nhp VS daedalOS

I built mine too, for similar reasons: it felt easier to write from scratch, so that my site looked the way I wanted it, than customize some of the existing solutions (Jekyll, Hugo, etc).

Sure it’s not customizable at all: it can only generate my site. And that’s fine. I like it that way.

For example: I sometimes translate poetry, and I have a bunch of code that renders individual poems from plaintext (not Markdown, because newlines and whitespace _are_ significant): https://github.com/nathell/nhp/blob/master/src/nhp/poems.clj

I've learned so much while making this project into my personal website (dustinbrett.com). It's made me a much better web developer as I have tried to emulate a desktop environment with pixel perfect accuracy using CSS, HTML & JavaScript.

I'm very happy to announce that my personal website has once again been nominated for a Webby Award!

This has also been ported to the web via Emscripten. I host it on my website if anyone wants to play. https://dustinbrett.com/?app=SpaceCadet

Demo: https://dustinbrett.com/

As someone who built a website around this idea, I agree! The desktop metaphor is powerful. If anyone wants to check it out it's at https://dustinbrett.com

Very cool! It's always refreshing to see the "OS in the browser" projects that try and actually make something functional. I've been working on one myself for nearly 3 years now, called daedalOS (https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS).

The WASM kernel idea is very cool and I hope one day to be able to add something similar to my project. I think you are onto something and I am excited to see your progress as you implement the GUI.

If you want some Browserception, my desktop environment (https://dustinbrett.com/) can indeed do this. But after a few levels in Chromium you need to add a random query string (/?a=1) to the URL otherwise it stops working.