Testflight autopublishing, bug fixes, collapsed devlogs

• Testflight now autodeploys with chrome webstore and firefox store, so safari users also have regular updates w/o me building & deploying manually

• Bug fixes with AI checks in firefox, and like untoggleable keep orders in sidebar etc. and auto publishing detection for versions fixed

• Collapsible devlogs for long ones show more/show less

Activity monitor

Inbuilt activity monitor so you don’t have to open the app and just see things in here with grouped processes etc!

Changelog

• activity monitor (cc7bf1f)

Performance & calculator

Key features added:

• Switched file search to SQLite + FTS for persistent file index (this is like fast, avg file search time is 20ms atm)
• Exclusions for build/cache/package folders
• Made search providers run concurrently
• Added ⌘K actions menu
• Added inline calculator
• Switched to a liquid glass UI & did improvements in terms of sizing etc.

Changelog

• calculator & liquid glass (b377bef)
• actions (cab152b)
• rebuild file index & super speed for file search (f1b1a85)
• UI improvements & better indexing, faster (f4bcc8d)
• file search, usage ranking basic indexing (4baf146)

Foundry

Building a better Spotlight/Raycast/alternatives.

Right now i got some basic stuff working like search with settings, and launch on hotkey + just native macOS app first time with swift lol.

So far built:

• App search
• Basic system commands
• Local file search
• Usage-based ranking
• Background indexing

Changelog, theming, bug fixes, improvements

• Changelog, add to devlog, has multiple formatting options and supports branches as well.
• Themed rate page
• A lot of performance improvements to the website focusing on reducing load because of the galaxy bg and cubes.
• Command palette now has stardance utils options like change font pairing, theme, etc.
• and some other bug fixes & improvements with bugs reported by users.

Changelog

• improvements (8be79e9)
• more speeed (6ca07c7)
• speeed (e97a3f2)
• performance (b4ffca0)
• some more bug fixes (d82efb7)
• performance & bug fixes (c4844f9)
• fix selectors for global feeds (d10135f)
• zooming (31fe643)

Syncing & devlog zoom

Implemented syncing of goals, theme, fonts etc. across chrome account/firefox account. also did sharding of goals, as about 12 goals exceeds quota of syncing for chrome so added sharding to work with that.

Also changed check AI to a robot svg and added a zoom in to see devlog images better when they have small details!

Auto publishing + safari build

Setup a github workflow, so when i start working on new version, old version is automatically published to chrome webstore & mozilla addons through API, so i don’t need to press like 4 extra buttons on each to do so.

Also built & submitted extension to app store so my safari users can use it easier than building it themselves.

Onboarding

Made a detailed onboarding flow to help users to be aware of and understand Stardance Utils features.
Also made several performance improvements to the website.

Website!

Finally made a showcase website for Stardance Utils.

Added some fun UI stuff like the hover cubes, and the galaxy background! Added sections for past projects/reviews too so the page has a little more proof behind it and less trust me bro cough cough

Shop Improvements

Major shop changes:

• Removed the popular carousel
• Made All items the default view and moved categories into a filter
• Improved the Goals and Your Orders sidebar spacing and UI
• Added cumulative and individual goal progress
• Added background progress bars per item and an overall progress bar
• Added estimated time remaining for each goal and a total time estimate
• Added the option to remove the Goals sidebar and show Goals as a top section instead
• Added the option to show or hide Your Orders in the sidebar, or use it as a link

(Longest devlog yet, website coming up next!)

Pinned projects

Pin the projects you work on the most for easy access!

Markdown toolbar, live preview!

• Toolbar with all markdown that is supported (except images, PR to be merged soon?)
• Live preview of the markdown in your devlogs!
• Fixing some bugs with AI detection (support of locales like FR-fr, etc)

Refactor & cleanup

• Split 3k+ lines of content.js into modularized files, projects.js and others to manage code quality better. (Last time it went to 10k+ lines in 1 file and i don’t want to repeat that)
• Cleaned up some inline styles and reorganized into styles.css
• Updated readme with latest features

AI image detection

Live on webstore now: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/stardance-utils/kapdpeddcghffhildgnbbdnaedeebdoj

So, started out with C2PA, got it working with wasm through the extension but then realized that it won’t work since C2PA is lost in upload to stardance, therefore i switched to using https://openai.com/research/verify/ in a background job when check AI is clicked.

Themes

• Make stardance look different, all catpuccin accents and other themes now live!
• Started work on AI detection for devlog images & banners.

Slack emojis support

So, slack emojis should work, however there’s a bug with post markdown that causes it not to. I’m going to PR a fix and then you can use slack emojis in devlogs!

Devlog drafts!

Don’t lose your devlogs, because now they’re saved locally.
(Note: this only includes the devlog text, not images)

Inline devlog editing

• You can now edit devlogs inline, without having to be redirected
• Added feature list to readme and early stage webstore link

Speak your Devlogs!

Tired of typing? Want to just speak out your devlog? Well now you can do that with stardance utils. In fact I fully spoke out this devlog, and your wpm is always higher with speaking (probably)

Also, I did some improvements to the styling of ship button.