at my disposal.
Ah well. 😄
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Some straight drawings
January 30, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Some straight drawings
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Wenig überraschendes von Bildungsminister Wiederkehr (NEOS):
Neue Lehrpläne: Weniger Latein und mehr KI geplant
https://
orf.at/stories/3418609/
#po #polAT
Ich hab da mal schnell eine TL gebaut:
Neue Lehrpläne: Weniger Latein und mehr KI geplant
https://
orf.at/stories/3418609/
#po #polAT
Ich hab da mal schnell eine TL gebaut:
January 29, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Wenig überraschendes von Bildungsminister Wiederkehr (NEOS):
Neue Lehrpläne: Weniger Latein und mehr KI geplant
https://
orf.at/stories/3418609/
#po #polAT
Ich hab da mal schnell eine TL gebaut:
Neue Lehrpläne: Weniger Latein und mehr KI geplant
https://
orf.at/stories/3418609/
#po #polAT
Ich hab da mal schnell eine TL gebaut:
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Die Lueger-Statue wird restauriert, gereinigt und ein bissi gekippt weil das ist dann ach so große Kritik. Das ganze Projekt ist so lächerlich.
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Künstler Wihlidal zu Lueger-Denkmal: "Eine Umgestaltung kann nie allen gerecht werden"
Das umstrittene Denkmal wurde abgebaut. Bis zum Sommer soll es um 3,5 Grad gekippt werden. Ein Gespräch mit dem Künstler Klemes Wihlidal, der die Idee dazu hatte
www.derstandard.at
January 30, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Die Lueger-Statue wird restauriert, gereinigt und ein bissi gekippt weil das ist dann ach so große Kritik. Das ganze Projekt ist so lächerlich.
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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You can find both of my art books here: store.3dtotal.com/search?q=dja...
January 29, 2026 at 2:02 PM
You can find both of my art books here: store.3dtotal.com/search?q=dja...
$5 also say pretty much no one among the grindcore masochists ever looked at statistics on who benefits and what the odds are of "making it" or any of the other data points that would show just how naively stupid their approach is (if not more because of how many factors are outside their control).
Fascinating to see how the intellectual core of Silicon Valley seems oblivious to how Stakhanovism did not actually save the Soviet Union
A form of masculinity so arid, so devoid of pleasure, so dedicated to the accumulation of capital (for someone else) that it subsists on 12 hour days 6 days a week, and workouts and rejuvenation and Chinese peptides the rest of the time.
www.ft.com/content/d0b7...
www.ft.com/content/d0b7...
January 29, 2026 at 2:46 PM
$5 also say pretty much no one among the grindcore masochists ever looked at statistics on who benefits and what the odds are of "making it" or any of the other data points that would show just how naively stupid their approach is (if not more because of how many factors are outside their control).
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Trust is interesting because it’s not quantifiable but it certainly is palpable. Teams with trust move lightning speeds faster than those without.
January 29, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Trust is interesting because it’s not quantifiable but it certainly is palpable. Teams with trust move lightning speeds faster than those without.
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This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.
Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.
That’s what we have to change.
That’s what we have to change.
January 28, 2026 at 7:59 PM
This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
I think there’s a really good business opportunity for creating a LinkedIn-like platform where it’s fine to not be 100% enthusiastic about everything, all the time, and one that comes with a "This makes no sense" and "This is uninformed" emoji reactions for posts and better controls over the feed.
January 29, 2026 at 9:11 AM
I think there’s a really good business opportunity for creating a LinkedIn-like platform where it’s fine to not be 100% enthusiastic about everything, all the time, and one that comes with a "This makes no sense" and "This is uninformed" emoji reactions for posts and better controls over the feed.
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What an awesome meetup this is gonna be 🔥
Not one, but TWO international speakers coming to Vienna in February
Not one, but TWO international speakers coming to Vienna in February
📢 React Vienna Meetup in February:
🗓️ Feb 19 · 18:30 CET
📍Adverity · Rathausstraße 1, BUWOG building, 1st Floor · 1010 Vienna
💬 Designing the In-Between States in React by @aurorascharff.no
💬 Caching, Payloads, and Other Dark Arts: Optimizing UX in Suboptimal Conditions by @farisaziz12.bsky.social
🗓️ Feb 19 · 18:30 CET
📍Adverity · Rathausstraße 1, BUWOG building, 1st Floor · 1010 Vienna
💬 Designing the In-Between States in React by @aurorascharff.no
💬 Caching, Payloads, and Other Dark Arts: Optimizing UX in Suboptimal Conditions by @farisaziz12.bsky.social
React Feburary Meetup, Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup
\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- Talks \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-
**Designing the In-Between States in React**
by Aurora Scharff ([aurorascharff.no](
www.meetup.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:39 AM
What an awesome meetup this is gonna be 🔥
Not one, but TWO international speakers coming to Vienna in February
Not one, but TWO international speakers coming to Vienna in February
Catching up with former colleagues while you’re out of work and hearing they trolled newly hired Product Designers and the Head of Design who all went "We need a few weeks to dive into the topic and figure out a concept for this" with Figma prototypes and videos you did 2+ years ago does feel weird.
January 28, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Catching up with former colleagues while you’re out of work and hearing they trolled newly hired Product Designers and the Head of Design who all went "We need a few weeks to dive into the topic and figure out a concept for this" with Figma prototypes and videos you did 2+ years ago does feel weird.
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Google DeepMind staffers are pressing leadership on their plans to safeguard the 3,000-person unit from ICE agents.
"As we have seen, government agency tactics can change and escalate quite rapidly. With offices in many metro areas across the US, are we prepared?"
Scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social
"As we have seen, government agency tactics can change and escalate quite rapidly. With offices in many metro areas across the US, are we prepared?"
Scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social
Google DeepMind Staffers Ask Leaders to Keep Them ‘Physically Safe’ From ICE
A federal agent allegedly tried to enter Google’s Cambridge campus in the fall, WIRED has learned. Now, staffers want policies that protect them from immigration officials.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Google DeepMind staffers are pressing leadership on their plans to safeguard the 3,000-person unit from ICE agents.
"As we have seen, government agency tactics can change and escalate quite rapidly. With offices in many metro areas across the US, are we prepared?"
Scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social
"As we have seen, government agency tactics can change and escalate quite rapidly. With offices in many metro areas across the US, are we prepared?"
Scoop from @mzeff.bsky.social
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Civil society and local government in Minnesota has now set a successful template to place informal checks and balances on federal power that will now be used against ICE and CBP in other member states of the US
ICE operations are spinning up in Maine. @themainemonitor.org is looking to help report on ICE activity there and has set up a page to report what you're seeing. Also includes Signal and encrypted Protonmail options for secure communications.
January 27, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Civil society and local government in Minnesota has now set a successful template to place informal checks and balances on federal power that will now be used against ICE and CBP in other member states of the US
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I don't know Lyra and Jelle yet, but @sjoy.lol and @joshtumath.uk are fantastic speakers and reason enough to attend CSS Day.
Well, CSS Day is live now ( https://cssday.nl ) and I've got a bunch of related things to do but unfortunately I'm ill and can hardly concentrate.
So the going will be very slow this time.
So the going will be very slow this time.
CSS Day 2026, 11th & 12th of June, Amsterdam
CSS Day is the conference for CSS designers, developers, spec writers, and browser vendors.
cssday.nl
January 27, 2026 at 7:55 PM
I don't know Lyra and Jelle yet, but @sjoy.lol and @joshtumath.uk are fantastic speakers and reason enough to attend CSS Day.
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There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.
January 27, 2026 at 12:10 PM
There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.
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I'm looking forward to Web Day Out for many reasons, one being that every talk dives deep into HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript, getting you up to speed on the most powerful web platform features that you can use right now.
webdayout.com
webdayout.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:53 PM
I'm looking forward to Web Day Out for many reasons, one being that every talk dives deep into HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript, getting you up to speed on the most powerful web platform features that you can use right now.
webdayout.com
webdayout.com
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😬 Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency
cdm.link/ni-insolvency/
cdm.link/ni-insolvency/
Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency - CDM Create Digital Music
According to insolvency documents, Berlin-based Native Instruments GmbH (also parent to iZotope, Plugin Alliance, and Brainworx) is in preliminary insolvency proceedings. This is devastating news for ...
cdm.link
January 27, 2026 at 3:39 PM
😬 Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency
cdm.link/ni-insolvency/
cdm.link/ni-insolvency/
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Okay, so this is an authoritarian playbook trick, once the evidence is overwhelming say everyone needs to wait for the official investigation then either fix it or attack it when its completed. Same shit Russian pulled with MH17 and chemical attacks in Syria, very predictable.
Reporter: Will Stephen Miller be apologizing to the family of Alex Pretti for calling him an assassin?
Leavitt: This incident remains under investigation.
Leavitt: This incident remains under investigation.
January 26, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Okay, so this is an authoritarian playbook trick, once the evidence is overwhelming say everyone needs to wait for the official investigation then either fix it or attack it when its completed. Same shit Russian pulled with MH17 and chemical attacks in Syria, very predictable.
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Sometimes it takes me MANY years to truly understand something, but I've learned that it's never a bad call to go back to something cool you ALMOST grasped. Don't hesitate to go back and periodically try again to understand that math theorem, that computer science term, that statistics technique!
January 27, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Sometimes it takes me MANY years to truly understand something, but I've learned that it's never a bad call to go back to something cool you ALMOST grasped. Don't hesitate to go back and periodically try again to understand that math theorem, that computer science term, that statistics technique!
How to show you don’t know what you are talking about: Claim someone using Apple’s PDF rendering engine first, then swsitching to PDFium was "solving" PDF rendering.
For anyone wondering what AI means for devs:
Pre-AI, @steipete.me was one of the single most productive devs solving a very hard problem: PDF rendering
Post-AI, he's again one of the single most productive devs solving a very hard problem: building the next-gen Siri (aka Clawdbot)
Pre-AI, @steipete.me was one of the single most productive devs solving a very hard problem: PDF rendering
Post-AI, he's again one of the single most productive devs solving a very hard problem: building the next-gen Siri (aka Clawdbot)
January 27, 2026 at 9:07 AM
How to show you don’t know what you are talking about: Claim someone using Apple’s PDF rendering engine first, then swsitching to PDFium was "solving" PDF rendering.
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RELEASE‼️
QUANTUM DELAY LITE is available now - for free!
Get it here: gs-dsp.com
If you choose to upgrade - QUANTUM BUNDLE is currently on sale - 30% for a limited time.
#vstplugins #freevst #audioeffects #musicproduction #producer
youtu.be/eWl-2U4TyuE?...
QUANTUM DELAY LITE is available now - for free!
Get it here: gs-dsp.com
If you choose to upgrade - QUANTUM BUNDLE is currently on sale - 30% for a limited time.
#vstplugins #freevst #audioeffects #musicproduction #producer
youtu.be/eWl-2U4TyuE?...
Introducing Quantum Delay Lite (free)
YouTube video by GS DSP
youtu.be
January 26, 2026 at 10:38 AM
RELEASE‼️
QUANTUM DELAY LITE is available now - for free!
Get it here: gs-dsp.com
If you choose to upgrade - QUANTUM BUNDLE is currently on sale - 30% for a limited time.
#vstplugins #freevst #audioeffects #musicproduction #producer
youtu.be/eWl-2U4TyuE?...
QUANTUM DELAY LITE is available now - for free!
Get it here: gs-dsp.com
If you choose to upgrade - QUANTUM BUNDLE is currently on sale - 30% for a limited time.
#vstplugins #freevst #audioeffects #musicproduction #producer
youtu.be/eWl-2U4TyuE?...
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FREE ... yes it's free.! Our gift to you.
Tell your friends :)
Tell your friends :)
RELEASE‼️
QUANTUM DELAY LITE is available now - for free!
Get it here: gs-dsp.com
If you choose to upgrade - QUANTUM BUNDLE is currently on sale - 30% for a limited time.
#vstplugins #freevst #audioeffects #musicproduction #producer
youtu.be/eWl-2U4TyuE?...
QUANTUM DELAY LITE is available now - for free!
Get it here: gs-dsp.com
If you choose to upgrade - QUANTUM BUNDLE is currently on sale - 30% for a limited time.
#vstplugins #freevst #audioeffects #musicproduction #producer
youtu.be/eWl-2U4TyuE?...
Introducing Quantum Delay Lite (free)
YouTube video by GS DSP
youtu.be
January 26, 2026 at 11:18 AM
FREE ... yes it's free.! Our gift to you.
Tell your friends :)
Tell your friends :)
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I’ve got a bunch of former colleagues who will have to travel to the US soon, and it’s basically because the startup doesn’t want to inconvenience the US Sales & Support team with overseas travel. So the whole R&D can go to the US on an adventure.
Second time they do this. 😬
Second time they do this. 😬
January 26, 2026 at 3:34 PM
I’ve got a bunch of former colleagues who will have to travel to the US soon, and it’s basically because the startup doesn’t want to inconvenience the US Sales & Support team with overseas travel. So the whole R&D can go to the US on an adventure.
Second time they do this. 😬
Second time they do this. 😬
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“Bauer has been a teacher for 25 years, a period that has included a rise of school shootings and the drills that have become common to protect against them. “But I never thought it would be our own government we had to protect the kids from,” she told me.”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:41 PM
“Bauer has been a teacher for 25 years, a period that has included a rise of school shootings and the drills that have become common to protect against them. “But I never thought it would be our own government we had to protect the kids from,” she told me.”
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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“What we put into the world, as action or artefact, is how the world is made.
Design is a way of engaging with the greater conversation of how to live together on a planet with limited resources.
Design is thus politics.”
@mikegallagher.bsky.social
Design is a way of engaging with the greater conversation of how to live together on a planet with limited resources.
Design is thus politics.”
@mikegallagher.bsky.social
Mike Gallagher: Design is politics
Weeknote, w/c 19 January 2026
mikegallagher.org
January 25, 2026 at 9:43 PM
“What we put into the world, as action or artefact, is how the world is made.
Design is a way of engaging with the greater conversation of how to live together on a planet with limited resources.
Design is thus politics.”
@mikegallagher.bsky.social
Design is a way of engaging with the greater conversation of how to live together on a planet with limited resources.
Design is thus politics.”
@mikegallagher.bsky.social