First Blogpost From dA Umbrella
Another milestone of DA Umbrella: this post is now written, edited, and published in the Mac Catalyst app. It uses a custom built markdown editor and parser.
It still lacks other markdown features according to the spec, and a lot more work needs to be done to make the UX great. However, this milestone means I can now start writing and publishing my blog in a Mac app. So exciting.
Here is a demo of supported syntaxes for my own tracking purpose:
Header 1
Header 2
Paragraphs with inline bold, italic, deletion, links, code, images, with markdown syntax highlighting:
Code blocks
Blockquote, with inline bold, italic,
deletion, etc…
- Unordered list
- Another item
- Ordered list
- Another item
The Catalyst version of DA Umbrella just reached its first tiny milestone: all my project tasks now live in the app.
Screenshot showing a simple list of tasks for [DA CamCal](/camcal
Language breakdown of all my personal projects as of 2019-12-27:
- 66.9% C#
- 17.8% JavaScript
- 4.3% ShaderLab
- 3.2% Objective-C
- 3.0% Swift
- 1.6% Go
My ambitious 2020 goal: Swift goes to #1.
P.S. SwiftUI ain't gonna help much with this goal 😂
A Pivot Point of dA Umbrella
The current admin console part of DA Umbrella is a web app built with reactjs. While it works fine when I am on my Mac, I find more often when I want an iOS to do a quick task. More importantly, those quick tasks would be much easier if the app supports share extensions or Shortcuts.
I finally took the action to start the new project in Xcode. Here is a screenshot of the hello world version:
Created a baseline typography guide for all things dA. It only uses one font, Inter. The guide will evolve over time, but I do hope to use Inter for everything across all platforms for a long time.
Adopting Inter
After I noticed @rsms's Inter font from this tweet, I immediately tried it out on my website. The result is better than what I had (Lato + Alegreya). Now everything on mangoumbrella.com uses Inter.
I plan to do incremental changes to my website towards a better design. Adopting a great font is a significant step.
DoleeArts is now on Micro.blog, follow me here!
Update on 2022-06-06: DoleeArts is Mango Umbrella. Follow https://micro.blog/mangoumbrella on Microblog instead.
Umbrella now supports micro posts! This is the first of this kind.
JSON Feed Is Now Available
Link: https://mangoumbrella.com/posts:json.
It only took me 30 minutes to add. And, I spent half of the time actually upgrading Cloud SDK... JSON FTW!
DoleeArts Posts RSS Feed is Now Available
RSS Link: https://mangoumbrella.com/posts:rss.
This feed includes all posts on DoleeArts. If you want more fine grained feeds, for example, posts only from VR Planet Defense, drop a comment below and I will prioritize the development.