UboxOS | Devlog 1

I don’t have much have anything really flashy to show off yet.

I mapped an 8x8 font I found in the public domain on github to each character, and then I created a print function in order to print using the framebuffer limine gives me but in a way less complicated way.

This took way longer than it should have to debugged it. It started with the text being completely backwards, so I tried to make a fix but then that just made the text completely unreadable. I looked at a few forums and FINALLY fixed it.

It just feels satisfying to solve something on your own without copy and pasting from AI

I’m working on an OS from scratch for potato PCs.

I’m writing it from complete scratch and assembly in c++. I’m not hoping to finish it or even have a UI by the time stardance is over. I just thought it would be cool to work on this.

I’m taking a lot of inspiration from chromeOS and those web os things on those 2000s computers where it boots into a thin client, so I have 2 goals for my os,

1. be as memory efficent as possible and
2. get it to have a browser and vnc client.

an OS for all the hp streams of the world !

I called it UboxOS because it’s meant to be user friendly and because I was going to call it boxOS but BoxOS was already taken

finished. shipping

Finally almost finished. It’s june 30th, and new month new project so I’m going to put this project on hold and work on my other one. I designed a new logo for Macro, but I need to refine it (Currently kind of chopped)

I finished with the setup for my app. it took forever, but here’s what i did: First, you enter an IP address (to manage another comptuer). I’ve made the app automatically scan all of the computer’s ports to find the ports that Macro are on. For the setup, I’ve basically implemented changed the entire thing. it installs prerequisites, and then after that, you add your filepaths, choose a search backend, and then it automatically create a background process

I deleted everything and started over. I used Gemini CLI once and then it’s like the first time you use AI it starts snowballing. I got rid of everything and I started by focusing on the setup. I proudly spent 5 hours working on a welcome screen. I used a textual UI, which was somewhat easy y implement. The hard part was implementing the connections to the server. I created a somewhat user friendly UI and I unified everything into one platform. The manager is now used to manage macro servers and create one, and all of the clients are now web hosted

Today I implemented a new website and Ive restructured the entire thing to be half web based so you don’t have to only have another laptop to use it. I was going to test it but I’ll have to make time for it. as it turns out there is a huge difference between the iPad Pro and base iPad, so my browser froze as soon as I tried opening live preview. I’ll do all this again tomorrow lol ✌️

I learned I was nowhere near done at all. I basically need to switch the UI library to be compatible with the system I’m using, and I still have to write the clients for the server. I only have one app that’s halfway done, and that’s the music client. I still have a lot to do, along with that, Google is going to discontinue firebase spark for no reason except that anytime they realize that users like an app, they either discontinue it or make it worse with ads

Ididntget much done because my laptop was broken and I didn’t have a way to test my apps in firebase studio but i a tried to add an authentication system that uses the client API to automatically authenticate users

So I kind of broke my only laptop but it’s all chill because I have an iPad.

I started working on the music client (there are 4) and I decided to go with a unconventional architecture for this one this time. Instead of having the now playing screen link with the app like a normal person, I have a API to handle it. I have multiple endpoints to play/pause/otherwise control music and the API can provide the song progress and name. As you can see, the UI is quite ugly. I’ll have to start theming the screens today

I created a basic client to test out the API with, I don’t mean for it to ship with this client. I’m just doing it. I’ve decided on a file numbering system, where each file gets its own number. if a file is deleted, it’s number is kept and marked as deleted until a file with the same metadata returns. I got some errors when I was going to screenshot my code, but since I don’t work on sundays, I can’t fix it until monday. I got rid of the splash screen because I realized people don’t want to see it.

I’m creating a free plex alternative.

I’ve always wanted to get into self hosting and stuff, and now that stardance is starting, now is my chance to create my app and ditch streaming like I’ve wanted to do.

I’m thinking like one app can be photos, another for videos, one for music, and one for storage. it sounds like a good idea in theory but it might be hard to implement.

Anyway, with flavortown I had good project ideas but the implementation and design weren’t all there, so this time around I’m going to focus only on that. This will likely be my only project this time around so I’m going to make it my best one.

I haven’t got much done, because I’ve been studying topics and stuff but here I have the setup screen. I’m taking inspiration from Google’s material design 3 for the aesthetic.

I’m a lazy person who wants to get stardust so I’m going to make a lazy site and try to get high votes (/s)

I designed a splash screen for my app’s server counterpart