In this development diary, I provide an update on progress made on Koto in late January and first half of February 2021.
If you would like to see these images at their full resolution rather than what Patreon supports, I uploaded them to 2021-02-10 15:28:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
Thanks to your support, I will be be able to regularly allocate proper working days, during the work week, on open source development! The primary focus will be Koto however I do expect that some of those streaming days will be focused on Solus-related development items.
Starti...
2021-01-31 02:58:27 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
The first Koto-related development live stream will be happening on Friday, January 29th at 12:00 (12pm) to 17:00 (5pm) GMT+2. This live stream will primarily consist of me prototyping Koto in various forms and learning some C along the way (spent the last couple days doing that via EFL's C Primer and EFL itself).
Throu...
2021-01-27 20:38:12 +0000 UTC View PostIn this development diary, I lay out some fundamentals of Koto, a new in-development audio manager for Linux.
For a better formatted version of this Dev Diary, I will be posting it on my personal site next week. I apologize for any formatting errors or if Patreon doesn't ac...
Pre-production on the audio manager & player is in full swing! I'm going through all the data you folks provided via the first Gaining Insight polling as well as working on mockups in Inkscape. I'm expecting to publish a post late tomorrow expecting to cover:
1. My thoughts on the data and feedback provided
2. Early insights on the...
I believe that there is a balance to be struck in open source development between a developer's ability (and right) to keeping a project opinionated, and listening to / engage with feedback from users. If you lean in one way too heavily, you risk alienating your own user base, and if you lean too heavily the other way you risk creating a project...
2021-01-14 19:56:13 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone,
First off, thank you for your incredible outpouring of support. You're all amazing and I look forward to working hard to bring high quality desktop applications that cover many facets of our daily use of computers.
Currently I'm working on the first "Gaining Insight" poll / form for all you fine folks. It's going to use...
2021-01-14 18:25:23 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
I'm incredibly excited to be launching my Patreon and with your support, pursuing the goal of working on open source, desktop-focused software full-time!
Over the coming days and weeks, I will be showing off user experience designs and flows for the first desktop application (audio management and playback) that we will ...
2021-01-14 07:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post