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Dustin Mierau
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Blippo+. Playmaker. Path. Napster.
MacPaint remake. Hotline remake.

Mac nerd. Maker of software.

I delete my account annually when I tire of social media. But for now.
I think the last few things on my todo list are being able to use the selection as a mask for drawing in and being able to add bitmap fonts supporting a few common formats. 🤷‍♂️

Forgot to mention this weekend I added additive and subtractive selection support ⇧ and ⌥ +drag with either lasso or rect.
January 13, 2026 at 9:25 PM
You can also undo the reordering and pattern edits now which is nice. May add a context menu item to reset swatches to defaults. Would be fun to implement a "Sort" item that sorted the document's swatches by perceived brightness or something. I wonder.
January 13, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Any feature requests? 😄
January 13, 2026 at 4:56 AM
This would allow for passing around patterns as text easily.
January 13, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Soon. Though I may not be able to do an App Store release due to the name and I’m too stubborn to change it. May just do a notarized build release after a get a nice homepage together.

They may let it on TestFlight though. We’ll see!
January 13, 2026 at 12:06 AM
In this context the "lasso" analogy makes so much more sense as it "tightens around the object and gets just that thing." I feel like Photoshop kind of lost the plot with their version. The magnetic selection tool in Photoshop is almost more akin to the MacPaint vision for the tool.
January 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM
I'm very unfamiliar with the printing apis. I wonder if you can add app specific controls/options to the print dialog.
January 12, 2026 at 6:37 PM
You've never had a goat thrown at you sounds like.
January 12, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Funny how Playmaker's Paint space prepared me for this. In Playmaker you can simulate pressure using the accelerometer with the brush tool. Tilt the Playdate for more or less pressure while using the brush. Though I used an bayer ordered dither pattern as a mask in that case.
January 11, 2026 at 7:12 PM
But then I would need to allow importing fonts... and Playdate fonts too. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
January 11, 2026 at 1:51 AM
I may have to build another Playdate game just so I can use MacPaint as an image editor on a real project. 😄
January 11, 2026 at 1:44 AM
🥰
January 10, 2026 at 3:56 AM