Making @KinopioClub to help with your thorniest thoughts. Formerly co-creator of @glitch. fedi: c.im/@pirijan, bsky: bsky.app/profile/pketh.org
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When it comes to the OG iMacs everyone thinks of bondi blue, but this ethereal af 'snow' color released near the end is everything
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Kinopio 2.0 is on ProductHunt today,
Spreading the word is the hardest part of making Kinopio sustainable, so if you like it, please check it out – producthunt.com/posts/kinopi…
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thxthx, I make @KinopioClub , it's a visual thinking tool with a modeless, direct design
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This is true:
I’m one person competing against whole teams with a lot of $$
Also true:
The things I build in a couple days would take weeks/months in past companies I’ve worked at (lots of meetings, lots of middle-managers)
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another ascii comment moment – maintainable code is code that's easy to figure out months from now
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[New Blog Post] Kinopio's Design Principles
Embracing smallness, fidget-ability, and pruning your babies
pketh.org/design-principles.…
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I really dislike this UI pattern in Figma where you only know if a field is editable after you hover over it. Text fields in professional software should always look like text fields IMO.
My model for good tool design is a hammer – which always looks and works the same way.
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WIP better copy/paste that supports pasting cards and connections across spaces, windows, and browsers – kind of like regular text
it's a hack on top of current web clipboard API limitations though – if you copy cards and paste into a text editor you'll get a bunch of JSON
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What if you could Import a twitter thread into Kinopio, to pull ideas out and take notes on, would you be into that?
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I'm launching Kinopio 3.0 on ProductHunt tomorrow~
Now that we have boxes, inbox, card styles, and so much other new stuff, now feels like a good time to introduce Kinopio to a more people
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Should I blog about how I'm adding full offline support to Kinopio? Would be a bit technical, but I think I could make it interesting, or at least readable, for everyone
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In an alternate dimension where we didn’t have the Internet but had html, I’d ship kinopio to you on a single floppy disk (wouldn’t even need a high-density one)
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checked into the hotel I'll be staying at for the next 2-3wks while our moving stuff ships. Got my travel setup ready to go and now resuming bug fixes
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I think we write linearly (in paragraphs, from top to bottom on paper shaped pages) for historical and technology reasons.
But we think non-linearly and spatially for deeper biological reasons (where is the nearest drinkable water? where's the food at?)
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It's been long enough: time to finally refactor the 3000 lines long Card.vue component file.
Easily the scariest file in the app because Kinopio cards have so many possible user interactions.
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I've been drawing all the icons for Kinopio in the same @sketch file since 2020
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I enjoy it when serious and non-serious things get together (tokyocamerastyle.com/post/74…)
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I still sometimes think about this instagram.exe concept – I instantly know what's UI and what's content, and those chonky win95 buttons are so inviting to click
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Working on a b+w wordmark version of the kinopio logo for some upcoming publications. What do you think?
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conference websites are a special genre of web design, and naiveyearly.com is one of my new favourites
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Something I've learned from users is that examples > templates.
The logic being that templates solve the blank page problem for straightforward work tasks – but great examples show you what's possible and inspire you to go your own way
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If you accidentally delete a @glitch project, you can now undelete it. Instead of warnings and sadness, we're trying to design a forgiving tool
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Feeling burnt out so taking the rest of the week off. when I move quickly I mostly break myself
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Sometimes I look at other CEOs and their inspiring 100+ heart tweet threads and think "I wish I was that compelling of a communicator".
But also, I'm fixing servers and building features. My hands are worn, my pants flecked with sawdust. And I wouldn't trade that for likes.
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The best thing I did last year was decide to only use one notebook for all my @KinopioClub sketches and stuff
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Remember how GraphQL was the future of APIs like 5 years ago? I don't really hear much about it these days...
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I've noticed that people naturally want to do as much as they can in software they enjoy using – even if it wasn't originally designed for those use cases.
A great tool becomes a hammer that makes you see nails everywhere
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I've noticed that high-end fashion is often whimsical, but high-end software is usually not whimsical at all
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Kinopio 3.0 is on ProductHunt today,
Spreading the word is the hardest part of making Kinopio sustainable, so if you like it, please check it out – producthunt.com/posts/kinopi…
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I'm launching Kinopio 2.0 on ProductHunt in a day or so~
(It never feels not weird to write about what Kinopio is and how people use it everyday)
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Rubbermaid lawn chair + apple XDR display
I’m guessing I’m the first person to use these together.
(This temporary basement setup is surprisingly comfortable)
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WIP mini-mapping
Not bad for a day of work – I've got the basics working, but it still needs a more energetic feel
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Working on a performance optimization: when you scroll a long list of items, only the visible ones render completely
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Sometimes there's no way around code that's hard to read. For those times, ASCII comment diagrams (I use @Monodraw) are worth making for your future sanity
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So glad people are liking Gomix.com 🍾, I've been working on it for almost 2 years in relative obscurity. A trippy feeling
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I've always disliked the academic/cerebral pretension that surrounds 'tools for thought'. Thinking tools are for everyone, just like text editors and calendars
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I have enormous respect for people who choose to unlearn possibly decades of normal keyboard typing, mainly in pursuit of beauty.
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Starting today, I'll be working 1-3 days/week at Readwise on some very cool secret projects
I'll be looking for 1-2 day/wk contracting work soon. If you have a product that needs design or engineering, let me know. (If you don't, RTs appreciated)
Here's a write-up of the redesign I did last year for futureland.tv (pketh.org/redesigning-an-app…)
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I'll be looking for 1-2 day/wk contracting work soon. If you have a product that needs design or engineering, let me know. (If you don't, RTs appreciated)
Here's a write-up of the redesign I did last year for futureland.tv (pketh.org/redesigning-an-app…)
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Wrote my first production python app today. Deployed it on @Railway which really impressed me – can’t wait to move the @KinopioClub server and db there too
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[New Blog Post]
The Hybrid Architecture of Kinopio for iOS
A behind the scenes tale of how the new Kinopio iOS app came about, and how it's made
pketh.org/kinopio-ios.html
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Every app should have an About page that tells you their business model and how/if they're funded
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So cool to see @lucaslovexoxo making totally new interfaces for futureland.tv by extending the design language I helped them create last year (pketh.org/redesigning-an-app…)
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Kinopio is on ProductHunt today,
Spreading the word is the hardest part of making Kinopio sustainable, so if you like it, please check it out – producthunt.com/posts/kinopi…
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Ready to show off Kinopio and describe it's origins at new demos 2
Chaotic Era – @_GABRIELOC
Folding Fan – @ericlchen
Recent Experiments – @ansonyuu
Chatforce – Robert Ciborowski
Kinopio – @pketh
Spacebar – @dcarmitage
Noisy, Calculated, Imperfect Design – @analog_emoji
Stackabl – @devontoast
Keyflow – @trillhause_
Command Line Factorio – @caseploeg
Futureland 2 – @internetvin
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glitch.com explaining what @glitch is. Special thanks to @GoodBoyGraphics for the dope art collab
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Started writing a long twitter thread – then I took a step back and asked myself “why am I doing this to myself?”
Doing us all a favor and writing a little blog post instead
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Whenever I'm feeling down it's nice to look back on ~3yr old journals spaces where I was optimistic about the comparatively tiny 60-100 visits/day Kinopio was getting back then
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Before I started building connection arrows, I was pretty intimidated by the math behind drawing these little guys.
But once I jumped in, the math and logic behind them wasn't too bad,
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Directional Connections [New]
Create sequences and diagrams with explicit direction arrows by tapping or paint selecting connections
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Major performance increase incoming. This space has 500+ image and video cards.
(current at the top, WIP at the bottom)
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I've got the core workflow down for generating AI Images ~
Because of the high cost of Dall-E images ($0.02 each) I'll need to add usage limits though. I want everyone to be able to try it at least once so I'm thinking 10/life for free users, 50/month for paid
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The first rule of working with a large code base is the same as camping in the woods, always leave the area cleaner than you found it
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Been working again on positional zooming. Trying a slightly lower-level approach of calculating translate offsets manually, instead of relying on css transform-origin.
Still early WIP, but seems to be working a lot better so far
WIP new mechanism for zooming out from your position. It's still busted af, and there's a lot of edge cases related to webpages having an XY origin of 0,0.
But possibly, this solves more problems than it creates so…
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I think everyone should use, or at least have access to thinking tools. So I'm happy to do student discounts – and even give Kinopio away for free when someone really needs it.
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Anyone use a macropad with macos? What do you use it for and how do you like it? (I'm macro-curious)
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