My timeline is full of discussion about AI, and agentic coding.

It makes me sad how culture-wars a lot of it is. Very strident. Very “you’re either with us, or you’re against us!”.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been playing with agents, and I think that there are some great things about them. As a solo developer, having an agent pair-programmer has revolutionised my work.

In a previous post, I mentioned a command line tool that I built which you can point at a Swift package, and which will generate a GitHub Actions workflow file for it.

I also built a SwiftPM plugin which invokes the tool, but at some point it stopped working. Instead of running, it would just hang, for reasons unknown.

I’ve been slowly splitting The Stack up into small internal Swift packages.

Unfortunately, if you use localizable string catalogues in Xcode, there are a few wrinkles.

One of the things I’ve wanted to do with The Stack is to handle all of the user’s interactions with some sort of action abstraction.

It turns out that this is harder than it ought to be with the modern SwiftUI navigation mechanisms.

I’ve been a bit quiet and not posted for the last few weeks.

This is down to a combination of holidays, minor sickness, distractions, and beavering away preparing an MVP of The Stack, which I’ve now released.

I’ve also got a bit of a backlog of other things I mean to post about…