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> No AI tools here – plenty of other apps do that. We focus on deterministic and mathematical mutations rather than stochastically generated slop.

Love it. BTW, I assume this is native macOS? Swift or ObjC?

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Thanks, yep comes in at 3 MB. It's all Swift and Metal. I'm a web developer by trade, done that at a high level for 20 years including Amazon, Google, other big tech, but this was my first native app and first time using Swift. At the moment I'm learning all about weak refs and reference cycles causing memory to be retained when you don't want it to be.

Glad you get to enjoy Swift, Xcode etc. It really can be fun to work with.

Honestly Swift is a pleasure to read. I love the guard statements and the enum values starting with a dot.

And I just discovered there's a group in Seattle called XCoders (https://xcoders.org/), I'll drop in on their social next week and maybe learn more about the Swift/Apple ecosystem.

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