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Dual Universe
Development Diary
September 16, 2025

Meanwhile, back at Chaos Towers: work continues on The Stack, but I’ve also got a bit distracted by returning to Dual Universe (sort of)…

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SwiftUI Action Abstraction
Development Diary
September 09, 2025

Since my last post I’ve mostly gone back to working on The Stack.

It’s reached that fiddly phase where the basic MVP functionality is probably in, but there are lots of little features and tweaks that are vying for inclusion.

Meanwhile the UI is a bit clunky and definitely needs some work, but how much is enough for now? Perfect is the enemy of good and all that…

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Matching Strings In Unit Tests
Development Diary
September 03, 2025

Whilst working on ActionBuilderTool, I was getting an annoying test failure.

A couple of my tests generate a workflow, and compare it against the expected text, which is 50+ lines of text.

Unfortunately the basic #expect(generatedYAML == expectedYAML) implementation doesn’t do a very good job of explaining where the mismatch is…

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