October
Oct 1-3
Joshua Tree’s second release sandboxed twenty-six apps; Bookrank works offline.
Oct 4
My idea app became Hikko; iPhone and Mac are in review.
Oct 5-8
Apple rejected seven apps as spam, Hikko over screenshots.
Oct 11-13
I built a digest of twenty AI accounts on X; Plank can call models.
Oct 16-18
Talli’s Stripe webhook rejected purchases, fixed; jaybulb.com mail works at info@. A security header broke fonts, so I fixed ten repos. Mailbag and Patois went into review, and I cut GitHub from 62 repos to 31.
Oct 19-21
Notate’s offline update is live on iPhone and Watch; it became Echo. Glyphbox became Icelus, and Curvely went into review as Pan.
Thinkpond became Melete, and Hermes sends nothing without my yes.
Oct 22-25
Epiphany splits subscriptions by currency, so US plans stop hitting my Canadian total. Coranto became Bugle, but Apple refused, so the store says BugleNews. Five Apple appeals won.
Oct 26-27
Duke beat my platformer Mirage in 3,725 steps. Noema’s big day: a Lean proof showed Busy Beaver 2,3 is 38, and ClinicalTrials.gov shows 407 impossible standard deviations.
Oct 28-29
Apple cleared Sidewise’s spam answers, and it folded into Bugle, live on iPhone and Mac. Homeward became Sighting. Kernel went into App Review.
Joshua Tree got a film, and Plank calls C. Millie, my phone assistant, shipped ten releases catching three bugs by calling herself. I split my labs into ten public repos and made Keyrate four versions sharing thirty tests.
Oct 30
Kernel’s release is on GitHub with chapters 1 to 4 from phone photos; open issues went from 43 to zero.
I deleted six dead GitHub repos and set a rule: a repo needs a store listing or domain.
Oct 31
Airwell’s new build drops Windgate. Scrounger went back; Cartons, Horula and Atlin still wait. Elah’s first iPhone build was rejected, so I cut the NIV and added nine public domain Bibles, offline; both wait.
Nov 1
Accessibility took the day: 98 pages pass an automated check; twenty apps got fixes.
Sighting and Co-Stanza went to App Review; Apple wants every post reportable and blockable. Epiphany dropped the growth calculator, skips transfers in review and takes budget income from paydays. Joshua Tree ran full screen on a real Raspberry Pi 4, sharp. Board testing found five bugs, fixed that afternoon; the eighth release passed with Bluetooth and an Apple-style boot.
Nov 2
I let Duke run Papers, Please overnight; it got through day 14 and learned to defuse the bomb.
Joshemon, my Game Boy game, went public, then got six ability releases.
Joshua Tree shipped Shortcuts, Bluetooth and YouTube, and its Pi graphics chip runs on a driver I wrote by hand. Keyrate got its App Store record, free in 175 countries with nothing collected. Vancouver Vice built its first Mac app, with our own typeface, Seawall.
Nov 6
I filed 31 Apple Notes into roadmaps and the vault, and built a mail skill. I added eleven Kernel chapters from four books and deleted 184 source photos; 566 still wait.
Apple rejected Keyrate as spam on both platforms, matching its word list to two typing tests. I rebuilt it from common words in public domain novels; both are back in review.
Nov 7
Cyllene is back before Apple with a reviewer key and a demo video; twelve apps wait. Nine projects broke under Xcode 27; all fixed. I installed Apple’s Xcode plugin so Claude can build and test inside Xcode.
Apple rejected Elah, Co-Stanza and Sighting as spam lookalikes. I answered all six review threads with app-specific replies, which got Horula and Atlin through. Bugle is keeping its name, Bugles, after checking about 200 others.
After comparing ten rival browsers, I added downloads, site icons, a fire button, HTTPS first and translation. Mac is in review, iPhone waits.
Nov 8
iPhone and Mac builds are back in review. Plaintxt’s builds wait; Apple wants bigger iOS changes or I drop iOS for the Mac app.
Cyllene’s onboarding has four real screens and leads with Apple’s sign-in button; real login ships after the iPhone review. Epiphany’s broker numbers had been stale, since pull to refresh hit the cache.
Nov 9
The iPhone and Mac update is in review; the web is live. A refresh now means a refresh, synced holdings show how old the broker’s data is, and cost basis and gains reach the apps. Why holdings show as days old is open.
Joshua Tree’s next build is merged, with 32 issues closed: PC window snapping, new apps on reused disks, Focus mode and Pi ping. PC ping is still open.
Epiphany’s iPhone statement upload never worked, so my October statement missed the spending graph; the server took the same PDF, so the bug was in the phone app. The fix reads iCloud files and shows errors as a red row, untested on a real phone.
jaybulb.com email is live through iCloud+; only info@ receives so far.
The journal borrowed colours from an old stylesheet, so some dividers vanished; it has its own colour file, and a QA pass fixed a doubled heading and overlapping labels.
Nov 10
Hamurapi’s dark landing shows the game at night. I redrew the sprites and cut a trailer. Hamurapi is approved on both platforms; price and store link are still to do.
Millie stopped treating me like a stranger and now tells me what came in that week.
Apple rejected Patois for not signing in with Apple, which was never spam. The sheet stayed open after sign-in, so nothing seemed to happen. That is fixed; the iPhone build is back in review.
Nov 11
Typed math answers count, so (x-3)(x-2) passes for (x-2)(x-3), and the math courses show x², √2 and π. Pre-Calc 11 went from ten questions to sixty, and Pre-Calc 12 explains each answer. iOS waits for the next version so the sign-in review stays put.
I built a Things page for jaybulb.com: 55 things I own and use, with covers for 23 books. I also wrote a shared onboarding skill (Epiphany’s five-slide tour is now one Stocks-style welcome page) and a trailer skill that cuts 19 seconds on one calm horizon, tried on Kernel and Epiphany. Airwell’s landing lost its tiles for one breathing circle; Cyllene’s is one app list.
Patois still said Tonchi in the password reset emails, since the mail Worker kept it. I fixed that and swept out the leftover Lexly and Tonchi names. The web is live; the sign-in fix is still with Apple. Pan’s iPhone update came back rejected over its name.
Nov 13
Apple locked my developer account until I accepted a new agreement, then it came back. Tocks was rejected for background audio, but sleep sounds do keep playing on a locked phone, so I asked for it as a bug fix. Apple asked what Delete account does; I found deleted accounts had left lost-pet posts public, so the server now removes them. Pan was rejected over its name, so it’s Conics now, but Apple still says the version isn’t ready. Co-Stanza is live on iPhone and Mac.