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

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.