Working on Three Fronts: My Week 35 Recap

Week 35 (24-30 August 2026) was all about working on three fronts at once. Captain Hook is closing in on a version ready to show the world, RadekGrabarek.com gained a new subpage and better handling of content from Notion, and Focus Doubler went through a run of improvements, from the new Deep Work feature to small readability fixes. Below is the full rundown of changes across all three projects.

Captain Hook is taking shape

• Landing page - built from the Design Foundation design, the first impression for new visitors.
• The app in English - translated login and home page interface, plus content generation matched to the language of the brain dump.
• UX fixes from testing - the rating resets on a new intro version, a fixed "new video" popup, automatic intro generation once a brain dump is pasted in, older versions collapsed in the history, visible feedback on titles and thumbnails.
• Consistent visual identity - a single logo used consistently across the whole app, the error colour distinguished from the main brand colour, green status for completed projects.
• The app is live - deployed on Vercel, testable in a browser rather than only locally.

RadekGrabarek.com - we have projects

• Handling images pasted into content from Notion - images added directly to articles in Notion are now fetched automatically during the build and hosted on my own server, because Notion links expire after roughly an hour and weren't usable for a static site.
• New "Projects" subpage (/projects) - a separate section presenting projects as a list with their stage of completion and the technologies used (based on tags from Notion), and each project also has its own detail page.
• Smarter truncation of descriptions in lists - the article and project lists are now better at recognising where to cut the description off (thanks to a separator used in the Notion content), which makes for more readable previews.
• Visual fixes on /projekty - two alignment fixes to the hero section on the projects page, so that the text lines up perfectly with the left edge of the logo and the list below it, especially on wide screens.

Focus Doubler - development

(I haven't even written about this project here yet. It's private software for now, I'll work on it a bit more before showing it to the world ;)

• Deep Work block (v0.5) - new: you can set an overarching time block (from 1 hour upwards, in 30 minute increments) that counts down across individual focus sessions and shows a progress bar on every screen. Breaks between sessions count towards the block, pausing stops its clock too, and a session that doesn't fit within the remaining time runs to its end instead of being cut off.
• A clearer start screen (v0.5.1) - the button for adding a Deep Work block is now distinctly orange instead of disappearing into the grey background.
• Tidied-up version numbering - the version number in the app footer now always matches the actual version and updates automatically.
• Fairer session ratings (v0.5.2) - ending a session early (the manual "Finish") no longer loses the rating for the last stretch, the app now asks for it.
• New rating icons (v0.5.3) - the 👍/👎 thumb emoji have been replaced with consistent vector icons that match the rest of the interface stylistically.
• A clearer session history (v0.5.4) - older days in the history collapse by default (today and yesterday stay visible right away), which makes the list shorter and easier to scan.
• More convenient session length setting (v0.6.0) - instead of three fixed options (30/45/60 min) there's now a stepper slider for setting any session length between 20 and 60 minutes, with shortcuts to the most popular values.
• Small visual fixes (v0.6.1) - the check-in dialog is centred, and the margins and icons in the session history view are aligned.