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Piri

@pketh

8 years

please make it simple, radical and beautiful.

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Piri

@pketh

3 months

[new blog post] Open Sourcing Kinopio

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@pketh

1 year

omg this concept computer..

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@pketh

1 year

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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@pketh

2 years

The first look at the new Kinopio design

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@pketh

3 years

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 – ＜⌒／ヽ-、_＿／＜_/＿＿＿＿／￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ ∧_∧ （・o・）"here4dis” ＿|　⊃／

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@pketh

2 years

Sorry Zuck, @KinopioClub is #1 on Hacker News rn –

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Piri

@pketh

5 years

@automaticyes @brian_lovin thxthx, I make @KinopioClub , it's a visual thinking tool with a modeless, direct design

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Piri

@pketh

5 months

When you've been RSS-ing for 10+ years

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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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@pketh

2 years

another ascii comment moment – maintainable code is code that's easy to figure out months from now

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@pketh

1 year

[New Blog Post] Kinopio's Design Principles Embracing smallness, fidget-ability, and pruning your babies

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@pketh

2 years

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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Piri

@pketh

7 years

drew some new bits for glitch

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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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Piri

@pketh

7 years

come at me bros

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

Good morning, lots to do today

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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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Piri

@pketh

3 years

box selection involves working through a surprising number of weird math problems

Piri

@pketh

3 years

wip early prototyping for shift-drag to box select

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

Working on box snapping for building simple grids

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Piri

@pketh

10 months

Couldn't have put it better myself:

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Piri

@pketh

5 months

mini-brand moodboard

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

[New Blog Post] In Search of Organic Software

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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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Piri

@pketh

9 months

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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@pketh

2 years

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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Piri

@pketh

3 years

[New Blog Post] How I Build

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Piri

@pketh

4 months

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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Piri

@pketh

8 years

W3C proposal: <input type="emoji">

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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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Piri

@pketh

7 months

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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Piri

@pketh

5 years

The original Illustration Kit I drew for glitch. It's in better hands now though :)

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

all set up in my new airbnb for the month

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Piri

@pketh

2 months

I've been drawing all the icons for Kinopio in the same @sketch file since 2020

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Piri

@pketh

5 months

I enjoy it when serious and non-serious things get together ()

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

[WIP] What if you could use Dall-e to generate images to use in your spaces?

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Piri

@pketh

4 months

working on open sourcing the kinopio-client app

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Piri

@pketh

5 months

Your personal website can be anything you want it be. It’s yours.

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Piri

@pketh

1 year

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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Piri

@pketh

3 months

Working on a b+w wordmark version of the kinopio logo for some upcoming publications. What do you think?

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Piri

@pketh

1 year

conference websites are a special genre of web design, and is one of my new favourites

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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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Piri

@pketh

7 years

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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Piri

@pketh

2 years

Feeling burnt out so taking the rest of the week off. when I move quickly I mostly break myself

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Piri

@pketh

1 year

I think the world is ready for a marble computer

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Piri

@pketh

6 months

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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Piri

@pketh

2 years

Okay that's enough work for today, time for a quick errand...

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

Adding a Quick Start section to the help site, because showing > telling

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

Not a bad winter office ☃️

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Piri

@pketh

3 years

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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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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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Piri

@pketh

3 years

I've noticed that high-end fashion is often whimsical, but high-end software is usually not whimsical at all

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

The next release of Kinopio will be a full visual redesign. Here's why… 1/4

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@pketh

2 years

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 – ＜⌒／ヽ-、_＿／＜_/＿＿＿＿／￣￣￣￣￣￣￣ ∧_∧ （・o・）"here4dis” ＿|　⊃／

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Piri

@pketh

3 years

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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@pketh

2 years

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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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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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Piri

@pketh

2 years

Working on a performance optimization: when you scroll a long list of items, only the visible ones render completely

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Piri

@pketh

3 years

So many people are trying to build a second brain, but what about your first one?

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@pketh

3 years

Time for writing (trying something new)

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Piri

@pketh

9 months

[new blog post] The Building Blocks of Offline Support

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

Just shipped Minimap – the extra rendering details, little animations, and drag-ability help capture the energy I wanted to convey

Piri

@pketh

2 years

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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Piri

@pketh

3 years

Time to type words and change lives

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Piri

@pketh

7 years

Just shipped @glitch licenser

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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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Piri

@pketh

8 years

So glad people are liking 🍾, I've been working on it for almost 2 years in relative obscurity. A trippy feeling

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Piri

@pketh

3 years

Even apple builds in html it seems

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

It’s still a seed of an idea, but I think there’s a relationship between fidgeting and thinking. (See also pen spinning)

Kinopio

@KinopioClub

2 years

Sticky Cards [New] Hovering your mouse over cards 'sticks' them to you. Not useful in any way, but really fun and really satisfying ~

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Piri

@pketh

1 year

good business advice

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Piri

@pketh

3 years

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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Piri

@pketh

7 months

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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Piri

@pketh

1 year

Starting today, I'll be working 1-3 days/week at Readwise on some very cool secret projects

Piri

@pketh

2 years

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 ()

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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 ()

Redesigning an App, One Day a Week at a Time

Futureland is a journaling platform that helps you build habits or learn new skills through daily...

pketh.org

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Piri

@pketh

7 years

@jennschiffer Can confirm, the illustrator one is hawt

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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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Piri

@pketh

1 year

[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

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

The Kinopio web client only has 50k~ lines of code, but each one is really thicc and heartfelt

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Piri

@pketh

3 years

Every app should have an About page that tells you their business model and how/if they're funded

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

So cool to see @lucaslovexoxo making totally new interfaces for by extending the design language I helped them create last year ()

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Piri

@pketh

4 years

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 – ___ ___ ___ {o,o} {o.o} {o,o} |)__) |)_(| (__(| --"-"--"-"---"-"-- O RLY? YA RLY NO WAI!

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Piri

@pketh

6 months

Ready to show off Kinopio and describe it's origins at new demos 2

New Systems

@newsystems_

6 months

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 –

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

I'm tired of hype. Show > tell

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Piri

@pketh

7 years

explaining what @glitch is. Special thanks to @GoodBoyGraphics for the dope art collab

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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 ＿φ( °-°)/

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

The older kinopio gets, the clearer it gets in my mind. A little bit each time

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Piri

@pketh

4 months

I'm not always the best programmer, but fortunately I've got the best customers

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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, 1/7

Kinopio

@KinopioClub

2 years

Directional Connections [New] Create sequences and diagrams with explicit direction arrows by tapping or paint selecting connections

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Piri

@pketh

5 months

Major performance increase incoming. This space has 500+ image and video cards. (current at the top, WIP at the bottom)

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

Trying to bridge the gap between making a marketing site and an instruction manual

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

I hate tech, but I love computers

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Piri

@pketh

3 years

Hard at work on full undo/redo for Kinopio ___φ（．．）

Steve Ruiz

@steveruizok

3 years

Working on a new Undo / Redo manager that runs on mobx and JSON patches. Here's how it works! 🧵

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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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Piri

@pketh

5 months

Ready to record

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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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@pketh

2 years

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

Piri

@pketh

2 years

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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Piri

@pketh

3 years

[New Blog Post] Redesigning an App, One Day a Week at a Time

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Piri

@pketh

2 years

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.