Robert Byrne
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kapitar.bsky.social
Robert Byrne
@kapitar.bsky.social
Founder / Web developer (F#) / Filmmaker

Currently working on loosethought.com

Film/Art: https://kapitar.com
Added richer keyboard editing to loosethought.com

Personally, I really love the the 'jump' tool, which assigns shortcut keys to each note you can see 🙂

Brainstorm, capture notes and run through research without using a mouse, and keep the benefits of visual thinking.

#buildinpublic #ux
October 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Reposted by Robert Byrne
Forward progress with #fsharp for #javascript with CloudflareFS. Three sample projects: "HelloWorker", "R2WebDAV" which is a port of the TypeScript project I updated, and a "Simple-CLI" that manages them both via management API (No TOML, no wrangler). @cloudflare.social github.com/speakeztech/...
October 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Added fonts to loosethought.com !

It was based on feedback, so its ok to add features, right? 😊

Lets you set up really nice 'title cards' for research/writing projects.

It's based on the idea of #web font 'defaults' (cursive, mono etc) to let you customize them at some point.

#buildinpublic
October 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Dark mode!

#buildinpublic
September 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Got some fantastic feedback last week for loosethought.com and have been working away on it, what a relief to be doing things people ask for etc :)

- Snap to grid (this really improved things!!)
- Newlines inside notes
- Better highlighting effect

#buildinpublic
September 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Anyone have any good 'tech person oriented' resources on building up SEO and web presence, before I hit the open web looking for some?

I'm looking for something more tuned to non-marketeers, if that makes sense, something you would write yourself if you knew all about it.

#buildinpublic
August 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Website updated!

Hopefully the messaging is clearer now.

#buildinpublic

loosethought.com
Loose Thought
A visual notebook for figuring out complex ideas. Make sense of complex topics using a visual note taking tool thats easy to use
loosethought.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Listenting to this while doing some website work. I like it, has a kind of retro modernism vibe - nature is indeed mysterious, and this is a technological homage.

#buildinpublic

youtu.be/5CgBR1ppzXs
Storm Pleiades [Full Album] | 1970s Berlin School Vibes | Vintage Atmospheres
YouTube video by Kosmische Wellen
youtu.be
August 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Something quite charming and nostalgic about coding 'raw' JS in a
I think this is where AI really shines, vibe 'donkeywork'.

In this case, getting some landing page videos up into Cloudflare.

I never want to spend days contemplating some vendors idea of what an API should look like, or pour through all their docs/forum/support/etc..

#buildinpublic
August 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
At my regular coffee spot to do a bit of website copy writing. It's in the basement of a chain coffee shop in Dublin, I walked past it for years!

Finding it more and more necessary to get out of the apartment to work these days..

Any other unusual spots you work in?

#buildinpublic
August 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Got my first bug report!

Somebody signed up, used the app and took the time to report it in the internal feedback form and Discord.

Well that's a strangely nice thing to get! Hopefully its easy to fix 🙂

#buildinpublic
August 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Reposted by Robert Byrne
Added multi-sheet workspaces to loosethought.com

Researching a project or learning something new? it's now a lot easier to organize things!

I think this really delivers on the promise - a paper like experience with the best of digital (links, editing, sharing).

#buildinpublic #productivity
August 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Added multi-sheet workspaces to loosethought.com

Researching a project or learning something new? it's now a lot easier to organize things!

I think this really delivers on the promise - a paper like experience with the best of digital (links, editing, sharing).

#buildinpublic #productivity
August 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When AI works..

Probably saved myself a whole afternoon of pain debugging a complex constraint solver.

Half rubber-ducking, half "AI keeps suggesting this, I should actually consider it, oh its the key to the solution" 😊
July 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Well this all works as one big pipeline, but somehow I feel morally obliged to break things up, its too wild 😊

#fsharp
July 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Happy Friday all!

Loose thought is now live, so feel free to check it out at loosethought.com

In this demo, I show you how to set up a creative project in a few minutes and share it with your team.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWul...

#buildinpublic #pkms #creative #project
Set up your creative project in 10 minutes
YouTube video by Loose Thought
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July 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Reposted by Robert Byrne
Loose Thought has launched on Uneed 🚀

5 votes so far, but hoping to get thst number up before the day is out.

👍 Head over there and upvote!

#buildinpublic

www.uneed.best/tool/loose-t...
Discover Loose Thought on Uneed
Discover Loose Thought on Uneed - Plan your projects using the tools you already know. Cards on paper | Knowledge Bases, Learning, Project Management in Business
www.uneed.best
July 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Loose Thought has launched on Uneed 🚀

5 votes so far, but hoping to get thst number up before the day is out.

👍 Head over there and upvote!

#buildinpublic

www.uneed.best/tool/loose-t...
Discover Loose Thought on Uneed
Discover Loose Thought on Uneed - Plan your projects using the tools you already know. Cards on paper | Knowledge Bases, Learning, Project Management in Business
www.uneed.best
July 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Any recommendations for a simple replacement for Netlify forms?

Just a signup form, as simple as it gets!

It's been working fine for ages, but now, alas, bots have found it and keep submitting bogus emails. Honeypot wont work, and reCAPTCHA is really lousy for users.

#buildinpublic
July 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Looking at the the emerging strategies for ‘large scale’ agent based #AI development .

The way you need to start specifying every aspect, all the style and constraints, in great detail, up front.

Future software projects may end up looking like the old phone book waterfall projects of the past
June 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Added backlinks/references to loosethought.com

Getting ready to open the app up for users this week, nervous but excited. 😱🚀

#ux #pkms #buildinpublic
June 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Reposted by Robert Byrne
Having great image support in loosethought.com really comes in handy for doing AI exploration and research.

Here I'm doing some experiments and research for a short film 🎞️

I can put these findings together as I go, and share them with the rest of the crew!

#ai #buildinpublic #film
May 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Having great image support in loosethought.com really comes in handy for doing AI exploration and research.

Here I'm doing some experiments and research for a short film 🎞️

I can put these findings together as I go, and share them with the rest of the crew!

#ai #buildinpublic #film
May 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM