4 posts tagged with "homol-works"

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.