I started doing this about a week ago, and it's nice to hear it took you a month, because it's kinda been painful this past week.
I still unlock my phone and look at the homescreen only to realize "oh yeah, I removed that stuff so there's nothing to do here". I'd thought that by removing social/news feeds, I would find something else to do with my thoughts by necessity, but really nothing has replaced the "open phone for 30 seconds to find something briefly entertaining".
I was expecting to be bored, but it's more of a low-level frustration at all times except when I'm focused on something, like I know I could be finding some trivial but interesting thing.
They recently released versions of the game on consoles. I'd guess that they stuck around for post-release patches, and now that it's stable, are winding down development.
This is a good point. I've been dealing almost exclusively with highly dynamic UIs, and that's almost certainly skewed my perception of IB's usefulness.
I always felt that Interface Builder is _for_ designers who want to visualize and use something (only somewhat) closer to photoshop. A developer might more likely come at it from the other direction, not even touching IB and doing it all in code, then maybe adding modular IB elements when the layouts start to make the code unmanageable.
I vaguely recall having a "night terror" centered around infinity when I was very young. I think I was trying to truly grasp how tiny and insignificant I am and how immensely huge everything else is and it just freaked me out.
I still unlock my phone and look at the homescreen only to realize "oh yeah, I removed that stuff so there's nothing to do here". I'd thought that by removing social/news feeds, I would find something else to do with my thoughts by necessity, but really nothing has replaced the "open phone for 30 seconds to find something briefly entertaining".
I was expecting to be bored, but it's more of a low-level frustration at all times except when I'm focused on something, like I know I could be finding some trivial but interesting thing.