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Specific numbers, concrete bugs, real decisions. No vendor copy, no hype.

  • Apr 23, 2026

    My detector app needed a hardware demo video. It was 100% software.

    Apple Review rejected my software-only stud finder for not including a video of it pairing with hardware. The fix lives in the first sentence of the App Store description.

    iOSApp StoreApple Review
  • Apr 22, 2026

    Apple rejected my privacy manifest. The problem was a CocoaPod I never added.

    A real Apple Review rejection over a missing NSPrivacyAccessedAPI declaration — except none of my own code touched the API. The leak was a transitive CocoaPod dependency.

    iOSApp StoreApple Review
  • Apr 22, 2026

    Where my Claude Code spend actually went last week

    I instrumented my Claude Code session logs by project. 50% of a $13K shadow-cost week goes to one codebase. The other six combined did not break $200.

    AI AgentsObservabilityClaude Code
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