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Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

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Impressively fast! I love the bonsai. Way too much distractions for me though. Shameless plug: I made a new tab page that's just markdown notes and bookmarks - https://nutab.co

same on distractions. if I have good intentions opening a new tab (e.g. I'm going to open GCP logging to debug something), I don't want a random story from HN pulling me in.

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

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post #68
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I also run a customizable start page http://myfav.es its cost $100/month for 10 years to run but i keep it up because a lot of schools use it to help set up their shared computers and i couldn’t ever have the heart to shut it down. Once you set it up you can also run it entirely offline using app manifests from myfav.es/fast if you don’t like the idea of your new tab experience being slowed down by web requests.

Why so expensive?

Certainly not because of maintenance costs since he's still running PHP 5.5

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

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post #64

Impressively fast! I love the bonsai. Way too much distractions for me though. Shameless plug: I made a new tab page that's just markdown notes and bookmarks - https://nutab.co

That looks very nice! How is the data saved? Could I set something up where I can edit it both in the browser and my editor or something?

Thanks! Everything is saved in the extension's local storage. Nothing leaves the browser. You can export editor content from the settings (three dots in the bottom left corner). That creates a .md file with your notes that you can probably import to any editor.

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

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post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A software engineer who makes $100,000 a year, working 40 hours a week, for 52 weeks, makes about $50/hour. If this person is spending 2 hours of their time each month maintaining this website (which they gain nothing out of) that's $100/month.

I detest this meme where supposedly every hour you have is translatable to money. It isn't as if you can sell every hour of your time whenever you feel like it. If it were that way, you'd be able to say: "I pay $1500+ for going to the toilet each month": > A software engineer who makes $100,000 a year, working 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, makes about $50/hour. So let's say 1 hour of toilet time per day on average, s…

> "I pay $1500+ for going to the toilet each month"

It's a little less (I don't need that long), but most importantly, my boss is paying for most of that.

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

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post #84

The last thing I need is such a stream of information in my new tab page. I would never get anything done. Thank the Lord for about:blank

Anecdote about about:blank: When I worked in a pc repair shop, when I set up new computers I always configured the browser (back in the day this was IE 6 and older) to start with about:blank because it just starts faster without having to load the MSN website or whatever. At some point my boss told me to stop doing that because customers thought the internet wasn't working.

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

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post #63

nice! Some suggestions for me at least 1. Why I can't I set any tile to any type? 2. An RSS feed tile would be nice. It seems I can only follow HN, Reddit, Twitter 3. Would be great if I could drag and drop tiles to arrange like ( https://nomcopter.github.io/react-mosaic/ ) or ( https://xcfox.github.io/react-tile-pane/demo/ ) etc... 4. A random image tile would be nice 5. Use the extension sync to sync across machine…

> 2. An RSS feed tile would be nice.

Merging content of all my feeds. And where I say all my feeds I mean all feeds that the automation happens to find on all the pages I visit, until I set them to removed/hidden explicitly.

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

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Looks good! The design is, hm, very opinionated, but well done. Shameless plug - last year, I solve my New Tab page too :-) And it shares a lot of ideas with yours - https://new-tab.vlad.studio/

One small thing: You let me preview the cool bookshelf wallpaper, but then I can't click on it to immediately get that one. I scrolled through the first two pages of wallpapers, not able to find it. Would be a cool addition to just be able to click the wallpaper that is currently on preview at the top.

That's a very valid report, thanks! I'll look into adding a search option to the wallpaper picker. This particular picture is called Library and is quite old :-)

Re: Show HN: I solved my New Tab page

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The design is super opinionated but I LOVE IT! Especially the colored dark - I really do hate how dark modes really muddy out a lot of colors (I often find myself using the Windows High Contrast mode, especially in VSCode). Love the amount of customizability to make it exactly what I want. Will start using this!
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