Mozilla isn’t just another tech company — we’re a global crew of activists, technologists and builders, all working to keep the internet free, op

Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech | The Mozilla Blog

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-brand-next-era-of-tech/

https://pketh.org/towards-a-better-whiteboard.html

A community vote in the CSS-Next repository on GitHub decided on a new official logo for CSS. The design follows the design language of the logos of other web technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly. A demonstration of the new rebeccapurple colored CSS logo alongside the logos from JavaScript, TypeScript, WebAssembly, and other web technologies But perhaps more importantly, the logo uses the color rebeccapurple (#663399), a color that was added to the CSS specification in 2014 ...

CSS Gets a New Logo: And It Uses the Color `rebeccapurple` | MichaelCharl.es/Aubrey (Michael Charles Aubrey)

https://kinopio.club/kinopio-future-paths-PkYcIhyLE14zf3n_7Gdwq

Every problem is a front-end development problem.

Hire HTML and CSS people

https://robinrendle.com/notes/hire-html-people/?ref=heydesigner

Shift-Drag to Snap to Grid [New]

Hold Shift while dragging or resizing cards and boxes snaps them a grid. Helpful when you want to line things up perfectly – or make your own calendar

The new blog post I'm writing is about the design of whiteboarding software. I tried out Miro to make some observations, and I'm trying to be nice, but I almost feel bad for how yikes it is. Almost.

I don’t like to do things that don’t have at least 2 uses.
Most of my social media posts are also to validate and poke with ideas that I might expand on in a full blog post later on

My PlantStudio garden masterpiece. Easy to make with the instructions in my latest blog post https://pketh.org/plantstudio.html

Trust me, you’d be okay without ‘same day’ delivery

“A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one”

My résumé is: cashier, waiter, went to school for biology and urban planning, worked in construction, then to illustrator, designer, developer, blogger

Auto Align Cards Below [New]

When editing cards, the vertically aligned cards below will automatically adjust positions to stay aligned and prevent overlapping. (I've personally wanted this forever)

Mo, the empty state cat.

Character concept for moments.software

making some plants in PlantStudio.
blog post "review" coming soon

No organization procrastinates like Mozilla – they’ll do anything to avoid actually building a web browser. 

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-brand-next-era-of-tech/

Organize Spaces into Groups [New]

Group related spaces together and share them with multiple people at once. Each Group member can see and edit all of the spaces in a Group.

Use Groups for projects, teams, or like personal folders – it's really up to you.

[New Blog Post] Towards a Better Whiteboard
https://pketh.org/towards-a-better-whiteboard.html

The curse of humanity is that we can't read minds, but we do need to work together.

Not sure how normal this is, but whenever I've been mostly coding/designing for a while and need to write something in-depth like a blog post or an email bulletin, it takes me a day of doing nothing to switch into 'writing mode'

Using code you don’t know 💯% will bite you hard later. 
My experience is that AI is okay for <10 line snippets that you fully understand, not life changing

Curation is easy, creating is hard. Reacting is safe; creating opens you up to being criticized and reacted to. “It’s too ugly”, “it’s not professional enough”, “AI could do this better”. 

But still, people keep creating.

I've tried to explain to normal people what CSS is and how standards changed the web, but it's the story of rebeccapurple (#663399) that really makes most people appreciate how human-scale the fight for the web was (and still is).

Kinopio is now 5 years old!

＝( ^o^)ノ

Re-reading my first post about it, even back then the bones of the design and it's purpose were solid and timeless.

https://pketh.org/hello-kinopio.html

Press 'B' to Surround Selected Cards in a Box [New Quality of Life Feature]

The Michelin tire company wanted people to drive more, so they awarded Michelin stars to restaurants they thought people should drive to. What if I wanted to do something for the web? (But not shitty like the webbys). 

What are the indie web apps you would drive to?

Now more than ever, to do more and be more, we all need a racecar for the mind (Kinopio.club)

Help me figure out the future of funding kinopio. Comments and feedback extremely welcome https://kinopio.club/kinopio-future-paths-PkYcIhyLE14zf3n_7Gdwq

Heroku is such a good business. I'm paying ~80$/mo to rent a piece of a machine with less computing power than a raspberry pi

I love finding someone's home-made blog (not a Medium or Substack or something) and binging three years worth of articles in one sitting.



Plz keep making your own websites folks, the world appreciates it ❤️

I saw this video online about Simcity for nes/snes, and noticed that they toggled the minimap on automatically when you enter panning mode. I think something like that could work really well in Kinopio when you hold space key to pan the view

The cockpit of a British Airways Concorde passenger jet. This is what mission critical professional interfaces have to look like sometimes

Group Notifications [New]

To make it easier to keep up with what's new in a group, members are notified when new spaces are added to groups. As usual, all notifications are one-click to unsubscribe.

Seeing as I slept in till 1pm and haven’t done anything today, I guess I’m officially celebrating thanksgiving now 🇺🇸

More than a little nostalgic for the world where cheap, fun, and approachable were words used to describe the new updated console

Feature request: would love .webp image file support.  

It's basically fully supported by browsers: https://caniuse.com/?search=webp

Bulletin №35, 
People using spaces in ways I never expected

blog.kinopio.club/posts/35

Box checkboxes ready for beta testing (details in the kinopio discord)

Box Focusing [New]

Keep your focus on a set of cards and tasks by wrapping them in a box and clicking the box filter button to fade everything else out.

If I held a Kinopio crowdfunding campaign, with a minimum $100 investment, would you be interested in helping shape its future as an investor?

💌 Dear shitty app emails: 
I don’t want to “manage my notification settings”.
I want to “unsubscribe”.

“Every problem at every company I’ve ever worked at eventually boils down to “please dear god can we just hire people who know how to write HTML and CSS.”

...

Hire. HTML. And. CSS. People.”

🔗 https://robinrendle.com/notes/hire-html-people/?ref=heydesigner

[New Blog Post] Digging Into PlantStudio, a Bit Late

https://pketh.org/plantstudio.html

Don’t know if I’ve ever said this publicly but sandwich is the ultimate interface:

Everyone figures out how to hold it on their own. When you see it, you know what’s in it. As you eat, the weight/balance communicates how much is left without having to look at it. Also delicious.

What’s your favorite easy-to-post-to, but also fully customizable, CMS/blogging tool?

I’m proud of the fact that I try and always reply to every message I’m sent. I try to never ghost anyone. If I missed a message of yours please reach out and let me know (hi@pirijan.com)

The #1 mistake that aspiring coders make is trying to do too much from the jump.
 
The web as a medium is a reflection of the ideal that "simple things should be easy, and hard things be possible". So start simple, then start looking for beauty in simplicity.

Writing code changes you: you’ll start to insist on specificity, prefer not to infer context, and distrust ambiguity.

Making my own rose bush kind of plant, not biologically accurate in any way – but looks cool. 
Blog post coming soon

Pixels are the easy part. Problem solving and consensus building is the real job of a designer

Improved Panning [New]

Hold shift or right-click and drag to pan around. Now faster and smoother.

While tools aren't everything, in my experience, the people and teams who care about using great tools are the ones that take pride in their work

Eiko Font [New]

An elegant card and box header font for the very finest of spaces

no discussion of best logos is complete without petco's in the running

Posts