Human silhouette in red

I heard you're supposed to put a real photo here to make it seem like you're "professional". I'm not so sure what that means, so I'll make it a fun little game instead!

This was the placeholder here before I decided to add the above text...

"The hero believes in rotating blobs and is currently unavailable."

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.

Writings displayed prominently on this page come infrequently. For more frequent and less polished stuff, see global notes.

A Premise

Justifying my existence.

The Root

6/7/2025

A formal declaration of my insanity (AKA my motivations for wanting to write about my work).

Personal Laws of Design

7/12/2025

Laws I adhere to when designing technological systems.

Approach to "Work Ethic"

11/15/25

A different view.

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 Stream Parsing, an Incremental Byte-by-Byte Parsing Library

1/30/26

Incremental parsing written in pure Swift because I needed this for LLMs.

Swift Cactus, an Alternative to Foundation Models

10/10/25

More model choice, works on any OS version, on any Apple Device.

Swift Operation

9/26/25

A cross-platform library for flexible asynchronous state and operation management in Swift.

How to Teach Monads in Programming

7/17/25

You don't learn monads by learning monads.

Thoughts on Liquid Glass

6/14/2025

What 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.

Protocols and Possibility

11/13/25

Protocol size determines possibility, and possibilities are a good thing.

On Swift Package Traits

8/8/25

What are package traits, and how I used this lesser known SPM feature in swift-uuidv7.

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

1/18/26

Why Rob Pike's perspective is flawed.

A Realization on Low and High Level Languages

6/29/25

Low and high level languages are tied to systems, not computer architecture.

Command Handlers Don't Scale

6/8/25

Technology, 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.

Global Notes

Ideas in my head that I don't have time to formally write about, and that are not easily expressible on social media.

Recent Global Notes

Is One Shotting a Good Idea? 2/1/26 Lol We’re Entering the Singularity 1/31/26 The Adolescence of Thinking 1/29/26

Social Links

Important links if you want to contact me.

Github

mhayes853

 Bluesky

whypeople.bsky.social

 Email

matthewha853@gmail.com