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The pixel kitten crossed platforms: Sky Critter is live on Google Play. Same Swift brain on both platforms, one shared critter roster, and the story of how a solo studio shipped the port.

I play guitar and I record myself playing and singing, and a while back I hit a plateau. What kicked this off was Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes." I'd been listening to it and loving it, and then I tried it at karaoke and I just couldn't get it, which bugged me, because I can usually land other singers pretty close, both their notes and their style.

A stranger caught a real bug in my WhisperPad code, and helped me diagnose it with logs. Here's what happened during launch week.

Apple reversed the 2.4.5 rejection of WhisperPad. The full version is back on the Mac App Store.

Apple rejected WhisperPad under Guideline 2.4.5 for using the accessibility API to paste transcribed text. After an appeal that ended in another rejection, I split it into two versions — a compliant one on the App Store, and the original auto-paste version, direct.