The Elegant Chaos Blog
News, thoughts, and other ramblings from the world of Elegant Chaos.

Release Tools Tagging
Development Diary
October 14, 2025

After my last post, I thought a bit more about Release Tools, and decided that requiring a tag was definitely the right way to go, and over a couple of days last week I implemented it.

I also decided that it was a big enough change that I may as well call this Release Tools 4.0, and take the opportunity to clean up and remove some legacy code.

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September 26, 2025

My latest detour was to add an extra option to ReleaseTools, a command-line tool, written in Swift, that I made a few years ago.

Actually I’ve just checked, and I started it in 2019 🤯.

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Dipping A Toe Into The AI Waters
The Stack / Development Diary
September 23, 2025

Ok, I admit it, I’ve been tinkering with AI again.

Not using it, this time, but trying to add it to my app The Stack.

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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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