16 posts tagged with "ai"

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.

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

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.

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• 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

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.

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• 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

A packed week across personal apps, Homol Works comeback work, and open-source releases — including the first public cuts of Ruddr MCP and Advanced Page Properties.

Highlights​

• Revived Memento Mori home-screen widgets on Expo SDK 55; Smart Record is active again and in final testing before app go-live.
• Brought Homol Works back online with a terminal theme, gopher logo, Builds page, and weekly AI-build drafts.
• Cleared an App Store blocker for Backseat Games, open-sourced Advanced Page Properties (SPFx 1.23) with a demo spotlight shot, and tagged Ruddr MCP v0.3.0 with an install-first public write-up plan.
• Advanced Managed Services shelf work: Scorecard metrics UX, MS Pulse packaging, and a DDS Referrals demo-reset pipeline.

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• Reviving iOS Widgets on Expo SDK 55 — why widgets went black and what fixed them
• Open-Sourcing Advanced Page Properties — SPFx 1.23 / Heft migration to a public repo
• Ruddr MCP v0.3.0 — install-first guide for a public test drive

STATUS: SIGNAL REACQUIRED · HOMOL WORKS ONLINE · OPERATOR: MIKE HOMOL

If you have been here before, the gap is obvious.

My last post on this site was Consult the Oracle in early 2023 — me staring at ChatGPT like it was the promised evolution of artificial intelligence, already wondering what it would do to coding, writing, and the shape of "thinking jobs." Then life got loud, client work stayed loud, and Homol Works went quiet.

The builder did not stop. The blog just did.

This is the transmission coming back online — and the honest recap of what the past year has looked like once Cursor became less of a novelty and more of how I actually work.