{"id":461,"date":"2020-10-19T22:45:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T06:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.evanyamoto.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2025-11-29T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:21:09","slug":"homepage-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanyamoto.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/19\/homepage-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Homepage in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, it’s 2020 and I still like to use a homepage. I don’t like to call it a portal either, but I think that term is actually newer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1996, I used Yahoo!, Excite, back to Yahoo, Google’s homepage that was quickly de-commissioned, back to Yahoo and then just Chrome. But Chrome with some recent tab images was just lacking to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I started making my own. Initially, I was going to have a simple page and work on styling to make it look like a futuristic UI that you see in movies. I looked into this for a bit, but then I remembered I do something similar for work where I build client sites to integrate with our system. It might’ve been fun, but I wouldn’t have learned anything new. So I stuck with an unstyled page for a little bit and used Yahoo’s APIs and query language, YQL. Of course, this was discontinued shortly after I got started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I scrapped that project and built my site using Vue JS. It was the first time working with Vue and I really enjoyed it, despite the frustrations of working with something new. I picked it partly because React seemed like overkill for what I was doing and Vue seemed simpler and there was something I liked about it from the ‘hello world’ tutorials I read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once I picked the framework, things came along pretty quickly. I made some services that would parse and display news feeds, weather and some articles from different APIs. And I made another service for XML\/RSS feeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I never figured out what to call it, so it’s just called a sub-domain called launcher.<\/p>\n\n\n

I have it pinned to Chrome so I start on a tab that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Uses the Unsplash API to rotate through some images I’ve saved.<\/li>
  2. Uses a weather API to load weather for locations I’ve saved.<\/li>
  3. Has links to sites I usually open in the morning.<\/li>
  4. A Google search bar built into the page, that I’ve never ever used.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Then, I have other tabs on the page that load content for things I’m interested in like finance, cars, sports, technology and more. Most are newsfeeds, but I made a stock tracker like my old Yahoo page and keep a maintenance log for my vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n

    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It was all working great until the news API I use (NewsAPI) switched to a paid model, even for a site with hardly any use. So, I’ll have to convert my newsfeeds again, but for now I have a usable portal, I mean home page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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