Thinking about a new portfolio site, but I've been told it's frightening?

Boop

The beag

Candy boxes make good bookmarks. (The candy corn bookmark is actually a bookmark.)

It's finally melting.

More work on editing and selection: Lasso tool, multi-path/point selection; better UX (staying out of the user's way)

Worked on interaction today, and added a modifier button for complex selection. Also, I noticed flickering when deselecting vertices, which means too many redraws, so there's now update coalescing. I'm still in debug (CoreGraphics) drawing mode, but it's noticeably faster now.

A photo I took of Tanner Springs Park in #portland #oregon, rendered in a painterly style via Waterlogue 2 by @Tinrocket (this latest version is very slick!) #noai #silentsunday

My new app, SoloTime, is now available on the App Store! Easily track your time on projects, create and send invoices in seconds, build quotes, record your expenses and more... #b2b #indiedev #buildinpublic apps.apple.com/gb/app/solot...

After a year+, Waterlogue 2 is done! Free upgrade for existing customers. Free to try for everyone else. TestFlight is open if you want to test/try before launch: testflight.apple.com/join/YQ5... What's New: documentation.tinrocket.com/w... Waterlogue Guide: documentation.tinrocket.com/w...

Bagel crimes

Beag

I built a music app for my mom. She’s over 70. The Liquid Glass design aesthetic overwhelms her. iOS’s Assistive Access mode is better, but it comes with heavy limitations. Preserving digital autonomy in old age is important. Now she can listen to music independently again.

Met our new snow removal service.

Project thread: I'm using Claude to develop a sky simulator. I can finally get the ideas out of my head almost as fast as they come, and I've been a graphics developer for over 25 years. Its a mixture of simulation and empirical models. The data is accurate, but I'm focusing on the aesthetics.

Stuff I learned from dad: For a few inches snow, it's cheaper and easier to drive back and forth over the snow than to call the snow removal service.

I had my first business meeting in our home office, so everything was made spotless.

Japanese garden #pixelart

I try to get this glow-in-the-dark calendar every year.

Perfect screenshot. Worf as a focal point is already killer, then your eyes travel to Data in the friar haircut and you think "this can't possibly get any better," and then there's the finishing blow of Geordi in his space visor plucking a lute

Our snow plow guy isn't available. It's fine. 🥵

This is fucking terrifying. It's not a new concern, but good to be reminded that your entire digital life can be annihilated in an instant with no recourse cloudisland.nz/@parisba/11571...

We moved to our current house in 2022, but ➀︎ I finally got around to putting up some of the ➁︎ art I had in my Brooklyn apartment. Wall painting will have to wait. I highly recommend picture hanging systems.

NEW Vibescape on Apple Vision Pro featuring WINTER LIGHTS – our most expansive immersive environment yet! ✨

spending over a decade getting pretty good at doing "generative things" only to land in the decade of generative slop is ... not ideal

Greenhouse 🌱

Sun beagle

Time is running out! Our wonderful volunteer, Shelley Hagerty, is once again donating her time and talent to create these keepsake ornaments to raise funds for TBR. Please place your order by 9 PM Friday November 14th! triangle-beagle-rescue-of-nc.square.site/product/2025...

working on cave CA

Bucket hound.

It's Penny's gotcha day! 11 years. #beagle

it would be great if after a character died, your game made a .txt file which is just generated ascii art of their bones.

The Waterlogue 2 release is delayed because I'm converting it to freemium. All current users will get the base upgrade for free, with an IAP for new styles and future features. Freemium users will get a few styles, with watermarks on the locked features.

Went to Windup Watch Fair yesterday. The line to get in circled an entire NYC midtown block. Most amazing sight: I saw someone steal a watch from a vendor's table.

Branding downgrade. 😟 Old → New

First time dealing with any kind of car repair—someone backed up and poked a hole in my bumper. Cost to repair? Over $3k (bumper replacement, painting, sensors, etc.) not including seven days in the shop and car rental costs. 100% their fault, so no cost to me, not even deductible, but still…wow.

I normally do this type of visualization with 3d rendering, but Illustrator is pretty capable too. This watch case back is just three layers, with gradients and inner shadow effects on the notches.

I made a tiny pancake and it turned out pretty well.

It’s my understanding that lower-quality glass has greater chromatic aberration?

Free macOS app idea: Hit a hotkey and a search box appears that lets you find any text on the screen, including toolbar and interface buttons. Behind the scenes, the screen is captured and OCR'ed.

If your privacy policy is a 20-page booklet, you don't need to read it to know it's not going to be good.

This spam message arrived last Sunday, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about beef Stroganoff.

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Wow—I did the "email the CEO" thing that people do when customers have problems, and it worked. A bank CEO, no less. I received a callback an hour later from someone who was able to handle my issues.

AI summarized text on iOS should be in its own font. (Not like crayon, but maybe something computer-y.)

Hey lovely people, I'd love to get some more ratings and/or reviews for Obscura Studio if you have a few moments to spare

practice

I've been trying to model complex geometry like this for a while, with booleans, chamfering, surface continuity, etc., but Cinema 4D isn't a CSG (solids CAD) program and the polygon operations always make a mess.

Just make it exist first, you can make it good later

New for 2025—Radioactive Wasps! Gift article.