ELEGANT CHAOS
elegant software, for a chaotic world
Latest ramblings from the blog
February 12, 2026

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.

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SwiftUI Navigation Pain
Development Diary
December 12, 2025

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.

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All Quiet In The Western Isles
Development Diary
December 05, 2025

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…

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