Last minute adjustments

So today, I didn’t have much ideas for other projects, so I made some UI tweaks before shipping!

And also! I added a new primary color for the light mode! (test my project to find out )

Changelog

• feat: ui tweaks (d65d893)

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I think this will be the last devlog before shipping

I finally added theming!!!!

Now, you can burn out your retina at night, with the new light mode!

Also, I added customizable outline colors! (not for the light mode, just because there isn’t a color that looks nice with #FFFFFF)

This was pretty easy, as I had everything pretty much set up, just needed to add some buttons, and js. (do not look at my js )

Honestly, that is all, I do not have much to say, as there aren’t any bugs, and (i think) it’s ready to ship!

Changelog

• feat: add theming settings (a44437c)

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I lied… 4th devlog, and more to come!

Today was a shorter day, not because i didn’t have time, but because I procrastinated until 10 pm

So today, I added:

• a settings menu, to change search engines!
• also I fixed a bug with the weather widget

Believing in my project, i set it as my new tab, and then I noticed a bug.
Specifically, that the geolocation timeout was set to 5 seconds, and it wasn’t showing the error. This was easily fixed, by me adding a zero to the end of the timeout, and showing the GIVEN error message instead of some arbitrary bullshit.

Now, the settings took the longest, but it wasn’t so bad! I just had to change the search bar to grab the query string from localstorage, and set a new query url to localstorage when changed in the settings menu!

I am planning to finish by adding more options to the settings menu, like custom theme options, hide widgets, and reset all changes button!

(also thanks to @water for the words of encouragement!)

Changelog

• feat: add search settings, fix: geolocation timeout now set to 1 minute to not cause errors (7c1b9ca)

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Last devlog before ship (i still have to rate 10 times )

I finally finished!!!!! After 14 hours for a project that was supposed to take 3 hours, i finally finished!!

So today, i added:

• Weather info (with the Open-Meteo API)
• trash buttons for the favorites
• Your Stardance info (with @jam06452 ’s Stardance API)

Honestly, the hardest thing today was working with javascript , especially with the fetch api (now i hate async functions AND js!!!!)
Other than that, the hardest thing was, probably the trash buttons? I will not understand people, who write CSS for a living. Why can’t the div go to the bottom of the screen if i say it to do so???? Why do I have to flexbox justify align something then position opacity something to move a div?

It was not easy (especially when I’m not really good at JS) to write this shit.

So I gave up on adding a settings button, I am NOT messing around with JS/CSS anymore…

When I finish rating some other projects, for my previous ship, then I’ll probably ship this.

(this dumpster fire was designed on a 4:3 monitor, so most desktop monitors should work!)

Also, the website is up! (check the domain )

Changelog

• fix: add options to geolocation to increase cache and make it faster (6823f69)
• feat: add favicon (d3ab880)
• feat: add darkreader lock to not break css (9f38395)
• chore: update readme with picture of project (8d85e24)
• Create CNAME (4d06d89)
• feat: finalize favorites, add weather, and stardance stats (1be2aa4)

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My longest devlog to date!

Wow, a SEVEN HOUR devlog!!!!!!!!

I don’t know what I expected but webdev is still not easy!!!!!

So, new features:

• A functional search bar!
• Favorites!
• Clock with date!

The favorites took the longest time, mostly because i’m a beginner with javascript (like i can understand it, but I don’t know much syntax)
Also the search bar took a long time, because I reworked it since yesterday (it was a custom input, now using a standard html input)
The clock was pretty easy, just used the standard js date function, i just have to do a “setInterval” for every second.

(the search bar google icon implementation was copied from the firefox default homepage)

Next steps will be:

• add a weather panel
• also add something stardance related

Changelog

• feat: add basics, clock, search bar, and favorites (cf8e57e)

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First devlog!

This project is going to be a stardance inspired new tab page!

Despite the 3 hours of coding, i didn’t make much progress, mostly because implementing the search feature took a while (also i got sidetracked centering a div )

So all I did today was:

• making a search bar
• centering a div

Don’t believe anybody, who says webdev is easy! (“now i understand why web developers are all bald and angry” -said a stardance poet)

i have had enough of writing weird xml-ese today……

Changelog

• initial commit (3e7a0dd)

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