What I am building, what broke, and what it cost. Written from inside FlashFX, sent when there is something worth saying.https://gabrielebolognese.blog/enhttps://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/the-marketing-mess/https://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/the-marketing-mess/Instagram, TikTok, X and LinkedIn each turned out to be a separate job, and I took all four on at once. Another setback with nothing broken in it, and this time I am naming it in the week it is happening.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/a-hundred-commits/https://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/a-hundred-commits/Launch day, nine milestones of vector editing, and the only hundred-commit day I have had. What made it survivable was not effort. It was that almost nothing in it required a decision.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/launch-day/https://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/launch-day/FlashFX is open to the public and finished. The same day, it stopped being a project and became an Italian S.r.l. Here is what that actually involves, and the €5,000 it took before a single day of trading.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/my-worst-setback/https://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/my-worst-setback/Thirteen hours a day on my phone, six weeks before a launch date I could not move, with money in the project that was not mine. Nothing was destroyed, and that is what made it the worst one.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/motion-design-in-the-browser/https://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/motion-design-in-the-browser/Every creative category has moved to the browser except one. Motion design is the last holdout, and the reasons it held out are gone.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/lost-to-a-file-path/https://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/lost-to-a-file-path/January 2024, three weeks into writing code, I restructured a folder and destroyed everything I had built. The money was not even mine.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/clicks-and-latency/https://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/clicks-and-latency/Output latency, an 8ms ramp, and an ended event that fires before your teardown does. Three small audio bugs that each cost more than they look like.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/testing-what-you-cannot-run/https://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/testing-what-you-cannot-run/No WebAudio, no WebCodecs, no WebGPU where I develop. So the clock, the frame selection and the audio scheduling got pulled out and proven in Node instead.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/videodecoder-frame-limit/https://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/videodecoder-frame-limit/A hardware VideoDecoder silently stops emitting once too many output frames are held open. No error, no event. Here is what actually bounds it.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/the-four-rebuilds/https://gabrielebolognese.blog/newsletter/the-four-rebuilds/FlashFX exists on the fourth attempt. The first three are the part nobody writes about, so this is that part.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT