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

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keepamovin wrote: post #107
mitchivin wrote: post #5

hey haha I tried to post this a few weeks ago but my post didn't go through - i'm glad you guys are enjoying it! edit: I'm new here! let me get some of that sweet sweet karma!

Really polished! And it really captures that windows XP aesthetic, but also the spirit of that aesthetic. If Windows XP had had some kind of super professional “create a portfolio” app that would output an executable binary that you could download it would’ve been lauded as amazing and beautiful if it looked like what you created. This is great. It shows your skills, but also brings back the beauty of Windows XP, in…

haha wow, thank you so much :)

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

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Post by QuantumNomad_ »

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

Got my first own computer in 2002. It ran Windows XP and had a CRT, as did the home computers my friends had too at the time :)

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

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Post by giveita »

garganzol wrote: post #109

In general, it is even smoother than the real Windows XP. Kind of a magnetizing experience, and I do not know why. There is something attractive in this idea in terms of UI/UX, aside from the obvious nostalgia. Another interesting aspect of this particular implementation is that it blends naturally with a browser tab hierarchy, it does not try to overrule it, it just blends in. Probably thanks to a distinctive taskba…

Windows (or anything) is nice when its fast. Most things should work in under 20ms so I don't notice a delay.

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

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Post by QuantumNomad_ »

mitchivin wrote: post #72
busymom0 wrote: post #61

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.

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 others run into any sort of issue with that :p

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

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Post by giveita »

chatmasta wrote: post #52
tptacek wrote: post #3

You got this far have DIR print something!

I was so proud of myself for remembering it’s DIR and not ls. But at least `help` worked.

although not much I still use the windows command line (not powershell). XCOPY being my favourite (although rsync is nicer but xcopy still rocks)

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

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Post by mitchivin »

QuantumNomad_ wrote: post #112
mitchivin wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Got my first own computer in 2002. It ran Windows XP and had a CRT, as did the home computers my friends had too at the time :)

whoever tell me it's wrong next is going to be hit with multiple real life testimonies, they'll never expect it

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Post by petermcneeley »

mitchivin wrote: post #30
shrinks99 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No way to save my creations though :(

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/
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