What I've been building

Finishing off a saved-but-incomplete story got the same conversational treatment as writing one from scratch.

• You can now finish a pending story through a chat, so the app draws out the missing detail instead of leaving you a blank box.
• The chat asks only about the piece you left blank, so you’re not re-entering what you already wrote.
• If the outcome hasn’t happened yet, you can say so and the story saves as a checkpoint, instead of the bot asking again and again.
• Once you add the result, the story is marked complete, so it moves out of your pending list.
• Fixed the mobile keyboard pushing the page header off screen, and the message box flickering as it grew from one line to several.

Most of the work went into the version dashboard, the internal page that tracks deploys across every project.

• The production deploy dialog now refreshes when it opens, so it shows the latest commit instead of what master looked like when the page loaded.
• The preview branch picker now lists a branch pushed in the last minute, which caching could previously hide.
• When the preview branch list fails to load, the dialog now shows what went wrong, rather than only a bare error code.
• The dashboard no longer serves stale data from your browser cache, so a page refresh always shows the current deploy state.
• Fixed a preview branch picker that errored, an off-centre deploy dialog, and a deploy status that wrongly showed Failed after a tab regained focus.

The service routing every AI and text-message call can now replay saved AI responses in local testing, so routine checks make no paid calls.

Storymap’s whole design got worked out, from the screens and visual style to the technical plan behind them.

Capturing a story means typing into a chat, and that message box got a redesign.

• The Send button now stays hidden until you start typing, so an empty message box looks less cluttered.
• The box stays compact for a short note and grows taller for a longer one, so you can see everything you write.
• Fixed the mobile keyboard hiding your newest messages and leaving a gap below the chat when it opened.

Reminders got the attention, both in the app and by text message.

• Save a story before finishing it, and you can now set a reminder date so you pick when to be nudged back.
• You can now text yourself a test message from your account page, to confirm reminders will reach your phone.

Finishing a weekly review that was already committed, with nothing left to schedule, now ends on a Done button instead of a dead-end screen.

The dashboard that tracks which version of each project is live got attention on how it loads.

• Cells still loading now show a shimmer placeholder sized to the final content, so the page no longer jumps as each one fills in.
• The first load now shows seven placeholder rows instead of a centred loading message, so the table’s shape appears straight away.
• You can now start a preview deploy straight from the dashboard, beside the production deploy link, where before only production was one click away.

Anecdote lets you save a story before it’s finished, and now it won’t let one slip your mind.

• When you save an unfinished story, the app now sets a reminder for you, so a draft no longer sits in your pending list untouched.
• The reminder lands about a week later at 5pm in your own timezone, so it arrives in the evening rather than at some odd hour.

The planner no longer logs you out when it is open in two tabs at once and the tabs briefly compete to refresh your login.

Most of the work went into the internal dashboard that shows which projects have code waiting to be deployed.

• Projects now appear on the dashboard immediately, with each status filling in as it’s ready, so the page is usable before every check finishes.
• A project with code waiting to deploy now shows how long it’s been waiting, so recent gaps stand apart from ones left for days.
• Projects whose deployed and latest code have split now stand out more than ones with small differences, so the serious cases catch the eye.
• Fixed the dashboard intermittently failing to load entirely, and a removed link returning a raw error rather than a clear message.

The timeline now jumps back to today when you switch to its tab, where before it could stay stuck away from the current day.

The project pages got most of the attention.

• You can now read the Anecdote case study: why an achievement tracker that interviews you was worth building, and how it reused existing app foundations.
• You can now read how this portfolio itself was built as a product, from its mock-first design workflow to the shared design token system.
• Design iteration links inside the case studies now stay on this site, instead of sending you off to a separate hosting domain.
• Made the site header shorter on phones, freeing up screen space that a taller bar had been eating on small viewports.