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hey everyone! After reading your reviews on my last ship, I spent time restructuring my code and adding some new features to make the OS feel much more like a real desktop.

Here is what’s new:

• Local storage persistence: Polaris OS finally remembers your preferences! your custom accent colors and notepad entries now save automatically, so you won’t lose them when you reload the page.
• Achievements system: i added 5 brand-new unlockable achievements to find while exploring the OS (and yes, your progress saves via local storage too!).
• New dictionary app: look up any word instantly using the Openmuse API. you can use the new dictionary app, or just type define [word] straight into the terminal.
• Settings app & UI polish: built a dedicated Settings app to manage the OS. i also added a volume slider for the media player (which has new songs!), and hover-name overlays for taskbar apps.
• Performance & visual upgrades: designed a brand new, cooler loading animation, fixed the stretched confetti hitbox bug, and optimized the NASA APOD widget so high-res space images no longer lag the entire website.

let me know what you think of the new apps and if you manage to unlock all the achievements!

hey guys! i’m back with more big updates for polaris!

since my last ship, i’ve been juggling my exams but still managed to add some really fun new features to make the OS feel even more alive and interactive.

heres a list of every single new change i added since and the issues i had with adding them:

• Apps

1. Music app: the music app was pretty fun to add and made polaris less boring, but i kept running into issues with adding the ui over the default ui (the white blob which did not match polaris at all)
2. Gallery app: the gallery app is another addition, with a few pictures related to polaris. the difficult part was adding the transitions between changing the pictures, and loading the pictures without taking hours
3. Terminal app: the terminal app is something i took inspiration from other webos’s, and it was actually hard to add and i also kept running into a issue where i could not type in the app at all, but i fixed it all and got it working!

• Other changes

1. Dynamic wallpaper: i got a few people say that the wallpaper looked a little boring, so i added stars that float around the entire wallpaper and react with your cursor!
2. TicTacToe bot: this one was a great learning experience but just as hard, took me a while to figure out what i was doing but i finally got there in the end and built a working bot to play against!
3. Desktop widgets: i added 2 widgets, the analog time and the NASA APOD. the analog time was pretty straight forward, but the NASA APOD was a little hard, especially with adding a fallback because any video APOD just broke the widget.
4. For the smaller changes i just changed the logos of a few apps to look consistent, cleaned up my github repo and changed the tab title.

im getting pretty close to reaching where i want polaris to be. feel free to try out all the changes! hope you enjoy them :)

hey everyone! i just made a new project, OPEN-TAB! its a tab design thats meant to replace the boring plain new tab that most browsers have, with a sleek minimalist tab!

the design uses a glassmorphism (a new word i learnt today) UI over a dark background for a simple easy to use look. it features a real-time calendar and clock grid, a direct web search bar, and shortcut links to github, youtube, Nasa, and reddit, and a NASA widget featuring APOD (a picture of the day) on the bottom which shows a new picture from Nasa every single day!

i definitely ran into a few headaches while building this. i had some issues with making the main logo spin smoothly, and there were a ton of css transform bugs breaking the hover and glow effects on my widgets. getting the nasa api widget to pull the daily astronomy picture and link properly was also a bit tricky, but i managed to work through all of it (with a little bit of help from ai) to get the layout perfectly stable and tactile.

im proud of how clean this turned out :)

hey everyone! i’m back with more updates to Polaris, my web-based space-themed OS!

since my last ship, i’ve made many changes to make it feel even more like a real, immersive desktop experience right in your browser.

the biggest new tool is the weather app! you can just type in your desired city and it instantly fetches the real time temperature and weather conditions using an api. the live clock on the taskbar also got an update as clicking it now smoothly slides up an interactive calendar, complete with arrows so you can actually navigate through different months! it also removes the need to have its own app in the taskbar, and feels more like windows.

i also completely revamped the ui and aesthetics! everything now has a glowing purple drop shadows around the edges of the windows (kinda like underglow on a car!). the taskbar icons now smoothly scale up when you hover over them to indicate that they are selected, and clicking them makes the apps fade into existence instead of just snapping in. i also merged the welcome and links pages into one big info window to keep the desktop clean.

to make the whole OS feel alive, i built a brand new animated star filling loading screen, plus i added global sound effects! there’s a satisfying startup sound when the OS finishes booting, and click sounds whenever you open apps or navigate the UI. (there’s also a fun hidden easter egg on the desktop background that triggers star confetti if you click the text!)

my goal is still to turn this into a single tab with everything simple a person could need in one place. i will continue working on this project, polishing the animations, and ofc adding more apps! feel free to drag the glowing windows around, check your local weather, and play around with the confetti! i hope you like my work :)

hey everyone! i built Polaris, a web-based OS based on a space theme! it feels just like a real OS experience right here in your browser!

the whole thing is built by me completely from scratch, using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. it just started out as a simple introductory project, but once i started adding more things to it, it slowly turned into a whole operating system! the first app i added was the note taker, which was a simple tool to add temporary notes and reminders inside. after that, i added more apps like the calculator, timer, and tic-tac-toe (more coming soon)!

all of these apps can run at the exact same time, and you can drag them all around the screen. the taskbar at the bottom gives you easy access to open any of the available apps, complete with icons that highlight when you tap them and a live clock. feel free to check out all the apps, drag the windows around, and see if you can beat your friends at tic-tac-toe!

i plan on turning into a single tab with everything simple a person could need, so instead of opening multiple apps, anyone can just open one single tab and have all the simple tools they need in one place!

i will continue working on this project as time passes, and i plan to add animations to everything, add an apps window, and ofc more apps! i hope you like my work :)

i made a personal website using HTML and CSS. i didnt make it very complicated as getting to know someone should be simple, so i only added a few sections with an about me and my profiles. i went for a more modern abstract look with this website and i think it turned out looking great!