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Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

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ChuckMcM wrote: post #106
mitchivin wrote: post #95

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its been a nightmare trying to word it... haha. I really do feel like it's something that nobody else is really doing, at least that I have seen. but if I really think about, why would anyone do this? hahaha

"vibe designed"? I suspect that this sort of design wouldn't come up a lot, but do you think about the difference between this experience and the experience of designing something where you used a workflow that you were familiar with? Or put another way, if you did this again, would it go faster or would it take the same amount of time?

It would definitely go faster based on a few things. One being that these models are continually improving - an ungodly amount of time was spent trying to connect the dots between what I was seeing and what the agent was seeing/understanding.

But aside from that, I would still say yes. I've learned a lot (it's just hard to put into words when I'm missing some of the technical language) and I've gained so much confidence in even dealing with code.

I've actually started doing some work for someone after they saw my site on Reddit, which I could never have done before. It involves Docker, a bit of Python, and working on a codebase with multiple contributors. It's both exciting and terrifying at the same time.

Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

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petermcneeley wrote: post #120
mitchivin wrote: post #30

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nah I removed that from my version, I can't remember why though so I might try and bring it back - if you look up jspaint or paintjs theres some really cool ones available

you ever see this https://puter.com/

thats sick, I hadn't seen it

Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

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Post by ChrisArchitect »

oceanhaiyang wrote: post #65

> I started from zero knowledge and spent months collaborating with AI agents as a learning experience. Every pixel and every function went through me. The AI translated what I asked for into code, but every decision was human. This is so absurdly cringe and absolutely not coding. It’s like saying I spent absolutely trying to get ChatGPT to write my college essay for me. At the end of the writing period, I wrote noth…

+1

Who's hiring a graphic designer based on a Windows XP aesthetic that they didn't even produce? Of course novelty. But then what. Not really promoting the graphic design side. Not really promoting the development site. Bizarre noob accounts here loving it.

He cooked. (But not really) And we're all cooked.

Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

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Post by mitchivin »

QuantumNomad_ wrote: post #115
mitchivin wrote: post #72

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yeah I would also love to get that working - at one point that was the plan but things changed. It's something i'll look into updated, thanks for the suggestion. btw, if you let your mail app open - whatever you typed into my contact me app will be pre-filled in a new message ready to send

Might not apply to most people, but on some of my machines I have left the mail app unconfigured and so the few times something uses a mail link launching the app will just land me on the setup screen. It’s rare enough that anyone uses those sort of mailto: links that I haven’t bothered doing anything about it. And it might be that most other people have their email program set up already so only me and a handful of…

funny you say that, you are the first to mention it but I personally use Gmail installed as an app from my browser, so I encounter this exact issue hahah. Even worse, there was a time where I uninstalled outlook completely. It was also pretty messy in that instance

I kind of assumed that if someone found themselves in that position they would contact me another way and it shouldn't be a dealbreaker haha

Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

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Post by mitchivin »

l8again wrote: post #126

Looking at your resume, I am curious how you are intimately familiar with XP. Seems like it should be before your time.

It should be based on my resume, you're right haha - a peak behind the curtain reveals a decade of struggles finding my place in the world before saying fuck it and following my gut. I'm 30, whoooops - if you do the math on my graduation you should be able to get there, not hiding it - but didn't want to shout it from the rooftops either haha

Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

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Post by pxc »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #88

Interesting that you vibe coded the whole thing.

I don't think it counts as vibe coding, since the author read every line of code and presumably also asked questions about them and looked things up about the meanings of unfamiliar keywords and functions and so on.

It might be spiritually close to vibe coding in some ways because the author wasn't previously a programmer, so this code was never reviewed by a professional or trained developer.

But it was a high-effort project that involved inspecting and trying to understand the code, which isn't what vibe coding is about.

Whatever we want to call it, I think it's awesome! This is a good use of LLMs to help laypeople break into writing code imo, and the result is great.

Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

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Post by nwellinghoff »

mitchivin wrote: post #49
zx8080 wrote: post #47

To me, the CRT effect looks like an early LCD (TFT panel) one. CRT monitors picture did not look like made of dots from what I can remember (maybe not for all monitors). Except maybe the Trinitron ones. Great site, thanks for nostalgia!

you're probably right and I've actually had someone tell me that no monitor during the XP era would've been a CRT one haha so the whole things a bit off but I think people can let it slide

Confirm. I used xp on a silicon graphics 21” crt for a longgggg time. Was freaking heavy as hell to lug around, but it was a great monitor even well into the lcd era.
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