I like how the author used Kinopio for his “Uses This” interview: <a href="https://usesthis.com/interviews/pirijan/" rel="nofollow">https://usesthis.com/interviews/pirijan/</a><p>And I instantly recognized that artwork from Hirō Isono: <i>Seiken Densetsu 3</i>! <a href="https://archive.org/details/seikendensetsu3sfchiresscans/Seiken%20Densetsu%20-%20Manual/" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/seikendensetsu3sfchiresscans/Sei...</a>
> By contrast, delivering software is more like delivering a gooey crying baby. It’s alive. Squirming, growing, and changing because the technologies it relies on do too. Physical materials rarely change, but web browsers, operating systems, and servers sure do.<p>Love this
I don't use Kinopio for everything, but when I need to arrange ideas in a 2D way and think about webs of relationships, it's been an amazing addition to my set of "tools for thought". Thank you for all of your work on it <3
For others who have no idea what Kinopio is:<p>Kinopio is "a spatial thinking canvas for your new ideas and hard problems".<p><a href="https://kinopio.club/hello-kinopio-m6UmPzsVTQUcarM6ROPsu" rel="nofollow">https://kinopio.club/hello-kinopio-m6UmPzsVTQUcarM6ROPsu</a><p>It's not my kinda thing, but very neat!
Here's a great podcast episode with the Kinopio author that also touches on the design of Glitch.com and more, very informing! <a href="https://www.localfirst.fm/8" rel="nofollow">https://www.localfirst.fm/8</a>
> On the eve of it’s 5th anniversary, I’ve decided to make the code for the kinopio-client app public.<p>Can you clarify if the server is also open source? If not, a more accurate headline would be "Open Sourcing Kinopio Client"; which is a very different thing.
I love Kinopio and I really appreciate being able to look around the code and perhaps even help make it better. Hopefully, this will spur innovations and new updates.
I've never been interested in this canvas/corkboard kind of software, and I'd never heard of Kinopio, but it's so nice that I'm trying to come up with a reason to use it.
What's the deal with all the anons complaining about the non-commercial use clause? It's one guy. There'd almost certainly be paid clones popping up otherwise.<p>Pirijan is being very cool opening up the main product in the first place- this isn't just a supporting library or sidecar.
1. Not technically open source since you can’t use for commercial, but ignoring the pedantry.<p>2. You’re clearly worried about the commercial risk, why even do it? You have a section on this but even after reading - seems like a non answer.