microsoft hoping to make the morgedillion bucks

Maybe it’s my for you page but it feels like the entire OSS community migrated to Bluesky in the past week. Lots of good chatter.

I think that Da Vinci and Michelangelo would be painting furry buttholes today to fund their side hustles. Generational talent seek the wealthiest patrons of the day.

Is this a thing? An infinite canvas for note taking that lives in the bottom 1/4 of the screen. The file system is just like Obsidian. Just a folder with .txt files and .jpg. When you zoom out, all the cards turn into emojis on screen. I think I'm calling it Bubblegum. It's actually really useful.

I don't get the fuss with vibe coding. It's just coding with more verbose sentences. Once you get to the nitty gritty of UI, you're still asking the robot to move the box to the left by 1px and then to the right by 2px. Vibe coding feels just like coding.

If someone swipes down with both fingers lol

Cob Paint v1.3 is almost ready. It's sooo fluid now. Need to update the onboarding but I should be able to push to the App Store tonight.

I’ve tried over and over to use todo apps and I can’t seem to get one to work in my life lol. Just because I HAVE to do something doesn’t mean that I WANT to do it.

I’m not a big user of BlueSky (yet), but if anyone sees this I’m looking for work. I’m a front-end developer, with a focus on low-carbon, design-led, accessible, websites — often using Astro and headless CMSs like Storyblok. I’m open to freelance or possibly the right perm role 🤞

Juice. Little by little.

Cob Paint v1.3 coming along. Switching between sketchbook pages finally feels seamless. Some flashes here and there but progress at least. The tiny details matter to me.

How does an idea come back to you at the perfect time? Can you design an inspiration machine?

Continual iteration beats a perfectly formed idea.

I see @googleballs.com in Cob Paint.

A beautiful web app where you can make App Store screenshots with squarespace-like templates, continually iterate with data, and export all sizes in one click? Is this a thing anyone wants? Because I feel like I need it bad.

The single most important part of being on the App Store is having killer screenshots and iterating on them quickly. I gotta build an app to help me iterate on them.

🌽 Cob Paint v1.2, dropping later this week. Making sharing in the app 10x more fun. Holographic cards and quick custom backgrounds.

has anyone stacked the Isabelle mod with google balls yet because in this essay I will

I see @googleballs.com in Cob Paint.

guys I'm so proud of the Cob Paint website lol. it's cute as fuck. www.cobpaint.com I need to make the terms and privacy policy less in your face but the App Store needed it on a website so there it is I guess, Tim Apple.

The first two hours this morning

Today is basically my first day back so I opened Notion and... like what happened? It's terrifying seeing all progress end on February of last year.

me: fuck yeah art

its alright to be horny on main sometimes. it's also alright for someone to call you out on it lol.

I see it’s that time of the month again

I made a new bamboo pen from a piece of bamboo someone threw out on New Year’s Eve. I’m in love.

Happy new years ✨

JSRF. JSRF. Understand the concept of love.

Could be the best/worst time to release new PC hardware VAAALLLLVVVVEEEE. I’m still buying a gabencube.

The app is just tiny little embers but thankfully I haven't lost my discipline and touch as a designer.

guys I'm so proud of the Cob Paint website lol. it's cute as fuck. www.cobpaint.com I need to make the terms and privacy policy less in your face but the App Store needed it on a website so there it is I guess, Tim Apple.

I really love #pixelart so I made my own tiny pixel art #sketchbook app and I call it Cob Paint. 👉 It's supremely easy and fun to use. 😍 Pay to own it and no subscriptions. 🔮 I have a whole year of content dropping in 2026 every week. Tons of brushes, color palettes, stickers, just fun things.

The older I’ve gotten as a designer, the more that I’ve realized that a pure simple idea is so powerful. It’s just easier to design, sell, and to spread.

looks cute but how did a trilogy happen already loll

Rounding up my game of the year and as expected it’s Expedit- BAWGAW I CANT BELIEVE IT!!! FROM THE TOP ROPE, HES BACK, ITS GOOSE. LOOK OUT LOOK OUT!!! UNTITLED GOOSE GAME GOTY 2019-2025

In January: 🌽 Cob Paint 1.1 will have sketchbooks that you can create and share. 📝 My previous app, Tinycrate will be renamed to chat notes or something similar. And get a full redesign for 2.0. II think it just needs to answer one question: How can a note come back to me when I need it?

It’s almost 2026 and I need to get something off my chest to start the new year on the right foot. I think Swift Data sucks.

sugar....... spice....... and everything nice.......

I’m so close.

Painting new icons for Cob. I still like Aesprite a lot on the desktop. I think Cob is going to be like the black sheep sketchbook lol.

Yeah it feels so good. Pixels are “wet” when they are painted and can get wet again when another water color stroke goes on top. I need to fix the age of a pixel. If I paint and paint again under a minute then pigment continues to move around. After a few minutes, pixels don’t move around as easily.

🌽 Cob: Pixel Art Sketchbook I have the water color brush working but it's still fairly basic. It's like washes of color on top of other dry washes. The pigment should flow between strokes. I should be able to see the pigment move in real-time. #pxielart #sketchbook #cob

Months ago, I wrote an empty function called simulationTick() and then built an entire pixel art watercolor simulation engine around it. Today is the first time I’ve seen it work. Crazy.

I've decided to solely focus on a pixel watercolor sketchbook app and I spent the morning seeing watercolor paint dry on paper. In Kernel Engine, pixels already keep track of a ton of information. Wiring it up so that a pixel stroke looks like a real watercolor stroke. Not easy. #pixelart

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

Updates to #KernelEngine 🖌️ I think the UX of changing brush size feels so good. There’s haptic feedback too. I hope the knob doesn’t get in the way too much. 🧰 Toolbox is on the bottom now with all tools laid out in a row. Should be super easy to find the tool I need. 🎨 Swatches! #pixelart

I don’t have a ton of time today but 3 goals: 👉 Add a quick brush size slider 👉 Relayout the app for better ergonomics 👉 Start water color brush #KernelEngine #pixelart

I feel like I need a slider on the left side to increase and decrease the brush size like Procreate. It’ll get in the way though.

it's like a firefly by accident. I'm trying to make a preview of the brush as I draw. Sometimes I think I'm good at this and sometimes I get humbled. #KernelEngine #pixelart

It lives! It's also a mobile app now I guess? I want to take advantage of Apple Pencil eventually. I'll circle back to the android build after. I've built real pixel water color into my engine so that should be next in my app. Colors too. Tools. Undo. Grids. What else? #KernelEngine