12 posts tagged with "homol-works"

Barry finally hit Amazon as a paperback, Backseat Games jumped an App Store version train to ship 1.3.0 live, and a client SPA week stacked Entra, SQL facilities, and document upload work.

Highlights​

• Launched Barry as a premium-color paperback on Amazon and gave it a dedicated Homol Works home at /barry — cover, favorite pages, buy link (full launch post).
• Shipped Backseat Games 1.3.0 live on the App Store after Apple closed the approved 1.2.1 train — hardening more than new visuals; Android stays parked for quite some time, and the next version is where new games land.
• On a client SPA engagement: Entra pilot + SQL-backed facilities catalog, composable facility filters, Internal Static Web App stubs, and a document upload API slice landed across several merges (details stay internal).
• Refreshed Homol Works Microsoft Learn badges/trophies from a fresh “Download your data” export.
• Homol High’s week-of-9/21 day packs were already covered in last week’s stub — still the teaching spine for this window.

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• Backseat Games — App Store 1.3.0 after the closed train — 1.3.0 is live; next version brings new games

I wrote Barry over thirty years ago. This week it finally became a real paperback on Amazon — digitized, restored, and published from a dedicated Barry workspace in Cursor.

Barry has a lot to do today. Mom says so.
Between chores and shopping, only a big imagination will save the day.
A picture book about never letting your imagination go.

What happened​

• Published Barry as a premium-color paperback (ages 4–8) on Amazon: amazon.com/dp/B0HKGHVKTL
• Finished the long arc from childhood manuscript → color restoration → KDP print — with Cursor as the day-to-day co-pilot in the Barry project
• Launched a dedicated Homol Works home for the book at /barry — cover, favorite pages, Amazon buy link, and a peek at what’s next
• Started treating Barry as an ongoing character world: more stories and digital content ahead, not a one-and-done upload

Why a Barry page on Homol Works​

The Amazon listing is where you buy the book. /barry is where Homol Works shows the tone: lighthearted pages from the finished color finals, the oversized-hoodie hero, and a clear path to purchase. It’s also the place I’ll point when Barry shows up again in digital form.

What’s next​

This launch is the first public chapter, not the last. I’m planning more Barry stories and digital experiences around the character — short reads, motion, and other experiments that keep the same “chores vs. imagination” spirit. If you grab a copy for a kid in your life (or the kid you used to be), thank you — and keep an eye on /barry as the world grows.

A shipping week across personal apps and home study: Homol High got the week-of-9/21 day packs, and Memento Mori restored proper iOS chrome after the tutorial.

Highlights​

• Shipped Homol High week-of-9/21 day packs (transformations, Matter labs, Carroll writing) and put AIOHS next-layer steps on Reading with direct links.
• Hardened Memento Mori post-tutorial boot and restored iOS chrome via SF Symbols — hoping this build clears so we can finally announce it’s live.
• Polished Backseat Games toward TestFlight 1.2.1 (Sign Game feedback, Dynamic Type, Node 22 / EAS CI) — deep-dive skipped this week.
• Kept Homol Works weekly curation reliable under Task Scheduler — no Monday git-fetch hangs, stronger runner hardening.
• On a client SPA engagement: authZ policies and correlation IDs, notes management, document panels, facility catalog/paging, and RFC 7807 error handling landed across several merged PRs (details stay internal).

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• Homol High — week of Sept 21 day packs — transformations, Matter labs, Carroll writing, and Reading next-layer links
• Memento Mori — post-tutorial boot and SF Symbols chrome — harden first-run handoff and restore native iOS chrome

Homol High School Phase 1 landed as a git-backed home study program for Grace — courses, Week 1 lessons, and a Professor Cursor coaching rule — with a follow-up post planned after the first week of real school days.

Highlights​

• Stood up Homol High School Phase 1: courses, Week 1 daily lesson sheets, Georgia home-study ops docs, and a Professor Cursor teaching rule for co-teachers (shared privately between parents, not a public remote).
• Ran a first pilot day and captured a ton of feedback to tighten lessons and agenda — more on that in a follow-up next week once Week 1 has matured.
• Closed the prior weekly curation PR: applied Open Questions feedback, shipped Scorecard guided-setup screenshots, and published the living-architecture stub with a sanitized Mermaid excerpt.

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• Homol High Phase 1: git-backed home study with Professor Cursor — courses, Week 1 lessons, and co-teacher ops in one repo

Brand week for the Scorecard, living architecture docs on a state licensing engagement, and the Customer QBR Claude Code post went live on Homol Works.

Highlights​

• Rebranded the Human Services Scorecard toward ThreeWill Operational Scorecard, shipped a themed guided-setup wizard, and added a Yearly cadence with a configurable year-start month and day.
• Codified living Azure and solution architecture diagrams under docs/ on a state licensing modernization engagement, while the team advanced Azure SQL IaC, Key Vault/Blob, and a .NET 8 API scaffold.
• Published the Customer QBR post: Claude Code engine hosted as a Copilot-ready Azure Function.
• Continued client delivery: prospect matching hardening and duplicate cleanup tooling on a Dataverse engagement (details stay generic).

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• ThreeWill Operational Scorecard: rebrand, guided setup, yearly cadence — wizard-led setup and year-start periods for the shelf scorecard
• Living architecture diagrams as delivery docs — keep Azure and solution pictures next to the code that changes them

Shelf week for the Human Services Scorecard: I shipped a full Operational Dashboard shell — Attention, Summary, and favorability-aware trends — as the next chapter in how ThreeWill surfaces metrics that matter for human services and Senior Living.

Highlights​

• Built a new Human Services Scorecard Operational Dashboard SPFx shell — Attention + Summary panels, community comparison, KPI strip, trend destinations, weighted Sum rollups, per-location goal overrides, and WoW arrows colored by target favorability.
• Positioned HSS as the display spine for metrics that matter, with a path toward automated Financial / CRM / HR / EHR integrations that bring those dashboards to life for Senior Living and other human services orgs.
• Continued side work without separate Learn More posts: Memento Mori iOS 26 PNG freeze fix, Backseat Games Android solo-launch packaging, state licensing monorepo/ADO hardening, and a small knowledge-base hygiene script.

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• Operational Dashboard for the Human Services Scorecard — full-page Attention/Summary shell, rollups, favorability-aware trends, and the next chapter for HSS

Follow-through week on a state licensing modernization kickoff: I married the architecture and estimating sheet into phased delivery docs, ran a gap analysis, and packaged 238 user stories as an Azure DevOps import pack.

Highlights​

• Built an ADO backlog import pack from architecture + estimating: living solution phases (P0–P10), a gap-aware picklist (214 backlog + 24 gap stories), hierarchical CSV under one endeavor Epic, and a generator script — Features as solution layers, tags for phase/app/source.
• Kept client project names, endeavor titles, and org paths out of the public write-up while preserving the real shape of the import (Epic → Feature → User Story).
• Continued adjacent engagement and product work (architecture trajectory docs; Scorecard SPFx polish) without separate Learn More deep-dives this week.

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• From Discovery Notes to an ADO Import Pack — architecture summary, phases, estimate → gap analysis → 238 stories, and an obfuscated picklist sample

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