Monthly update #0382 • February 2022
Monthly update 382 • February 2022 • 2022-02-01 - 2022-02-28
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The next steps for Vapor
Vapor, a popular Swift web framework, is planning its next major release, Vapor 5, which will fully embrace Swift Concurrency by eliminating EventLoopFutures and leveraging AsyncSequences, actors, and Sendable conformances for improved performance and safety.
Monthly update #0381 • January 2022
Monthly update 381 • January 2022 • 2022-01-01 - 2022-01-31
GPS
Global Positioning System is, without a doubt, one of the most useful inventions of the late 20th century. It made it significantly easier for ships, airplanes, cars, and hikers to figure out where they are with high degree of accuracy.
Monthly update #0380 • December 2021
Monthly update 380 • December 2021 • 2021-12-01 - 2021-12-31
Monthly update #0379 • November 2021
Monthly update 379 • November 2021 • 2021-11-01 - 2021-11-30
Better Off Dead by Lee Child
Better Off Dead, co-authored with Andrew Child, has Reacher searching for a missing twin in a desert town, clashing with a bomber plotting deadly attacks.
Monthly update #0378 • October 2021
Monthly update 378 • October 2021 • 2021-10-01 - 2021-10-31
Curves and Surfaces
From fonts to animated movies, curves and surfaces constitute fundamental building blocks of many geometrical designs.
Introducing Swift Distributed Actors
Apple announced Swift Distributed Actors, a new open-source package for server-side Swift that provides a complete cluster library for the experimental distributed actor language feature, released early to gather community feedback.
Swift-DocC is Now Open Source
Apple introduced Swift-DocC at WWDC21 as a new documentation compiler for Swift frameworks and packages, now released as open source with support for macOS and Linux.
Monthly update #0377 • September 2021
Monthly update 377 • September 2021 • 2021-09-01 - 2021-09-30
Sunsetting SecKey
Unfortunately the time has come to say goodbye to SecKey. It served us all for almost 4 years. In that time I enjoyed the feedback you have given and also the donations given as a sign of appreciation.
Swift 5.5 Released!
Swift 5.5 is a major release introducing powerful concurrency features like async/await, structured concurrency, and Actors, alongside other enhancements.
Monthly update #0376 • August 2021
Monthly update 376 • August 2021 • 2021-08-01 - 2021-08-31
Time for a Turning Point by Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk’s The College Scam: How America's Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth challenges the value of traditional college education, arguing it burdens students with debt while promoting progressive ideologies.
Monthly update #0375 • July 2021
Monthly update 375 • July 2021 • 2021-07-01 - 2021-07-31
Naval Architecture
When I first heard the term naval architecture I thought it was the artistic practice of designing beautiful boats. It turns out it’s a proper scientific discipline dedicated to the engineering of ships.
Monthly update #0374 • June 2021
Monthly update 374 • June 2021 • 2021-06-01 - 2021-06-30
I do not have a smartphone
I sold my iPhone and bought a basic Nokia phone for 35 euros. I also sold my smarthome devices, Apple Watch, and AirPods.
Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier
Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage examines the rapid increase in teenage girls identifying as transgender. Shrier argues this surge is driven by social contagion, with online platforms like Tumblr and TikTok influencing girls struggling with anxiety or depression to identify as trans.
Package Collections
Swift 5.5 introduces package collections to the Swift Package Manager, enabling curated lists of packages to simplify discovery and adoption for specific tasks.
Monthly update #0373 • May 2021
Monthly update 373 • May 2021 • 2021-05-01 - 2021-05-31
Celebrating five years of Quiet, and a note on our exciting future
As the world has become more and more digitally driven, it has never been easier to become distracted. Today, we have a whole world of possibilities and answers at our very fingertips. However, these possibilities can lead to distractions, and it can also lead to risks.
Beyond Order by Jordan B. Peterson
Jordan B. Peterson's Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life builds on his first book with twelve new rules to help people face chaos and find balance.