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 portfolio’s editorial foundation is now in production. Shared heading, lead and prose roles replace competing page-level scales, and About presents its existing content as an article with labelled sections instead of three large cards. Current project evidence is easier to find: Work History moves later in navigation, and Buildometer gains a Case Studies entry. This establishes a reusable reading hierarchy without claiming the wider material and visual-design system is finished.
The homepage received a corrective layout release after the first typography pass was rejected for an oversized headline, wasted space and disconnected project cards. The correction balances the introduction in two columns on desktop and makes all five cards fill a consistent three-plus-two grid. Earlier cleanup removed construction messaging, the homepage evaluator teaser and deployment grid, while retaining their underlying routes and placing progress beside the executive brief.
The Conservatory also gained animated water and a camouflaging, fly-catching chameleon, refined through subsequent color, placement and tongue adjustments. The résumé page introduction was updated with approved copy; this was not a new PDF or career-record release.
Validated / learned
A fresh cookie regression showed why clean-browser checks were insufficient: an existing standalone Shady White Van cookie could still produce cross-site warnings even after embedded analytics startup was suppressed. A credentialless iframe isolates the exhibit from those stored credentials. The deployed correction passed Lighthouse 13.5 Best Practices at 100 with the reproducing cookie present, while retaining eager loading and the fixed attribution URL. That score belongs to this tested release, not an unmeasured claim about every later presentation change.
The homepage correction passed its production build below the unchanged 4 kB Home CSS warning threshold, with focused 320px and desktop overflow, grid and keyboard checks. Editorial adoption checks covered one main landmark and H1, preservation of About’s nine paragraphs, and reflow at narrow widths with doubled root text size. These focused checks do not constitute a new comprehensive accessibility audit.
Current focus
Operation Pig Lips has evolved from a temporary typography patch into an owner-directed editorial and material design system. The shared type foundation and About pilot have shipped; broader page composition, restrained material treatments, supporting graphics and theme accents remain design work to advance in reviewed increments. The proposed layered storytelling carousel remains a separate future system.
Protected career-evidence review remains unresolved in the inspected registry; no new canonical reconciliation or evaluator backend delivery was verified during this reporting period.
Next
Review the deployed editorial hierarchy and homepage composition before selecting the next precise design increment. Extend the shared vocabulary through deliberate page layouts rather than more isolated overrides, preserving contrast, reflow, keyboard access and performance budgets. Reconcile newer eligible releases through the existing Buildometer evidence process without treating navigation or visual polish as unsupported completion credit.