Designing hardware + research

First I started with doing some research on the best wallpapers to choose from and how this app would even function, and I found Dharmx, a GitHub repo with 1.5k+ wallpapers that would be perfect for my app.

I decided to design the flow of how things work, so I spent some time brainstorming and eventually came up with a plan on how I could pull from DharmX but also do it efficiently without making the app too heavy.

After that I laid the foundations by building a very simple app on VS code that runs on the terminal. I used some simple python I learned in school. After the basics worked (which took sometime to learn how to pull from a github repo) I started off with creating a history.json and blocked.json so that the wallpapers I displayed wouldn’t repeat and I could block wallpapers I didn’t want to see.

So now it’s just an app that runs in the terminal.