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

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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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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More On Workflow Generation
Development Diary
September 02, 2025

In my last post about automating Github actions workflow generation, I said I’d revived the old tool I wrote a while back, and got it working again (for some value of “working”).

I already figured that there was more to do, and then the post got an unexpected mention in iOS Dev weekly (thanks Dave!).

Once I’d got over my initial shock that anyone was paying attention (!), I decided that I definitely ought to spend a bit more time in the code… so that’s what I’ve been doing today.

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