Tyresta Lakes Loop
Hiked the Tyresta Lakes Loop with a distance of 13.4 kilometres in Tyresta National Park.
Hiking
Blog
Stockholm Day 01
Day 1 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. Flight was pleasant.
Trips
Good Friday
Good Friday serves as an annual reminder of truth. Jesus gave his life on the cross once for all.
Christianity
SSWG 2024 Annual Update
The Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG) 2024 annual update highlights 2023 achievements and sets goals for the coming year.
Development
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.
Development
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.
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.
Development
The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes
In Terry Hayes’ The Year of the Locust, a sprawling espionage thriller, CIA Denied Access Area spy Ridley Kane ventures into the volatile borderlands of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan to extract an informant with critical intelligence on a rising terrorist threat.
Books
Barcelona Day 03
Day 3 of the weekend trip to Barcelona. Today was actual nice weather, but unfortunately also the last day in Barcelona.
Trips
Barcelona Day 02
Day 2 of the weekend trip to Barcelona. Of course it is raining when I am in Barcelona...
Trips
Barcelona Day 01
Day 1 of the weekend trip to Barcelona.
Trips
Iterate Over Parameter Packs in Swift 6.0
Swift 6.0 introduces pack iteration, enhancing parameter packs from Swift 5.9 to simplify working with variable-length generic arguments.
Development
Swift 5.10 Released
Swift 5.10 achieves full data isolation in its concurrency model, enforcing compile-time checks to prevent data races when using the -strict-concurrency=complete flag, building on features like async/await and actors from Swift 5.5 and Sendable from Swift 5.7.
Development
Monthly update #0406 • February 2024
Monthly update 406 • February 2024 • 2024-02-01 - 2024-02-29
Monthly Updates
Airfoil
We’ll find out how the shape and the orientation of the airfoil helps airplanes remain airborne. We’ll also learn about the behavior and properties of air and other flowing matter.
Gems
JWTKit is no longer Boring!
The Swift Server Workgroup announced that Swift 5.10 will be the final release before Swift 6, prompting Vapor to plan Vapor 5, with JWTKit v5 as the first package to adopt modern Swift features like full Sendable compliance and Swift 6’s strict concurrency mode.
Development
SwiftData, pre-seed database
I started developing a new app, and it's been an exciting journey so far. Recently, I've begun utilising SwiftData, which is proving to be a fantastic tool for managing data within the app.
Development
On-device ML research with MLX and Swift
MLX Swift is a new open-source package from Apple that brings the MLX array framework for machine learning on Apple silicon to Swift. It gives researchers a Swift API to build and run models on Apple hardware.
Development
Polyglot Programmer and Lack of Unicorns
Polyglot programmers exist, but good ones are like unicorns. They’re nearly impossible to find and when you do find them they’re insanely high in demand and very expensive.
Development
What is systemstatusd?
If you see systemstatusd running on your Mac, here is what this system status process does.
Mac
What is videodriverkithostextension?
If you see cmio.videodriverkithostextension running on your Mac, here is what this video driver process does.
Mac
No longer making Quiet open source
A while ago I wrote about making Quiet open source. I've been getting quite a few emails from other indie app developers lately, who, like me, decided to make their apps open source but later wished they hadn't.
Projects
A 2024 plea for lean software
We are likely looking at over 50 million active lines of code to open a garage door…
Development
What is knowledgeconstructiond?
If you see knowledgeconstructiond in Activity Monitor using CPU or memory, here is what this macOS process does.
Mac
Monthly update #0405 • January 2024
Monthly update 405 • January 2024 • 2024-01-01 - 2024-01-31
Monthly Updates