Most of my week at ThreeWill was client delivery, and Cursor was in the middle of almost all of it. Here are a few of the ways AI helped, with the clients kept anonymous.

What happened​

• Access rules: I wrote up how access rules work in a records app, with a diagram, so the client could confirm we understood them
• Azure Maps: I set up the plumbing so the app's UI can render maps
• DevOps cutover: I wrote an Azure DevOps cutover walkthrough to move a client's pipelines into their own organization

SHIP LOG: Backseat Games - Store 1.5.1 - live Oct 31

Backseat Games sounded fine, but "fine" isn't what you want for a game kids play on a road trip. Version 1.5.1 replaces every sound in the app with a warmer set, and gives it a new opening jingle with a little road trip baked in. Apple approved it fast, and it went live on Oct 31.

What happened​

• All 20 game sounds were replaced with a warm mallet-and-bell style set: chimes, wins and everything in between
• A new road-trip opening jingle plays when the app opens. I listened to three variants side by side and picked the third
• My Grok Bot built before-and-after comparisons for every sound so I could judge them by ear instead of by file name
• The old JavaScript sound scripts were replaced with a Python generator that rebuilds the exact same sounds every time, so a future tweak doesn't quietly change everything else

Before and after​

Here's the opening jingle and the win sound, old version first, then the new one.

Opening jingle

Before:

After:

Win

Before:

After:

One thing the new sounds don't fix yet: a long-standing bug where a sound sometimes doesn't play. It's on the backlog.

Building the app was the fun part. Getting anyone to notice it is the next one. This week Backseat Games went out to its first reviewers, with everything they need to try the whole app.

What happened​

• All three holiday themes (Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas) were approved in App Store Connect
• Every in-app purchase now has reviewer codes, so a reviewer can unlock the full app without buying anything
• The first pitches went to Kids App World, GeekDad and Appysmarts
• The Backseat Games privacy page got a permanent statement that the app has no ads, analytics or tracking, and now covers the theme purchases too
• My Homol Works Grok Bot drafted the pitches and I approved each one before it went out

Barry had a big Halloween week on social, and behind the scenes he got a tighter set of rules so he looks like himself in every new picture.

What happened​

• A "Which Barry are you today?" collage went out on Oct 28
• A Happy Halloween football Barry post went out on Halloween
• New character rules now lock in Barry's nose, his hair and his build, so AI-assisted art stays on model with the book
• These build on the Barry character library from last week

I have a few Grok Bots helping me now, and I got curious what they'd say if someone asked them about their jobs. So homol.work has a new monthly series: Interview with a Grok Bot.

What happened​

• Each month, one of my bots answers the same twelve questions: what it does, its hardest part, what people get wrong, and some advice
• The first guest was Rudy, my operations bot at ThreeWill. Read the interview, published Nov 1
• My Homol Works bot sent the questions to Rudy and drafted the post from its answers. I reviewed it before it went live
• The series lives here on homol.work only

ThreeWill's Managed Services work runs on a Power Platform solution. Until this week, it didn't live in source control. Now it does.

What happened​

• I set up a Managed Services repo and exported the ManagedServicesCore solution into git, with each new version saved as it ships
• I added a Monday check-in custom page to the solution, with tabs and choice fields for the weekly review
• Working in Cursor with the solution unpacked in the repo makes each change easy to see and review

SHIP LOG: Memento Mori - Store 1.1.0 - live Oct 29

Memento Mori 1.1 is live. It took two tries, and the first try taught me something about App Store Connect I won't forget.

What happened​

• I checked 1.1 end to end in TestFlight before submitting
• Apple rejected the first submission: the new in-app purchase hadn't been submitted along with the build
• The lesson: a brand-new in-app purchase has to be attached to and submitted with the app version that uses it, not on its own afterward
• I fixed it, resubmitted, and 1.1 went live on Oct 29

A week of polish and getting things out the door. Backseat Games got a whole new sound and its first reviewer pitches, Memento Mori 1.1 made it through App Store review on the second try, Barry had a spooky week on social, and a new interview series kicked off here on homol.work. At ThreeWill, the Managed Services solution finally lives in source control, and Willy kept the Operational Dashboard moving.

Highlights​

• Backseat Games: All-new sounds and a road-trip opening jingle in 1.5.1, all three holiday themes approved, and the first reviewer pitches out.
• Memento Mori: 1.1 polished and resubmitted, after learning the in-app purchase has to be submitted with the build. It's live now.
• Barry: A Halloween on social and a tighter character rulebook.
• homol.work: The Interview with a Grok Bot series kicks off with Rudy.
• ThreeWill: The Managed Services solution is now in source control, and Willy keeps the Operational Dashboard docs and CI moving.

Learn More​

• Backseat Games 1.5.1 - A Sound Makeover - 20 new sounds, a road-trip opening jingle, and a generator that rebuilds them the same way every time
• Backseat Games Goes to Reviewers - reviewer codes, three approved holiday themes, the first pitches, and a clearer privacy page
• Memento Mori 1.1 - Submit the In-App Purchase with the Build - one rejection, one lesson, and 1.1 is live
• Barry's Spooky Week - "Which Barry are you today?", Halloween football Barry, and the rules that keep him Barry
• Interview with a Grok Bot Launches - a new monthly series, starting with Rudy
• Managed Services Goes Under Source Control - the ManagedServicesCore solution in git, plus a Monday check-in page
• Willy Keeps the Operational Dashboard Moving - sync architecture decisions, a monorepo split with path-filtered CI, and environment docs
• AI on Client Delivery - an access-rules write-up, map plumbing, and a DevOps cutover walkthrough

Last week I introduced Willy, the Grok Bot that looks after the codebase for ThreeWill's Operational Dashboard. This week the credit goes to Willy. I reviewed and merged.

What happened​

• Willy wrote up the team's sync architecture decisions as a set of decision records, including how sync conflicts get surfaced
• Willy split the repo into a cleaner monorepo with path-filtered CI, so a change only builds the parts it touches
• Willy documented the environments and wrote feature and regression-test docs for the latest hotfixes, plus onboarding notes for UX contributors
• Every change came in as a pull request: Willy opened 5 PRs this week (Oct 26 to Nov 1), and I reviewed and merged all five

Welcome to the first Interview with a Grok Bot. I've got a growing team of Grok Bot assistants, and every month one of them sits down for a Q&A about what it does, what's hard, and what it's learned about working for me. My Homol Works bot asks the questions, the answers get a light trim, and I read everything before it goes live.

First up is Rudy, who handles the operations side of my job as Director of Innovation at ThreeWill. You may remember Rudy from Bots Running the Work Week. This time Rudy gets to tell it.