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There’s a program that reads the kindle clippings file and renders one random quote as my wallpaper, it runs on startup. I ended up liking it way more than I thought I would. There's also a little website blocker that's just a list of buttons with preset websites to block and a delay for unblock, all that I tried from the web came with so much jank, complications and payments, so that's the reason for that. Also, very much worth it, a lot of the addiction in social media is really low strength, so tiny barriers like this or a chrome extension that disables yt recommendations have been very effective for me in reducing unintended usage. A night light extension for windows that I made when microsoft's one stopped working, and I couldn't find a way to make software brightness and night light programs work well together. Both were modifying the gamma ramp, which would cause flickering in between each program's settings. I expanded it to handle monitors settings (contrast, bg) and multi monitors. There was also an attempt in having a whitelist for when specific processes were in the foreground and taking more than x% of screen space, but at the time it was kinda of a pain to implement and manual control worked fine. An image viewer that was an experimental frameless, zoom-increases-the-window-size-when-possible. One thing that surprised me about it at the time was how much faster it was than m$'s w10 default image viewer, especially in image switching. I was using stb_image to load the different formats, but there was no attempt at optimization whatsoever. I'm making a weight log app right now, but that's more of a "I mostly do cpp let's try doing something outside my normal programming environment". Completely gave up hope of programming this thing at a fast pace, the friction from switching environment/languages/approaches is very, very, very high. It seems now i’m in the tail end of having all the features in, some stuff takes a long time to load, like the camera module. I have no idea how I’m going to make that thing go fast, but ugh it’s shaping up okay ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. |