One, it's great to see a hack project here that's been done just for the fun of it. I'm noticing a few comments questioning the "why?" around this. To me at least, it's just a really fun thing to do to hack together something, just because. There doesn't always have to be a rhyme or reason for things like this.
Two, it felt like there was a period where sites that would host hack projects with no limitations was slowly dying out. Not just because of costs but also because of the associated risks with it (spam, phishing, etc). I really do love what Vercel is enabling here. When I mentor younger folks, it's becoming really easy to tell them where to go throw up a hack project after they've learnt git and Vercel is fast becoming The choice to send them to. Much kudos and gratitude to the team there.
Put it in fullscreen and you can safely leave your computer (document.body.requestFullscreen()). Too bad the background goes black.
Can't imagine using Windows without it.
Thats all I get in the project description.
How can I find out more on what it does without installing it? If Raymon Chen blogs about some "desktop enhancement software", it must be popular, at least among powerusers/devs.
Edit: I'm blind. Only after revisiting, I found "read more" link: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/wiki
"Oh, you dragged something over the top of a network drive in Explorer, let me waste the next 3-5 minutes trying to connect to that drive for you". Or how about this: "Oh you plugged in a USB drive that was setup as a live CD? Let me crash for a second and mash your MBR to bits".
How is Windows still mostly garbage at this point?
Now, my new TV has an interface where if press the favorites list button and don't touch anything, it times out and closes. The problem is, if I keep scrolling through the favorite channels, it still closes after this timeout. How long has the Favorite Channels menu been around on TVs - 40 years? I can't believe they still can't get it right.
That my friend, is the logic you are using.
Just like in Linux, you have your choice of a bunch of different start menus made by all kinds of people and companies. Always had - even in the win3.0 days you could replace the shell variable in win.ini with whatever exe you wanted. Heck, you can make windows look like a mac interface if you want.
There are features and choices microsoft makes as a default, and they don't fit yours or my requirements. They do however fit the requirements of an edgy teen who does most his computing on a cell phone, a soccer mom who thinks deleting a webmail email will get rid of the out of space message on her PC, and the priests who only know how to launch a browser for looking up underage gay porn.
Microsoft did not make the start menu for you, they made if for the largest portion of their target market. Because people like you can easily change it, and people like them would have trouble using a computer at all otherwise.
Open Shell (formerly Classic Shell) is a godsend that restores some semblance of sanity to the Start menu, but I'm not sure if it's compatible with Windows 11.
Surely adding a shortcuts on the desktop obliviates the need to use it. All of my programs add one automatically so it's super easy.
Here's the full implementation of VS Code for example: https://github.com/yashash-pugalia/win11-svelte/blob/main/sr...
It's just 44 lines of code - it works by opening a window with an iframe that points to https://stackblitz.com/github/yashash-pugalia/win11Svelte?em...
Silly but entertaining in a slow morning. : )
Not the first time seeing a project doing that. This can't be just for vanity reasons. Anyone knows?
Further, I don't think it's fair to say that Svelte isn't established, it's in production on some pretty big sites and has been stable for years now.
Svelte has a cool DX. Best I have seen. SvelteKit not so much.
Surely it's worth trying to do something better than that?
(Speaking of which. Why is MS allowed to do all that stuff when they got record fine in the 90s for less? Eh, better not ask.)
I had to go back to windows this week because the software to run a massive LED curtain we bought for the office window will only run with this 10 yo windows software. And it was horrible. Just horrible.
Never seen any in production for anything, and the only remnants like movable panels of properties always feel misplaced on web pages/apps.
Turns out things just work ALL THE TIME. I don't remember even having to tweak stuff. It just works.
Spending the nights learning is not ideal as that consumes stamina required for the job that pays my bills.
I think Svelte's approach would win over in a few years. As nice as Vue is, getting rid of virtual DOM makes total sense.
But maybe someone else can offer a more detailed answer, it's not my domain.
Last time I checked several years ago, `backdrop-filter` is buggy on my laptop. Is it more optimized now?
I don't understand why I'd want the windows 11 experience anywhere I wasn't forced to have it. I heard they may soon restore some of the features they took away from the start bar, though.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/lkgr/as...
https://chromium.googlesource.com/devtools/devtools-frontend...
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If you have a 🫎 would it rhyme with a 🪿 when there were more than two?
Probably shouldn't be a 🫏 to dang; the code just hasn't been updated to filter out the new naughties.
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