Workflow improvements

I addded a new workflow that makes managing GitHub issues way easier. When an issue is resolved, I’m always hesitent to close it because the user might think that the fix has been released to the stores already when it hasn’t. This new workflow automatically closes issues and adds a comment to them explaining the issues has been fixed but not released yet. This happens when I markan issue as “fixed-not-released” in the issue labels.

Closing more GH issues

I fixed a few more issues and closed them. These were relatively simple fixes. One of them had been around for a while. First of all, the transform origin of widgets was always the center of the screen, so they overflowed off the screen when scaled while being positioned at the edges. I also redid the way that the controls for backgrounds are positioned to add better ellipsis for long titles and to make the controls actually centered. (can you believe they weren’t centered before? I can’t…). This was all because of the centre position option I added for the settings icon, which is pretty self explanatory.

Commits:

• feat(dashboard): add transform origin based on widget position (017ecf5)
• ci(workflows): add auto-close workflow for fixed-not-released issues (c940b83)
• fix(workflows): improve fixed-not-released close message clarity (98540aa)
• feat(ui): add centre position options for settings icon (2396d2f)

Github Issue Forms

I spent WAY too changing our simple markdown issue tempaltes for full github issues forms. This means that the user fills out a form that creates the issue for them. Not super important, but it means that the template is followed more closely now. One major issue is that apparently the wors TablissNG Version are not allowed and I have to use Extension Version instead. Its literally says “Body[3]: label contains forbidden word”

Sort order option

On the request of a user, I added a sort order option for background rotation. Right now it is only used in the media widget where before its modernization the sort order was random, but now its in sequence by defaut which is very bad Luckily this was a relatively easy fix.

Commits:

• feat(backgrounds): add sort order option for background rotation (125e44d)
• feat: Github Issue Forms (af5b0eb)
• chore: remove old templates (07b2700)
• Rename issue templates and add config (47e4520)
• chore: remove colon from bug report title (d215ede)
• fix: change wording so github stops annoying me (fef2540)

Some ci changes

Released version 1.6.6, and to along with this I had the renew my microsft partner api key AGAIN. I really wish they didn’t expire very three months.
I also automated the update for the extension manifests so that there is only one source of truth for versions instead of 3+. Ci was bumbed from node 22 -> node 24 (for almost no reason). Soon I will switch to pnpm (cause its infinitely better than npm.)

Nice loader fixes

This has been a bug for WAY too long, but basically I had broken the loading icon/loader thing so basically the “loading new content” icon never disappeared. I fixed that and also changed the hide srttings icon to hide settings toolbar and made it properly hide everything isntead of leaving floating icons.

Commits:

• build: automate version injection into manifest files via webpack (7d35e3d)
• chore: release v1.6.6 (c56cec3)
• ci: node 24, webpack cache, parallelise tests (89dedd9)
• feat(ui): change hide settings icon to toolbar and fix loader race conditions (f10f1e8)

Merged Leetcode calendar

This was a pr from @Sbrjt, and I finally got it merged. Now you can be motivated by double the amount of green squares! Pretty simple implementation, mostly just follows the github calendar widget. The click action has the ability to redirect you to the POTD which is cool!

Fix react imports…

I recently ran a codemod after switching to “jsx-react”, meaning that I don’t have to import react inot every file for jsx to work. The codemod however just replace import React from "react" with import * as React from “react”` which doesn’t really help my situation. I went through almost every single file in the codepsace and painstakingly replace those with named imports which is great.
Also added yet another eslint plugin that lets me easily sort all imports across the codepsace to keep everything organized.

Commits:

• chore: update changelog (ec21ebc)
• style: sort imports across codebase (4835fd8)
• refactor: convert React namespace imports to named imports across codebase (a992109)
• Leetcode calendar widget (#121) (a9e6eed)

Ohhh Quick Links + More translations work

My goal is to start making smaller devlogs now!

Who could have guessed that the quick links widget was broken in even more beatiful ways? Me… Seriously though this widget will have a major refactor soon (already in a draft pr), I just haven’t been able to fully stress test it yet. For now I’m closing an issue which practically made image uploading completely useless 😭. Anytime you changed the cache it would overide the whole cache in its entirety.

Additionaly, translations are now on the final stretch, and will be merged into main very soon! There are some annoying bugs, especially with how the dynamic loading works on first page load though.

Commit:

• fix: critical issue with quick link upload bug (fdefc43)

Random (but important) improvements

These changes are pretty random, and mostly just to close existing issues. There are some unreleased changed included in this time as well!

Docs and Deps (lol)

I added Google site verification metadata to the docs, which means that now I can have the url to the docs linked on the chrome web store. I also updated deps way too much, and spent way too long on them because of some stupid npm packages refusing to updating their own deps.

Localization

Spanish and Catalan translations were updated, and French translations also got a refresh. In addition to this, I spent multiple hours modernizing the translations mangement system on another branch, which has been a very “fun” undertaking. The old package we were using hadn’t been updated in yeeeeeaaars, so now I’m using the formatjs cli along with a ton of custom workflow scripts.

APOD improvements

APOD got two solid upgrades: video support with better background handling, plus a cache freshness check so data retrieval stays more reliable.

Caching and settings

Image caching now uses a NetworkFirst strategy (closing an issue where cache-control headers were not respected), and you can now hide the controls on backgrounds as well and the “title”

Quotes

Quote refreshes now support a configurable timeout, giving a bit more control over how long the app waits before trying again. (again this was a github issue)

Refactors and cleanup

This is really cool/important

I modernized all of the configs, especially to tsconfig and eslint configs so that I have the most up to date and efficient workflows, React import codemods were applied, unused variables were cleaned up, checkbox handlers were improved, and unknown widget configuration was consolidated with unused exports removed.

UI polish

Summary and link elements now use inline-flex so they center vertically the way they should, which tightens up a bunch of little alignment issues.

Commits:

Commits are incldued in the comment becuase I reached to character limit 😭

Was sick af and couldn’t work on this for a while :(

Yeah so this is just some dep updates and fixing and whatever, nothing important really.

I did have problems with google’s workbox-build having the most outdated deps ever, and so to resolve to npm audit errors I had to override the version of one of its packages, but whatever. (go google amiright)

Commits:

• chore(release): bump version to 1.6.5 and update changelog (0147474)
• chore: signed firefox nightly build (17aa731)
• deps go brrrrrrrr (ef9824a)
• chore: pin serialize-javascript to ^7.0.4 (175a5fc)
• fix: eslint trello auth lint error (5615065)

Easy error log sharing!

Added much more error handling to the error menu. This makes it capture more errors (such as widget crashes), but also adds a button that copies the error log plus a stack trace (mostly useless, but sort of places it kinda).
Also fixed a bunch of translations that weren’t included because intl.formatMessage was defined inline :(.

Commits:

• fix: less gimmicky scroll to top button (decec92)
• feat: improve error logging and user feedback (41d25f9)
• chore: run translations (bed18d2)

Minigames

so that you can distract yourself…. yay…

Added a mingames widget with pong, snake, breakout, wackamole. More can be added later (maybe). Spent way too long on this, but whatever I guess.

main

• Update Spanish and Italian translations (#114) (762e4f4)
  seperate branch
• feat(widgets): add minigames widget with four playable games (a6f7e08)

Struggling to find easy things to do now … 😭

I added better fallbacks to the ip info widget, they used to be broken and the top api broke.
I added a non-intrusive button to settings to scroll back to the top of the screen.
I added drag and drop re-ordering to the todo widget. This and the previous one are issues opening on the og tabliss repo that I went through and fixed 🎉

Commits:

• feat(ip-info): more robust fallbacking and parsing (70d071d)
• feat: add scroll-to-top button in Settings panel (3fd010e)
• feat(todo): add drag-and-drop reordering for todo items (f19e15e)

Very old (og tabliss) issues closed!

Weather auto-update location, random color palette!

I went through and found two issues from the old tabliss repo that looked fun to work on and implemented them. These were an auto updating location for the weather widget and a very advanced color palette widget. The color palettte widget had already been partly implemented by someone, but I made it much more complete and advanced

Commits:

• feat(weather): add auto-update location feature (52476cf)
• feat(palette): add random color palette widget (82fb9df)

Some really small stuff

Fixed a few minor issues and played around with some stuff that never really developed. I tried to get online/hosted translations working, but omg its impossible*. If anyone knows how to do it, help would be very appreciated! I got a pr set up for “bettter links” and “profiles” finally too.

• Update Vietnamese (vi) translation (#110) (9d6cb68)
• fix: remove whole background on chromium dev (fb9dbb5)
• feat(search): add special URL handling (5e14bcd)
• fix(search): missing/broken translation (f54a423)

Tooltips + CI Updates

Added tooltips to the github calendar widget. This was made MUCH easier because of the addition of built in tooltips in v5! I also updated all of my gh actions worflows deps to the latest version.

Commits:

• feat: v1.6.4! (1a1f45a)
• feat(github): add tooltips to calendar widget (f70eeb1)
• ci: update actions to latest versions in workflows (3add9da)

Accent color + merge css

I merged (and updated) the css changes from thee previous devlog, but mainly I added accent color! Accent colors is something that was implemented on Tab-nine (another Tabliss fork that was also stopped). A recent “switcher” asked me to implement it so here we are!

The way that this works is that there is now an accent color settings in the global settings page. When changed, eveything that uses the accent color (previously the talbiss blue color) changes color. In the font settings of a widget, its text color can be set to “use accent color” to (obviously) use the accent color. Handily, I used the same format as Tab-nine so their accent colors are compatible. This was made way easier because of the css overhaul that was previously mentioned.

Commits:

• refactor: implement centralized CSS variables for theming (#109) (d170e10)
• feat(ui): add customizable global accent color (b8ffd6f)

CSS Variables Now!

I have refactored the colors and stuff of the extension fully to use css variables and ascially make verything a lot better to use. This was mainly so that I can add the accent color thing in the future.

I KNOW that it seems like this shouldn’t have taken this long, but its actually very somplicated to make everything this much better. I also have to make sure to keep contrast and eveyrthing the same and barely change the ui.

• refactor: implement centralized CSS variables for theming (c08a026)
• refactor: replace some obvious colors with variables (cd99921)
• add some small classes I guess (99e667e)

Comparison is availalb ein the iamges (first is new, second is old)

Got distracted by other projects for a few days…

Barely any visual changes, but some great dev/workflow changes. Closed a few issues from an invite from tab-nine :)

Commits on main:

• build: remove service worker from manifest in dev (41e6e6e)
• ci: refactor workflows to use reusable templates (8f81b72)
• chore: prettier (2512cec)
• chore: improve lint-staged configuration (1743f60)
• change: expand the default rows for custom css/js/html widgets (e289d4e)
• Updated ES & IT files (#108) (c2c80b6)
• feat(time): indent settings and add showHours (e08dcb3)

Loooooong Time No See…. (oops)

tl;dr: Counter widget, Old css -> Sass, Quick Links rework in progress

I added a tally counter widget which is something that someone requested. Very simple widget honestly. I also converted some of the old css files to sass, for some reason there were a few left. I finally began the massive mgiration of quick links to not suck anymore. They were one of the first things I worked on back when I had no idea what I was doing so yeah… Its gonna be rough.

Commits on better-links:

• refactor(links): restructure components and migrate icon storage (75562c3)
• fix: allow aspect ratio changing on svgs (c1953d6)
• refactor(links): simplify iconify identifier logic (ca36922)
• refactor(links): move icon migration logic to Links component (23ca5c0)
• refactor: improve Modal component and IconPicker UI (fc9be3a)

Commits on main:

• chore: migrate some project styles from CSS to SASS (4fa02de)
• feat: add tally counter widget (5a79bf1)

Docs Released + Search Style Options!

I merged the documentation into main, and everything appears to be working, so yay! I added a warning that users should use the TimeTracker widget instead of countdown or since.

Mainly though, I added two new styles of search bar to the search widget and an option to overide its width. This could of course be done with custom css before, but having it built in is a nice touch :)

Commits:

• feat(docs): add full online documentation! (#98) (b4570ef)
• chore: deps (e3269c8)
• feat: add deprecation warning to since and countdown widgets (a52d6e6)
• feat(search): add style customization to search widget (48b0706)
• feat(search): add custom width settings (cb8aa00)

Version 1.6.3 Released!

(Minor bugfix release with quality of life improvements.)

Didn’t do much else really. Here is a list of closed issues since the previous list:

Closed Issues

• #100 [BUG] Enormous favicons in bookmarks widget
• #99 [BUG] Secure Connection Failed to certain websites (resolved)
• #94 [BUG] Unsplash background provider causes “Sorry this plugin has crashed!” error
• #92 [BUG] When starting Vivaldi browser, the Start Page is empty.
• #90 [Help Wanted] Firefox does not seem to support service workers in add-ons
• #89 Add a bookmark folder and let it look like quick links?
• #86 [FEATURE] Use opentype features with font selection in widgets
• #81 [BUG] Widgets positioning not accounting for rotation
• #51 [FEATURE] Background position option
• #47 [FEATURE] Add cycle buttons for “Upload Image” background option
• #37 [BUG] Possible google update breaking bookmarks widget
• #34 Custom widget positioning doesn’t retain relative position
• #2 Weird date thing

As you can see, early issues are being focused on!

Commits:

• fix: translations (3434f6c)
• v1.6.3 (2d3d389)

Wikimedia PAIN

I have been working a lot on closing issues and we are down MANY. However the oldest one is wikimedia commons improvements. Right now we only have POTD, and I want to expand it. This is going well except for the fact that the wikimedia apis are extremely painful and impossible to work with (no hate of course) So yeah, that’s how that’s going… (new release soon though 🎉)

I also added to the release workflow a summary of closed issues which should be cool!

Commits:

• fix(bookmarks): properly set iconSize to 24 by default (378fdc7)
• fix(dates): date parsing causing incorrect days (40d6c94)
• feat(links): add URL normalization and extension tab option (bd53b7a)
• feat(release): add closed issues summary to release body (d9c5602)

Small fixes

This has been mostly a lot of time spent fixing small things, and even though I haven’t committed anything yet its all in progres… Profiles are in progress too!

I am very committed right now to fixing and closing old/new issues because I am very unhappy with the amount that are currently open. A lot of stuff will be delayed until more of that has been gone through. (possibly including merging docs, cause I don’t want to deal with the potential things that that breaks.)

Commits:

• fix(bookmarks): properly set iconSize to 24 by default (378fdc7)
• fix(dates): date parsing causing incorrect days (40d6c94)

Docs are almost finished!

I’ve made some awesome progress on them (I attached some screenshots). I opened on pr (on my own repo) with the changes. Just need a few minor fixes and touchups and they will be good to go! I am so excited omg! There will be more added to them in the future, such as more tips & tricks, etc so yay.
Feel free to check it (and look at the attached screenshots) and let me know what you think!

Mostly simple changes on main

Some closed gh issues and stuff as usual.

• chore: slight changelog changes (6c47a38)

• feat(media): hide controls with 1 or less images (8d92f1a)

• fix(trello): minor fixes (#97) (4ccd112)

• fix: don’t include unused service-worker on firefox (505525a)

New docs (in progress)

Using docusaurus for this, which I ❤️! See branch new-docs!

Finally merged the better custom positioning

Will be releasing a new update VERY soon, so yay!

Feeling a little burnt out rn unfortunately. I also kinda forgot what i worked on…

Bascially almost finished the custom positioning improvements, and fixed some bugs.
I also did work on a lot of changes that I never ended up committing, so maybe soon.

Sorry for the ugly devlog (and simple image)

I think I will work on docs next. maybe.

tldr: Finished BaseBackground improvements/transitioning and modernised/fixed GIPHY widget

BaseBackground took a LOT more work to get done and it had some massive improvements, you can check out the commits on the branch/pr if you want. Also had a little scare where I compeltely broke it, then merged it :). Firefox signed nightly has been updated with these changes, testing them out would be great!

The GIPHY widget has been fully overhauled to be much more like the unsplash widget, as in it has more options and stuff. Basically you can now see trending images and I fixed the randomness that I broke at some point.

Next up is finishing the new custom widget positioning and mergin it. Also try to get more requested changes implemented.

Got some awesome changes in here!

tldr: firefox nightly auto-siging and fully refactored custom positioning system!

I set up a script that creates a firefox nightly build and then signs in (in unlisted mode) using web-ext. This makes it a lot easier to test on firefox without having to reinstall the extension one every browser restart.

Now for the star of the show:

Completely revamped custom positioning! I am now using a library called react-moveable which allows for a system that first of all does not suck, easier movement, scaling with the borders + rotation with a handle, and SNAPPING. Widgets can now snap to each other or the edges/middles of the screen. The relative positioning also works a little better. This is just in a pr I created right now, but it will be merged very soon.

And of course some miscellaneous improvements/fixes here and there.

Got some good work done finally

tldr: BaseBackground and more bookmarks/quick links work

Almost completely finished the BaseBackground unification and opened a pr to see what ai code review thinks I guess. Decided to add it to a lot more than I was originally intending (eveything actually)

Also the person from the previousissue has some request which I promptly implemented: icon sixze for bookmarks, and the ability to hide the text (set max text length to -1). I already had zero for no limit, so I guess -1 is fine

I am somewhat annoyed by the ai code review, but sometimes it is actually quite helpful, so I guess I’ll continue with it.

I sort of forgot about making devlogs….. but closed two more issues!

I added an option to change the position of the background image (super simple issue that had been open for way too long.

Also closed a new issue from the EndeavourOS forum. which was in hindsight an obvious feature, but took a while to implement. Basically added an option to import bookmarks into quicklinks AND a quick links display mode in bookmarks.

Of course did some of the usual package updates and stuff like that. Also remebered that I can use markdown here so that’s cool!

Released version 1.6.1!

I ❤️ having to remake my entire actions auto upload stuff every single time 😭

Mostly very small changes, but I fixed workbox caching, and improved settings icon position (and of course ci).

Finally made it through all of the open prs!

Which means that favicon modification is here, and also finished up the prettier fixes which means that we finally have pretty code everywhere. (lol so many changed lines)

Time to grind through some (old) issues 🫡.

Made a lot of progress on wallhaven backgrounds (not released yet) (for some reason they were really difficult. Resolved two new github issues:
[FEATURE] Use opentype features with font selection in widgets
[FEATURE] Bing Daily Wallpaper

Did a lot of things that I don’t really remember, but a large thing is that I’m finally transitioning the backgrounds to use BaseBackground! So far (in the branch using-basebackground) I’ve fixed a lot of issues with it and transitioned both Giphy and Media! It was a pain to migrate the Media widget’s cache, but now it migrates automatically.

Finished adding the api keys for trello integration, so now it works on the nightly build!

Finally merged the trello widget pr. Large changes, and very excited for the next integration plugins! Massive thanks to @John-Ling for their work and putting up with me 😭.