Crankulator for Playdate

Playmaker for Playdate

Playmaker Original Soundtrack, by Max Coburn

https://maxo.bandcamp.com/album/playmaker-original-soundtrack

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/743218037112142643/Translator

Sabotage, hired goons, and a landfill in Utah: this is a story about the life, death, and afterlife of Apple’s most pioneering flop, the Lisa computer. How i...

Lisa: Steve Jobs’ sabotage and Apple’s secret burial | FULL DOCUMENTARY

‎Show Playdate Podcast, Ep Catalog - Mar 14, 2023

‎Playdate Podcast: Catalog on Apple Podcasts

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/playdate-podcast/id1619651510?i=1000604160581

Figma Community plugin - Colorwell is like having a painters mixing palette in Figma. Select your mixing color, and spin the color mixer to mix it in. Then use or save the currently mixed color to your palette or Figma design.

The advanced color mixing algorithm used in Colorwell implements the Kubelka & Munk theory to ...

Colorwell | Figma Community

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1201227664694727583

Shame. Posts was one of the few networks I actually liked. Small social is a tough business. 😮‍💨

I've had this on the back burner for a time but I hope to make time to finish it: a faithful recreation of MacPaint in Swift that uses some modern APIs for quality of life improvements like fullscreen, modern file format import/export, Quicklook support, tabs, etc.

New M4 Mac mini arrived today and... is this the first time Apple has done this with the plug? No holes on the contacts? It's bizarre, but nice.

Playing with recreating BeOS in Figma but modernized a bit. One can dream.

Believe it or not, the one and only crank operated digital talking calculator—Crankulator—is out today in the Playdate's first Catalog drop.

Had a surprising amount of fun with this one. Plus there may be a hidden game within but you'll have to find it.

https://crankulator.com

Busy day yesterday! Spent the morning reprioritizing tasks with all the new information a product release brings.

Playmaker for Playdate is out now. A kind of homage to the creative software from my childhood: Kid Pix, HyperCard, and of course Mario Paint. This has been a labor of love for me over the past 3 years or so. Happy with how 1.0 turned out. More to come. Yay! https://playmaker.fun

Any good recommendations for Mac time tracking software? Everything I’ve found so far is too much or too ugly (usually both).

And yes I do think it’s fair to expect time tracking software to be nice. :)

You should be able to draw/write/doodle on the iPad’s different Calendar views.

Max Coburn, who composed the music for Playmaker, released the tracks today. Give ‘em a listen!

I liked the work he did on another Playdate game, Casual Birder so asked if he’d help me out. He went above and beyond.

https://maxo.bandcamp.com/album/playmaker-original-soundtrack

I’ll miss this Posts icon on my home screen.

About to hunker down to work and these large snowflakes start gracefully raining down on Portland. Okay, now work. Really.

My plugin for Figma, Translator, now supports style translation. So it now does everything it can to carry your mixed text styles between languages. 😊

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/743218037112142643/Translator

How wild future WWDC keynotes are going to be as Apple shows how Vision has changed people’s lives (somehow) and continually iterates on the product as only Apple does.

Crafting a few icons for my side project: a modern remake of Hotline for macOS. Hope to make 6 more. The borderless one is a remake of the original Hotline icon.

Wonderful little documentary on Apple, Lisa, and what happened after that https://youtu.be/rZjbNWgsDt8

Added freeform translation to my Figma Translator plugin a while back. This allows you to translate text that may not be part of the Figma design document, like comments or variables.

Loving these new platforms popping up in the wake of Twitter’s slow collapse. This is looking solid!

Kind of wouldn't mind if the Notion icons for macOS looked something like this. Their brand feels a bit rigid to me. They should be able to adapt to the context in which they are being presented but so far haven't. 🤔

Lots of people in this week’s Playdate podcast, including me! It’s very nice to hear from all the folks who built things for the Playdate Catalog launch. 

😊 👏

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/playdate-podcast/id1619651510?i=1000604160581

As part of Figma’s big community update today, I shipped a few plugins. One of them is Colorwell, a Paper-like color mixing tool that uses the Kubelka & Munk method to achieve more natural color mixing results. https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1201227664694727583

Looking forward to this next release of my Translator plugin for Figma. It will handle text layers that have mixed styles infinitely better than it does today.

This will make it much easier to see your designs as you’d expect in other languages. 😊

Teeny Mac! Little pet project my son and I worked on this past month. 3D printer case. Fully functional. Disk drive is an SD card that contains the whole system/hard drive. USB powered (seen here powered off my Mac mini’s USB port). I have an ADB to USB adapter so, naturally. 😅