BooksIrreversible 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.
DevelopmentPackage 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 UpdatesMonthly update #0373 • May 2021
Monthly update 373 • May 2021 • 2021-05-01 - 2021-05-31
ProjectsCelebrating 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.
BooksBeyond 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.
Monthly UpdatesMonthly update #0372 • April 2021
Monthly update 372 • April 2021 • 2021-04-01 - 2021-04-30
GemsInternal Combustion Engine
The invention of the internal combustion engine in the 19th century has revolutionized transportation over land, water, and air.
DevelopmentSwift 5.4 Released!
Swift 5.4 introduces new language features like multiple variadic parameters, extended implicit member syntax, result builders, and support for overloading local functions and property wrappers for local variables.
DevelopmentIntroducing Swift Collections
Swift Collections is a new open-source package that adds advanced data structures like Deque, OrderedSet, and OrderedDictionary to extend the Swift Standard Library’s offerings beyond Array, Set, and Dictionary.
Monthly UpdatesMonthly update #0371 • March 2021
Monthly update 371 • March 2021 • 2021-03-01 - 2021-03-31
Monthly UpdatesMonthly update #0370 • February 2021
Monthly update 370 • February 2021 • 2021-02-01 - 2021-02-28
Monthly UpdatesMonthly update #0369 • January 2021
Monthly update 369 • January 2021 • 2021-01-01 - 2021-01-31
ProjectsSecKey 2.0
SecKey is rebuild from the ground up with SwiftUI - a new technology from Apple for building apps with a bright future in front of it.
Monthly UpdatesMonthly update #0368 • December 2020
Monthly update 368 • December 2020 • 2020-12-01 - 2020-12-31
GemsCameras and Lenses
Pictures have always been a meaningful part of the human experience. From the first cave drawings, to sketches and paintings, to modern photography, we’ve mastered the art of recording what we see.
Monthly UpdatesMonthly update #0367 • November 2020
Monthly update 367 • November 2020 • 2020-11-01 - 2020-11-30
BooksThe Sentinel by Lee Child
Co-authored with Andrew Child, The Sentinel sees Reacher save an IT manager from kidnappers in Tennessee, uncovering a ransomware plot threatening local elections.
ProjectsApple Silicon Support
All my Mac apps have native support for Apple Silicon Macs. From the following versions Apple Silicon is supported...
DevelopmentIntroducing SwiftNIO SSH
SwiftNIO SSH is a new open-source Swift package for the Swift Server ecosystem, providing a programmatic implementation of the SSHv2 protocol for building custom SSH clients and servers.
Monthly UpdatesMonthly update #0366 • October 2020
Monthly update 366 • October 2020 • 2020-10-01 - 2020-10-31
ProjectsAvailable?
Tired of checking everyday if a movie is available for purchase? No more… add the desired movie to Available? and it will send you a notification when a movie is available for purchase.
DevelopmentIntroducing Swift Service Discovery
Swift Service Discovery is a new open-source package for the Swift Server ecosystem, providing a standard API for service discovery backends like DNS or key-value stores, without implementing the functionality itself.
ProjectsTalning
With Talning you will never miss an important day again. Like a birthday, wedding day, retirement day, sport event, vacation, and much more.
DevelopmentAnnouncing Swift Algorithms
Swift Algorithms is a new open-source package offering a suite of generic sequence and collection algorithms, such as chunking, combinations, permutations, and random sampling, designed to replace error-prone loops with clear, performant code.
BooksThe Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3] by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3] chronicles the later stages of the Gulag system, including hard labor prisons, exile, and the post-Stalin era.