Nice!

The only drawback I have had for heavily customising it is that it’s now not compatible with the latest versions, unfortunately they’ve re-structured their codebase and I frankly don’t have the time to re-do all my hard work, so I’ve been running a very old (but extremely stable) version of it lol

the wife is so not interested

So relatable… haha

Thanks so much for you work and rest assured amongst the negativity you may receive in certain corners of the web, there are people truly appreciative of yours, and others like you, hard work.

Thank YOU! I am so glad you found Jotty useful and resonated with it!

If you end up installing it, give my theme a go, it’s part of the official ones, just search for es-theme-animetaverse ♥️

Well that specific system could emulate all the way up to ps2, plenty of fun to be had lol I’m sure every single arcade system can be emulated with no issues, may struggle a bit with game cube/wii

Obviously… make sure you only use original copies of your own videogames… you wouldn’t steal a car would you

Thank you :) and that’s still extremely valuable and please feel free to contribute if you feel like it!

I am a “fix it forward” kinda person, worked for a decade in digital agencies and even tho I now work as a tech lead in a slow-ish software engineering company I still have that hectic mentality/background, hard to shake it off you know hahaha

And yeah, I have two kids under 4, so I totally get the whole time consuming part, if it weren’t for my peculiar situation I don’t think I’d get as much done as I do now not gonna lie. AI also helps speed things up, for example I added translation support to Jotty and having Claude tackle half the code base string replacement while I was doing the other half felt like having an intern!!

Actually that was a conscious choice! I initially went for MIT on them as they were small little apps I used withing my house with my wife, but as they grew I decided I wanted to truly protect the open source nature of them

Reading a bit into licensing I learned that with agplv3 projects can be copied/taken without credits/do anything people want with it, just like MIT/gplv3, however they MUST stay open source.

Which means no greedy corporation can steal my code, improve upon it, close source it and pay wall features :) they can still do all that, but code must always be open source haha

p.s. I’m fairly ignorant on the matter too, I just searched the licensing that was most likely to make sure my projects stay open source and went for it ♥️

Thank you! Hopefully it resonates with you ♥️

Ha! I kept busy indeed. I am a full time software engineer, so I have a full time job on top of that, yeah.

Aside from the obvious “I work fast”, I had a lot of free evening time this year, won’t get too into it but my child spends a lot of time in hospital. These were a great escape for me (and coding is my hobby, so I mostly do that rather than playing video games or watching TV you know)

Run batocera on your old mac mini and make a small arcade machine for yourself, you deserve it! https://batocera.org/download

Hey! Give jotty.page a try <3 totally free and selfhostable

There’s a small bug on mobile where the status changes z-index is going behind the next element but it’s already fixed and will be deployed with the next minor release 💜

I haven’t made an app as i’m not an app developer and I don’t want to vibe code it, but there is full pwa support and it’s very well maintained, you can try a demo on demo.jotty.page

I’m looking for a self hosted Kanban board where we as a exteded family can track things which have to be done. Since my parents are getting older and me and my siblings live all in different countries there is more and more to do to help our parents. But it’s difficult to keep track who is doing what and what status things are and we’re forgetting to do things, etc.

Hey, I know you got a ton of replies but yeah, been using searXNG with a custom theme made by me and it’s basically identical to google (including the feeling lucky part lol)

Used it for months and it’s awesome, haven’t missed google at all.

The amazing thing about it is that with an instance of meilisearch I was able to index all my media libraries/book libraries/game libraries and searching for !home <query> actually sarches within my home lab, which is a huge win for me.

Hope this helps give you an idea of how powerful this can be <3

Thank YOU for such a lovely message <3

It’s tough, I get downvoted to hell on reddit whenever I try and propose anything I built, not sure if they think I’m selling something or they just plain hate it, so I really really appreciate messages like this!