WIP Creating and managing your app-specific api keys for integrations. Getting the most from a potentially (on mobile) small amount of screen space.

Making some major layout and readability improvements to the API Docs as part of a major update to the Kinopio public API

My full page ad for Kinopio in the internet phonebook vol.2 is literally a page-sized screenshot. (It'll be printed in greyscale)

Based on the sticker sheet, mocked up this quick business card design. not sure if i'll use/print it though. Would be cool if it was possible to make the back of the card a sticker too

I think it's unfortunate that 'Open' = free/non-commercial. If we want to support software as a craft and industry, 'Open' should also include freely importable/exportable through the UI, and interoperable through a public API.

Finished creating my ad for the internet phonebook vol.2

Added a 'none' header font option to use the default Helvetica font-stack

Hot take: I don't hate the new electric Ferrari, but it feels like it's not quite finished. Just sprinkle a bit more new Testarossa-style nip tucks and it would work. The price (like all modern Ferraris) is stupid ofc.

To print the Kinopio stickers, I had to split it into 2 layers: one with the stickers to kiss cut out and one with the background for the sheet. The background layer reminds me of "Who's That Pokémon" (or a crime scene photo)

Who took today off? (memorial day)

This is the final sticker design I ended up sending for trial printing, if it goes well I can start sharing them IRL

I was interviewed on People and Blogs about my 12+ year old blog manuelmoreale.com/in...

Hard to have sympathy for anyone fired at meta. They chose to work for the modern version of a cigarette company who's main business is selling addiction to kids and olds.

Passkeys are a classic case where technically superior !== practically superior. blog.danlew.net/2026...

The old identity for Suzuka Circuit in Japan was 🏆

It looks like nothing else, because it works like nothing else.

WIP sticker progress 05: sizing it for a 4x6" sheet, still have to add all the safety margins and maybe a cool background. What do you think so far?

Here's a fun sociological experiment. As a reader, on Affinity's marketing page do you prefer the page with Enable Motion Enabled (default) or Disabled? I suspect most designers add scroll-jacking and scroll-fx mostly to impress other designers. (makes sense here bc designers are their market)

I've been working on this article for past month in my free time. dedicated to my hometown "Surat" diamond.jaydip.me

WIP stickers 04, here's where i am right now. Slowly getting closer. but – as is unfortunately part of the process – the color, background, and layout Really suck rn. Could use more ideas for stickers. Ideally I'd like to pack the page up with them.

more WIP sticker sheet

My kingdom for a browser extension that maintained a list of services that have sus cancellation policies, or that only provide support through a useless AI chatbot – and used that data to display an alert before I signed up for them.

Building the kind of API Docs I wish we had more of: "just tell me how to auth, show me the routes, explain the attributes, and get out of my way"

Bulletin № 38 – Busytown, was emailed out today and is now available on the blog kinopio.club/blog/po...

Noodling around with the Kinopio wordmark

Writing up the next Kinopio bulletin today

there are only two good reasons to do anything: love or spite

Affiliate Program [New] If you're a fan of kinopio and want to share it with your YouTube, TikTok, or IG audience you should join the friends of kinopio affiliate program. Your viewers get 10% off, and you get paid 20% commissions. Details and apply in kinopio.club/friends-of-k...

Persistent Minimap [New] Toggle on a little minimap to help explore spaces. It's little, beautiful, and fast.

Shift-Drag to Snap Align [New] Hold shift while dragging cards, boxes, or lists to line them up perfectly with nearby items. (Sensory Release 1/4~ this week)

Anyone who’s actually cool is an overnight failure long before they’re an overnight success

A new week of sensory experiments is coming up. Each day next week, I'll be announcing a new major feature or improvement.

🤧 update: spent last night sleeping and fever burning away the cold (tested covid negative too) , I'm mostly healed up today but still somewhat groggy and congested. Fortunately I don't think I have too much to do today (tgif)

I need knowledge, not money, rn

I've asked more than a couple ppl how they use LLMs. One thing I learned was that even the most passionate user only really wants to write prompts in their LLM tool of choice (claude code, etc.). The many type-to-prompt-an-AI features in other apps they use are just noise.

What exactly is a "tech bro", maybe it's one of those "you'll know it when you see it" things? But I suspect these aren't the actual people who design/engineer new technologies?

I need less tools for collecting/curating/hoarding, and more tools for creating.

It's always nerve wracking and risky to change fundamental features or UI that have been around since the beginning. The less often specific things change, the more resistance there is to them changing. But also, context changes and you learn new things all the time.

Project & Issue Tracker [Work Template] A classic kanban board that uses lists for Tasks, Up Next, In Progress, and Deferred cards. Unlike a traditional kanban app, a Kinopio space is also a great way to link to project resources and state the goals of the project right next to the planning.

If you’re looking for an exciting sounding role as an ML engineer in Toronto, that’s also surprisingly well-paid, checkout the posting by ambition.inc on kinopio. (If I wasn’t so preoccupied I’d certainly be tempted) kinopio.club/ambition-fou...

It wouldn't surprise me if kinopio-client was the world's largest public Vue project. 863 stars and counting~ github.com/kinopio-club...

Here's what /affiliates page will look like if you're part of the Kinopio affiliate program. Members will be able to see their affiliate info, and a list of pending and past payouts from referrals. If there's any other info you think would be handy to see here let me know.

I think I'm juggling about 5 projects and features rn that are all ~80% done. So I'll take an extra week to get them all past the finish line, and then announce one per day to make a new "week of sensory experiments"

would you like the option to keep a small minimap permanently visible while working?

"Installing Update 1 of 6" Is there anything in the history of software that takes longer to to start up than Discord?

WIP experiment: while dragging cards, they'll snap to align the y or x sides of nearby cards. not sure yet if it's helpful, or if it gets in the way. What do you think? (☎️ Beta available in the discord)

WIP 20~ another take on dynamic connection line anchors. Added a little snapping animation when the line endpoints change, along with animation delays to reduce the jittery feel that lines jumping caused in the previous versions. This version only snaps to corners of cards.

Building an affiliate referrer program. The last part is integrating a third-party affiliate system to do the payouts. All the options seem janky - especially when you don't want to inject their client-side js on every page 🤮 . WIP progress and plans in kinopio.club/affiliate-re...

Initial sticker ideas: 2 diff colorways with slightly diff blob boys, what do you think? These would be medium laptop sized I think so you could read the text. When you see either of these on someone's computer I'd like them to express the sentiment "CAUTION: This Person is Cool"

my only real issue with RSS is that all clients present articles with the same formatting and layout. It's simple and fast – but removes the magic of personal blogs. My dream reader would instead cache (.webarchive?), or preload the actual webpages and show me those instead.