The Elegant Chaos Blog
Various thoughts and ramblings from the world of Elegant Chaos.

August 06, 2025

I’ve been working on a simple To-Do list manager, called The Stack.

In a way you could say that simplicity is the point of The Stack, but actually I think the point is “reducing anxiety”.

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July 24, 2025

There are certain personal projects that feel like cliches, due to the tendency for any and every developer to want to embark on them.

A To Do list manager is a classic case.

Nevertheless… I find myself here.

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November 08, 2024

TL;DR – use the winget method to install everything

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For quite a while, I’ve experienced what I thought was a bug when using xcodebuild to build projects for iOS (or any non-macOS platform), if the project or one of its dependencies used a Swift Package Manager plugin.

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September 03, 2024

I recently finished a fairly long-running contract with Formation Games, working on Club.

It was a fun project and a really great team who I loved working with. The one thing I perhaps didn’t love was that I was mostly using Flutter & Dart, with some Go thrown in. I’m not a Flutter hater, but I couldn’t honestly say that I loved it. Nor am I am Go hater, but I really did not get on well with the idioms that seem to be prevalent. Maybe I’m just too old and set in my ways :)

At the moment I’m taking a bit of time to recharge my batteries, and to think about what I want to do next.

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