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Thanks very much! I still try to work on it often, even 43 months later. I just added some AI chat stuff recently and have a lot more plans for it long term. It's my lifetime side project.

Haha thanks! I tried to make videos along the way to explain the "how" of making it, but after 3+ years it's hard to even remember some of the stuff I've added at this point. I hope to keep working on it and making videos for a long time so others can feel like they can make similar things and learn how.

Much appreciated! I hope to be making a new video quite soon with my latest features added to daedalOS. It's been a few months since I've done an update on the project.

Thanks! Happy to hear you liked it. I'd love to get back into streaming my work on the project in the near future, although weekly streams was a hard pace to maintain.

Awesome! It's great to hear the methods are still working. I still occasionally use this WebKit browser to debug Safari issues.

You can make your own build and customize it, but I wouldn't say you could do what is considered a traditional "install".

It would require lots of different things. You'd need some kind of auth on a backend, and this app is client side only currently. You could use API's like Google's Auth. Currently my app does not support this, but it's possible.

Thanks very much! Happy to hear you considered it inspiring.

Thank you very much! Indeed it is totally customizable. The source code is linked in the video description and is itself a "lite" version of my site because I have already done my own customizations on the source for my personal website. The main idea is that you customize what is in the "public" folder which decides the settings and files that will be part of the final build. And further customization happens at the user level when they visit the site because all changes are persisted locally in the browser via IndexedDB.

Very kind of you to say, thank you very much! Happy to hear you liked my project. It's come a long way in the past 3 years since this video was made.

Thanks so much! It's hard to believe I posted this only 4 months ago. Since then I unfortunately did not win, but I am optimistic that the 3rd times the charm for my next chance in 2025. I am working on finding new ways to keep improving my site/project further. I hope to have your vote next year assuming I get nominated again.

Thanks very much! I got jobs by getting my foot in the door while also starting from the "bottom". I found my first programming job through Craigslist when I moved to Vancouver. It requires a hustle attitude along with making your own opportunities when you don't have a degree to lean on. As for the AI concern, I think it won't eat our jobs for a very long time, but it also depends if your job is doing something that is on the edge of what is possible to automate or not. AI at the moment does not produce very good code and it makes up things all the time. It works ok in demos and for Todo style apps or code snippets, but when you have big apps that are common within companies, we still have a long way to go, maybe decades. But if you love the work than you will embrace AI as a tool to make you better and more productive, so either way it isn't close to replacing what a good & passionate software engineer can do. I think if you are going to go to school to learn something, it should be because you have a passion for the topic and want to build a career around it so you can do what you love and be proficient at it. I don't recommend studying something because you think it will make good money or that the jobs are there, because even if that is true, you should focus your life on doing what you love. I agree with the phrase, "Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life".

@@DustinBrett very insightful! thanks for sharing.☺

Thanks very much! Feel free to email me also at dustinbrett@gmail.com, my messenger client on my site gets so much spam that I've had trouble making use of it for a while now. I don't have any coaching services, but that is a neat idea, maybe one day. As for advice on managing my daily routine and balancing my work and personal life, I don't have a ton of advice beyond my last comment. For me work and my personal life are one in the same and I am always juggling between them. My best advice for work is to find something you love doing and then you'll never "work" a day in your life. I don't have that perfectly implemented yet, but I do feel like I am on the right track. You need to follow the things in life that you find important and don't chase the priorities that other people tell you are important.

Glad you got it working. I do find that some releases have issues, even though you'd think the CI is running tests. Usually one of the versions will work, but indeed it has had some outages of functionality.

It is unfortunately not the most stable solution, and it would be much better if Apple would just release a Windows version which is pre-built fully or has an installer. I can see from your latest post that you got it working with some adjustment. Hopefully they will have the whole thing working again soon. I do plan to make another video about this in the near future, assuming it all is working again. I had it working a few weeks ago in preparation for making a new video, but I have been slow to actually make it. Thanks for the info.

Hey, very possible! I am always trying to attend local tech events in Vancouver so we may run into each other some day. Or you can come work at Microsoft then you'll run into me often. 🙂

@@DustinBrett ill try to visit your office next time. Maybe I could work there ive done volunteer work for Microsoft in the past.

I personally enjoy the walk to the SkyTrain and the ride, but I've always thought "big city" life was fun. I don't like taking the bus though tbh. I am not sure if you mean "tight" like as in cool, or as in short on time. For time, I don't really have a schedule (besides meetings), so I come to work whenever, sometimes that means I get in at 9, other times 10:30, nobody is keeping track of times at my work so it's up to us to manage our time. I lived in Vancouver from 2015-2020 before I moved to Richmond, and I enjoyed it quite a bit, I lived in Yaletown.

Indeed I don't feel there is a need for a state management library. I find React Context to be very capable and the re-rendering is not a problem when the code is written to take it into consideration. If I were using a backend I would be more likely to consider a state management library to work with the API, possibly something like RTK Query.

Happy to help! I hope that this Webkit in Windows alternative was enough to debug your date input issue. I find it quite useful to be able to run Webkit locally in Windows. But that being said, I still sometimes find use in BrowserStack which I do use at my work.

Thanks very much! For me my career was not something I was too concerned about, but when I left for my travels I was in IT and when I came back to Canada I started a whole new career in Software Engineering, based on my passions with computers as a kid. I would say that if you travel the way you want and have the experiences you've dreamed about while traveling, then there is no way you would regret it. When I left the world was a little bit different as far as layoffs and the general vibe of working. But I don't personally think that is a problem for someone who is willing to work hard and start from the bottom. It is indeed a risk to go and travel, but to me it's a bigger risk to play it safe in life, so it was an easy choice for me. I think if you believe in yourself and are willing to work hard, then almost anything is possible. And to me the most important thing in life is not regretting the "what if's" of what could be.

AMA means Ask Me Anything. I don't recall if I posted about doing this in the future, but thanks for asking to clarify assuming I did. Update: Ah I recall now that there was an AMA in my video from my org. They do these often. I also plan to do an AMA eventually which is why I forgot where you'd seen that term.

Thanks so much for the kind words! It's a problem indeed, but one I am proud to have. Part of my hard work was to make the experience so seamless that people wouldn't notice they are even on a website. It was my attempt to leap over the uncanny valley of user interface. Much appreciated! I too hope that one day it gets a bit more recognition, but I have got quite a bit from people who know the effort I have put in and for that I am forever grateful.

Cool idea, thanks for making it easier for others.

It's a great place to live. Come back, we need more good devs. As for hiring, that's not something I have much say in. 🙂

Indeed I learned on my own and I never went to any post-secondary school for anything. I just have a passion for tech and wanting to know how it all works.

My personal keyboard in my home office is the Corsair K100.

Thanks for the support! I didn't make a new short in 2024 but I did get nominated again. Hopefully in 2025 I can win as I will likely enter once again.

I am not sure why you are unable to make a specific cookie. I don't see much mentioned about this being an issue. I did some test and found cookie support worked. One thing I noticed is it required a refresh of the page to show the cookie in the Storage tab.

Thank you!

Thanks!

Thanks for the support! I plan to enter again for next years, hopefully 3rd times the charm. 🙂

Thanks for the suggestions. I have focused my energy on making apps which I use often such as Chrome instead of Edge, but one day perhaps there will be multiple options for all apps. Also the browser is partly fake anyway because of the limits of an . I had the start button as the Windows logo but was given a warning to take it down so I did. I've considered adding a recycle bin but because of the temporary nature of my sites file system it didn't seem important as of yet. I do plan to eventually have customizations such as via Settings or adjusting the taskbar. As for search it does search for quite a bit but not everything. You can set the wallpaper to any image you have and also I have some animated wallpaper options in the context menu.

Happy to hear you found my video insightful, it is indeed an authentic look into a little slice of my life. Microsoft provides a great work-life-balance, and in general I am pretty good at finding a balance. Currently I am a front-end engineer (SE2) working on Viva Glint, which is survey software.

Thanks, happy to hear you found it fascinating.

I think it was more like 30/20/50, but I didn't record as much while working. Also this is just one day in my life. Some days I work more, some less.

@@DustinBrett Thanks for clarifying. I was just joking, no offence. It looks absolutely amazing! I'll be joining MSVan around this September. Hope to meet you in the office!!

@@jerrylin4980 Thanks! That's awesome you'll be joining MSVan. See you there!

I'm salaried so yes, and I work more than that some days. Also I work during my commute and some evenings. I do more than the 37.5 hours in my contract. At a job like mine, it's about what you do and not punching a clock.

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

Happy to hear my video inspired you. I had to look up what a "IIT JEE" was, good luck with that!

Thanks! Ya the office is very central so easy to recognize most of the spots for those who have been to Vancouver. I make roughly what the levels fyi website says is average for my role/company.

Thanks, glad you liked it! Ya that pizza is very good, shout out to Steveston Pizza Company! My family has it every few weeks.

My long term plan was basically to turn this into something that can run on bare metal / VM software. I'd like to rewrite it in something like Rust / WASM one day so that it can be more portable. It also has VM software inside it thanks to v86's x86 emulator. Thanks for checking it out!

@@DustinBrett Oh my god that is going to be big, I can see DaedalOS making it to international headlines at this point

@@Sepoipaping That would be cool, thanks for the support!

Thanks! I've made quite a few videos about my website but I will work on making another one that goes over some details about how I made the site based on how it is now. I've been planning a retrospective to look at the code but over the years it's grown so much that it will be tricky to make the video short.

@@DustinBrett Alright then. I appreciate the video in advance.

Thanks for checking out my site and videos!

Haha ya we have all sorts here. That board has looked that way for years though, so it's possible some people that drew that stuff aren't even there anymore.

Thanks very much! That's cool we have the same wallpaper, I love space backgrounds. Happy to hear you like my site.

Thanks very much!

Basically like that video showed, 8 PM my kids go to bed and then I watch movies/tv while coding and reading stuff until 10-11 PM. I used to stay up till midnight-1 AM but I have been cutting back on that the last few months. I used to work on my side project every night, but it's been feeling pretty complete lately so I am looking for new inspiration.