Pirijan
@pketh.org
Making https://kinopio.club to help with your thorniest thoughts. Formerly co-creator of Glitch
I’ve been out of the news cycle the last couple weeks, is sus factory lettuce still making people poop?
If you found out that some genuinely useful software you subscribe to was made or led by white supremicists would you still use it?
A little “in the hospital waiting for my wife to give birth” kind of feature
Kinopio@kinopio.club · 3w agoConnector Preview Color [New] When your hover over an item connector, it'll show you what color a new connection line dragged from it will be. Nothing too crazy, just a nice little detail.
If you want good taste you have to eat? Endless consumption is cheap, easy, and doesnt lead to learning or creating anything unique. Instead, get your hands uncomfortably messy. If you want good taste you have to cook.
I'm on website review 85 of 128 and so far I'm blown away with how many excellent and really high ambition 5/5 projects were submitted to the Tiny Awards. I'm not sure if they'll only publish the finalists but basically 99% of what I'm seeing is worth a visit.
The Tiny Awards submissions have all been compiled and there's 123 cool unique websites for me to surf and judge. I have a month but I'm gonna power through and try and get them all done today before the new baby tinyawards.net
I have a weird tech product revelation: I bought bone conducting headphones (Shockz™) for swimming and running (also because my ear wax situation was insane). One unexpected side effect from them is that they've made doing phone calls (eg to my bank) way less painful .. (1/2)
In the latest Dinamo font newsletter, I noticed how upfront and often they emphasized that the promo comic for their new font was “entirely hand drawn”, drawn by hand”, “not a single AI agent was involved”. How long before we see “hand made” badges on software?
Being mad about not being able to buy physical disks seems like it’s actually about not trusting Sony. No one cares that Valve is digital only.
If you, like me, are a Canadian living abroad, don’t forget to apply for mail-in voting at elections.ca/mail . From the lessons of recent history, without (especially young) people voting, any government can become bottom tier
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Add Due Dates to Cards with @ [New] Type @ to add due dates to cards. Reminders will be sent on the day of. Bring it all together by combining checkboxes, tags, @-user mentions, and due dates, to do full project management.
Progress update: I'd say that @date mentions is now 95% code complete, there's just work related to the email notification template and some UI edge cases in the date picker. The QA and code review is going to take awhile for this tho, it's a huge change with like ~4000 lines to review 😭
A couple years ago I did a poll asking whether high-quality human customer support was an important part of the decision to buy a product. The conclusion back then is that it mostly mattered for businesses - but the amount I now personally value human support has skyrocketed in a world of ai chat
WIP Sidebar → Date Cards will list your cards with dates assigned to them across your spaces, letting you jump to them for more context
WIP quick assign due dates by just typing using either @.2d, @.today, @.tomorrow, and @.nov20 syntax
Timeless programming tip: any feature involving time and dates will balloon with edge cases related to timezones, DST, and leap years. Probably other papercuts I'm forgetting rn too.
One thing led to another, and I spent way too long making the nicest timezone picker UI, which most people will only need once if ever. It supports strumming the world map, searching by all major cities, and auto detection. Way beyond scope, but my inner Carmen Sandiego demanded it.
Deep cut question, what's your favorite timezone picker UI? I'm partial to the classic windows one
How would the design of keyboards and laptops change if we could all agree that having a dedicated CAPS LOCK key is stupid
You can now nominate a Site for Tiny Awards 2026. They asked me to be a judge this year so should be fun tinyawards.net/nomin...
Working on adding due dates to cards next. There's a bit of a debate about whether to do timers (eg 30mins) or dates first. They're similar, but different enough to be different projects. I'm tackling the teams/project-planning use-case first because it seems more urgent.
@User Mentions in Cards [New] Based on feedback from the Teams Pilot program, you can now assign cards to space collaborators and group members by @mentioning them. @mentioned users will be notified (in-app or email).
Listened to an old Business of Software podcast ep this morning from 2022 about handling recessions. The most relevant part is that companies/teams are more receptive to tool changes and doing things in a different way when the market is bad then when things are going well. creators.spotify.com...
Ep 112 Are You Recession Ready? by Business of Software Podcast
Jason Cohen of WP Engine fame introduced Mark to Jonathan Slain at Recession.com earlier this year. He and the WP Engine team work with Jonathan and found he is a pretty interesting guy. We invited him on the podcast to discuss how SaaS and software companies can prepare for, and take advantage of, a recession.
creators.spotify.com
A couple years ago someone printed some sample kinopio logo stickers for me. If that was you *please DM me* – I can't find the convo anymore, or remember what social network you were on
WIP on user @mentions , I can type '@' to select a collaborator or group member. The card atMention data saving to the server is also wired up now. This system supports multiple @mentions per card.
It's looking like the days of tech VCs making 20 moonshot bets/investments with the statistical confidence that 1 of them will 200x in value are ending. Maybe those days are long dead already.
The Kinopio sticker saga continues: so i checked out a local sticker printer (SleepyG Stickers) this morning and got a good impression. I also took some pictures of their print shop
