Latest version on GitHub is v1.11.2
Your bookmarks. Your terminal. Your rules.
visitor@nextdash:~/archive$ ls ./archive
total 5
The largest release so far, and most of it answers one question: where does a thing live. The header is one row, the buttons that floated over the grid have somewhere to stand, config opens on tiles, the bookmark list is a workbench, and a fresh install starts on a new look – with a one-minute tour for everyone who already knew where things were.
A short one. Every widget nextDash had read something it already held on your own disk: your links, your checks, your inbox. 1.7.0 adds the first two that look outward instead – at the weather, and at what is coming up in your calendar – along with a layout you can lock and a round of buttons that had stopped matching the themes around them. Source and downloads: github.com/jordibrouwer/nextdash Release notes: v1.7.0 on GitHub Two widgets that look outward Nineteen widget types now, in a new group of their own in the catalogue: What is happening around you? Weather puts current conditions beside a forecast – three days, five days, or the next 24 hours. It does not ask you where you are, because you have already said: it reads the location, source and units you set for the header’s own weather line. Asking a second time would have been […]
Two things happened in 1.6.0, and they turned out to be the same thing. A theme stopped being a list of colours and became a set of decisions about material — how solid a surface is, how much light bleeds off it, how faint the faint text is allowed to get. And Health and the Inbox stopped being two views that happened to look similar and became two views built out of one shell. Both are about the parts of the app that were being drawn twice, slightly differently, by nobody in particular. Source and downloads: github.com/jordibrouwer/nextdash — release notes: v1.6.0 on GitHub Two things change on screen the moment you are on 1.6.0, both deliberate, both explained below: 111 dark themes get a different backdrop, and Health looks substantially different. There is a note at the end about what that means for an install you have had running a […]
Five releases in two days — 1.4.5, sorry! Three patches under it, and 1.4.6 — and they all chase the same thread: things nextDash used to do quietly, on your behalf, without telling you. A bookmark’s preview picture used to be fetched by your browser, which meant the site you were dashboarding for found out you were looking at it. A custom widget’s API key went into the credential file and never came back, so a missing Bearer prefix looked identical to a wrong key. Both are fixed now, along with a handful of smaller things that had been sitting wrong since 1.4.4. Preview images stay on your server now — 1.4.6 Hovering a bookmark used to make your browser request that site’s preview image and favicon directly. Convenient, and also a quiet privacy leak: the site learned you were looking at your own dashboard, and a host that blocks […]
A bookmark collection rots quietly. Nothing on the dashboard changes on the day a link dies, a domain moves, a certificate expires or a page you saved four years ago turns into a parked ad. The health view is where all of that is written down — and, more to the point, where it can be worked through. Save a link and it is a promise about the future: this will still be here when I want it. Every promise like that is broken eventually, and none of them announce it. The row on your dashboard looks the same on the day the site goes away as it did on the day you saved it. That leaves you with two habits, both bad. Either you click something to find out — which is how you discover a dead link at the exact moment you needed it — or you stop […]
