New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project
The Swift programming language is migrating to a dedicated GitHub organisation at GitHub.com/swiftlang, reflecting its growing versatility and community maturity beyond Apple’s ecosystems.
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Update on privacy in Apple's ecosystem 2024
Every year, WWDC showcases Apple’s commitment to user privacy, and 2024 is no exception. I watched four sessions totalling about 1 hour and 20 minutes, and I’m excited to share the highlights of Apple’s privacy advancements.
Monthly update #0409 • May 2024
Monthly update 409 • May 2024 • 2024-05-01 - 2024-05-31
Little Snitch
Little Snitch is a powerful firewall and network monitoring application designed for macOS. Developed by Objective Development, it gives you control over your Mac’s incoming and outgoing network connections.
On Fluent Models and Sendable warnings
Since FluentKit 1.48.0, users have encountered a warning about mutable stored properties in Sendable-conforming Model classes due to Swift’s concurrency requirements and property wrapper limitations.
South Africa Day 07
Day 7 of the trip to South Africa
South Africa Day 06
Day 6 of the trip to South Africa
Monthly update #0408 • April 2024
Monthly update 408 • April 2024 • 2024-04-01 - 2024-04-30
South Africa Day 05
Day 5 of the trip to South Africa
South Africa Day 04
Day 4 of the trip to South Africa
South Africa Day 03
Day 3 of the trip to South Africa
South Africa Day 02
Day 2 of the trip to South Africa
South Africa Day 01
Day 1 of the trip to South Africa
Geheim Verzet by Beene Dubbelboer
Beene Dubbelboer's Geheim Verzet follows two boys, Wim and Geert, in a Dutch village near the German border during World War II. They overhear German soldiers plotting the 1940 invasion of the Netherlands and alert their families.
Monthly update #0407 • March 2024
Monthly update 407 • March 2024 • 2024-03-01 - 2024-03-31
Get Started with Embedded Swift on ARM and RISC-V Microcontrollers
Apple has introduced a repository, swift-embedded-examples, showcasing Embedded Swift, a new experimental compilation mode for Swift targeting constrained microcontrollers like ARM and RISC-V, suitable for IoT and electronics projects.
Stockholm Day 04
Day 4 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. Time flew by and it is already time to fly back home.
Stockholm Day 03
Day 3 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. I walked around the old city centre of Stockholm, plenty to see.
Stockholm Day 02
Day 2 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. I also hiked the Tyresta Lakes Loop in Tyresta National Park...
Tyresta Lakes Loop
Hiked the Tyresta Lakes Loop with a distance of 13.4 kilometres in Tyresta National Park.
Stockholm Day 01
Day 1 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. Flight was pleasant.
SSWG 2024 Annual Update
The Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG) 2024 annual update highlights 2023 achievements and sets goals for the coming year.
Writing GNOME Apps with Swift
Adwaita for Swift is a new open-source package that enables Swift developers to create GNOME applications for Linux, leveraging Swift’s clean syntax, static typing, and result builders for a declarative, readable, and memory-safe user interface design.
Introducing the Benchmark Package: Complementing Unit Tests with Performance Checks
The Swift Benchmark package, a new open-source tool developed due to the lack of suitable multi-platform benchmarking solutions, integrates performance testing into Swift’s ecosystem, emphasising the importance of speed alongside functionality in software development.
Byte-sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate
Swift is a versatile language for embedded systems due to its memory safety and ergonomics, as shown by porting games to the Playdate handheld console using the new embedded language mode.