{"id":24177,"date":"2019-02-04T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24177"},"modified":"2019-02-05T16:30:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T21:30:59","slug":"despair-thy-name-is-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/04\/despair-thy-name-is-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Despair, Thy Name Is App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ikennd.ac\/blog\/2019\/02\/despair-thy-name-is-app-store\/\">Daniel Kennett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/ikennd.ac\/blog\/2019\/02\/despair-thy-name-is-app-store\/\">\n<p>On Wednesday afternoon, I accidentally shipped the worst bug of my career. On Thursday morning, I fixed it, pushed an update to the App Store, and thankfully it got approved quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there&rsquo;s currently a glitch in the App Store, and it&rsquo;s still serving the broken version of my app to the world alongside the release notes and version metadata of the fixed one. &ldquo;Fixed the crash!&rdquo; it gleefully claims, cruelly delivering a very much unfixed binary. I&rsquo;ve since uploaded a <em>second<\/em> update in the hopes that it&rsquo;d get unstuck. No dice. The App Store is now serving a build from two versions ago alongside metadata from the current version.<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s no way to call in to Developer Support that I can find any more, and the old numbers I have don&rsquo;t work. The contact site is selling me the EU call centres have closed and won&rsquo;t let me contact the US ones.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"despair-thy-name-is-app-store-update-2019-02-05\">Update (2019-02-05): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/siracusa\/status\/1092538231772594181\">John Siracusa<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Kennett: On Wednesday afternoon, I accidentally shipped the worst bug of my career. On Thursday morning, I fixed it, pushed an update to the App Store, and thankfully it got approved quickly. Unfortunately, there&rsquo;s currently a glitch in the App Store, and it&rsquo;s still serving the broken version of my app to the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-02-04T21:30:04Z","apple_news_api_id":"fec950cc-b4dc-4f8e-9dd4-2f8475f528f2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-02-05T21:31:03Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A_slQzLTcT46d1C-EdfUo8g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,131,31,1610,26],"class_list":["post-24177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-bug","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24200,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24177\/revisions\/24200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}