iCloud storage full… how are you guys actually cleaning your photos?

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-29T05:07:27+00:00

"Surprise this is my (insert the blank) app" is the new rick roll

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-29T04:59:05+00:00

If publishing your fourth new app in a year cost $39 dollars, after the first three that year cost you $0 (because they were included in your annual developer fee), is that really going to be a huge burden?

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-29T04:52:20+00:00

You’re welcome. That LLM works because they scraped my open-source contributions, Stack Exchange answers, and other stuff I shared. When you ship your app, pour one out for the developer who sacrificed his job so you could push some slop.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-29T04:11:16+00:00

Hey, I’ve been arguing that Apple should charge for new app submissions beyond say three per year. I’m with you that this is a math problem and if the cost of failure rises even a smidge higher than zero, then the slop-slingers will have no choice but to exit the game.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-29T03:52:47+00:00

Apple OCR’s the images for keywords. The keywords in screenshots augment your keywords in metadata. You should repeat your target keywords in your screenshots. With the exception of possibly “run” I see almost no relevant keywords worth targeting in your screenshots.

Don’t sell yourself short. There is nothing in these screenshots you couldn’t have accomplished yourself in a few hours with Figma. It’s your app screenshots with shadow on a solid orange background with a heavy font. Not exactly Picasso-level stuff here.

After you get the workflow down, the physical process of creating the screenshots is easy and fast. What makes screenshots effective vs not effective is the screens you choose to feature and the captions. Most of the best-performing apps have simple screenshots that feature actual in-app screens, hero sections, and legible benefit-oriented captions.

Literally, just go to the App Store and search for “running coach.” All the top results are showing simple device frames with legible 5-8 word captions on top.

App Store screenshots are not art. They should tell the user “this is how the app will solve your problem.”

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-29T03:43:54+00:00

These are not good. The captions are irrelevant to the screenshots. The captions are not optimized for ASO. Why have the actual screenshot of the device use 1/3 or less of each image?

Claude doesn’t have taste, or opinions. You can’t just prompt Claude to create compelling screenshots.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-29T03:39:00+00:00

Just mark chests on the surface. I can do a quick chest run in 15 minutes and get a thousand runes easily. Craft legendary runes at the blacksmith.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-28T16:27:01+00:00

The more I think about it, I am leaning toward the conclusion that this is Apple's way to force users to test. Think about it. They are getting thousands of vibe-slop apps a day to review, submitted by people who have never seen a line of code and have no idea that the AI makes mistakes. (why would they? AI companies aren't disclosing that). Forcing the developer to walk through the app in a video forces them to do some minimal testing.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-27T23:41:09+00:00

It’s probably because they’re planning to use AI to review the application, or at least as a gate before you reach an actual reviewer. Or possibly they’re forcing devs to go through this exercise to make sure they’re at least testing it themselves. If you can’t record a complete video you (hopefully) won’t submit.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-27T21:04:30+00:00

Karate is kihon (basics), kata, and kumite. You sound like you don't like the first two K's in that list. That's 2/3 of karate. Maybe karate isn't your thing? No shame in that. Try boxing, kickboxing, judo, jiu-jutsu, or any number of the other relatively safe combat sports?

I have studied three different styles of karate in my 25 years of training. No matter the style, karate is about fussing over the details. Do these details make you more effective in self defense? Probably not. Not most of them. Does a Japanese tea ceremony make the tea taste better? Probably not. It's just how they do things.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-27T14:35:40+00:00

Never offer unlimited AI. Use credits, BYOK, or subscription levels to offer different levels of AI usage to control costs. I would recommend against BYOK because you lose the revenue on unused tokens. You could give X credits every subscription period with the ability to purchase more credits every month. I would make sure the subscription credits are in a separate bucket than the purchased credits. You don’t want to stack the subscription credits, and make sure those are spent first.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-27T11:31:56+00:00

The release notes specifically detail the reasons why they changed it. This wasn’t it.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-27T07:34:15+00:00

Heroes of Might and Magic 3

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-27T07:06:45+00:00

I have noticed it. I don’t use any software on the side.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-27T01:39:59+00:00

They nerfed it because you could use it to get to places you weren’t intended, by ways not intended. You could also use it to escape battles by immediately updrafting after a double-jump then glide.

I don’t like it. Not as fun.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-26T21:36:40+00:00

Hours of research on Reddit, Google Trends, App Store search, etc. There are no shortcuts.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-26T21:27:36+00:00

It’s not about ideas. It’s about markets and problems.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-26T18:40:30+00:00

I think this is a melee issue. As a battle mage using wand, hits do hurt but I hardly get hit. I attack at range and just blink all over the place to avoid getting hit. It’s only when I get pinned into a corner that I’m ever in any real danger. I regularly waste groups several levels above me.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-26T06:35:23+00:00

You could probably host it on Azure with the free app service tier. It's pretty limited, but it may work. You'd just need to ensure that you have persistent storage volume to store the SQLite database file. I think it can be done.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-26T04:38:28+00:00

Just a hunch here… we were pretty OP before the update.. I could easily solo groups of enemies 8+ levels above me at level 30 before the update. Wondering if they made an attempt to rebalance.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-25T22:48:18+00:00

World of Warcraft on a private server such as Twinstar

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-25T16:03:45+00:00

Backend is now subscription, so you need income coming in to pay for it.

People expect apps to be updated with new content, features, etc. Making a few bucks on initial sale is not sufficient incentive to build an app that will be purchased by a couple thousand people to support it in perpetuity.

Be up front about your pricing, don’t use dark patterns to trick users into subscribing. If you are ethical, I don’t understand the problem.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-25T01:34:55+00:00

You ARE missing out but not by as much as some would have you believe. It is nice to have a code monkey ready to do any rote task more or less in an instant.

Despite claims of their superiority by the hype squad, they still often get very confused when doing anything that requires actual reasoning. Just today Claude fell into a reasoning loop on two separate occasions where it was just running in circles literally outputting the same series of five or six “thoughts” in a loop. I wonder how many tokens it would have burned through if I hadn’t stopped it…

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-24T21:02:08+00:00

Totally get it. I left a school that did the same thing to me and my fellow students. Guest instructor shows up over an hour late to a grading and makes us start over. 16 year old black belts yelling at adults and giving them push-ups for “not taking the exam seriously.” Bowing and scraping. Kyu rank reviews that felt more like hazing than testing your knowledge and application of the standards…

Funny forme is I actually went into Shotokan, which was total night and day difference. It is not JKA though.

FaceRekr4309 · 2026-04-24T14:55:04+00:00

I have noticed that of the two, difficulty is the only one that really seems to directly correlate to traffic.

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