Today felt like the perfect day to release something new.
After what felt like an eternity of waiting, my Pebble Time 2 finally arrived. As someone who has spent the past few weeks rediscovering the Pebble ecosystem and building small apps for it, unboxing the watch almost felt like meeting an old friend. There’s something refreshingly simple about Pebble that still inspires me to create.
Coincidentally, today is also Bern Pride here in Bern, Switzerland. Seeing thousands of people come together to celebrate diversity and community made me want to build something that reflects that spirit in a small, everyday way.
So I made PrideOn.
Rather than displaying a traditional Pride flag, PrideOn turns the colours of the Progress Pride flag into a piece of generative art. Every time the watchface becomes visible again, it creates a completely new composition inspired by Piet Mondrian’s geometric paintings. Every design always includes every colour of the Progress Pride flag—including the Intersex symbol—so no matter how the artwork changes, every part of the community remains represented.
I wanted it to feel less like a statement you wear and more like a living artwork on your wrist. Familiar colours, endlessly rearranged.
Building for Pebble has reminded me why I enjoy making software in the first place. The platform is wonderfully constrained. You’re working with tiny screens, limited memory and hardware from another era, yet those limitations encourage thoughtful design instead of endless complexity.
PrideOn is now yet another Pebble project. And honestly, I don’t think I’m done yet. Receiving my Pebble Time 2 has completely reignited my enthusiasm for developing for this little platform, and I already have a growing list of ideas I’d love to build.
Happy Bern Pride! 🏳️🌈
Hopefully PrideOn brings a little colour to someone’s wrist today.
