What I've been building

The day went to wiring Anecdote into the monitoring rollout running across every project.

• Every request is now timed and tied to the signed-in person, so a slow or failing action can be traced to exactly what ran.
• The app now records sign-ins, sign-outs and saved stories as usage events.
• Every database query, the scheduled background jobs included, is now timed, and a read that hits a momentary failure retries once instead of failing.

The day built the shared monitoring layer every app now leans on.

• A reminder now traces as one timeline from app to gateway to text vendor, so a failed send shows exactly where it stalled.
• One package now holds the sign-in and usage-event wiring for every frontend, so no app hand-rolls its own snippet.
• A database wrapper times every query and retries a read once after a momentary failure; a write is never retried, so nothing can apply twice.
• Fixed a logs view that stayed empty for all web traffic, which also blocked the jump from a log line to a session replay.

Today’s visible work was fixing how a recurring task moves to a future date.

• You can now push a repeating task or habit to a later day and it stays there, instead of returning to Today on the next refresh.
• A snoozed occurrence no longer counts as a missed habit, so moving one to another day doesn’t break your streak.
• Undoing a snooze that crosses into a later week or month now reverses the whole move in a single tap.

A research day for a future writing post, plus this site’s share of the monitoring rollout.

• The workspace’s git history and diaries were mined into six tables recording when each tool arrived, why, and whether it survived or was retired.
• The site’s hand-rolled visitor analytics was replaced by the shared workspace package, so the site and the apps now share one wiring.
• The admin pages’ calls out to GitHub are now timed, so a slow version check or deploy poll shows where the time went.

The text-message gateway took its turn in the workspace tracing rollout. Nothing about sending, budgets or spending limits changed.

• Requests from other services now record who they were for, so a text that never arrived can be traced to the person expecting it.
• Every database query is now timed, and incoming replies leave a record too, with phone numbers and message text left out.

The shared sign-in service joined the tracing rollout. Signing in works exactly as it did.

• Every request and database read is now timed, so a sign-in that hangs points at the exact step that stalled.
• The exchange with Google that completes a Google sign-in is timed too, so a slow handshake on Google’s side is visible.

The shortener got the same treatment as the rest of the workspace, with one deliberate gap.

• Creating, listing or deleting a link now records how long each step and database read took, so a slow call can be tracked down.
• The public redirect stays untraced on purpose, so following a short link records nothing about the person who clicked it.

Two user-flagged interface problems, plus storymap’s share of the workspace tracing rollout.

• The coloured dot beside each project name is gone, since it said nothing the name beside it didn’t.
• Behind the scenes the board joined the workspace tracing rollout, so a slow save or snapshot now shows where the time went.
• The plan for rolling tracing and analytics across every app in the workspace was written down and sequenced.
• Fixed the loading placeholder, which collapsed into thin slivers on desktop and stacked vertically on mobile instead of looking like the board.

The capture conversation got smoother, on screen and in the reply box.

• You can now keep typing more detail after the assistant offers to save a story, so a half-finished thought isn’t lost.
• Fixed cramped answer boxes that hid long text behind a scroll, and a loading spinner that could stay spinning after your reply had already sent.

A few things that had quietly stopped working on your phone got put right.

• Your weekly text prompting you to capture a story now arrives every week, where before it silently stopped after the very first one.
• Fixed long stories getting cut off with no way to scroll to the end, and an unreachable Edit button on the story review screen.

The versions dashboard deploy button no longer shows a false failure or a stuck spinner when you return long after starting a deploy.

The Polymarket paper-trading app can now send you text-message alerts, which it had no way to do before.

A storymap had been silently refusing everything you tried to add to it.

• You can now add a task, slice or activity to a map again, after a bug quietly rejected every one of those.
• Setting up a new storymap works again too, blocked by the same bug until now.

The project dashboard now refreshes on every deploy again, and the Polymarket project appears where a wrong setting had hidden it.

The shared sign-in service now issues accounts the Polymarket paper-trading app accepts, so one login covers it alongside the other apps.