Kyle Hughes

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I am a polite software developer and I am always committed to the bit. I will be your favorite app maker’s favorite app maker.

I am enamored by user-facing software, especially mobile, and especially iOS. Swift is my current weapon of choice but I will use any made-up word to solve any problem. I ship my side projects for free.

I run this single-user Mastodon instance in good faith and I intend to keep it that way.

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Ads coming to Apple Maps is distressing to me because the thing I am best at in life is finding good restaurants on Apple Maps. They’re threatening my craft.
Project Our Father, featuring Michael B. Jordan reprising his role as Creed.
We go to the hotdog stand outside of the local Lowe’s every couple of weeks. Best hot dogs in town, seven types, exclusively five stars on Yelp; it’s a hidden gem. Today the owner recognized us, knew our whole order—my partner gets one hot link with grilled onions and cream cheese, I get one Big Dog (💪🏻) and one snappy frankfurter each with grilled onions—and gave us free drinks. I finally made it.

I have no technical ability. I know nothing about Swift macros. But I have confidence in my taste, and the ability to express what I feel.

Introducing Slots - convenient view slots without the init explosion https://github.com/kylebshr/slots

Call me a traitor if you must but I’m excited for the new Harry Potter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtnt84CDP-s

Harry Potter by Balenciaga (2026)

YouTube

Bluesky & X: we are at war; we are in the singularity; there will be mass unemployment and civil unrest by Fall 2026

Mastodon: why can't I run iOS 18.7.7?

UBI is going to be $1,000/mo. Don't spend it all in one place!

Use the autoresearch pattern to attempt to resolve all incorrect states to be unrepresentable in the type system.

Metrics:

- Number of guards with empty fallthroughs.
- Number of assertion failures.
- Number of fatal errors.

What happens to human agency when competence becomes irresponsible? We’re going to get to find out.
Jevons Paradox is not coming for software. Software is a lossy compression format for human judgement and intelligence. It is the pipe, not the water. The Jevons effect will hit intelligence. Serialization of intelligence by way of software may experience a brief boon, but eventually software demand will contract as ambient intelligence becomes readily available. No one wants software, everyone wants intelligence and judgement.