Look at this wonderful thing that just arrived. A couple of my (slimy) keyboard illustrations made it past the editors! 😆
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Ken Kocienda
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Building TUG: AI-assisted software construction. Past: Founder at Infactory, 15 years at , inventor of iPhone autocorrect, author of “Creative Selection”.
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I don't have a specialized bug or issue tracker these days. I just use Tot. Thanks @Iconfactory@iconfactory.world!
https://tot.rocks
One other photo of mine made it into the new Pogue/Apple book. These Wallaby devices were essential to our early iPhone software work, since we could hold a device in our hands that felt like the real device would someday, even with its Mac tether, a dim plastic display, and on my first one, just a non-functional dimple where the home button would be!
Lately, I’ve been turning my AI coding tools project into a complete IDE. My goal is to create an app I myself would like to “live in” while I do my software development, an environment that is built especially to collaborate with AI in the way that I do. This screenshot is just a mockup. Right now, I’m in the midst of making a design and theme system I can use as the basis of the app. So much fun work ahead.
Really so many amazing computers
pizza for dinner!
My main issue with IDEs is that they’re glorified file source code editors. I don’t edit source code files anymore (very much). I write long-form prose about code. I build and execute plans. I review checklists. I merge code from worktrees as agents complete the tasks I've given them. I want an app built around that.
https://mastodon.social/@kocienda/116222894389362490
tonight's beyond burger bolognese was pretty tasty
self portrait with computer
design system for badges
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@mwichary@mastodon.online The globe key 🌐 started innocently enough. It was never meant as a modifier key, at least not by me. After the first iPhone shipped in June 2007, I began work on international keyboard layouts to support the conventions for other languages (e.g. AZERTY for French & QWERTZ for German). There was no hope of using two-fingers—a “modifier” key was unworkable. So, like the shift and .?123 key, we added a new key to switch the layout and the autocorrection language. Hence, the globe key.
I’ve been thinking about color palettes and user interface theme systems lately, which has been great fun. I wrote a little more about it, and how this is a little part of a bigger project to make an IDE for AI coding I’d like to live with and use everyday. https://tugtool.dev/journal/an-ide-for-ai-coding/
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@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social This information is stored in a SQLite database that my Claude Code skills and agents update as they work. But again, it's too hard to keep track of now. I want a nice graphical display I can look at and see what I want in a glance.
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@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social Indeed, yes. My planning materials and progress checklists are essential to how I work with AI. I already have nice backend support to track this for in-progress multi-step plans. But it's too hard to consume this information in a terminal. So, I'm making an app.
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@mwichary@mastodon.online I’m reasonably sure that the globe key appeared first in iPhone OS 1.1.2 in November 2007. If I'm right, you can revise this footnote to say 2007: “The globe key existed on iPhone’s onscreen keyboard ever since at least 2008, if not earlier.”
Quality matters more than quantity when it comes to code, but even so...
today was 🔥
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