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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

when you're just working away and see that "XYZ has just paid you $200" stripe notification, it hits different

almost everything you see on a computer screen was built up from the elegant math of curves

Only on this site rn because I ran out of rss feeds to read（；_・） (feed suggestions encouraged)

idea for a browser extension: Let me know that the once-reputable newspaper or magazine website I'm on was sold to private equity and it's articles are now generated slop

What's the equivalent of a trade press publication or industry zine for software makers? Something like what Alpinist is to mountain climbers

If the head of your company can’t write, they're not ready to lead yet. Writing steers ships like nothing else can.

[new blog post] How I Do Support and Community pketh.org/support-comm...

Poor business design in action: A word-of-mouth recommendation from a happy long-time user is way more effective than even the most privacy-invasive targeted advertising. Yet because of team silos and data-dependency, most companies spend way more time, money, and effort optimizing for the latter.

New blog post about Support and Community dropping tomorrow. Preview: > In Final Fantasy 7, the Barrier spell protects you from physical damage. In 2025, help-desk software protects you from your customers.

designing a business is no different than designing a product, it's about trade-offs.

Tired of the "like pixar but shitty" aesthetic

I sometimes try out new spatial UIs to see what new ideas they bring to the table. Especially from companies that have raised million$$$ from VCs. 95% of the time they're using something off the shelf. The better ones use tldraw, the slow ones with horrible performance use react-flow.

The futility of silos: Customer service can only tell you that they've "shared your suggestion with the development team". Devs can't talk to customers because they might say what they're working on before marketing is ready to reveal it. People ignore or miss the marketing.

I have a really soft spot for people who think it's normal to trudge into the woods and set up old computers

DiscMaster2 can now search for polygons (3D models) and gives you an animated preview of each of the millions of results. You can then search for similar polygons to find exactly what you're looking for. discmaster.textfiles.com/search?famil...

Working on the last paragraph of the new blog post. Ended up throwing away 3 others. Sadly that’s pretty normal for my writing process

surprising no one, microsoft wins the award for most sus outsourcing www.propublica.org/article/micr...

When I hear “open source”, I think “public code”. Whether I can copy and sell it, including logos and brand names, should a separate label (i.e. “MIT licensed”). The idea that “open” = “public” = “free to copy” ironically keeps many commercial projects closed that could be open.

Taking a break from blog post typing to do a dome swap on my 12 year old HHKB. I've been trying to find an alternative to the stock feel that's not too hard and not too soft...

Only a few days ago the newest issue of c ‘n c was released! I may be biased, but oh boy there are some fantastic features this time around: → @kinopio.club by @pketh.org → Indie App Sales by @matt1corey.bsky.social → and a shiny retro keyset by pbt.fans (just to name a few)

am I the only one who finds Discord 'boosts' extremely 1. obnoxious, 2. confusing, and 3. surprisingly expensive? (I'm sure all 3 of those together is just a coincidence..)

For an upcoming blogpost, I'm tracing this embroidery pattern from the 1913 book 'le filet ancien au point de reprise II' by using @cleanshot.bsky.social to create a locked transparent overlay on top of Dottie (pixel editor in beta, by @gingerbeardman.com). felt very y2k art class

> Have you seen that new viral video about… > the answer to that question is always going to be ‘no’ , and ‘thankfully’

writing takes so long because it keeps causing me to refine or completely change my opinions and views