devlog 002: personal dashboard
The dashboard is starting to look good!!!
The biggest change was pulling the pink theme entirely and replacing it with a warm sepia palette: dark brown base, aged gold accents, serif headers on everything. I wanted it to feel a little more academic. The layout also got reworked into an asymmetric bento grid, where Canvas takes up a tall left column, the calendar strip runs wide across the bottom right, and the smaller widgets fill in around them.
New widgets added this session: a reading list that resolves book covers from whatever URL you paste in (it checks for an Open Graph image tag first, then falls back to the Google Books API if that fails), an active projects tracker, monthly goals that scope themselves to the current month without deleting older ones, notable events displayed as date pills, a countdown timer that fires a native desktop notification when it hits zero, and photo panels that slot into the bento grid as pure image tiles with no widget chrome around them.
Spotify was simpler than expected. The embedded player works fine once you add Spotify’s domain to the Tauri Content Security Policy config. Without that one line, the iframe loads blank with no error, which took a minute to figure out.
Google Calendar had been stuck because the onboarding screen appeared once, I dismissed it with “later,” and there was no way back to it. Connect and disconnect controls are now in the settings page, so that’s no longer a dead end.
The one remaining item for Google Calendar is entering real credentials from the Google Cloud Console and completing an actual browser OAuth consent flow.