Not because of the code. Because of a blurry icon and a Security Policy link to the wrong file.
Monday's plan was the gaming overlay and your community intents. Those shipped. But the real story of this week happened somewhere I circled for 12 months and never dared to open: Microsoft Partner Center.
Shipped
- My first .msix package. Ever. Four .exe releases behind me, and packaging for the Store was a different planet. 3 hours, 6 broken files, two tools tested. MSIX Hero finally won.
- Full Partner Center submission — store listing, descriptions, features, screenshots. Two days of research turned into a real product page sitting inside Microsoft's system.
- v1.8.0 stable — the release where the monitor finally got a memory.
- Finished Google's “Skills of Tomorrow 3.0 AI” (SGH and Google).
- And quietly, the project turned one year old this week. 12 dead projects came before it. This is the one that didn't die.
Scarred: certification failed. Twice. First attempt, I forgot to give them a logo at all (yes, really). Second attempt, two things stopped me. “Please provide a clear tile icon, not distorted, blurry, or low resolution.” A year of voltage-anomaly math and offline AI — my blocker was a fuzzy PNG. And “The privacy policy link doesn't display a privacy policy.” I'd pointed them at my SECURITY.md. That's a security policy, not a privacy policy. The reviewer opened the link and correctly said: this isn't what we asked for.
A rejection that says “fix these two things and resubmit” isn't a no. It's the Store telling me I'm this close. A year ago that line was a fantasy. This week it's a checklist.
What's next
- New icon — already drawn. Going in clean this time.
- A real, readable Privacy Policy, living on pcworkman.dev where it belongs.
- Resubmit. And maybe, maybe, the next Friday is a different kind of post.
Welding plastics by day. Building for the Store by night. The same rhythm that built every line of this.
This is the project behind the post. PC Workman is a free, open-source Windows system monitor
with an offline AI assistant - everything described here is real, shipped code.
Download it or read the source.