But not in the way you think.

I haven't spoken in a while about my core idea for floof, and it's sort of gelled a bit, so I want to try to express it again. It's not about anything technological, really; nor is it just about categorization (though that's always awesome).

What I really want to do is strip out all the contrived areas of private ( Read more... )

Since my shenanigans, floof attracted some actual developer interest, and it's started chugging along again. Maybe in a month or two it'll be basically functional. I'm taking off the last couple weeks of November to use up the last of my vacation time, and this is one of the things I want to do ( Read more... )

I still shy away from new people/communities, opting instead to tinker quietly in my metaphorical garage, and I rarely admit I actually like anything I produce.

That's a load of crap.

So, here we go again.

VEEKUN
IT HAS: A very basic move search and, at last, a Pokémon comparer once again ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about this again, lately, due to being around an artist for three weeks. So this is mostly some thinking out loud.

As far as I see it, there are three critical components to floof before anyone can use it:

watchesOn the surface, this is simple: users can pick artists they want to watch, and then get some aggregate view of ( Read more... )

As a pedantic OCD nerd, navigating art sites is a nightmare for me-let alone actually using them. Users keep asking various sites for some new way to categorize things, and then every other site sees this and decides it's a totally rad idea and copies it, so there are some eight different ways to group art that are all completely orthogonal ( Read more... )

After some mad hacking over the weekend and a couple afternoons, I think floof is actually sorta reliable enough to be using. Look, there's even some sample art: http://floof.veekun.com/users/purplekecleonRead more... )

For those of you who are interested. At least one person asked last time ( Read more... )

Some of you may recall Ferrox, the doomed project that was meant to be a rewrite of that one furry art site. For various reasons, I eventually gave up and left. But I've had the same ideas for years, and I still enjoy trying to build useful products, so I decided to try this again ( Read more... )