Starting a new enterprise engagement is more than scaffolding code — agents and humans need shared delivery rules from commit one. This week I wired a new delivery repo with ThreeWill Engineering Standards as a git submodule and product-specific agent context before the first feature branch landed.

What happened​

• Added threewill-engineering-standards as a git submodule at .cursor/rules/ so team non-negotiables, MCP docs, and SPFx patterns travel with the repo
• The standards package is the result of a long partnership and rounds of planning with Cursor — so every developer, whether working locally or in the cloud, can trust that agents follow the same rules
• The approach predates Cursor Cloud agents, but it remains a strong way to distribute consistent agentic behavior; it is still a work in progress, and the team is happy with how far it has come
• Wrote product-specific AGENTS.md with submodule hygiene: detect missing standards, init/sync commands, and a light cadence for bumping the pinned SHA via PR
• Documented delivery conventions in docs/delivery.md: branch + PR discipline, Azure DevOps Boards ↔ GitHub PR linkage (AB#<id>), GitHub Actions CI/CD posture, and Azure DevOps MCP setup for Cursor — without publishing client org or cutover details
• Added Cursor Cloud-specific instructions so cloud agents follow the same submodule and delivery rules as local sessions
• Adoption across the practice keeps improving — especially on SPFx web parts, where the standards enforce fewer rules but bring a consistent look-and-feel and reusable React components
• Recent advancements clarify sophistication levels: Enterprise solutions carry a fuller requirements set than smaller/atomic solutions, so agents and humans get the right bar for the work
• The same submodule pattern shows up across multiple active delivery repos (enterprise engagements and internal SPFx products), not only this kickoff

Kickoff week for a state licensing, permits, and inspections modernization: I bootstrapped the delivery repo with ThreeWill Engineering Standards so local and cloud agents share the same rules from day one — then used Cursor on discovery artifacts for a discussion-grade data model.

Highlights​

• Bootstrapped a new enterprise delivery repo with the threewill-engineering-standards submodule, product-specific AGENTS.md (submodule hygiene, branch + PR, Azure DevOps work-item linkage, ADO MCP), and Cursor Cloud agent instructions — standards that predate Cloud agents but still distribute consistent agentic behavior.
• Noted practice-wide adoption improving, especially on SPFx work (lighter rule surface, shared look-and-feel and React components), plus clearer Enterprise vs smaller/atomic sophistication levels with different requirements.
• Ran an AI-assisted discovery pass over stakeholder transcripts and legacy UI reference screenshots toward a kickoff data model (draft), including a location-first refinement with the team.

Learn More​

• Bootstrapping an Enterprise Repo with Engineering Standards — ThreeWill Engineering Standards as a submodule, cloud/local parity, and adoption across SPFx and enterprise work

Solo Mode was the reliability win from v1.1 — this week I made it free and moved the one-time purchase behind Play online, so families can try the app offline before deciding to host a multiplayer session.

What happened​

• Bumped to v1.2.0 on TestFlight with Solo Mode free and IAP gated behind Play online
• Confirmed App Store / support pricing copy matches that line: joining and Solo stay free; the one-time host unlock sits behind Play online
• Finished Travel Bingo per-item art across landmarks, businesses, scenery, vehicles, signs, and animals — generated icons and refreshed state plate art
• Travel Bingo tiles moved from small stock emojis to custom illustrated sprites (same board, much clearer at a glance in the car)
• Added plane propeller spin overlays and accessibility fixes; logged new game ideas in the backlog
• Published Backseat Games marketing, privacy, and support pages on Homol Works (App Store URL, hero, and game lineup)
• Refreshed the marketing hero and on-site game descriptions to match the current three-game lineup

After last week's widget readability pass, the focus shifted to submission readiness: a Skia life calendar, a consistent brand coin across widgets and loading states, deep-linked home widgets, and the marketing/privacy/support URLs App Store Connect expects.

What happened​

• Rebuilt the life calendar on Skia — better scroll and zoom for a 4,680-week grid, with the tradeoff of a heavier Skia dependency and canvas-style rendering to maintain instead of a pure View-based layout
• Enriched home-screen widgets (Dreams vs Time, Life Ring, Week Gauge) and replaced skull cutouts with a shared brand coin asset — extract script, CoinSpinner in-app, and widget snapshot wiring
• Dropped the clipped goals widget; home widgets now deep-link into the right in-app tabs and use the coin as the weekly goal completion marker
• Hardened Smart Record AI with clearer error messages, reflection editor improvements, and fallback merge tests
• Locked the iOS build to iPhone-only and added an App Store screenshot / preview prep workflow
• Finalized the App Store screenshot set on Homol Works and an App Preview video for Connect
• Published a Memento Mori app hub on Homol Works with marketing copy and those same screenshots

App Store prep week: Memento Mori got a Skia life calendar, brand-coin widgets, and Homol Works hub pages; Backseat Games shifted monetization for Solo Mode and finished Travel Bingo sprite art.

Highlights​

• Rebuilt Memento Mori's life calendar on Skia, unified the brand coin across widgets and in-app loading (including coin markers on weekly goals), deep-linked home widgets to tabs, and locked the build to iPhone-only for App Store submission — with screenshot prep, an App Preview video, and a new Homol Works app hub.
• Shipped Backseat Games v1.2 to TestFlight: Solo Mode is free, IAP sits behind Play online, Travel Bingo tiles moved from stock emojis to custom sprites, and marketing/privacy/support pages landed on Homol Works.
• Refreshed the ThreeWilly managed-services weekly canvas and hardened work-item autonumber / Teams draft signals.

Learn More​

• Memento Mori App Store Prep — Skia Calendar, Brand Coin Widgets, and the Homol Works Hub — Skia calendar, coin-marker widgets, App Preview video, and submission-ready hub pages
• Backseat Games v1.2 — Free Solo Mode and a Clearer Monetization Line — free Solo Mode, host unlock behind Play online, and Travel Bingo sprite art

Backseat Games got a v1.1 delight pass — and Solo Mode so play still works when the relay lobby cannot. Offline-first turned out to be a product feature, not a fallback.

What happened​

• Shipped jingle, SFX, icons, critter motion, and first-run teaching as one release theme
• Added Solo Mode for offline play without a relay lobby
• Useful for App Store demos and real car rides with spotty connectivity
• Update is live on the App Store — Solo Mode and delight assets look right on device
• Visual polish landed across the games (Travel Bingo board + License Plate Game cards)

After the SDK 55 revival, the next problem was not “do widgets render?” — it was “can you read them at a glance?” Trimming the set and using a consistent brand mark beat shipping every layout variant.

What happened​

• Wired shared skull PNGs through the widget snapshot builder for completed goals
• Clarified week/dreams layouts and trimmed the overall widget set
• Fixed TestFlight margin gates for fewer widgets
• Confirmed on device / TestFlight (not simulator-only) — readable at a glance
• App Store v1 docs will cover all layouts in the polished set (not deferring variants out of the write-up)

Measurable trends on the Human Services Scorecard work better as a dedicated overlay and picker flow than as charts crammed into every KPI tile. This is the strong opening chapter — more is coming, including a public release.

What happened​

• Added a metric trend overlay, trend service, and metric picker UX on the timeline
• Gave trends their own surface instead of overloading tile layout
• Continues the Scorecard UX thread from earlier metric ordering / group-by / owner work
• Confirmed merged/deployed on the intended demo surface — Overview tiles with sparkline trends, weekly check-in grid, location grid, comparison charts, and location performance views
• Framing for the public story: start strong here, then ship follow-ups as the product and packaging mature toward a public release

Widgets got clearer, Backseat Games got a delight pass and Solo Mode, and Managed Services tooling kept moving — with public-safe notes on a client Dataverse hygiene win.

Highlights​

• Polished Memento Mori widgets (brand skulls, trimmed set) verified on device / TestFlight; App Store v1 docs will cover the full polished layout set.
• Shipped Backseat Games v1.1 delight + Solo Mode — update is live on the App Store with the new Travel Bingo and License Plate visuals.
• Hardened prospect phone matching and duplicate-merge reporting on a client Power Platform / Dataverse engagement (kept generic).
• Scorecard trend overlays and related web parts continue a strong shelf story — more posts ahead, including a public release.

Learn More​

• Making Expo Home Screen Widgets Readable — polish pass: skull branding and a smaller, clearer widget set
• Solo Mode: Offline Play Without a Lobby — delight pack + offline reliability for family road trips
• Metric Trend Overlays for SharePoint Scorecards — opening chapter toward a public Scorecard release

Advanced Page Properties started years ago as a PnP-style experiment and kept maturing. This week’s window finally pushed the SPFx 1.23 / Heft migration over the line and packaged the repo for an MIT public release.

What happened​

• Migrated the solution to SharePoint Framework 1.23 with the Heft toolchain and PnPjs v4
• Synced lockfiles and CI for legacy-peer-deps realities of modern SPFx
• Added LICENSE, CONTRIBUTING, SECURITY, and deployment validation docs
• Promoted the public repo on the Homol Works Builds page — verified against the public GitHub release
• Public write-up stays fork-agnostic: no client-specific or niche tenant branches called out
• Demo screenshot of an Employee Spotlight page showing page properties in action (choice pills, links, currency, avatar, boolean, number, and long text)