My WebOS (StellarOS)
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@daval
- 5 Devlogs
- 11 Total hours
This is my very own OS that can be run in the web!
Ship #2
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My WebOS (StellarOS)
Second ship to earn the WebOS rewards! Hopefully a bit more Stardust than my Digital Hub :P
I build a WebOS based on Interstellar, called StellarOS. The main language for the backend is JavaScript, frontend was built with HTML and CSS. I added three widgets, one displays the weather (this one was by far the easiest, since I just used the embedded one from weatherwidget.io), another one displays a calendar (this one was the second hardest, used AI sadly enough, I know, disappointing), the third one was to display the currently playing music (funny enough the second easiest, little to no AI was used). And finally, the hardest one, the new app to track Hackatime stats, you just plug in your user, to be honest I truly tried to do it without AI, but I simply couldn’t… this one was nearly 60% AI, even more dissapointing :(.
At the end of the day, it was a project I really enjoyed, learned a lot about HTML and CSS, and a tiny bit of JS… could I do this whole thing from scratch without any tutorial? Probably the frontend, yes but I couldn’t do the backend, still got a lot to learn. If I ever come back to this project it will be to try and replace every piece of code made by AI and do it by hand, just to feel good with myself I guess.
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1h 47m 30s logged
Somehow the first 30 minutes did not track 😭 Anyways, this is the last devlog, hopefully in a good while. I added three widgets, one for weather (with less data), one for calendar, and one for Music, it look pretty neat now. I also added a new app to track your Hackatime stats, just plug your username in (daval in my case) and you can see your stats!
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1h 0m 44s logged
Organized the JS and CSS files into new folders, used the JS script from my Digital Hub to create a “Music” app, basically tracking, with the option to hear along through Youtube. A fun little extra, 1/3 requirements for the WebOS 2 mission done, 2 to go!
Ship #1
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My WebOS (StellarOS)
I made a WebOS! Based on the best movie of all times, Interstellar. Now, it isn’t the most beautiful of them all, and it certainly needs more features, but it gets the job done! I think the most challenging part was debugging after deployment, and formatting the Weather app, that one was… waow. Anyways! Learnt alot! I can say with confidence I could make a basic website with 0% AI! Of course, I mean only the HTML and the CSS, all those Java Scripts still would need a couple Google Searches before being able to work… in any case, fun project!
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1h 26m 59s logged
Finally! I’m done, over, complete! This took so much more than two hours, I don’t know if it’s just because of the limited amount of neurons in my brain or if it’s really more complicated than it looks… but I’m done!
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First, I added a whole new app, Weather (thanks open-meteo)
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Second, added a new button to expand the windows! It’s not perfect, and it only goes full screen, it doesn’t change sizes YET
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Third, added a new entry to the notes app.
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Fourth, ate some celebration nachos
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FIfth, used the trust worthy Google AI to make a ReadMe.md file for the Github (sue me, I’m lazy)
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Sixth, made all windows the same size
And that’s all! This was kinda fun!
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2h 5m 7s logged
Slow and slower:
This session was short, relatively simple and good. I made the notes app and styled it to my liking. I also made the cursor an orange ball that goes big and oranger when it hovers over a clickable object, and small when it clicks anything.
WHO FINISHED THIS IN ONLY TWO HOURS! IT’S A TRICK! A JOKE! THEY’RE LYING!
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4h 17m 38s logged
No rest for the wicked 😭
So, my ten hour portfolio website yielded a total of 30 Stardust, which isn’t too bad, but it definetly isn’t the best, kinda feel like I wasted 10 hours… ANYWAYS, since that didn’t quite work out as expected, I chose to start another project, the WebOS 1 mission, it says it’s only ~2:30 hrs, and it yields 50 Stardust, that’s way more than what I got with 10 hours!…
I see why now, this is DEFINITELY harder than it looks, but game’s game, so… yeah, at least I’m getting hours 😭
Today was simple:
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Build the welcome window
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Added the toolbar, made the JavaScript files for the time tracking, window movement and the ability to open and close windows.
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Moved all my styiling into a CSS file.
Honestly this is kinda good for me, it’s tedious, boring sometimes, but it’s very good. Most, if not all, my projects until now were made with a template, if someone asked me to make an HTML file from scratch four hours (four hours 😭) ago I couldn’t have done it, let alone style it in CSS… so actually learning something is nice, I’ll be back tomorrow.
