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Shipping small iOS apps on my own, from Debug builds to App Review. 3 posts, newest first.

One Sample Clock for Piano, Metronome and Sound Effects
6 min read
Treble Trouble renders every sound it makes in a single AVAudioSourceNode callback, so the metronome can't drift from the piano, and rhythm taps are judged on the same clock the sound came from. Every sound effect is synthesized, too.

240 App Store Screenshots from One Script
7 min read
How I make App Store screenshots for my iOS apps in 15 languages without touching a design tool: debug launch arguments, one simulator per app, a pinned status bar, a Python framing step that handles right-to-left captions, and a linter for the listing text.

Stamp DEV on the Debug Icon
4 min read
My Debug builds are their own app: a .dev bundle ID, a Dev name, and the real icon with a DEV ribbon a small script draws across the corner. They install beside the App Store version and never touch its data.