Day three, four, five, six, and seven! ( )

Umm, i didn’t have much time this week to devlog, and also i didn’t feel like writing devlogs, so I’m writing this before my trip!

(the days i’m going to reference are the days in the devlog, like first day -> day three)

The first day, i rewired the pcb again, then made the bottom plate of the case.

The second day, i made the rest of the case, then noticed that the front plate had a humongous forehead,

so the next day I rewired the pcb (again).

This is pretty normal with pcb design, is what i noticed.

The 4th day was spent with case design, and it still had a huge forehead.

the next day was spent with forehead smallening surgery, which included:

• rewiring the pcb
• remaking the case

And it still has a huge ass forehead.

The main problems were:

• the switches, rotary encoder and leds don’t have a cad model in kicad
• the oled display was in the wrong orientation
• the led footprint is probably in the wrong orientation

I cannot work on the project for the next few days, after that ill probably start setting up the firmware.

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-zsobix

Day twooo

Today I (basically) finished the schematics!!!! I still have to work on the pcb, because i “finished” it but it still has tons of errors, and the traces are all over the place.

I did still have to fight with kicad, especially with adding down the traces.

What I discovered, that pcb design is mostly connect the dots, with extra steps.

I don’t have much to say, i was very locked in connecting the traces….

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First devlogggggggg!

I started making a hackpad!!!! I have no prior pcb knowledge, and i only watched some onshape tutorial, but it’s looking great!

I read the hackpad tutorial beforehand, so working with kicad wasn’t that hard.

I had to fight with both kicad and onshape, kicad for trying to wire up the switch legs and the xiao, and with onshape to import the plate dxf (it didn’t work )

I can’t work more today, because i have some eye problems.

The pcb still looks very barren, so i’ll work on that tomorrow.

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-zsobix

Day threeee!!

Today, I didn’t get to add much, but atleast i tried

New features:

• A settings app
• An about app, using the readme
• some styling adjustments
• focus borders

This was all pretty easy, for the about app i used a markdown renderer, and the settings app is just a color picker with some js logic.

The styling was just adding “position: relative” to the header css to move the windows under the header.

And, the focus borders basically was based off of the tutorial, but i implemented my way.

I still have to add proper hosting, then i can ship.

Changelog

• feat: add settings and about app + styling (58cce27)

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Day twoooooooo

Today I could actually put some time into my project!

So, i added:

• an actual readme
• licensing for the project and my background image
• a stardance stats app
• a weather app
• some stying

The actual hardest thing was figuring out that “onhover” doesnt exist, and i have to use “onmouseover” instead!!!! i love js!!!!!!

Everything else was pretty easy, basically just copying the apps from my new page project called “StarScraper”.

As I said in the first devlog, i’m designing this project off of my hyprland dotfiles, and I added my background image which I took!!!

But, the problem with putting images on the internet, is that there alot of people who just steal images! So I added a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license to try to combat that. I do not want to have just an “All rights reserved” because i think that feels too controlling, i want for people to use my image, but just don’t steal it.

pls use my picture with attribution, i think it turned out great.

Anyways, this devlog was powered by Paulaner Spezi, and Lemon Estathé, so shoutout to those.

I’ll probalbly add more apps, i just need one more devlog to ship, but i also need to rate for my first project, and i hate rating projects! I feel that it was easier on Flavortown, because I was less stressed to not take a BIG hit on my payout from writing a “bad” review, so it just feels too constraining.

Changelog

• feat: add background + licensing, stardance app and weather app (3253a32)

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-zsobix

First webos devlog!

I started this project before I went on holiday, and now I’m back, so I can finally start this!

So today, I added:

• Basic features (like a normal header, and css)
• a movable window!
• and a working clock

Honestly, it wasn’t really hard, i “obtained” the window moving code from w3schools,

and the time code from my other project!

The hardest thing was actually implementing the moving windows, because i missed a line of css in the tutorial

I’m trying to style it of of my hyprland dotfiles, we’ll see how it will look.

(today it is 42˚C in my city, so i can’t write that much)

Changelog

• feat: add basics, moving window, and time (35a73a2)
• initial commit (bd294f8)

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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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-zsobix

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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-zsobix

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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-zsobix

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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First normal and last devlog before the (first) ship!

Since my project isn’t going to be rated, and I will only get 10 stardust (for the first ship), I’m not wasting time that could be stardust.

Today, I added the basics like:

• Projects I’m currently working on
• Basic styling
• Contact details

So yeah, after this ship, I’ll add more stuff.

Changelog

• fix: font pointing to wrong website (b09e544)
• feat: remade website in a swiss style (bd61b70)

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-zsobix

Hey, this is my new website! I’m currently thinking about making it with a Swiss Style. Today I did some research and made just the basics, like adding the font and some spacing!

Day 14

Today I made some pretty good progress!
New features:

• finally finished the favorites tab
• bugfixes
• easter egg…….

Everything was pretty easy to implement, maybe the favorites tab was harder than I imagined (I had to let go of the popup message when you add a favorite )
There were ALOT of bugs to fix, like code snippets appearing multiple times, and straight up not functioning code.
I also added an easter egg…. try out my app to find out!

This is the last devlog before shipping, I tested everything on a live install of manjaro… so there shouldn’t be any issues.

(im tiredddd)

Changelog

• feat: add favorites page, bugfixes, and ??? (31409b6)
• fix: typo in action (6d8d395)
• fix: update action (511da3b)

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-zsobix

Day 13!!

Wow, i didn’t expect to make this much progress today!!!!!

New features:

• HRT Teletekst (croatian public broadcaster) support
• Favorites tab (not finished)
• bug fixes

The hardest thing to implement wasn’t even the HRT Teletext support, it was the (still broken) favorites tab!
Atleast the favorites tab looks nice (i think)
Implementing the teletext service was easy because (you know it) there is an actual api!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn’t get to ship today because I didn’t get to add all the features I wanted to add.

(i want to sleeeeeeeep )

So, features before shipping:

• more teletext services
• bugfixes
• despagettifying my code (almost typed coke)
• finishing the favorites page

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-zsobix

Day 12

Today was better in terms of progress, but I hadn’t had enough freetime…

New features:

• NOS Teletekst (dutch public broadcaster) support
• info button
• bugfixes

Implementing NOS Teletekst was VERY HARD, because they give the teletext pages in html, so I have to basically copy the german teletext implementation, but not fully because the api response only has partial html, without any styling, so I have to copy the styling from the official website, then combine it with the api response.
Other than that, everything went pretty well, even the info page, and yknow why? I read the f**king docs!!!!!!!!

(it’s currently midnight as of writing this and my brain isn’t functioning.)

I’ll probably ship tomorrow, because I gave up on waiting, and also I hit 30 hours!!!!

So, the last minute features I want to implement:

• add favorites page
• bugfixes
• add some more teletext services

Changelog

• chore: update readme (f85a191)
• feat: add nos teletekst support + about button (11fdea9)

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-zsobix

Day 11

Today also I couldn’t do much so this devlog will be short.

New features:

• TVP Teletext (polish public broadcaster) support
• BHRT Teletext (bosnian public broadcaster) support
• bugfixes

The most annoying thing I had to do was implementing the bosnian teletext, mostly because, there wasn’t a normal api!!!!
So getting the number of subpages, and the next/previous page was pretty hard!
Other then that, implementing the polish teletext was actually, well not pretty easy, but not that hard, because you know why…. there was an actual normal working api!!!!!!
Well the not easy part was that, the api was just a json file, and a not very good one at that, so implementing the next/previous page functions were not trivial.

New features I still want to add:

• moaar teletext services support
• bugfixes

I gave up on waiting for the weekly shipping stickers, so I’ll probably ship when I get home.

(birbs are chirping around me as of writing this )

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-zsobix

Day 10!

Today was VERY slow, because I’m currently on a trip and don’t have much time.

So, new features:

• RBB teletext (german regional broadcaster) support
• MDR teletext (german regional broadcaster) support
• Teletexto TVE (spanish public broadcaster) support
• bugfixes

The first two teletext services were easy to implement, because I already implemented their API!
Teletexto TVE support was also easy to implement mostly because, their html files were readable! (they didn’t even have an api)
So yeah, I don’t have much things to say.

I still want to add:

• moar teletext services support (like for poland, netherlands, portugal)
• bugfixes

Changelog

my stardance extension broke

anyways,

thanks for coming to my ted talk
-zsobix