Pirijan

Need a beyond senior design-engineer + design-director + lead front + back-end developer that can jump into any part of your product, and design and build new features end-to-end? Will soon be open for FT, PT, or freelance work. (would really appreciate reposting for reach) ( ^_^)／

Why do almost all OSS apps have temu rip-off UI design?

do I know anyone who works at @leaflet.pub , would love to chat

Nice things are possible pketh.org/organic-soft...

Let’s learn something this time. Don’t switch to another VC or private equity funded app with no published business model. The era of “trust us bro, we’ll figure it out later is dead”

At this point, the SaaS DEapocolpse is that where just having an app on the internet where someone actually understands the security code and can continually patch newfound holes and keep dependencies up to date for more than a week becomes a rare and valuable thing.

first impressions were I thought/was-hoping this was a new badass pc case inspired by the x68

one day I'll write a blog post about choosing tools you can both trust and enjoy

Interesting how the people who used to say that 'software engineer' devalued the word 'engineer', don't have much to say about the rise of 'financial engineering'. You'd think associating 'engineering' with exploiting crime-adjacent loopholes and scams would be a bigger deal.

looking forward to code reviewing and shipping the Kinopio performance improvements to zooming and scrolling I'm working on. They're especially noticeable on safari mac and iOS

nothing worth buying has a price that ends in .99

The side-benefit of promoting new features using screencaptures with no editing is that if something doesn't work smoothly enough to demo then I'm compelled to fix it for real, rather than hide the seams with fancy video editing tricks

📰 Bulletin № 39, Babytown kinopio.club/blog/bu...

Almost done writing the next bulletin. hoping to mail it out tmrw

Bookmark this image for the next time you refactor the codebase

Are you distrustful by default of trying new web software because you've been burned by tools you rely on getting sunset or enshittifying?

A friendly reminder that your personal Life Tasks space only has to make sense to you

☎️ would anyone be interested in testing out a special wip kinopio desktop macOS app that uses half the memory? If so let me know~

how fun to see this on the Are.na Explore feed. This is some UI work I did for futureland.tv journal settings back in the day :)

Found this online and couldn't not share it. Companies never needed AI to make software development miserable, the pain was inside them all along.

Even though I fall into the trap sometimes , I think it’s a bad idea to generalize whole generations. Like all “gen-z kids are lonely and only live in their phones” , but I see teens working at restaurants and stores both talking to and rizzing up their coworkers all the time

[New Kinopio Blog Post] Are You Sure You Want to Do What You Wanted to Do? kinopio.club/blog/ar...

My medium-length travel setup. For when the trip is too short to justify packing a monitor – but also too long to suffer a laptop-only life.

Congrats to neal.fun for winning the tiny web awards with Cursor Camp. As a bonus, open the browser console and inspect WS traffic for a nice peek at how the real time collaboration and syncing is set up tinyawards.net/2026/

I’m looking to find and share your favorite web apps that are: - >= 1yr old - Commercial or donation-ware - high quality and craft - non-vc organic software

Just like I did with my personal blog, adding a little email newsletter sign up to the Kinopio blog so you don't have to rely on social media to know when there's something new to read

oh damn, this aged like a fine wine faster than I thought it would

particularly fond of this CTA. Figured I'd lean into the kind of things VC funded companies can't say/do

Meanwhile in the real world, I think I’m going to downgrade from my partly broken iPhone 17 back to my partly broken iPhone mini. It’s not any slower and I’m sick of carrying big phones.

Few things in life are as depressing as working hard on something and having it fail. I get why people find the idea of generating results so easy that you don't care if they fail is so popular. But nothing good was ever created from fear.

Deathblow Kinopio DnD campaign party is ready

The ideal facebook/instagram user

new trek isn't dumber and less dialog oriented than 90s star trek because gen z have no attention spans and can't follow plots without colorful laser explosions – it's that way because the show's creators look down on their audience

How sick would it be if Canada joined the EU? We could take the UKs spot

It's been my experience that the best way to get a seat at the table is to make the table

This is the god damned dream

Responding to an offer to "scale my personal brand": > Social media isn't how I reach people these days (that'd be blogging, newsletters, and community stuff). I also don't engage enough on social media because i find it an emotional and productivity drain on my day

Your only career goal should be "How do I get a cool job where I'm just making a cool thing with cool people?"

I know I’ve been posting a lot but I’m thinking of reviving The Organic Software Directory as a webring. ("Organic Software" was coined by @pketh.org in this fantastic post, which you should read: pketh.org/organic-soft... )

kinopio is so cool! you guys do great work

Tried out @aphera.co on the mac as a lightroom/photomator alternative, I really like it and I'd recommend it if your needs/perspective is like mine: