Development updates, design decisions, and what's coming next — written by the people building it.
The VS Code extension is live on the Marketplace, Windows builds are now production-signed through SignPath, and Kova 0.8.2 adds Pele as a faster alternative diagram renderer. Plus Obsidian plugin plans and a Gentoo ebuild in progress.
Slide content animations have shipped, the Kova CLI can now export to HTML, and early VS Code plugin work is underway. Plus SignPath signing progress and Kova's first OpenCollective donation.
The Kova CLI has shipped, Windows code signing is underway with SignPath, and Kova now has an OpenCollective page. Plus what's next: slide animations, editor integrations, and a plan for video tutorials.
Four months in: where Kova sits in the presentation software space, what's coming next — plugins, a CLI, editor integrations, animations — and where LLMs do and don't fit into the project.