Show HN: I solved my New Tab page (startertab.com)

Awesome, glad to hear it! Let me know if you have any questions :)

A very good call, to be honest I had completely forgotten about that part of the code it's been so long I implemented that.

Thanks for the reminder, I'll fix it now

I was sidelined sorry, it's all fixed now.

There's a demo video along with a button that will take you through to the less than ideal layout.

Oh mate there's tens of tiles I can think of that I still want to add in, just off the top of my head:

- Emails - Quotes of the day - Bookmarks - RSS Feeds - Countdown clocks - GitHub stats

That's what I can rattle off in about 10 seconds of thinking, there's so many things that could be done. At some point you have to just call it a day.

You can! Change the "Tile Type" option in the sidebar

If you include a url to a gif in the background segment it will work:

url(https://i.imgur.com/BkgF7ET.gif)

^ Bit of a loud example that one

I also recommend making all the tiles transparent when you have a nice background:

rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2)

It rules.

It's a daily planner, if I'm not mistaken.

There is a tutorial modal that pops up and blurs the background. If you don’t get that for some reason, it would just be blurry. Works fine on FF for me.

The idea behind the tiles changing when you switch themes is so that you can have more distinction that just colours between themes.

For instance you might want a "focused" theme with just blank tiles and the day planner.

Or a "stocks" theme with just stock tickers and related subreddits.

Good ole days.

Can't you still do that with a Chrome Extension?

The tutorial links to an addon that enables this.

I developed this for my own needs: Goal Board https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/goal-board-vision-...

I'm in the about:blank gang too, and I hate that in Safari on iOS you can no longer have a blank tab since a few versions. You can hide all the things on the "start page" but then you will still see the edit button.

I like me some widgets, but pretty much the only time I see the bare desktop is when the machine restarts. So instead I put some in the menu bar (Mac's ‘tray’), in the dock and in the bottom corners around the dock. I'm using open-source ‘Stats’ for the menu; there's also BitBar iirc. The stock Activity Manager for the dock, and custom scripts in Hammerspoon for drawing anywhere on the screen, namely in the corners.

Firefox displays a search bar, but yes, an empty new tab is good. The awesome bar is what I use to access the thing I intent to access when I press CTRL+T, whether it's an history search, or a web search, or an URL. The fewer things displayed on my screen trying to distract me, the better :-)

I never recovered news-wise from losing iGoogle, I'll check this out thanks.

That was my homepage for many years too. The most prominent feature was a running sticky note. Don't really miss it anymore though; I've gotten used to using pinned tabs and bookmarks for anything I need access to regularly. (And a more fleshed-out note taking system.)

> It appears there's a "replacement" now. https://igoogleportal.com/ Very non-obvious that this is not affiliated with Google, I'd think twice about giving it your credentials. Honestly surprised it hasn't been C&D'd based on the URL alone.