Tony Arnold

I am having trouble with anxiety and I attribute some of it to social media, so I’m going to log off for a while and try to reset.

If anybody needs or wants to talk, my email address is on my website or you can DM me on the various Slacks we all hang out on.

Be well, folks 🌻

From @mergesort@macaw.social's latest post:

"Then there are sensible people like Manton Reece who are not just looking to prove their worldview is right"

https://build.ms/notes/2026/2/9/read-the-code-sometimes/

I feel that I'm one of the nonsensical people who has been trying to prove my worldview is right, but what I've come to realise is that honestly, ultimately, it really doesn't matter?

The work I do doesn't demand that I write code by hand, or that I use an LLM for anything that it doesn't make sense for it to be used for.

I have spent my career leaning on Apple's excellent design chops when building my own apps. Now they've broken the design language of their operating systems so badly that it's not possible to build excellent, bug free user experiences. I've lost a north star here, and it's heartbreaking because there's no real way for them to turn this around for a very long time.