Journal 📝

After dedicating time and effort to enhancing the user experience, I’m happy to share the details of the latest update for my I-Ching app.

After months of juggling my day job, life’s curveballs, and countless cups of coffee, I’m thrilled to announce that the new version of my I-Ching Oracle app is officially live!

We didn’t actually have the time to discuss some conclusions, or have some kind of post-mortem… but more or less we agreed on some conclusions.

This is the final day, this is the time to rush D:

I slept quite much for jam-standards (6h or so), since I’m a bit old for non-sleep jams :D.

This was the first day! Lots of ideas, and nerves. It was not our first jam game (I even did other jams with my brother Ale), but it was the first one with my cousin Miguel. The first one with a proper designer!.

I lost the source code of the game! D: - what happened next will surprise you!

I’ve changed the font of the website, and I think this one looks way better than the old one.

I’m moving from Nuxt.js (Vue) to Astro.

I’ve just discovered that lazy loading components is not that great for this kind of apps.

I’ve started the preparations for the release in android apps. It was not straight forward, and I had to dig a bit into github issues, but I think it’s now ready to release :)

I’ve finished all the preparations to finally have a first release. For now it’s just a Web release (as web app and PWA). I had to tweak a lot of stuff before making this production ready. I had to generate icons, manifest, PWA stuff…

I’ve created a new view to explain what the app is about.

I’ve finished the journal view (where you can check previous oracle results), and I’ve tweaked some views.

I’ve finished the settings page and added more (english) texts. This day was not that fun, since I had to add a lot of texts for the hexagrams (quotes, descriptions, etc.).

I’ve spent the day adding graphics (Hexagram) to the results.

I’ve finished the main app flow. It’s far from ready, but it’s something! \o/

I’ve been testing whether Ionic works as expected for all the platforms I’m targeting and… Ionic it is!

I’ve spent the whole day researching what’s the best technology to achieve this. This is meant to be a very simple app, so we don’t need the full power of Native apps, but… maybe it’s easy to built those for any platform too?