Would be cool if the contact you page let me send you an email from your site itself instead of trying to launch my default mail app. I typed out an email and filled in my email but it tried to launch mail app when I tried to send it.
Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
61–70 of 340 posts
Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
#62Consider using the display/monitor icon in tray to manage CRT effect on/off instead of the Windows Defender icon.
Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
#63Arguably the most familiar desktop user interface on the planet. I often wonder why complex web apps do not use this searchable start menu format.
i've got no statistics to back it but I'd bet my life savings on it being exactly that (its $0, but still)
Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
#64Pretty cool stuff. Every time I see it, a part of me misses the styling of Windows XP. It was kind of the only well-regarded windows that tried to actually be fun ; the fact that there was a little dog mascot in the search results, the fact that the bar on the bottom kind of looks like a Fisher Price toy, Clippy! I kind of miss when professional programs were allowed to be goofy. As a side note, I really like your av…
aside from the frustration it's been pretty cool building it, its almost like im back in 2006
Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
#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 nothing but decided which ai goop I liked best.
Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
#66To 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
> no monitor during the XP era would've been a CRT one haha
Well, not really, and it depended highly on the place of work/study and country/state. For example, my University replaced the CRT ones with LCDs only in 2005-06 (they've used XP in computer rooms for quite a long time, skipping Vista and 8).
I myself used the CRT monitor with winXP until the late 2004.
Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
#67Give this man a job! (If he doesn't have one already)
Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
#68> 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…
[deleted]
Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
#69The paint app is very accurate. Kinda shocking really.
In my head, I heard videogamedunkey saying: “Ohhh... they've got the original paint on this one! I didn’t know this was a slick-type website!”
Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio
#70Consider using the display/monitor icon in tray to manage CRT effect on/off instead of the Windows Defender icon.
fair call! the CRT toggle was fairly recent in comparison to the full screen toggle so it was a case of seniority haha but I'm at the point now were I can spend time on things like that and the icons will be getting a refresh at some stage so i'll remember this.
thanks