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.

collecting all my sticker making inspiration and resources in one place before I start doodling

I’ll put ‘engineer’ on my business card, but I feel like my work is more George R.R. Martin and ‘software writer’ is a better fitting term. Though the powers-that-be would prefer it if we were bargain ‘software line cooks’.

This is not financial advice but you’d be stupid to buy openAI public stock: a potato so hot your bones melt on approach

I’m gonna finally design some Kinopio stickers tomorrow so I’m looking forward to that

A photo of my desk from 6 years ago showing multiple windows and scraps of reference pages. (everything on about my setup has changed, except the keyboard and the desk itself. I loved that weird blue vase thing, but I can't remember what happened to it.)

The connect to copy functionality shown here was only like 5% of the work of building space notes – but definitely the funnest part to demo. I might do more of these 'connect items to a part of the UI to do something with them' type features.

hmm what should I blog about next?

Gauging interest in a potential Kinopio meetup in Toronto near the end of April - reply if interested!

when product websites say stuff like "increases efficiency by 40%", "save 5 hours a day", "reduce churn by 25%" where do the numbers in those claims come from?

Is it worth doing a product hunt launch in 2026?

Web design matters more than ever. Real pros know that the goal was never trying to look like Stripe. Just like every other form of design, a good website expresses your unique point of view. Sealing the deal with sharp copy and real examples.

No one likes C3PO more than R2D2. But for some reason big tech is obsessed with C3PO-style computers that speak and act like humans you can love (and make love to) – instead of R2D2-style charming machines that beep, bloop and are joyfully and obviously machines.

Thanks to everyone who helped me make today's Kinopio screen recording. It turned out great! Unlike all the other VC-funded competitors, I wanted to show off collaboration with real people because I hate marketing sites that use fake 'perfect' videos made in After Effects.

All set to capture a video of collaboration in action in Kinopio later today

[WIP] a new section showing > telling how to use @kinopio.club on the updated homepage

Building is an iterative, non-linear, and collaborative process. So why do team tools force planning into flat lists, grids, and linear documents? This mismatch between plans and reality is where a lot of work project anxiety comes from.

I need a new screen recording for the updated @kinopio.club marketing site, except this one needs to show off real-time collaboration. 📅 Are you free Thursday 12:30-1pm EST to collaborate for a few minutes in a space with us?

Non-linear outlining and exploring ideas on explaining why you should use Kinopio at Work

I think Kinopio is probably already GDPR compliant as a side-effect of how it's designed, but I'm not sure what the best way to verify that is

Working on a new iteration of the Kinopio about/marketing page by roughly planning out the sequencing of new sections, then diving into copy and code.

dlss5 is nvidia’s cybertruck

In modern computing, the split isn’t between power users and regular users. Increasingly, you’re either a power user or a disenfranchised user.

Updated firefox and got the new ai settings panel, I already use the on-device translation that they've had for a year~ and find it very useful. All the other stuff for me ranges from mid to crappy

Because I'm not VC backed and I can't solve all my server problems by just paying for more compute (aka Ozempic for devops), my philosophy has to be "I'm going to stay with the cheapest server hosting tier and optimize like hell whenever things get slow"

the new macbook neo laptop looks neat, but the website layout for it appears to be embarrassingly non-responsive

TIL if you use raycast like I do , you can replace the macOS native emoji picker shortcut (cmd-ctrl-space), which usually takes 1-2s~ seconds to load every time you invoke it, with a good one that just shows up instantly.

☎️ alrighty the beta for draggable multi-select and outside box snapping is now available. If you'd like to try it out and let me know how it goes, the link is in the Discord #makers-log

Really clever hack that stumped me until I read the code github.com/lochie/web-h... The “haptics” is actually an audio frequency that makes the phone feel like it’s vibrating. Put your finger over the phone speaker when you tap the buttons and you’ll feel what I mean.

I'm not sure how to handle the cards when snapping cards together: When you release the mouse the boxes snap, and the card positions are adjusted by the same amount, but that still makes them now live out of the box

Currently when you paint select items , the multiactions dialog will scroll the page so that it's fully in view. Testing out a little tweak to this which instead shifts the position of the dialog so that the page doesn't have to scroll. what do you think?

Measuring progress by lines of code generated is like measuring a person by grams of skin grown.

Snap Cards into Lists [New] Vertically group and easily reorder cards by snapping them into lists.

☎️ Announcing something really cool tomorrow

is it inevitable that any Discord beyond n users will become toxic?

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

for anything non-trivial, developer estimates don't work – even when you're both the dev and the PM

Almost done with Lists! Just some last minute tasks left like handling copy/move to spaces, import/export, and cmd-c copying

@css-tricks.com nooo the most useful website on the internet is 404, hope it's temporary css-tricks.com/snippets/css...

WIP Lists 00007 When lists are collapsed, the list cards connection lines are directed into the list

i sure love how designers these days choose to use these things instead of unambiguous checkboxes..

rm -rf microslop