52 Card Pickup
An interactive photo viewer that is neither grid nor feed. Something stranger, shuffling into place.
COMING UP THE REAR!
What’s next.
Sorted by how real it is.
No roadmap theatre, no investor promises, no dates. Three honest piles: in beta, built but not released, and still on the drawing board. It ships when it works.
Pile one
In beta
Real people are using these. Rough edges are being found the honest way: by hitting them.
SNAP SLAPPER
The non-destructive photo editor and library. Desktop only: it never runs on a site. In closed beta and used daily on every photograph Sean publishes. Full tour →
Pile two
In the workshop
Built, working on the bench, not yet packaged and released. Close.
BIGGIE goes WYSIWYG
The SMACKTALK long-form editor grows up: mosaics render as real photographs while you write, Enter makes a paragraph, and no shortcode gibberish in sight. A photographic essay should look like one while you’re making it.
Oh Snap!
Design and preview your own skin visually, then push it to a live site without hand-editing the bloody thing.
Take Your Shit With You
A complete, understandable local copy of your photographs and portable data. Ownership includes the right to leave, and this is the door.
Smack Your Mouth
Offline comment moderation and replies for a whole fleet of sites. The inbound twin of COLD SNAP: read, decide, reply, sync when you’re back online.
CRONOMETER
One board showing whether every scheduled job on every site — feeds, updates, federation delivery, backups, integrity checks — is actually running. Catches a silently dead cron before it bites.
Comrade
A GRAMOFSMACK skin with revolving-spear propaganda energy. Needs one more piece of artwork before it’s finished.
Pile three
On the drawing board
Specified, argued over, not started. Listed so you know where we’re pointed, not so you plan around it.
BLOGGER FLOGGER
Bring an old Blogger site — posts, pages, comments, labels, photographs — into a SMACKTALK site from a Google Takeout, without a live Blogger account. Copies the photos off Blogger instead of leaving fragile hotlinks. Sean has two old Blogger blogs to rescue; they’re the test.
Midnight Move
Pull your photographs and surviving metadata out of an old or dying website before the lights go off.
Memento Mori
Helps friends and family preserve a photographer’s work after they have died, so the photographs and surviving words do not quietly go dark. This one matters.
Lookbook
A clean, high-resolution portfolio skin with minimal chrome and nowhere for weak photographs to hide.
Rainfall, Rehash, Booklet, Sideways
Four more skins in various states of half-built. They’ll get names on this page when they earn them.
Off this page, because they shipped
Recently landed
Things that used to live on this list and now live on real sites. The full running log is on WOTCHA!
COLD SNAPOffline post composer with BIGGIE blocks and a local cold-storage library. Shipped.
[pullquote]Semantic pull quotes in every web editor and COLD SNAP, rendered through the shared presentation layer. Shipped.
LEWK AGAINAI-assisted look builder inside SNAP SLAPPER, all five providers. Shipped.
photoblogs.fyi + the challenge networkThe directory, the reader, and the weekly #photofri challenge. Live.
GAME ONThe sliding-puzzle photoblog skin. In production on theschoolofhardnocks.ca.
PARADE, TILEZ, TRUE GRIT, SLICKR…The skin roster keeps growing. See what’s in production.