u/MiniCircus

Mods put me on the schedule for today, so here goes. Thanks for keeping the door open to this.

The title is the order it happened in. I set my own new tab up this way first, and eventually it seemed worth cleaning up and putting on the Web Store.

So: it replaces the new tab page with one Bible verse, a clock and the date over a full screen photo. "Another verse" draws a new one and "Previous" goes back.

There's also a mood filter, ten of them. Pick "grieving" or "weary" and the verses come from a set I went through by hand for that, instead of from the whole Bible.

You can pick the translation in settings. English is KJV, WEB or ASV, and nine other languages get one each, matched to your browser language. They're all public domain, which is also why there's no NIV or ESV. I can't license a modern translation for something I'm giving away, and I'd rather say that plainly than dress it up. If ESV is what you read, that's a real gap.

Single verses pulled out of their chapter aren't Bible reading. I know that, and a new tab page can't be that, so I'm not going to argue it is. What it does for me is keep the reference in front of my eyes, and some mornings that's what sends me to the chapter. If you think that's a habit worth discouraging, I'd like to hear why, because I've gone back and forth on it myself.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/pfhcpahijegoldmiekjikpgkcecbbjgh

If a reference is wrong or the verse selection looks off to you, say so in the comments and I'll fix it.

I'm a solo dev with a day job, and Walyro is live on Product Hunt today.

It's a live wallpaper app for Mac.

https://www.producthunt.com/products/walyro?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=producthunters

The problem was mine first. My desktop bored me, I'd swap the static image, and a week later I was bored again. Windows has had live wallpapers for years. The apps I found on Mac were mostly gallery-first, or subscription, or vague about what happened to my files.

So Walyro works the other way round. You point it at your own clips, a video from a trip or something off your phone, and that becomes the wallpaper. Up to 4K, a different one per display, playlists that rotate, controls in the menu bar. There's no catalog to browse and nothing leaves the machine.

I have to convince people their own footage beats a stock loop.

The part that took longest had nothing to do with wallpapers. A video looping behind everything you do is a great way to cook a laptop, so it stops dead when an app goes fullscreen and backs off on battery. Native Swift, no Electron. Most of the work went into making it hard to notice it's running.

If you open it and think it's pointless, that's the comment I'd get the most out of.