Messages from Hobbyist Software
Use GSuite Routing to dynamically handle different iTunes Connect test emails. iTunes connect testing is a pain. One of the pain points is that you have to create a bunch of iTunes Connect accounts when you want to test your purchase flows. Each of those needs a separate email address. You used to be able
After about 10 updates with my new icon for Multi Monitor Wallpaper, Apple decided to reject an update because Guideline 5.2.5 – Legal Your app does not comply with the Guidelines for Using Apple’s Trademarks and Copyrights. Specifically, your app includes: – Apple trademark, iMac profile/ image, imagery – or likeness – in the icon
When you add an attachment with Active Storage, Rails kicks off a background job to analyse the attachment. You can add your own analyzer – but the documentation is very thin on the details. One of my apps uploads .heic image files. Unfortunately as of Rails 5; this triggers a crash in the image analyzer
I just tried to redeem a code for a Mac app through iTunes. Apple identify that I’m using the code in the wrong place and tell me what to do (use the Mac App Store), but they could easily do better. Better: Instead of a red error message – why not give me a link
I woke up this morning to find that my Mac auto-updating from Xcode 10.1 to Xcode 10.2 Amongst other things, this disables Swift 3, and introduces Swift 5. So – after updating a fork of one of the libraries I use, I updated my own code to Swift 5 and submitted to the App Store.
I started Is It Working as a ‘side project’. (Is It Working checks that your SSL certificates are not expiring, and that your background server processes are running as expected) I admit – I had hopes that it would be a huge instant success with hundreds or even thousands of users – and I’d be
Introducing HSNotifications. A simple, sensible, easy-to-use wrapper around NSNotificationCenter Let’s jump straight in. I mostly use notifications to keep my UI up to date. That means ViewControllers end up with a bunch of observers that need to be activated and de-activated with the ViewController lifecycle Easy ViewController Integration Taking this step by step: ViewController uses
I recently started experimenting with free trials in the Mac App Store. The first App I changed is Icon Tool. This is an incredibly simple app that lets developers generate icon assets for iOS or Mac OS apps. Because the app is so simple, I only wanted to give a short trial. Just long enough
One of the apps I maintain recently got this message from Google Play After review, <your app> has been removed from Google Play due to a policy violation. This app won’t be available to users until you submit a compliant update. Issue: Violation of Usage of Android Advertising ID policy and section 4.8 of the
Multi Monitor Wallpaper just got its biggest update ever. It isn’t just the best way to do wallpapers with multiple monitors – it’s great even if you only have one monitor! Dynamic Wallpaper Support AutoChanger (change wallpaper daily, hourly, on wake, etc) Unsplash Browser Multiple Space support (change wallpapers across multiple spaces) Try Multi Monitor
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