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

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dolmen wrote: post #90
mbreese wrote: post #73

This sounds an awful lot like a portal that was so popular around 2000. That’s the way it used to be. You’d setup a personal portal on Yahoo or MSN or iGoogle or whomever provided your email. Then you’d load up whatever widgets you wanted and placed them in an organized grid. News and fresh content was populated by RSS and you’d have you own personal start page on the Internet. The goal for any portal site was to con…

I think that portals lost traction much before social media rise. I switched to Altavista, Google because of the lightweight home page.

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

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Post by orangepurple »

vladstudio wrote: post #82

Oh please please may I shamelessly link to the Vlad.studio new tab extension [0] - I built it to solve this exact problem for myself, but also as another way for my wallpapers to be seen. This is how my new tab page looks now: [1] [0] https://new-tab.vlad.studio/ [1] https://i.postimg.cc/y8R3x0Yt/my-new-tab.jpg

Looks pretty, and good job. Due to my background I prefer to be confronted with a color coded wall of text and charts ordered by importance and designed like 2000s Japanese websites.

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

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Post by dec0dedab0de »

That's actually where I first used my username. It was dec0dedab0de.local And the server had the same mac address, which I thought was fun. It's been over a decade now, but I used a locally hosted media wiki instance, and had some bash/python scripts running on a cron to scrape various sources and update the wiki.

I wouldn't do it like that now, but the ability to quickly make wiki style edits is very useful. Plus having data stored locally before you need it is very convenient, and comes in handy during the occasional outage.

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

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Post by leephillips »

vladstudio wrote: post #82

Oh please please may I shamelessly link to the Vlad.studio new tab extension [0] - I built it to solve this exact problem for myself, but also as another way for my wallpapers to be seen. This is how my new tab page looks now: [1] [0] https://new-tab.vlad.studio/ [1] https://i.postimg.cc/y8R3x0Yt/my-new-tab.jpg

link [1] refuses to connect.

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

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Post by Isthatablackgsd »

0xdeadb00f wrote: post #95

I don't even use my custom startpage anymore. It is just static HTML with some links + some style to make it look nice.

Ditto. I created my own startpage, just a plain HTML here and CSS there. Took me a week to learn how to do HTML and CSS (well... took me three weeks to figure out how to use CSS).

I went with static HTML because I want something easily editable and my memory is shit. So I need something that I can easily edit it and portable. I have several desktops, so I have my html page in my OneDrive and have my browsers to use it as the homepage.

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