Foundation Package Preview Now Available
The Swift Core Team is restructuring the Swift project by organising workgroups into steering groups and workgroups to enhance community contributions and focus.
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Foundation Package Preview Now Available
The preview of a new, unified Foundation package, written in Swift, is now available on GitHub, offering faster, safer, and more approachable implementations for types like AttributedString, JSONEncoder, and Calendar, with more to be added.
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Quiet 4.1
Learn what is new in Quiet 4.1
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Moving away from building Prettified JSON Viewers
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Offline experience of apps
In a world where constant connectivity is not guaranteed, ensuring your app works offline is vital. Users expect apps to function smoothly, whether they are on a plane, in a remote area, or facing a weak signal.
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Monthly update #0395 • March 2023
Monthly update 395 • March 2023 • 2023-03-01 - 2023-03-31
Monthly Updates
Swift 5.8 Released!
Swift 5.8 introduces features to prepare for Swift 6, including the hasFeature directive and conditional attributes for incremental adoption, alongside enhancements like concise magic file names and regex literals.
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Getting an entitlement for Family Controls (Distribution)
In February I wanted to release an update for Quiet. There is a big update to the iOS app. Quiet can hide apps according to the rules active in Quiet. For example if you block TikTok in Quiet, the TikTok app will disappear from your iOS device.
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Bicycle
Today we’re building another world-changing technology, machine intelligence. We know that it will affect the world in profound ways, change how the economy works, and have knock-on effects we can’t predict.
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Case against the cloud
Cloud computing has swept the business world, with many companies rushing to migrate their operations to cloud-based solutions or building new projects entirely in the cloud.
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Introducing Swift Certificates and Swift ASN.1
Apple has released two new open-source Swift packages, swift-certificates and swift-asn1, to provide a faster, safer implementation of X.509 certificates for TLS security.
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What We're Working On: March 2023
The Vapor team has launched a monthly blog series to share updates on their work, increase transparency, and outline future plans for the framework.
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Monthly update #0394 • February 2023
Monthly update 394 • February 2023 • 2023-02-01 - 2023-02-28
Monthly Updates
Steve Jobs: Take a closer look
Leslie Berlin, from the Steve Jobs Archive, shares a favourite photo from 1984. It shows Steve Jobs, aged almost 29, bent over to watch a stranger use a Macintosh through a shop window in New Orleans.
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Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic
Social media has changed how we connect, but new research shows it hurts mental health, especially for teen girls. Studies prove platforms like Instagram cause poor mental health, not just relate to it.
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The Swift Programming Language book now published with DocC
The Swift Programming Language book (TSPL) is now published using Swift-DocC starting with Swift 5.8, enabling content contributions under the Swift Documentation Workgroup’s guidance.
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Onboarding Tutorials vs. Contextual Help
Tutorials interrupt users, don’t necessarily improve task performance, and are quickly forgotten. Contextual help signals can avoid these pitfalls but require unintrusive ways to activate.
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Monthly update #0393 • January 2023
Monthly update 393 • January 2023 • 2023-01-01 - 2023-01-31
Monthly Updates
Quiet 4.0 and a commitment
TLDR: Quiet 4.0 is a restart of Quiet and a commitment to support it for a while.
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The Cab Ride I'll Never Forget
We were like strangers on a train, the passengers and I, hurtling through the night, revealing intimacies we would never have dreamed of sharing during the brighter light of day.
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Your own personal website
Owning a corner of the internet gives you control. A personal website lets you build something lasting. Here is why you should create one, how to start, and what to include.
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The Strangely Beautiful Experience of Google Reviews
I slept under the overpass that night, and in the morning, I wrote a review: “Reasonably good bridge. A little loud for sleeping.” I gave it four stars. After I set off on my bike, I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
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20 years of Safari
Safari was introduced in Mac OS X Panther on January 7, 2003. It was also included with the first generation iPhone, which was released in 2007.
Mac
New Year, New Me
The Vapor team has launched a new design for their blog, marking the initial step in updating all Vapor websites to reflect the framework’s maturity and provide a consistent, modern look.
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Using RSS feeds
RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, offers a clean, efficient way to stay updated with your favourite websites without the distractions of modern web browsing.
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