uwuOS

devlog 6

spotlight search:

weather app: pulls real weather from open-meteo (free, no api key). asks for ur location, shows temp, condition, high low and wind. falls back to new york if u dont allow location

backgrounds: u can paste an image url in settings now and itll become ur wallpaper

mobile support, hopefully

• u can drag the dock icons to reorder them now
• music player :)

devlog 5

added:

• widgets
• idle screen added with a clock

settings: the wallpaper picker. u can:

• pick a background color from swatches or go custom with a color picker
• change how long before the idle screen kicks in (30s to 5 min, or never)
• make the idle clock small medium or large
• toggle the date and the hint text on the idle screen
• give the idle screen its own background
• change ur name

everything saves so its all still how u left it when u come back

todo for next time:

• remember open windows and positions on refresh
• music player
• maybe idle screen wallpapers instead of just colors

devlog #4

big one today. built a whole shorts app and gave the OS a memory

shorts: its like tiktok but in my OS lol. it pulls actual live videos from youtube channels i picked (carterpcs, yahya alhihi, miwu science) thru their rss feeds. hid all the ugly yt player controls so it just loops clean like a real short

I also added GLOBAL likes. found a free counter api so when someone likes a video, everyone who visits the site sees that count go up. u also cant relike stuff bc ur device gets remembered. theres comments too with a slide up panel, and an add button where u can paste any shorts link and itll join ur feed

the OS knows who u are now. first time u load in it asks “what should we call you” on its own lil screen after boot, and next time it goes “Welcome back, [name]… UwU~” which I rly like lol

comments post as name#tag (like discord) so if two people are both named alex they dont get mixed up

also:

• updated the welcome window with my actual pfp and about me (entrepreneur surviving school, saving for a mac mini yeah yeah)
• videos pause when u close the window now

bugs ig

• yt embeds kept playing audio after closing the window. used postMessage pauseVideo
• my html edit broke the sketch icon and my desktop exploded lol

todo for next time:

• remember open windows and positions on refresh
• custom wallpaper picker (still lol)
• maybe a music player

day 2

notes actually save now. used cookies so when u refresh ur notes are still there.

made a dock

windows are resizable now too

todo for next time:

• more apps
• custom wallpaper picker

uwuOS dev log

day 1

ok so today i started building my own OS in the browser… ig

made a boot screen first with a little loading bar that fills up fake progress lol.

got windows working too. you can drag them around by the header which was lowkey the hardest part. also made them stack properly so when you click one it comes to the front.

apps so far:

• welcome screen (links to my github, blazfxx)
• notes app where u can type stuff and add it to a list
• about window that does basically nothing but it looks official

went with a dark theme

bugs ig

• close button wasnt clickable bc the drag code was eating the clicks. fixed it
• clock kept was not clocking

todo for next time:

• save notes so they dont disappear on refresh
• maybe a dock at the bottom
• resizing windows

Accidently ended up spending a lot of time redoing the UI like non stop…. yeah im horrible with UIs 🌹