The most basic thing ever but it's pixel art baby. Way harder than I thought to set up.

holy GPU pixels. It's not pixel art but real pixels from Kernel are being rendered.

I'm rebuilding and renaming my note taking app after getting tons of feedback.

📝 Think IG stories but like square and that's your notes.
👉 Creating is simple. Open the app, tap, draw, talk, camera.
#️⃣ Simple # hashtags to organize your notes.
👯 Subscribe to hashtags and share tinynotes with friends.

dude come on

I also spent this year building a few prototypes and throwing them away. This one took my little card app and added a full canvas and generative AI features. Putting aside my personal mixed feelings about AI, it was an interesting concept of building new stuff from your notes. Still mixed feelings.

POV you're making a super high fidelity pixel art engine but you still have to learn GPU coding too.

like what do you mean everything is a triangle.

I built a pixel simulation engine called Kernel like the corn seed 🌽 I should now be able to paint with pixel art but at like the fidelity of real paint where you can see the texture of the pigment move around the water as it dries. Here's a stroke rendered with emojis in the terminal.

Researching for a new essay on widgets, spatial UI, and generative UI and I stumbled upon Andy Hertzfeld's essay on desk ornaments from 1981 around when the Macintosh launched. There's so much gold in there. UI evolves as a continuum and not as a series of disconnected fads.

Hey David! I launched a fun productivity app today on iOS. I call it Tinycrate. It's a notebook with fun, cozy vibes.

📸 Capture your ideas into cards.
🔗 Create links between them.
🤯 Find unexpected connections.

👉 apps.apple.com/us/app/tinyc...

A flood of memories suddenly came back. It was like quake for kids lolll

It's live on the App Store today.
apps.apple.com/us/app/tinyc...

It’s so funny seeing people write eulogies about Nintendo of old now that Switch 2 has been announced.

“Where is the old Nintendo quirky we love?” They say every morning as their Alarmo wakes them up. A, checks notes, quirky product released by Nintendo 3 months ago lol.

#nintendoswitch2

Coming up with a color swatch tool that I can make quick. You can add up to 5 colors in a card. You can also assign these colors to be your theme in Tinycrate.

Yeah so it’s stupid simple lol. I couldn’t simplify further than tapping a button to link. There must be recommended links in the future or smart albums like Google photos.

I've been working on a new app called Tinycrate.

It's a fun, cozy, and lightning fast way to create a new kind of interconnected creative library. The key is that every thought you have becomes an adorable little card. So think of it like a "thought" camera and you look back on your "idea" photos.

Looking through the picoCAD documentation and it's really resonating with me.