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Re:Ask HN: Again: The “I want to do everything but end up do... by wallfacer120 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @01:01PM (#33683386)
Jesus your personal site makes pretty much every developer site I've seen look like geocities. Hats off.
Re:Ask HN: Again: The “I want to do everything but end up do... by samspenc on Sunday November 20, 2022 @02:51PM (#33684580)
After visiting the website, I came here to post the same comment, and I see others have done the same. Kudos OP! Your website knocks the socks off any other website I've seen, really well done.
Re:Ask HN: Again: The “I want to do everything but end up do... by DustinBrett on Sunday November 20, 2022 @04:10PM (#33685341)
Thanks! I'm glad to hear you liked it. It's indeed a goal of mine to be one of the more interesting websites out there. Every time I think I am missing something or find a bug, I try and do something about it.

I've also taken a lot of effort to keep everything client side. This makes hosting easier and also adds an interesting challenge of pushing the browser to the limits just to see what can be made within those confines.

Re:Ask HN: Again: The “I want to do everything but end up do... by DustinBrett on Sunday November 20, 2022 @04:08PM (#33685318)
Thanks! I started with an Angelfire site back in 1998 and it's taken a long time to get to this. I always wanted to have a little miscellaneous site where people could come and play around a bit and check out some info about me if they wanted.

The idea to turn my website into a desktop environment came out of me trying to think how to present all my various content to users, and thinking how it would be easier if they could just RDP into my machine and see everything locally. Also inspiration from sites like http://www.windows93.net/, https://windows96.net/ & https://aaronos.dev/.