Matthew Hayes
Writings about software, systems, and mediums.
See about for more information about me, and now to see what I'm up to right now.
A Premise
Justifying my existence.
Building Products and Tools
Content related to working directly with current industry technologies and day-to-day work building products that bring value to society. This will be the interesting stuff if you work in the software industry.
Swift Cactus, an Alternative to Foundation Models
10/10/25More model choice, works on any OS version, on any Apple Device.
Swift Operation
9/26/25A cross-platform library for flexible asynchronous state and operation management in Swift.
How to Teach Monads in Programming
7/17/25You don't learn monads by learning monads.
Thoughts on Liquid Glass
6/14/2025What I think of Apple's new aesthetic in the grand scheme of things.
Swift Bits
How I use Swift on a day-to-day basis.
Towards New Mediums
Explorations on creating new mediums for humans to communicate, distribute, and implement amazing ideas. Exploring why the technologies and mediums we take for granted today (web, social media, apps, etc.) fail at scaling this to global and possible future multi-planetary scales. AKA, my insanity diary.
Processes are Central to Programming
1/18/26Why Rob Pike's perspective is flawed.
A Realization on Low and High Level Languages
6/29/25Low and high level languages are tied to systems, not computer architecture.
Command Handlers Don't Scale
6/8/25Technology, organizations, and societies need to be collaborative, and not enable their own destruction by refusing to question their own requirements.
Informal Stuffs
Loose things and thoughts I haven't formalized elsewhere.
Social Links
Important links if you want to contact me.
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