Jack Fields

@ordinaryindustries.bsky.social

Former Apple engineer now running Ordinary Industries. Building Mini Forge and Okla for iOS. Creator of http://quartilesanswers.com

Going the tiniest bit viral has a rebound effect. You get a bunch of followers for a single tweet and then lose a bunch when people realize that you actually talk about the most boring shit on the planet and the original tweet was luck.

It's crazy how fast App Store review is once you actually push the fucking button to submit to them. A week. One week. An entire 7 days I waited thinking review was just backed up. Once I realized my error and submitted, it only took an hour to get approved.

The app page optimizations with updated screenshots are performing closely to the original so far but still behind. This conversion rate is pretty rough on all accounts. I suspect the app icon may be playing into this partly so I'm cooking up something new to test it out.

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I set a goal to read 12 books this year. So far I’m two in after finishing The Eel Book by Patrik Svennson — a book about the mysteries of eels and the human condition. By far the best book I’ve ever read. Just fantastic.

API cost. Charging for the API is the dumbest thing Twitter has done. It didn't reduce the bot problem and forced tens of millions of people to no longer have access to reliable notifications for emergency situations. Gobsmackingly stupid.

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