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Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?

#61
I just take a Bulma template, and edit the CSS styles within its html.

If i feel ambitious, I install v/ node, then edit the sass (compiles to css)

https://bulmatemplates.github.io/bulma-templates/

Typically for a simple website:

1. Generate an express app with --view=ejs (ejs is virtually the same as HTML but lets you inject js into your html)

https://expressjs.com/en/starter/generator.html

2. Display & edit a simple html (i.e. ejs) page.

3. ???

4. Profit

Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?

#63
I used speeddials for some years, then some other obscure addons and local html files. A few years ago, via G-Hacks, I found Humble New Tab Page[0], and it's been love at first sight. It has some little quirks if you are clumsy as I am and move a folder to another column, but it's not that hard to undo by hand. As a plus, it was a good excuse to bookmark frequent pages and put them inside folders.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/humble-new-ta...

Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?

#64
A few weeks ago I did some research and started using the Toby tab manager plugin for Firefox and Chrome: https://www.gettoby.com/

I set up a "Frequent" tab group at the top, which has the pages that I often go to but that have weird URLs that I always struggle a little to find the right URL.

I really started using it for cross-machine tab parking. I always end up with a ton of tabs open across 2 chromebooks and my work machine, and "OneTab" helps, but has no ability to manage across multiple machines or browsers. With Toby I created sections for "Tooling Research", "General Work Research", "Logging and Monitoring", and individual projects that I seem to always want to get back to by leaving tabs open.

The down side is it takes a good 2 seconds when I hit "new tab" for it to load. I have been quite happy with it though.

Re: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?

#70
You don't need anything fancy. Start with any sample "New Tab" extension for chrome and firefox found on github, strip it back to being basically blank then add whatever you want. Enjoy! I really like my custom new tab extension and have tinkered with it for years

Since I don't have mine in a public repo, a cursory search shows a good example here. The manifest.json bit here is the only thing needed iirc.

https://github.com/kaissaroj/chrome-newtab/blob/master/manif...

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