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Pirijan

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Making kinopio.club to help with your thorniest thoughts. Formerly co-creator of Glitch

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Pirijan @pketh.org · 22h
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
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 25/09/2026
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
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 24/09/2026
oh damn, this aged like a fine wine faster than I thought it would
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 11/09/2026
particularly fond of this CTA. Figured I'd lean into the kind of things VC funded companies can't say/do
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 09/09/2026
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.
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 08/09/2026
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.
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 02/09/2026
Deathblow Kinopio DnD campaign party is ready
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 27/08/2026
The ideal facebook/instagram user
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 27/08/2026
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
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 26/08/2026
How sick would it be if Canada joined the EU? We could take the UKs spot
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 26/08/2026
It's been my experience that the best way to get a seat at the table is to make the table
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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 25/08/2026
This is the god damned dream
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 25/08/2026
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
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 25/08/2026
Your only career goal should be "How do I get a cool job where I'm just making a cool thing with cool people?"
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nn @nicknoble.works · 23/08/2026
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... )
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In Search of Organic Software
So over the last couple weeks, I’ve been talking to VCs and founders who have and haven’t taken VC to learn whether it makes sense for Kinopio. I don’t think it does.
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 21/08/2026
I'm tired of receiving security bug bounty emails that are 99% generated by LLMs, so I'm formalizing the Kinopio bug bounty program and setting the value of rewards low to reflect the low effort behind them. Long gone is the era when reporting was high value, high effort, and prestige for the finder
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business goose🪿 @goose.art · 15/08/2026
kinopio is so cool! you guys do great work
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 17/08/2026
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:
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 14/08/2026
Got an email from a teacher and Kinopio customer today that included: > people like you make it easier to imagine and dream of new horizons beyond the obvious. Beyond humbled.
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 07/08/2026
going to try attaching both my current and old iphone to my monitor, with one facing down towards my desk and the other facing forward to create a low budget A/B streaming camera situation
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 05/08/2026
something unintentionally poetic about this govt website menu
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 03/08/2026
I’ve been out of the news cycle the last couple weeks, is sus factory lettuce still making people poop?
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 19/07/2026
If you found out that some genuinely useful software you subscribe to was made or led by white supremicists would you still use it?
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 17/07/2026
A little “in the hospital waiting for my wife to give birth” kind of feature
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 16/07/2026
If you want good taste you have to eat? Endless consumption is cheap, easy, and doesnt lead to learning or creating anything unique. Instead, get your hands uncomfortably messy. If you want good taste you have to cook.
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 14/07/2026
I'm on website review 85 of 128 and so far I'm blown away with how many excellent and really high ambition 5/5 projects were submitted to the Tiny Awards. I'm not sure if they'll only publish the finalists but basically 99% of what I'm seeing is worth a visit.
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 14/07/2026
The Tiny Awards submissions have all been compiled and there's 123 cool unique websites for me to surf and judge. I have a month but I'm gonna power through and try and get them all done today before the new baby tinyawards.net
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 09/07/2026
I have a weird tech product revelation: I bought bone conducting headphones (Shockz™) for swimming and running (also because my ear wax situation was insane). One unexpected side effect from them is that they've made doing phone calls (eg to my bank) way less painful .. (1/2)
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 08/07/2026
In the latest Dinamo font newsletter, I noticed how upfront and often they emphasized that the promo comic for their new font was “entirely hand drawn”, drawn by hand”, “not a single AI agent was involved”. How long before we see “hand made” badges on software?
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 07/07/2026
Being mad about not being able to buy physical disks seems like it’s actually about not trusting Sony. No one cares that Valve is digital only.
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 06/07/2026
If you, like me, are a Canadian living abroad, don’t forget to apply for mail-in voting at elections.ca/mail . From the lessons of recent history, without (especially young) people voting, any government can become bottom tier
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Apply to vote by mail – Elections Canada
Apply to vote by mail.
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Kinopio @kinopio.club · 02/07/2026
Add Due Dates to Cards with @ [New] Type @ to add due dates to cards. Reminders will be sent on the day of. Bring it all together by combining checkboxes, tags, @-user mentions, and due dates, to do full project management.
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 26/06/2026
Progress update: I'd say that @date mentions is now 95% code complete, there's just work related to the email notification template and some UI edge cases in the date picker. The QA and code review is going to take awhile for this tho, it's a huge change with like ~4000 lines to review 😭
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 26/06/2026
working from coffee shop
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 26/06/2026
A couple years ago I did a poll asking whether high-quality human customer support was an important part of the decision to buy a product. The conclusion back then is that it mostly mattered for businesses - but the amount I now personally value human support has skyrocketed in a world of ai chat
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 25/06/2026
WIP Sidebar → Date Cards will list your cards with dates assigned to them across your spaces, letting you jump to them for more context
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 23/06/2026
WIP quick assign due dates by just typing using either @.2d, @.today, @.tomorrow, and @.nov20 syntax
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 22/06/2026
Timeless programming tip: any feature involving time and dates will balloon with edge cases related to timezones, DST, and leap years. Probably other papercuts I'm forgetting rn too.
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 22/06/2026
One thing led to another, and I spent way too long making the nicest timezone picker UI, which most people will only need once if ever. It supports strumming the world map, searching by all major cities, and auto detection. Way beyond scope, but my inner Carmen Sandiego demanded it.
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 22/06/2026
Deep cut question, what's your favorite timezone picker UI? I'm partial to the classic windows one
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 21/06/2026
How would the design of keyboards and laptops change if we could all agree that having a dedicated CAPS LOCK key is stupid
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 18/06/2026
You can now nominate a Site for Tiny Awards 2026. They asked me to be a judge this year so should be fun tinyawards.net/nomin...
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 17/06/2026
Working on adding due dates to cards next. There's a bit of a debate about whether to do timers (eg 30mins) or dates first. They're similar, but different enough to be different projects. I'm tackling the teams/project-planning use-case first because it seems more urgent.
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 16/06/2026
@User Mentions in Cards [New] Based on feedback from the Teams Pilot program, you can now assign cards to space collaborators and group members by @mentioning them. @mentioned users will be notified (in-app or email).
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 16/06/2026
Listened to an old Business of Software podcast ep this morning from 2022 about handling recessions. The most relevant part is that companies/teams are more receptive to tool changes and doing things in a different way when the market is bad then when things are going well. creators.spotify.com...
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Ep 112 Are You Recession Ready? by Business of Software Podcast
Jason Cohen of WP Engine fame introduced Mark to Jonathan Slain at Recession.com earlier this year. He and the WP Engine team work with Jonathan and found he is a pretty interesting guy. We invited him on the podcast to discuss how SaaS and software companies can prepare for, and take advantage of, a recession.
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 11/06/2026
A couple years ago someone printed some sample kinopio logo stickers for me. If that was you *please DM me* – I can't find the convo anymore, or remember what social network you were on
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 10/06/2026
WIP on user @mentions , I can type '@' to select a collaborator or group member. The card atMention data saving to the server is also wired up now. This system supports multiple @mentions per card.
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 10/06/2026
It's looking like the days of tech VCs making 20 moonshot bets/investments with the statistical confidence that 1 of them will 200x in value are ending. Maybe those days are long dead already.
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 10/06/2026
switching my terminal from fish to zsh shell, what do I need to know?
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Pirijan @pketh.org · 09/06/2026
The Kinopio sticker saga continues: so i checked out a local sticker printer (SleepyG Stickers) this morning and got a good impression. I also took some pictures of their print shop
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