please make it simple, radical and beautiful.

Kinopio Year-End Investor Report As you may know, Kinopio is organic software that's completely community funded. But if you're reading this, as far as I’m concerned, you’re invested in the future of Kinopio. ↓ 1/10

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On my first day officially off, I'm finally enjoying my copy of Niche Design by @itaydre – a real labor of love zine interviewing designers with a unique point of view and style (I'm in there too!)

This much cool should be illegal

Iterating on the Kinopio logo and wordmark for print things and document websites

📧 I wanted to have the Kinopio year-end bulletin email out today, but I’ll need another day to send it out. Finished the writing today, but I still need to wrap up an illustration, and do a bit of custom email html/css work for it too

I've endeavored to never describe a user interface as an 'experience'

The next bulletin email going out to Kinopio users will be a Year-End Strategy Letter. I'm doing something I almost never do, crunching through the many numbers and graphs in my Stripe account. To ease the suspense, I think you'll like what I have to say.

Computers are pretty fast now, but they still haven't made one with *enough* USB-C ports

This is such a great website, really well done. Comparing car sizes is a nightmare and this takes all the hard work out of it. Thanks @carsized1 ! https://t.co/KsKuDMMkKo

Thoughts on replacing the previous box-to-box-snapping behaviour (which could be finicky and less predictable) with a more consistent target-box-expanding behaviour that works just like cards do?

Why I can't be bothered to blog about AI, or feel passionate about it one way or another - it's just mostly mid to me

It's hard to tell whether other apps do full stroke delete because they determined it's better – or because it's *way* easier to implement and maintain

❓ how important is it to you that the drawing eraser only remove a piece of the drawing, as opposed to the whole stroke (like tldraw/mmm does)? If partial stroke erasing is not actually important to ppl, I can really simplify the drawing system and improve perf for big drawings.

I get asked about it a lot so up next up is a blog post about my writing process. I've already done the rough outline (I just took notes about how I wrote the last one). ___ψ(‥ )

What happened to the concept of Multimedia software like Encarta? It would be so interesting if that whole thing had worked out. Imagine hobby and educational books like MIT Press Essential Knowledge series in a Multimedia format, with videos, sounds and interactive models to

one of my future dream projects is to wrap Wikipedia in a child-friendly, encarta-like ui, with maybe some simple games, for kids, people who like exploring, and people who miss when National Geographic was good. Maybe I'd also distribute it on CD.

"Most company structures are based on the Roman empire military. "

[New Blog Post] Why Sell Lifetime Plans, in a Default Subscription World? https://t.co/vrPl54Ul2Z

Have you noticed that most software is subscription-only these days? There's good reasons for that – but there are other ways to do what's best for both biz and users. New blog post tomorrow!