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.
Introducing Umbrella
Today, I'm introducing Umbrella. It is the recursive system that powers the DoleeArts umbrella. It is written from scratch using Go, and hosted on App Engine.
The goal of Umbrella is to keep an individual motivated to ship products. Or, like what Justin Jackson said, Just Fucking Do It.
The solution here is to have the Umbrella system as the partner. It is inspired by Devine Lu Linvega's amazing work on XXIIVV.
The system consists of Projects. There are currently threes types of projects:
- Diaries
- Games
- Systems
Each project contains zero or more of the following axises:
- Issues, tasks of the project.
- Journal, timed pieces of the project's information.
- Logs, time logs spent on the project.
All the projects are public, and its axises will be slowly made available for public consumption.