Hey folks; the person building Trunk is really having trouble pulling it together financially this month, in a time of the year where it's hard to find work and a job market that is generally hostile. Your money literally translates to the ability to keep me housed. Thread has more.

biophilia, an overgrown mindbody

growing pond

mindbody, with material

pond as home screen

nervous system as bonsai tree virtue as ties that bend us into shapes that we can eventually let go of, because we can hold our own shape

deep research

time passing in pond

reflections done, next caustics

domain name options: pond.space pond.app pond.io

logo? maybe?

We've reached the end of a chapter, but our journey has only just begun. Read more about our reflections on an amazing year with Astera, our rebrand, and what's ahead. Hint: a lot more #atproto! paragraph.xyz/@sense-nets/...

amidst spaces for work and spaces for distraction, enter a space for contemplation

What does it mean to “grow the self” to you? What frameworks come to mind? An invitation to add them here www.are.na/andre-vacha/...

account cards with a sense of physicality from Horizon cc @playbalatro.com

new practice of sketching app concepts through state machines, which can then translate to be translated to linear flows. helps me zoom out and see the whole system and the experience we derive from it

desktop magnet poetry

thoughts are just ripples on the surface of consciousness

less "tools to use" and more "places to be"

life is peaceful. true friends, hot girlfriend, a diminishing sense of self

Core experience Horizon (wip @bsky.app client by @curlprojects.bsky.social ) is designed to support is "Discovery", which is a bit of a loaded term.

@jazz.tools has made working on this an absolute delight. As a designer who spends months working off of local JSON to put off backend wiring ... Jazz lets me do just that. Treat data as state, and it handles sync and storage and whatnot. Amazing!

An input bar that understands its context of use, and adapts to it, Journal Entry <-> Search <-> Public Post. A pattern to drastically simplify interactions with our @bsky.app client, Horizon.

Leeks are like "sweet spring onions" #buildinpublic

knock knock!