I am not sure it can be attribute to management. Not sure if good management could improve my motivation for example. Sometimes I feel like the world around me has changed and I am not able to change with it, just thinking of the good old days https://blog.kulman.sk/i-used-to-like-software-development-b...
I do not think it would get lonely. I am not a very sociable person. I worked at a remote company where daily meeting were held because people wanted to be in contact with each other but that was not me.
Working on Yomu, an indie iOS Japanese reader intended to make intermediate reading easier.
It started while I was studying for JLPT N4 — I wanted adaptive furigana that hides readings for kanji I already know, so I could focus on real text without constant lookups. That shaped the core architecture: level-based furigana, offline dictionary (JMDict), and custom tokenization logic with IPADic for accuracy.
Some interesting challenges have been furigana edge cases, Safari text paste quirks, and balancing offline performance with accuracy.
I’m working on Yomu, an iOS app for reading Japanese text with adjustable furigana.
I’m learning Japanese myself (recently took JLPT N4), and I noticed that full furigana makes me rely on readings instead of actually reading kanji. Yomu lets you hide furigana for kanji up to your level and keep it for harder ones.
It’s offline-first, supports importing text from anywhere, camera OCR, and a fast dictionary.
I managed to create a new Apple id with new email, new phone number, I had to use it on a real device to be able to get through payment. So far so good, lets see if I can actually publish the app.
I managed to create a completely new Apple id and get through, if you are interested in testing the app and providing feedback you can join Testlflight beta https://testflight.apple.com/join/SHngHsGk
I bought a new SIM to have a new phone number, create a new email, registered a new Apple ID from a different IP, got to the step where I have to pay for the dev account and all of the cards I used got me an error. Banks saying Apple did not even try charging them.
What do you think is flagged here, your name, or banking info? Name pattern matching seems a bit unlikely/incompetent since sometimes people got identical names. Same phone? Maybe the IMEI part is flagged. Have you tried a residential IP?
Just in case you are on some greater shit-list (maybe by accident, by someone else's doing), I would take a moment to make sure you know how to behave when searched, got nothing too incriminating at home/your car (i.e. illegal drugs), your drives/backups are encrypted and your master password isn't pinned on a post-it. If your existence is bound to local data, make sure to have remote backups anticipating your devices getting confiscated.
I bought a new SIM to have a new phone number, create a new email, registered a new Apple ID from a clean VM and different IP, got to the step where I have to pay for the dev account and all of the cards I used got me an error. Banks saying Apple did not even try charging them.
Could be. Long ago I tried to sign up for an Apple Dev account, having bought a cheap used Mac mini just for the purpose, but learned in the process that they were only allowing signups from Intel Macs and not Power PC Macs, much to my chagrin.
> It’s not that uncommon for a 3rd party to report a developer for violating Apple ToS. Frequently, it’s out of spite towards the offending party and not out of love for Apple. Also, Apple employees sometimes report stuff they stumble upon too.
What evidence do you have for these claims?
Unless you work for Apple—indeed, unless you work specifically for Apple legal—it's unclear how in the world you would know how common this is or what Apple employees do.
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