DustinBrett

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   by DustinBrett 1y ago

   Glad to hear that, thanks for the support! I still update it all the time so it's cool to hear you sometimes check back.
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   by DustinBrett 1y ago

   Happy to hear you explored it a bit. Credit to Webamp for the amazing features including hosting a winamp skin gallery which I use to get random skins. Also Webamp can run Milkdrop/Butterchurn for music visualization which I use daily
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   by DustinBrett 1y ago

   Glad you found it full features, thanks! As my personal website it has already reached the final goal I had for it. For other use cases, I am going with the approach of "if you build it, they will come".
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   by DustinBrett 1y ago

   Indeed I did it for all the reasons you listed and more.
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   by DustinBrett 1y ago

   As my personal website it is useful and was built with that purpose in mind. Any other uses which may come from it would also be of interest to me and I am excited to see what can come of it in the future.
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   by DustinBrett 1y ago

   Thanks, glad you liked it! Maybe one day Synology will fork my code. :-)
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   by DustinBrett 1y ago

   Nice of you to say, thank you! I am a big fan of desktop environments so I know there are some good ones out there and I have indeed tried to make one of the best.
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   by DustinBrett 1y ago

   Indeed I love having easter eggs on my site and there are many more. I made a video going over 50 of them and I have since added more.
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   by DustinBrett 1y ago

   Haha ya I did indeed work there for over 3 years, but I recently quit to work at Coinbase.
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    That is awesome, glad it worked for you!
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    Nice of you to say, thank you! I did indeed feel like I was doing it for the love of the craft and to make something I could be proud of. Hopefully one day it finds the right use case, but until then I am enjoying working on it.
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    Thanks! In the case of Vim.js and many other apps, they are ports via Emscripten which converts the native source code to run in WebAssembly.
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    Thanks! Credit to Webamp for the amazing Winamp recreation. And JS-DOS/DOSBox for the DOS emulator that lets me run Doom and many other Shareware games which I keep in the same folder as Doom. It was nice to have a few Webby nomination
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    Thanks very much! Glad you checked out my YouTube videos as well. I hope to do another one soon discussing the new stuff I have added, such as screen saver support.
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    Thanks very much! I'm glad to hear you considered it detailed. I have indeed spent a lot of time trying to get the little stuff right. I am someone for which things that aren't quite right stand out, so it's been somewhat com
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    Thanks for saying so, I've tried to make something which is "deep" in functionality. Some of the games/demos work better on desktop than mobile, but I tried to make it work on as many devices as possible.
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    Happy to hear you found it realistic! It did indeed take many years to get the level of detail it has now. I still find things to add/adjust almost daily.
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    On Windows 10 which is my daily driver, clicking the icon still closes the window.
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    Glad you liked that small detail. I tried to re-create every detail I could find and which I personally use on Windows. I still sometimes discover things that I didn't know Windows could do which I am excited to add to my project.
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    Glad you liked Nostr. I still need to upgrade the encryption as they changed standards shortly after I finished my v1. As for running Linux, I can indeed do this with v86 and I have a small linux image which is embedded into my project. ht
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    Thanks! I actually did add a "Proxy settings" button to the right of the address bar which allows you to pick between a few free to access proxies. For my proof of concept Browser I have been ok with this, but if I did want to hav
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    It does indeed have a long way to go if I want to add usefulness beyond my personal website use case. It is possible to "map" a local drive in several ways, such as via the desktop right click menu's "Map directory"
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    Notanos looks awesome, I will check it out. There are several milestones of my project that will likely require forks in the road where I might have to do a rewrite, but I hope to be able to keep doing it and learning. I think that in 10-20
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    Totally agree, the nay-sayers don't phase me anymore because I enjoy what I am doing, everything else that comes from my work is just a freebie.
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    Show HN: DaedalOS – Desktop Environment in the Browser(github.com)

    201 points by DustinBrett 1y ago|79 comments
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    Here I am building the same side project since 2021. I just can't quit it.
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    It got much worse a few years ago. I am a daily Reddit user and it was a big difference.
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    Happy to see posts like this, I have the same experience. It fell apart a few years ago with the fiasco's and it's a shell of what it was now. Total echo chamber. Sadly seems to be spreading to HN in some comment sections. And X h
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    by DustinBrett 1y ago

    Indeed and sad, it's becoming like Reddit. There is no discourse going on here or nearly anywhere. Sadly on X it's the opposite but equally one sided.
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    by DustinBrett 2y ago

    We need it, Reddit has become terrible.