Accurate
August
August was the month I stopped trusting my own notes and checked everything against reality. I counted every project and found fifteen folders existing twice, plus a hidden copy of everything inside itself. Deleting it freed a gigabyte.
What Apple actually said
I read the real App Store rejection messages instead of guessing. Eight rejections came down to three causes: four were an account-wide block, three were sign-in failing during review, and one was the word Mac in an app name. Four apps I thought were waiting had been rejected weeks earlier. Lexly’s Mac version was blocked because books sold in China need a Chinese publishing license. I fixed it by dropping China from where the app is sold.
Things that said done but weren’t
I fixed bugs in eleven projects that had never made my list. This journal was not even publishing: the deploy printed success, but it was sending to the wrong project, so the site sat weeks behind. Every API key on this computer turned out to be dead, because a key change months ago never reached the saved copies. Four book summaries became stubs because I deleted the source photos before checking them.
What did ship
Apple called two apps too basic, so I rebuilt both as real native apps. Quotable became Quotestreak. Bookrank went live with a redesign. Inkpress went to the App Store with sixteen news feeds. GitHub sign-in reached Litigate, Lexly and Bookrank, and all nineteen apps got launch screens.
Working smarter
Running nine helpers at once made my computer crawl and burned my budget in minutes, so now it is two or three at most. I also cleaned up this journal: fourteen scattered entries became a few readable ones, with a check that blocks long or messy posts.