October
Oct 1 to 3
Joshua Tree reached 2.0 with twenty-six apps in protected boxes and fixed flaky tests. Bookrank is live on iPhone with natural voices, Goodreads import, offline reading and highlights. All my apps are now 99 cents.
Epiphany maps load in 4 seconds, down from 23. Premium plan is $1 and auto-trading is live. A stock rule I paper-traded, Double 7s, hit 77 percent. Talli was rejected over a broken test account and resubmitted. Notate went live on iPhone at 99 cents.
Joshua Tree shipped six versions with a 30-second intro and Music and Movies apps.
Oct 4
A Pi 4B is on the way for real hardware. Apps on the Pi run in locked rooms, and Bookrank, Tonchi and Hikko show real data.
My idea app became Hikko (Hotaru was taken), with near-white paper and terracotta accent. iPhone and Mac 3.0 are in review, the Mac with terracotta buttons and sidebar.
Mailbag fixed Mac window focus, demo sign-in and the sorter; Gmail sign-in on Mac is blocked. Lexly became Tonchi, now 165 courses. Healstack got a web redesign and a privacy fix; iOS is live, Mac in review.
Turing shipped with file-picking answers, a new Mac icon and her own 1.5B model (850 MB). Wrong picks under 10 per set; a follow-up cut refusals to 2.6 percent.
Oct 5
Joshua Tree landing is live with a refreshed logo on Samantha’s face.
Apple rejected seven apps under spam: Hamurapi, Windgate, Madobe, Mailbag, Curbfind, Plaintxt, Sidewise; Hikko got stale-screenshots. Plaintxt got line numbers, Go to Line and preview. Sidewise rebuilt with Compare, Share extension, widget. Madobe got Mac Float, Pair pages, per-site rules and App Intents. All five resubmitted.
Epiphany’s map search now uses Places; iPhone submitted. Curbfind shipped Near me and a smarter ranker; Apple rejected it and I replied. Conveyer retired the beaten world.
NYC Survive’s overnight loop made it winnable; iOS is live, macOS in review. Recruits tie to beds and food, squads take orders, and night raids come unless you set PATROL. A headless bot wins it in about two hours.
Oct 5 to 6
Swept 15 Apple Notes into project roadmaps and emptied Notes.app. Nimble shipped spoken math and dropped “Answers” from its store name.
Notate, Talli and Plank got UI fixes.
Oct 6
The Pi 4 booted Joshua Tree at 1920x1080 after a cache flush fix. USB worked in QEMU, then on the Pi after a cable swap. A Claude relay lets my Mac build the OS inside it.
Oct 7
The Pi joined Wi-Fi; the chip has no login helper, so I wrote the WPA2 handshake and the green light blinks again.
Samantha answers on the real Pi via my API credit. A relay on my Mac picks a cheap or strong model per question. She can read a shared Mac folder, read-only.
An agent wrote the Pi-side actions on its branch, so asking Samantha now prints a note and blinks the light. The safety check rightly blocked a Codex mode that let anyone on the network run programs on my Mac; Codex waits for a tunnel. An overnight runner works branches only, $5 cap per run.
Next: split the kernel’s giant C file, then HTTPS. Money comes from a Pi dev kit with a waitlist, and the OS stays free.
Oct 8
I wrote the Joshua Tree story as an eleven-chapter book with board photos. The Pi’s first benchmark: memory copies about 1100 MB/s, Wi-Fi in 6.4 seconds, clock in 8.7.
The Pi got a scientific calculator and a tiny language model. After a DNS fix it loaded heyitsmejosh.com over HTTPS, the board’s first real web page, though it still can’t run scripts.
I also found a hole: every Pi image carried my relay key, not only the dev card. The fix is in review; two more are queued: the key crosses Wi-Fi in plain text, and the clock trusts an unchecked date header.
Oct 9 to 10
I halved my custom skills and flashed the checked Pi card. Signup email arrived; I redesigned it, fixed mobile signup, tightened Samantha’s shared-folder access and wrote the Wi-Fi guide. Relay encryption and clock checks still need hardware.
The landing refresh is live after QA; a draft adds Pi screen sleep, with CI and a real-Pi check to come.
Oct 11
I built xread, a digest of twenty AI accounts on X, and Plank can call AI models. Most web apps moved from Supabase to spark-api, my Cloudflare backend; passwords stayed behind, so everyone resets. Heyitsmejosh.com lapses on the 13th by choice, so the brand moves to jaybulb.com, with a new landing page (yellow sidebar, bulb-and-pencil logo). About forty web repos point at it, and sign-in mail comes from it.
My Goodreads shelves now sit under my summaries, with half stars and a mini player. I called the Mac app’s first layout hideous, so it became a Mail-style three-column window; its clipped account screen scrolls now. When spark-api stopped recognising their Supabase sign-in, the installed apps fell back to the robot voice; the last version was approved today. The voice meter was stuck on Checking, and every native user shared one daily cap; now each has one.
From chat, Turing can boot, type into, screenshot and stop Joshua Tree, and read its log. A real boot found two bugs, one that could have killed another session’s build machine, so she now stops only her own. I tested 109 of her older abilities for real and fixed 24. The landing demo, dead since an earlier release today (a syntax error), is back. The newest training run became her tool picker: better on four of five test sets, with fewer leaks. The Mac app keeps her model in its own folder. The iPhone app runs her exact tools and models on the phone; the Mac is optional.
On the Pi, the Bluetooth mouse pairs and drives the pointer; files survive a reboot on the SD card.
I started marketing Dad’s Langley garage door business: 37 Instagram posts, a 30-day calendar, a $4 trailer. The Katana shot needs a paid Higgsfield plan, so I used a cheap stand-in without asking. A stock voice sounded wrong, so he records his own.
I cleared 93 YouTube Watch Later videos, deleted three retired projects, and moved my 69 saved X bookmarks into my notes, reading five long articles first, then unbookmarked them. X blocked my automation login, so xread now drives a plain Chrome profile over a debug port; the scripts live in dotfiles.
Healstack is Intake, Voxprint is Notate, Sparkjar is Hikko and Lexly is Tonchi, in repos and launch kits. Hacker News turned down Notate’s Show HN (account too new), so I posted fourteen X launch threads, prices fixed first. Eleven App Store listings moved to jaybulb.com where Apple allows; native code in twenty repos points there. A login bug on Talli’s new domain was a server allowlist I forgot; its new version is submitted. Nimble’s history syncs between iPhone and Mac via iCloud, and its iPhone build is with Apple.
Apps
Joshua Tree, Hamurapi, Bookrank, Epiphany, Plank, Nimble, Talli, Turing, Conveyer, Tonchi, Notate, Mailbag, Hikko, Blockframe, Windgate.