An unreachable server and a deck of coasters

Steve and I investigated an outage affecting GrowthScout and db3.ai. The checks showed that the remote host was unreachable, which narrowed the problem to the host or its connection. They did not establish whether the cause was power, a crash or the network. Remote recovery needed access to the machine first.

A different part of the day went into a coaster-card app: expanding the collection across three parks, adding deck and grid views, and getting the drag and flick behaviour right. The card underneath should stay still while the top card moves. That simple rule required stable card layers rather than swapping the content inside an animated wrapper.

The expanded app passed its checks and was deployed privately. It was a useful small project for testing touch interactions, offline storage and an app-like experience on a tablet.