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by pketh 4y ago
Some of these seem like they could be really cool challenges in the context of a designer/engineer job interview
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by pketh 4y ago
> it's not exactly what I wanted out of it would love to hear more about that so I can improve it for you
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by pketh 4y ago
Despite never having owned one, all these years I also thought the element floor was hose-able. I wonder why I thought that and how I learned and kept this, apparently untrue, tidbit around with me all these years
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by pketh 5y ago
Yes and those actions can be understood independently of their grouping
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by pketh 5y ago
Yup and in this case everything still has icons and labels. The color here is more akin to optional progressive enhancement
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by pketh 5y ago
That totally makes sense. I think there's a place for both the one click 'i did the thing today' like flathabits, and a higher friction but more expressive 'here's what I thought about the thing I did today'
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by pketh 5y ago
> I do like the idea of using colors to indicate function, but I would be concerned that they draw attention to themselves > with colored buttons and doodads everywhere I agree, functional colors are not a solution that work for every
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by pketh 5y ago
Thanks :) So besides https://kinopio.club (which I work on now), I was the co-creator of glitch.com (it's changed a lot now though, this post captures my work on it https://pketh.org/the-first-four-years-of-
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by pketh 5y ago
Thanks meagher, I actually have another blog post all about inspiration https://pketh.org/decade-of-inspiration.html but tldr, I find a couple key things from outside software to revolve around for every product (like old c
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Redesigning an app, one day a week at a time(pketh.org)
76 points by pketh 5y ago|25 comments
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Ask HN: Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?
199 points by pketh 5y ago|120 comments
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by pketh 5y ago
Maybe not. I think you’ll find creators and auteurs in other fields like film or video games that feel the same way about their field
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by pketh 5y ago
You make a good point, but I wonder what the real world business equivalent of this is? Is it the destiny of every successful café to become acquired by Starbucks one day? (assuming there's not a better comparison I should be thinking
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by pketh 5y ago
kudos on that great about page too
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by pketh 5y ago
Kinda what you’d expect when you rely on instagram to help you spend less time on instagram?
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by pketh 5y ago
ah that makes sense, Kinopio only supports the latest 2 versions of webkit, blink, and firefox browsers (android is tricky in this respect)
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by pketh 5y ago
sadly the data is not currently end-to-end encrypted, it's really a difficult problem to end-to-end encrypt information that you're able to collaborate on. (I use current status quo best practices, like encrypting data in-flight,
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by pketh 5y ago
wow Harm van den Dorpel is new to me and is very cool
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by pketh 5y ago
because the colors of connections (and soon, cards) are totally customizable, a traditional dark mode doesn't really work. e.g. you'll set your mode to dark and open someone else's space with colors designed around light mode
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by pketh 5y ago
neat idea , def something that'd take a bit of thinking through to get right
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by pketh 5y ago
my approach was actually indirectly inspired by the process used to make mario64 – to start with the core interactions (in my case dragging and connecting cards) and make those feel good to use in isolation. Then building the rest of the ap
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by pketh 5y ago
bah, world domination just sounds like stress to me :)
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by pketh 5y ago
Can you elaborate on what parts don't work? I'm tracking android issues in https://club.kinopio.club/t/bugs-on-android/346/2 I don't have android phone rn, so some interactions are a little jan
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by pketh 5y ago
I'll look into that, can you share the space url? (I have a support forum at https://club.kinopio.club , which would be easier to use for bug reporting if you'd like)
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by pketh 5y ago
I’m definitely weird so I can relate :) (kinopio creator here)
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by pketh 5y ago
Re infinite, Kinopio also uses tricks like this where the <canvas> you paint on is only viewport sized but moves when you scroll to give the illusion that it covers the page. That said, as cool as infinite sounds, you might not even
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by pketh 5y ago
Yes this exactly. I would rather spend my time building cool new features than take on the burden of building and maintaining some over-engineered system to ensure that the card limit cannot be gamed in any way (which is probably impossible
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by pketh 5y ago
I wrote about how I design, code, and market new features for https://kinopio.club
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How I Build(pketh.org)
244 points by pketh 5y ago|45 comments
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by pketh 5y ago
I totally relate to this conversation, If my primary life goal was to be happy I would not have started a small software company, but I've noticed that there's a different kind of maybe more meaningful satisfaction that happens be

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