Product Journal
Daily notes on building and improving djamespoer.com. Open the Buildometer project instruments.
The original automated Scrum Brief archive was replaced after review showed that reusable project-status metadata had been interpreted as day-by-day project activity. The corrected archive was reconstructed from dated project evidence so each entry reflects what was actually happening in its reporting period.
Executive Scrum Brief —
Recently shipped
The retained-tab navigation investigation now has a confirmed desktop failure mechanism and a production recovery path. An older page was requesting route modules removed by a newer deployment, leaving parts of the interface animated while navigation failed. Recognized route-loading failures now request a fresh document at the intended destination. The same bounded recovery covers Rigby’s greeting and Cookie Jar, preserving collected cookies and preferences while providing manual retry controls when automatic recovery cannot finish.
The portfolio’s living sky is now the default, starting from the visitor’s local clock and advancing through a three-minute day-to-night cycle. Static selections retain matching held palettes with the approved sky renderer. Theme controls moved from primary navigation to the footer, and the released night treatment adds twinkles, a faint comet and a pre-sunrise shooting star.
Rigby’s approved follow-up expands the blue cookie celebration across all dance routines until scrolling resumes ordinary following, adds a slower settling sequence, and places his controls in a collapsed Doghouse disclosure. Further production corrections remove a duplicate seated tail and prevent a relocation-hop animation from overriding the commanded sitting pose.
Validated / learned
The stale-module diagnosis came from the owner’s actual failed desktop tab, then recovery was exercised across two compiled versions and controlled live module failures at desktop and mobile widths. Automatic retry is shared and limited, with native fallback controls for persistent failure. Already-open tabs running the old code still need one manual refresh; the new recovery cannot retrofit itself into an existing document. Real Android long-idle acceptance remains open, so the navigation issue is in review rather than closed.
Focused theme, disclosure, module-recovery and Rigby checks passed with successful production builds and scoped accessibility checks. The latest tail correction was verified in live desktop idle and commanded Sit, and in mobile commanded Sit. The mobile automatic idle-sit wait timed out, so that timing is not reported as verified. Existing stylesheet warnings remain below hard build limits.
Yesterday’s late editorial run was traced to the local computer being in Modern Standby across the morning deadline. A separate wake-only Windows task was configured to keep the machine available through the handoff window without changing the publisher. Today’s visible authoring wake nevertheless arrived at 10:54 AM Eastern with no dated Jira payload. This recovery is late; whether the wake task ran and why authoring was delayed remain unverified.
Current focus
The reliability focus is owner acceptance of stale-tab recovery under real idle and mobile conditions, alongside confirming that the scheduled authoring environment actually remains available at the required time. The new recovery handles demonstrated missing-module failures; it is not evidence that every reported navigation or split-avatar symptom is resolved.
Creative Town remains paused. Analytics reporting configuration and processed report receipt remain separate open work, with no new completion evidence in the inspected record.
Next
Verify the retained-tab experience after acquiring the updated application, including the original Android idle and resume conditions, and resolve any remaining reproducible defect before closing review. Inspect the wake-task result, Windows power events and authoring timestamps to explain today’s missed deadline. Complete the remaining analytics reporting follow-through using verified data rather than equating emitted events with successful reporting.