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Made my personal site into a desktop environment
- pketh 6y agoI love these kinds of things, this is lit
- dexwiz 6y agoWhy a mix of Mac and Microsoft UX?
- savolai 6y agoI'm an active user of both. To me it's fascinating how this combination is actually more relatable than either of the actual UIs. Windows start menu bar seems like the simplest conceptual model to understand vs the logical complexity of some apps being pinned and some living on the right side of the dock, in macos. Same with menus - though menu bars of MacOS are smarter in being always available and more consistent than the chaotic inconsistency of Windows app world, that menu still takes up permanent real estate from my desktop. Which sort of feels like it's permanently taking up my mental space too. OTOH, macos window decorations also feel like the simplest thing. Relaxing in their almost comic, colorful nature.
- purplecats 6y agoyou can autohide them. you can also free up the cognitive burden by using the menu search hotkey.
- pmiller2 6y agoI agree 100%. One other thing I dislike about OSX is the behavior of the green button in the title bar. It just never seems to do what I want. :/
- srgpqt 6y agoYou gotta Option+Click that green button!
- dexwiz 6y agoAs a fellow dual user, I agree with Windows Bar is better than MacOS doc, and vice versa for the menu bars. I wonder if a Macified bar would make it look more consistent.
- madarco 6y agoI'd suggest uBar, which brings the windows bar to MacOS https://brawersoftware.com/products/ubar https://brawersoftware.com/products/ubar
- csk111165 6y agoHow did you make it. What technology you used to build this. I am amazed. Any github repo to have a look at the codebase. Thanks
- syx 6y agoI think this is the GitHub repo: https://github.com/DustinBrett/x https://github.com/DustinBrett/x
- ivanmontillam 6y agoThere's a framework that does that, yeah it's pretty old but not obsolete. I saw it when I there used to exist Delphi for PHP. Check out the Qooxdoo framework, it allows you to create desktop-like websites, just like you would with Qt. Check out the Window demos and playground.
- tehlike 6y agoAh commander keen :) brings back good memories.
- daemonhunter 6y agoI remember something similar to this back in the late 90s/early 2000s, cool modern version!
- technocratius 6y agoVery nice!! Btw on my 1080x2340 display w/ chrome on android, part of your resume falls of the screen making it not so easy to read
- jaikant77 6y agoI just saw Winamp after more than a decade! Nostalgia.
- pmiller2 6y agoYou think you had some nostalgia when you saw it... I used to work with the guy who wrote winamp.js. Good dude, now working at Facebook, I believe.
- captbaritone 6y agoI am indeed! Thanks for the kind words Paul! If anyone is interested Webamp is open source and can be found here: https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp
- pmiller2 6y agoLol, Jordan, it's almost like all anybody has to do to summon you is say "winamp.js".
- captbaritone 6y ago_poof!_ did someone say “Winamp”?
- captbaritone 6y agoI recently put together a museum of ~68k Winamp skins if you want to feel that nostalgia a bit more: https://skins.webamp.org/ https://skins.webamp.org/
- imhoguy 6y agoThere is even a custom skin in skins directory when you open Explorer.
- rcarmo 6y agoCan’t actually read the blog on iOS. I suppose it must use web workers.
- justusthane 6y agoHuh, works fine for me on iOS 14.2.
- viraptor 6y agoReminds me of https://poolside.fm/ https://poolside.fm/ I like how this website works really well with mobile (dragging / switching windows just works). Even the emulator runs on Android.
- keyle 6y agoWow. The implementation of the windows to look like native MacOS is really good. My hats off to you. It could have fooled me.
- appstorelottery 6y agoWow! This is super cool... nice job !
- stevage 6y agoWow, that is completely wild. I can't say I've ever been browsing someone's personal site before and suddenly found myself playing Commander Keen then Doom. Too bad it's so hard to actually play those games on Mac without triggering shortcuts like switching Spaces etc.
- gambiting 6y agoUnrelated question - is there any way to have such a background in windows? It's shocking to me that phones have had great animated background for years, but on Windows there doesn't seem to be any way to do it, the last attempt I can think of was the feature in Windows Vista Ultimate, where you could set an .mp4 file as background.
- avibhu 6y agoYou should be able to do that with Wallpaper Engine[0], though it is paid, and from what I remember, it used to be fairly resource intensive. Hopefully that has changed now. [0] https://www.wallpaperengine.io/ https://www.wallpaperengine.io/
- pbronez 6y ago> though it is paid It costs $4
- aksss 6y agoWell, Windows used to have “Active Desktop” in what, Win95? You could pin animations and such to your desktop but that never really survived past that version. It wasn’t part of OS but an add-on that was somehow part of IE 4.0. Plenty to third-party programs that do similar I think.
- gambiting 6y agoYeah, but I mean specifically like the background on that website - a gpu-accelerated wave animation of polygons. I could do that on my Android phone for years, but it looks like most windows apps for animated background simply play an mp4 file, which is not ideal.
- noxer 6y agoYou can do that with Rainmeter
- tsukurimashou 6y agoReminds me of http://chiptune.com http://chiptune.com
- snicker7 6y agoI'm impressed with how quickly it loads.
- mobilemidget 6y agoI actually thought that it wasn't so quick, but figuring HN crowd is bashing on it, seems okay :) But commander keen is there, there goes the rest of my Sunday lol thanks!
- mrkramer 6y agoThis makes me wonder would it be commercially successful to emulate or deliver OS in the browser over the internet something like Oracle's diskless Network Computer [1] or Desktop as a Service solutions. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer
- tyingq 6y agoI have to imagine Microsoft is thinking similarly.
- luismedel 6y agoA decade ago we had EyeOS[0], but it didn’t got traction...I think. Maybe the world is readier now for something like it. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS
- mekster 6y agoI built DeskPortal about 15 years ago but I had no business mind and had no way of letting it out the door. https://deskportal.com/ https://deskportal.com/ I'd like to have some feedback though. Funny the mobile wasn't really there and it doesn't really support it but I liked how it can create various apps based on its framework.
- dhruval 6y agoNice, and surprisingly runs smoothly on my phone!
- skoll43 6y agoIt almost burned my notebook from 60° to 95°, great site <3
- radicalriddler 6y agoOne of my favourites of these are https://opensource.glassanimals.com/ https://opensource.glassanimals.com/ One of my favourite bands of this year, and have really cool websites.