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Finalizing our iOS 12 and watchOS 5 updates, and updating our apps for the new iPhones and Apple Watches before we can actually buy them.

The value of making apps only for yourself that you never release.

Answering the surprisingly difficult question of "How many steps did you take today?"

Why the Apple Watch needs third-party faces, tools to make them for yourself today, and overcoming the reasons why Apple may not want to offer them.

App Store subscription scams, and considering the ethics of how our apps make money.

The challenge of writing complex algorithms, and the joy of finding a simpler way.

Exercising atrophied programming muscles by experimenting with languages, technologies, and environments that lack the safety and convenience of our usual work.

Good and bad fears of embarking on major code changes to our apps.

When, why, and how it's OK to ship updates to your app with known bugs.

Tracking down hard-to-find, hard-to-reproduce bugs that don't show up in your own usage.