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I've been "sanding" my personal website (https://dustinbrett.com https://dustinbrett.com) for nearly 4 years now, and it feels like it could go on forever. Luck

I've been "sanding" my personal website (https://dustinbrett.com https://dustinbrett.com) for nearly 4 years now, and it feels like it could go on forever. Luckily I enjoy working on it.

high_priest 2y ago
Warning: Prepare for a jumpscare with authors face. Fun page
idreyn 2y ago
this is very smooth and scratches an itch I didn't know I had -- to use a windowed OS on my phone
tkzed49 2y ago
I really appreciate this. Most of the time when I see a "desktop OS on webpage" it feels half-assed and honestly overplayed. This on the other hand is super tight and polished!
bschmidt1 2y ago
Looks incredible. Snappier than real Windows tbh
jay-barronville 2y ago
This is so fun. I love it. Well done!
steve_adams_86 2y ago
This is so fun to explore. You've done some great work on this! It's inspiring. A lot of fun to think about how you've implemented everything.
darepublic 2y ago
very nice. though you cannot have > 1 nesting of dustinbrett.com afaict
- ustad 2y ago
  On my iphone I can! Tested to 3 levels deep.
meowface 2y ago
This is cool and very polished, but my advice (which may not resonate with you) is that you should channel this attitude into some user-facing app instead of letting it basically go to waste on a personal website most people won't see or won't use for more than a second or two.
- fhdsgbbcaA 2y ago
  It may surprise you, but some people like to program computers for reason other than money. Makes no sense right? Weirdos, all of them!
  - meowface 2y ago
    I definitely didn't necessarily mean an app that had a way to make money. I mean exposing the work to more people who would get fun or utility out of the painstaking effort put into it. The world could use this sort of taste in a game, an activity, a tool, etc.
  - 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y ago
    Yes, but you can make free apps for a wider audience. Or even just useful apps for yourself. Can do what pleases you though. I sometimes work on intentionally useless apps just to try things out, but the idea is always to carry those ideas over to some app that has some purpose.
    - exe34 2y ago
      do you think makers of abstract art should do something more useful? how about people in marketing? landlords?
      - toast0 2y ago
        All of those things are useful. With no abstract artists, art museums will have bare walls (which is fine, if the wall is the one they gave to me... but nobody wants to look at a bare wall and pretend its art for a whole museum!) Marketting seems useless sometimes, but when Pepsi spent their marketting budget on community projects, they lost a ton of sales. My local ice rink has no marketting and nobody in the county knows it exists, even people who would like to do ice skating or ice hockey; a smidge of marketting would be super useful; other rinks in neighboring counties have doubled or more the number of kids playing hockey in the past few years since we got a local NHL team, but ours struggles to get a single full team at most age groups. Landlords are not well liked on HN, but seems to me having a place to live on a month to month basis was pretty handy before I had the ability to make a long term commitment to a single place. I know some people buy a place to live for college, but an off campus rental seemed a lot more sensible to me. And similar when moving for work if you're not sure you'll be there long term, or you want out of a hotel before you're sure of what neighborhoods you like.
sibeliuss 2y ago
Nice man!
fhdsgbbcaA 2y ago
Ok, be honest: how many hours put into this were during 9-5, and on the boss’ dime? I hope all of them. :-)
dgellow 2y ago
I wish Windows was that snappy! Incredible work, kudos!
- MaxikCZ 2y ago
  Meanwhile we get a loading splash screen when opening a calculator.
InvaderFizz 2y ago
This is really fun. A usability note, at least on Safari on iOS, you have to put the protocol for a web page to load. If you just put www.cnn.com without the https, it never loads.
llama_drama 2y ago
Looks really cool. One thing that I found missing is that I can't use mouse4/mouse5 in explorer. "Sanding" really could go on forever.

I've been "sanding" my personal website (https://dustinbrett.com https://dustinbrett.com) for nearly 4 years now, and it feels like it could go on forever. Luckily I enjoy working on it.

high_priest 2y ago

Warning: Prepare for a jumpscare with authors face. Fun page

idreyn 2y ago

this is very smooth and scratches an itch I didn't know I had -- to use a windowed OS on my phone

tkzed49 2y ago

I really appreciate this. Most of the time when I see a "desktop OS on webpage" it feels half-assed and honestly overplayed. This on the other hand is super tight and polished!

bschmidt1 2y ago

Looks incredible. Snappier than real Windows tbh

jay-barronville 2y ago

This is so fun. I love it. Well done!

steve_adams_86 2y ago

This is so fun to explore. You've done some great work on this! It's inspiring. A lot of fun to think about how you've implemented everything.

darepublic 2y ago

very nice. though you cannot have > 1 nesting of dustinbrett.com afaict

ustad 2y ago
On my iphone I can! Tested to 3 levels deep.

meowface 2y ago

This is cool and very polished, but my advice (which may not resonate with you) is that you should channel this attitude into some user-facing app instead of letting it basically go to waste on a personal website most people won't see or won't use for more than a second or two.

fhdsgbbcaA 2y ago
It may surprise you, but some people like to program computers for reason other than money. Makes no sense right? Weirdos, all of them!
- meowface 2y ago
  I definitely didn't necessarily mean an app that had a way to make money. I mean exposing the work to more people who would get fun or utility out of the painstaking effort put into it. The world could use this sort of taste in a game, an activity, a tool, etc.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y ago
  Yes, but you can make free apps for a wider audience. Or even just useful apps for yourself. Can do what pleases you though. I sometimes work on intentionally useless apps just to try things out, but the idea is always to carry those ideas over to some app that has some purpose.
  - exe34 2y ago
    do you think makers of abstract art should do something more useful? how about people in marketing? landlords?
    - toast0 2y ago
      All of those things are useful. With no abstract artists, art museums will have bare walls (which is fine, if the wall is the one they gave to me... but nobody wants to look at a bare wall and pretend its art for a whole museum!) Marketting seems useless sometimes, but when Pepsi spent their marketting budget on community projects, they lost a ton of sales. My local ice rink has no marketting and nobody in the county knows it exists, even people who would like to do ice skating or ice hockey; a smidge of marketting would be super useful; other rinks in neighboring counties have doubled or more the number of kids playing hockey in the past few years since we got a local NHL team, but ours struggles to get a single full team at most age groups. Landlords are not well liked on HN, but seems to me having a place to live on a month to month basis was pretty handy before I had the ability to make a long term commitment to a single place. I know some people buy a place to live for college, but an off campus rental seemed a lot more sensible to me. And similar when moving for work if you're not sure you'll be there long term, or you want out of a hotel before you're sure of what neighborhoods you like.

sibeliuss 2y ago

Nice man!

fhdsgbbcaA 2y ago

Ok, be honest: how many hours put into this were during 9-5, and on the boss’ dime? I hope all of them. :-)

dgellow 2y ago

I wish Windows was that snappy! Incredible work, kudos!

MaxikCZ 2y ago
Meanwhile we get a loading splash screen when opening a calculator.

InvaderFizz 2y ago

This is really fun. A usability note, at least on Safari on iOS, you have to put the protocol for a web page to load. If you just put www.cnn.com without the https, it never loads.

llama_drama 2y ago

Looks really cool. One thing that I found missing is that I can't use mouse4/mouse5 in explorer. "Sanding" really could go on forever.