“While AI features get likes on Twitter, they never seemed to resonate with actual users.” In the new Apptisan, we talk with @pketh.org , formerly co-creator of Glitch , about his spatial note-taking tool Kinopio, a canvas for collecting and connecting your thoughts, ideas, and feelings. ⤵️

I'm gonna keep the next big WIP feature a secret, because it's something I've personally thought about and wanted for years. And I think there's a high chance that you'll use it too, even if it's not expected.

Seattle is like a good version of SF

few things give you perspective like a week of forced offline due to severe food poisoning

I hate it when an email unsubscribe link requires you to authenticate by signing in first. I promise that no one's ever hacked into someones account to unsubscribe them from emails.

I think about 'The Web We Lost' by @anildash.com every time someone says that only OSS, or self-hosted software, can respect users. Tech-nerd only solutions don't help everyone else. I'm not convinced that capitalism can't give us nice things without enshittification.

My stance on AI/LLMs has gotten really simple over time: “If you can’t be bothered to write something, I can’t be bothered to read it”

Think i'll start working on a new blog post next: something I've had in the back-burner about why kinopio has both subscriptions _and_ a lifetime pricing option

QR codes are as simple and helpful a tool for bridging the IRL and digital worlds as they are ugly

Charles Broskoski ( @broskoski.bsky.social ) on why business should be personal: www.are.na/editorial/pe...

Book Worm [New] A new Card Frame for reading enthusiasts, or wanna-be enthusiasts like me. Created by Dávid: yoursit.ee/xou

Has anyone ever live-coded using a GoPro strapped to their forehead?

Macrowave v1.1 is slowly coming together, and I am so excited about it. A bunch of improvements for macOS and introducing the broadcaster for iOS.

The amount of times I read a great blog post and wanted to comment but couldn’t … I think it’s a net loss that blog software went from having comments by default to not having them.

I finally updated my Rules for Computing Happiness kinopio.club/computing-ha...

Prototyping squeezing /commands into the existing /space link UI. This saves the hassle of toggling/un-toggling the More Options button in cards.

PSA: i've been getting a lot of phishing scam emails lately for services I use (like fastmail and hover). Be sure that your email app displays full sender email addresses (which is not the default in apple mail).

enthusiasts are the best customers

It's really hard to write about the little details because they're inherently boring to most people, but if you do it right then you can turn normies into enthusiasts.

Love this @pketh.org “I finally updated my Rules for Computing Happiness” kinopio.club/computing-ha...

Making a marketing page on my own terms is very much a case of "If I had more time I'd write a shorter letter". Spent like 3/4 of time getting the words just right. And 1/4 on the design/code. Instead of glossy lipstick on a pig, I want to deliver bacon.

After a year of cross-posting to twitter, mastodon, and bluesky, I'm starting to get more likes/replies on bluesky than twitter. It's finally happening.

Unlike writers, people see the compiled results of our work rather than the words we've written. So I invite you to open the web inspector and see how everything's laid out in Kinopio, I think you'll find it refreshingly straightforward and readable.

Remote debugging this week (🌴)

After more than a year in the making, my self-published Niche design magazine is officially out. Ditch trends, reject boredom. Embrace niche design. Grab a copy or gift one—a sewn-bound paperback will begin shipping soon. nichedesign.press

When making software that doesn't need AI, - B2B: Put AI everywhere – investors and insecure managers love it. - B2C: Leave AI out, normal people increasingly hate that shit.

Looking forward to moving back 🇨🇦

[New Blog Post] Dialing Up the Internet Phonebook pketh.org/internet-pho...

Computers are the bicycle of the mind, but the tools we use for thinking, are flat tires.

Car Reviewers: "car is fast" What I want to know: "does it have annoying beeps and software? will it send my data to insurance companies"

Apropos of nothing: what's the point of infinite wealth if you still need to totally debase yourself like an absolute loser. The point of fuck you money is to be able to say fuck you to people.

Something I don't think a lot of people know is that if you're on the board of a company, you can convince them to buy the dying company you invested millions in. So worst-case scenario, you always get your money back. （＾＿－）

A big reason I can get so many big features like Offline support, or updated pricing, done so quickly and with not many resources is that planning big projects out in a space is *sooooo* much faster than writing up a traditional linear spec doc.

Price increases are happening on Monday – be sure to upgrade before then if you want to be grandfathered on the lower prices

I live next to a tech company that I think could really benefit from using Kinopio for planning projects, retro/meetings, group note-taking. But I don't know anyone there, and I have no idea how I'd even approach talking to them. have any advice/tips for me?

increased max card tilt angle to 90deg and improved the tilt drag algo

Picked up some light reading at the local library

One of those examples of the last 10% taking as long to get right as the first 90%

I kinda have this germ of an idea that the biggest threat to Canada's future isn't the USA, it's Calgary: mining, forestry, and other natural resource extraction has the same complacency effect oil had on the middle east.

Fool me once shame on me, fool me 20 times.. I must be an elon fan

Can’t even trust mozzarella anymore

If you use grok I think you’re a little sus, sorry

sometimes i feel like an internet gypsy, forever wandering

🚂 Can’t help but think that the ai hype train is moving to video is because they tried to take over text, but the good writers kept writing, and we kept reading.

Why does my FM radio get better reception when I physically touch it? Do I become part of the antenna?

people have been complaining that “nobody reads anymore” for decades. But the people who matter will (if you blog)

relatively, not a lot of people know/use/or-care-about mechanical keyboards. But the people who do tend to be way more passionate about them than the promise of a voice-only interface. You can pry my keyboard out of my cold dead hands.

is cloudflare the new cors? i.e. the usual suspect when a site doesn't load correctly

little side note, I noticed a small bug in the MDN page for `document.cookie` and submitted a bug report today which they just fixed. feels good 🙂

I hate this fucking pop up so much. Google auth is like a tumor on a website, I'm sure it'll only get more malignant over time. So glad I chose to only use my own auth system in Kinopio