Everything looks like nails to you with that TS hammer you're holding huh?

You seem to want the ergonomics of a structural type system like TypeScript where data shapes are fluid but explicitly unsound [1]. In that paradigm requiring a named Enum feels like clutter because it forces you to pause and define a relationship that you just want to infer.

But Swift is a nominal static language designed for long lived binary compiled applications [2]. In this context that clutter is actually architectural definition. The friction is a feature not a bug because it discourages passing around anonymous bags of data and forces you to model what that data represents.

Swift actually has plenty of sugar but it puts it in places that don't compromise static analysis. It is designed to be expressive without being loose.

Complaining that Swift doesn't handle anonymous unions as easily as TS is like complaining that a tank handles worse than an F1 car. It is true but the tank is built to survive a direct hit whereas the F1 car trades that safety for raw speed.

[1] https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-compatibil... [2] https://www.swift.org/about/

In TypeScript a union like string | number is structural and convenient, but it lacks semantic meaning. In Swift, by defining an Enum, you give those states a name and a purpose. This forces you to handle cases exhaustively and intentionally. When you're dealing with a massive codebase 'easy' type bridging is often how you end up back in 'id' or 'any' hell. Swift’s compiler yelling at you is usually it trying to tell you that your logic is too ambiguous to be safely compiled which, in a safety first language, is the compiler doing its job.

The health benefits are very nice too if you’re just starting out. There are diminishing returns as your body gets used to it.

15 minutes in the morning/afternoon is my usually habit while at work. But on particularly tough days or just ones with nice weather I’d go for much longer walks.

It’s nice to explore the spaces around you when on these walks. You’ll end up discovering more of your surroundings than you’d ever expect. One nice benefit I’ve found is that I can do a 35ish minute walk to the movie theater I’d normally drive to. Doing this lets me just go see a movie on a whim, eat at one of the many restaurants near it. Maybe get a little drunk and be able to walk off a meal/buzz on the way back. I’ve had many epiphanies in this state of mind. You’ll just be a more relaxed individual if you adopted this.

https://youtu.be/Fu3laL5VYdM

https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr...

https://swift.org/documentation/cxx-interop/

https://swift.org/blog/swift-everywhere-windows-interop/

While not 100% what you were used to downloaded, I think you should be able to use these ISO’s for you needs.

You’ll need to setup everything up from scratch, luckily it’s not too much. I’d suggest capturing the post configured state of the machine and save it so you can reuse as needed.

In the heart of a Gödel-type universe, the Eternal Voyager drifted along its predestined closed timelike curve, a path that looped through space and time. Captain Alyssa Raines stared out at the swirling axially symmetric stars, her reflection caught in the reinforced glass. For as long as she could remember, she had lived this voyage, though memory itself was a fickle thing here.

Time aboard the Voyager was peculiar. Every cycle through the curve, entropy reset itself. Memories, once etched into her mind, dissolved at the journey's endpoint, leaving only fragments. She wrote notes obsessively in a battered journal, hoping to tether herself to some semblance of continuity. Yet, each "new" cycle, she found the same journal waiting, her handwriting foreign, the pages detailing lives she did not remember living.

The ship itself obeyed the laws of quantum mechanics in this bizarre space. Energy levels within the Voyager spontaneously discretized, ensuring that after each loop, all systems—including Alyssa herself—reset to their initial state. It was as if the universe conspired to erase the ship’s passage, preserving the self-consistency of history.

Yet Alyssa began to suspect something was different this time. She had found a sketch in her journal—an intricate design of a watch. It was labeled "the clock outside time." She didn't recall drawing it, but the annotations intrigued her: “To break free, entropy must not reverse.”

Determined, she poured herself into constructing the clock. Using the ship's limited resources, she crafted a device meant to measure time independent of the curve. If her hypothesis was correct, the clock would retain its state even after the loop's reset. It was a desperate hope to escape the recursive prison.

As the ship neared the curve's maximal entropy point—a moment she called "the entropy mirror"—the clock’s hands trembled. For the first time, Alyssa felt something unusual: a visceral sense of causality breaking apart. The clock ticked steadily as the Voyager looped. And when the curve closed, the clock did not reset.

Alyssa awoke in her cabin. The journal was still there, her memories still fragmented. But the clock was ticking. It was no longer bound by the curve.

She realized the truth: if she could detach herself from the curve's entropic cycle, she could chart a path out of this endless loop. But as she stared at the clock, another thought struck her—a chilling possibility. What if breaking free meant unraveling the ship, herself, and the delicate balance of this universe?

Would she risk the fabric of existence for freedom? Or was she merely another iteration of herself, destined to face the same question, time and time again?

---

Alyssa decided to test the clock further. She placed it next to the ship’s chronometers and watched their synchronization fail. The Voyager’s clocks dutifully reset as the loop neared its close, but her device ticked on, untouched by the curve’s bizarre physics.

“This isn’t just a clock,” she whispered, her voice trembling. “It’s an anchor.”

For weeks—or what she perceived as weeks—she studied the ship’s systems, using the clock to track the curve’s progress. The Voyager was designed to be self-sustaining, powered by the same quantum mechanics that bound it to the loop. But Alyssa discovered a flaw: a subtle energy fluctuation near the engine core. It was faint, like a whisper of resistance against the curve’s grip.

She theorized that if she amplified this anomaly, she could destabilize the ship’s entanglement with the curve. The ship might escape. But the consequences were unknowable. What happened to matter and entropy outside the loop’s boundaries? Would the ship be torn apart? Would she cease to exist, or would she find herself in a world where time flowed freely?

Her journal, with its fragmented entries and cryptic diagrams, offered no answers. But one entry stood out, written in bold, shaky letters:

"If you’re reading this, you’ve made it further than I ever did. Trust the clock. Trust yourself."”

Alyssa clutched the journal to her chest, her heartbeat echoing in the silent cabin. “I’ve tried this before,” she murmured. “But this time, it’s different. The clock proves it.”

She worked tirelessly, modifying the engine core to channel the energy fluctuation. She rerouted quantum stabilizers, recalibrated entropic dampeners, and rewired the naviga tion array. Each adjustment brought the ship closer to instability, the hum of the engines growing erratic.

As the loop approached its endpoint, the Voyager shuddered violently. Alyssa strapped herself into the captain’s chair, the clock clutched in her hand. “If this fails,” she said to no one, “I won’t remember. But if it works…” She couldn’t finish the thought.

The engines roared. The ship’s lights flickered. The clock ticked faster, its hands spinning wildly. A deafening crack reverberated through the Voyager as reality itself seemed to fracture.

And then…

Silence.

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Alyssa opened her eyes to find herself floating in a void. The ship was gone, the stars replaced by an endless expanse of swirling light. The clock lay in her hand, its hands still, yet glowing faintly.

A voice echoed through the void, neither male nor female, yet familiar. “You have broken the loop.”

“Who are you?” Alyssa asked, her voice shaking.

“I am the possibility you created, the sum of all your choices. You have untethered yourself from the curve, but at great cost.”

“What happens now?” she whispered.

The light around her coalesced into a single point, growing brighter. “You may step into the unknown or return to the loop. Choose.”

Alyssa hesitated, the weight of countless lifetimes pressing down on her. She looked at the clock, its faint glow a reminder of her defiance. “I’ve spent eternity trapped in the same cycle,” she said. “I’ll take the unknown.”

The light enveloped her, and for the first time in as long as she could remember, Alyssa felt truly free. Where she emerged, she did not know. But she carried with her the knowledge that she had broken free of eternity’s loop—and that, for now, was enough.

The Expanse series is also good if you want more of an epic. Jefferson Mays also does a great job of making the characters feel real. Even if he changes how gimbal is pronounced between certain books.

There's also loads of great non fiction stuff out there. One of my personal favorites from this past year was Sentience by Nicholas Humphrey. His recent RI lecture was great and a good high level view of the book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QWaZp_2I1k

Also scroll down a bit, there were a few before your comment .

- There really is no managing as it’s just a habit at this point. I know my mind and body both need to worked in different ways throughout the day.

- I don’t think I need any specific tools to help me keep in balance throughout the day. The movement ring on my watch closing is usually enough of a guide / motivator to let me know if I’m on track or not. Having that streak has been a nice easy to achieve goal.

You can also use it to make your book a knowledge base.

Check out their docs for an example of what can be achieved.

https://docs.obsidian.md/Home