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Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#22I've built a start page a while ago, if you're interested you can change the config and use it yourself.
https://github.com/Quintenps/Startpagev2
What I really like about my personal start page is it's RSS feed. I found this article through that :). Other features are of course the bookmarks and light/dark theme.
Don't forget to use new tab redirect (my favorite) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-redirect/i... it highlights the URL bar so when you're not interested in clicking a bookmark you can do a search query right away.
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#23I personally aim for a startpage that loads instantly and since browsers no longer let you use a local html file as one, I've made an extension that registers a custom new tab page. I don't use any frameworks since it's a pretty simple page, essentially just groups of links. If you need to, you can always use something like fetch to load external resources.
Would you mind sharing a link to your extension?
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#24I use a small Ruby script that fetches some RSS feeds and creates a static HTML page with that content. The script gets executed via cronjob and is hosted locally on my machine, served via python's integrated web server. That way I have basically no loading time when opening a new tab and I'm independant from 3rd party services that close down or change in unwanted ways.
I use the 'New Tab Redirect' extension to set a local web page for new tabs in Chromium.
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#25I personally aim for a startpage that loads instantly and since browsers no longer let you use a local html file as one, I've made an extension that registers a custom new tab page. I don't use any frameworks since it's a pretty simple page, essentially just groups of links. If you need to, you can always use something like fetch to load external resources.
I'm using a local html file as a start page in Safari right now, and used the same file on Windows (Firefox) just a few months ago.
I believe Firefox and Chrome do not allow you to set a local html file as a new tab page. You can set it as a home page but then you need to manually navigate to it after creating a new tab.
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#26Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#27I built swiftjectivec.com using Jekyll and Netlify. I’m in the iOS world by trade, and over the last decade web technology and the flavor of the week has changed faster than I care to keep up with. So this simple, dare I say “dumb” setup, is perfect for me. I also use the same approach for stuff I sell too, such as bestinclassiosapp.com
For me, the simplest thing with the smallest amount of failure points is key.
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#28I use the Flame Dashboard [1].
It runs in a docker container, has support out of the box for custom bookmarks and links and also detects other docker containers running on your machine and automatically lists them on the dashboard. It is even opensource, so you can customise it to your liking [2].
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#29I use simple TODO manager in local HTML file with local storage for data as the start page.
Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm using a local html file as a start page in Safari right now, and used the same file on Windows (Firefox) just a few months ago.
I believe Firefox and Chrome do not allow you to set a local html file as a new tab page. You can set it as a home page but then you need to manually navigate to it after creating a new tab.
I use Chrome. I build a static HTML file and have set a New Tab page policy[1] in my paid Google Workspace[2] admin console
to use this static HTML file via a file:// URL.
[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/2657289#zippy=%2C...