Your own start page

Use with: build-website, ship-on-github. Resume line when done: Built the browser start page I use daily, with a hand-written weather widget — live at {url}

Brief

The page your browser opens to, built by you for an audience of one: your links, your timetable, and a weather widget you write yourself against a free forecast API. Nobody else has to like it, but you have to use it, which makes it the rare project with a daily test. If you catch yourself bypassing your own start page, it has failed and you get to find out why.

Personalize

• Your links. The eight to twelve places you open every day, in the order your day hits them. Audit a week of browser history to find the truth.
• Your timetable. School periods, shifts, practice times. Whatever grid runs your week goes on the page, with today highlighted.
• Your weather spot. The widget fetches for your coordinates and shows what you decide: rain before the walk home, or whether to take the bike.

Milestones

1. A page of links live at a URL, day one, set as your browser homepage the same day.
2. Repo on GitHub with a README explaining what this is.
3. The timetable rendered, with the current day or period highlighted by a bit of JavaScript.
4. The weather widget: fetch from a free API, handle the request failing, show the two numbers you care about.
5. One week of daily use, changing whatever annoys you each day.
6. Layout finalized for your screen sizes. Final README.

Done means

• Live URL responding and set as your browser's homepage
• Weather widget written by you, with a sane failure state
• Timetable matches your current week and highlights today
• Repo public on GitHub with a README in your words
• One week of use logged, with the changes it caused
• At least 8 commits across at least 5 distinct days, authored by you
• SESSIONS.md has an entry per session, written by you