Correct me if I'm wrong , but currently the only way for an app to do local LLM processing is to either: 1. Use a platform specific API that calls to the OS provided model? (If it has one) 2. Each app needs to also include it's own multi gb model?

Lists WIP 00004 Snapping cards back into lists because you didn't move them far enough, and passing cards between lists, uses transition animations to make these interactions easier to visually follow

I worked with the original Trello team and I've used every kanban-ish tool that came after, and my goal is to make the best feeling List. In a big company, I wouldn't be able to put so much effort into details like this, but I guess that's what makes indie software different.

List WIP 00003 I can now drag cards into lists and they get placed in the right order. (I'm using a cool technique/lib called fractional-indexing for list ordering, so I shouldn't have to worry about periodically re-balancing list positions)

The insincere, selfish, self-rationalizing, and fake optimists ruin optimism for the rest of us

the first Kinopio list being born

I accidentally upgraded my Mac to Tahoe, so I thought I’d try it for a couple weeks and then decide whether to go through to annoyance of downgrading. My long-term thoughts are .. it’s .. okay. certainly not better - but also not the discordant mess I was expecting

I've been using Consolas as my monospace programming font for over a decade, but curious about whether there's anything better now. Any modern recommendations? (Keep in mind that I'm not a fan of ligatures for coding)

Here’s the full talk I gave recently about my long, bizarre, journey making Kinopio (Sorry for the poor video quality) youtu.be/PFQHpGXaJ6Q?...

Lists WIP v0003 just like how you can snap cards into boxes, you'll be able to snap cards together to create lists from them. If the card has a color then the snap guide will use that, otherwise the snap guide will use your user color (green in this case)

Lists WIP v0002 Lists can now be collapsed, and resized. Not sure if collapsing/expanding should be animated or stay instant. The list content area is also now rendered below the connection lines.

Indie devs don't have multimillion dollar marketing budgets, or the benefit of every news website rushing to post articles on every update The best way to support your favorite indie apps- besides paying for them 😄- is to leave reviews, and publicly share what you love about them~

Lists WIP v0001 Starting to sorta kinda look like a List. The stack order of the list contents area is a bit janky rn

WIP Lists v0000 like boxes, lists are divided into two parts .list-info, and .list-background. .list-background needs to be rendered below connection lines (which i'll do later with vue teleport) sharing this publicly bc it's normal for things to start off looking shitty

so good! <3 kinopio.club & <3 this presentation, so many great examples

inspired by @stephango.com, I finally updated my blog's about page with my past appearances on interviews, podcasts, and conferences. (I may have missed some though) pketh.org/about

effects of HTML: - mood lift, euphoria - increased giggling and laughing - creative, philosophical or deep thinking: ideas flow more easily - boring tasks or entertainment can become more interesting or funny - sensation of insight - intense feelings of wonder

because Robots at CES never changes. (Computer Chronicles, 1985)

WIP prototype of holding alt/opt and dragging to duplicate cards. Similar to how this works in design software

Did my talk about my journey making Kinopio today for 200~ engineering students at CUSEC. Think it went pretty well 😅 kinopio.club/cusec-talk-a...

Kinopio Year-End Investor Report As you may know, Kinopio is organic software that's completely community funded. But if you're reading this, as far as I’m concerned, you’re invested in the future of Kinopio. ↓ 1/10

On my first day officially off, I'm finally enjoying my copy of Niche Design by itaydreyfus.com – a real labor of love zine interviewing designers with a unique point of view and style (I'm in there too!)

Iterating on the Kinopio logo and wordmark for print things and document websites

📧 I wanted to have the Kinopio year-end bulletin email out today, but I’ll need another day to send it out. Finished the writing today, but I still need to wrap up an illustration, and do a bit of custom email html/css work for it too

I've endeavored to never describe a user interface as an 'experience'

The next bulletin email going out to Kinopio users will be a Year-End Strategy Letter. I'm doing something I almost never do, crunching through the many numbers and graphs in my Stripe account. To ease the suspense, I think you'll like what I have to say.

Computers are pretty fast now, but they still haven't made one with *enough* USB-C ports

Thoughts on replacing the previous box-to-box-snapping behaviour (which could be finicky and less predictable) with a more consistent target-box-expanding behaviour that works just like cards do?

Why I can't be bothered to blog about AI, or feel passionate about it one way or another - it's just mostly mid to me

❓ how important is it to you that the drawing eraser only remove a piece of the drawing, as opposed to the whole stroke (like tldraw/mmm does)? If partial stroke erasing is not actually important to ppl, I can really simplify the drawing system and improve perf for big drawings.

I get asked about it a lot so up next up is a blog post about my writing process. I've already done the rough outline (I just took notes about how I wrote the last one). ___ψ(‥ )

one of my future dream projects is to wrap Wikipedia in a child-friendly, encarta-like ui, with maybe some simple games, for kids, people who like exploring, and people who miss when National Geographic was good. Maybe I'd also distribute it on CD.

[New Blog Post] Why Sell Lifetime Plans, in a Default Subscription World? pketh.org/lifetime-pla...

Have you noticed that most software is subscription-only these days? There's good reasons for that – but there are other ways to do what's best for both biz and users. New blog post tomorrow!

Added a Kinopio-powered /now page to my website.

I'd rather be coding than writing today :(

Meant to type 'platform' and accidentally typed 'playform'. Maybe a freudian slip, because platforms should be more about play, expression, experimentation and less about mindless consumption and regurgitation.

didn't even realize cloudflare was down today, was having too much fun using Kinopio ~

the deep refactors that only make interactions faster and smoother never get much love on social media, but these kind of day-to-day, quality-of-life, improvements are the most personally satisfying

WIP3: straight lines snap only to cardinal points (N E S W). This is a more conventional/diagram-y behaviour. Thoughts?

Line Dividers [New] Add lines from the toolbar (or with 'L') to mark pages, sections, slides, and other large variable height areas that can be cumbersome to manage with boxes alone. Jump between lines, and make room in busy spaces with the 'Select All Below' button.

“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