Post #2560391
2026-05-11 17:49 UTC
I did a 4,000-line refactor from SwiftUI ScrollView + LazyVStack to UICollectionView + UIContentView in about 6 nonconsecutive hours with little actual attention spent. It's wonderfully performant and the only things I had to tweak were spacing. This would have been the highlight of the quarter for me a year ago and now it is the least significant thing I will accomplish this week. It is also why all the air has gone out of so many topics for me. Declarative or imperative UI? Who cares?
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@kyle@mister.computer 2026-05-11 18:09
I have this profound sense that nothing I care about in software development matters anymore, and that there may still be things that do matter now and in the future, and I could know them right now, but human processes and adoption are the bottleneck to rebuilding our shared understanding of human-computer interaction. Like… there can't be that many more times in my life I will need to think about or type "UICollectionView." The last may be this year. It feels dumb to not be there already.