What I've been building

A snapshot of real conversations was saved so language models can be compared against the same fixed inputs, instead of querying the live database each time.

Most of the work landed on the anecdote case study.

• The anecdote case study is now published, so it shows on the homepage and projects list where before it was written but never built.
• The case study now opens on four phone screenshots and a diagram of the app’s build, where before it had no pictures at all.
• The retro article now links the open-source tool that draws its setup map, so you can build one for your own files.
• Fixed the site logo sitting off-centre on phones, and the retro article’s design system link pointing at the component kit instead of the usage guidance.

The portfolio now has somewhere to publish written pieces, and the first one has gone live.

• A new writing section now sits in the top navigation, so the site has a home for articles alongside the projects and update log.
• The first article looks back at four months of building nine web apps with AI, written for people who haven’t tried these tools.
• The article is built around an interactive map you can drag, zoom into and click to open the real file behind any node.
• Clicking a file name in the text walks the map open to that exact file, so you see the real thing instead of a description.
• You can open the map full screen, which gives a crowded diagram room to breathe, most useful on a phone.
• A contents list near the top lets you jump straight to the map or the getting-started steps without scrolling the whole piece.
• Fixed a page that lurched when clicking into the map, a header that overflowed on phones, cramped tables, dim map-panel text, and choppy map animation.

The site’s navigation labels and the animation about how these updates get written both got attention.

• The build log is now called “What’s new” in the nav, on cards and project pages, so you know there’s something fresh to read.
• The header’s first link now reads “Projects” instead of “Work”, matching the built projects it sends you to.
• The updates page now opens with “What I’ve been building”, which stays true on a quiet week where “day by day” overpromised.
• The animation’s collect scene now shows real snippets of commits, file paths and diary lines flying into the file, instead of plain labels sliding in.
• The closing counter now shows the true total of entries written, dated to the newest one, instead of a number typed months ago.
• Fixed a scroll cue arriving late on the first scene, an opening that flew past too fast, and several uneven motion and ordering glitches.

The build checks that read design mockups were removed, leaving the three that read real source code to catch the same faults where they can reach a person.

The planner’s reminder and sign-in code got a tougher kind of test check, which closed two gaps where a test ran the code without ever checking the result.

The animation showing how the build log writes itself got a round of polish, along with the log page around it.

• Reading only the headings over the animation now walks you through the whole process in order, from your first instruction to the entry going live.
• The animation is easier to follow, with a slower opening scene, a scroll cue that appears partway through each scene, and larger headings on phones.
• Text under each entry on the log page is now brighter and more open, matching the rest of the site, so it no longer looks faded.
• Fixed a repeated intro fact, boxes jumping as text typed on phones, the scroll cue overlapping content, a wrong example app name, an overstated publishing line, and a sentence on the about page pointing at nobody.

Browsing the site while signed in to an admin page now tags that browser as internal, so the operator’s own visits no longer inflate the visitor figures the way an anonymous stranger would.

The portfolio case study now shows how these build log entries get written without anyone typing them.

• A new section explains the agent that turns logged prompts, session notes and commit messages into a daily entry, so you can see how the log stays current.
• An animation plays through a single day, showing its commits, prompts and notes come together into one entry.
• The build log page now says up front that an agent writes it, and links to the fuller explanation.
• Mentions of the build log in the case study are now clickable, so you can jump straight to the page or the section.

Returning to the app after being away is smoother, and a genuine outage is easier to spot.

• Opening the app after an hour idle no longer stalls on the loading screen, because the app no longer waits on a slow database write before showing your tasks.
• When the server truly cannot be reached, the reconnect screen now appears in about 16 seconds instead of 25, so you are not left staring at a spinner.

The weekly review’s overdue tasks were rebuilt to behave like the tasks on the Today screen.

• You can now mark an overdue task done by tapping a circle, and tap it again to put it back, so no menu is needed.
• Archiving an overdue task now shows an Undo button, so an archive by mistake takes one tap to reverse.
• Each plan row now leads with an icon and shorter labels, so you can tell habits, chores and deferred tasks apart at a glance.
• Fixed long overdue titles overlapping the buttons, confirmation and error messages that never appeared, and an archived row sliding out of line with its neighbours.

Most of the day went into the public build log on this site.

• You can now read the build log back to late April 2026, so the record covers the projects from close to their earliest days.
• Removed several entries that misdescribed the work, including ones claiming sign-in was slow and that the build had no automated security checks.

Completing a task or habit on the Today screen now shows a glow around the row, so a completion feels finished, where before that glow never appeared.

On a phone, the case-study carousel now shows the edge of the next screenshot, so visitors can tell it swipes instead of seeing one static frame.