Monthly update #0364 • August 2020
Monthly update 364 • August 2020 • 2020-08-01 - 2020-08-31
Blog
Introducing Swift Cluster Membership
Swift Cluster Membership is a new open-source Swift package for server applications, providing reusable, runtime agnostic implementations of cluster membership protocols for distributed systems like databases and key-value stores.
The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2] by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2] delves into the heart of the Soviet labor camps, describing the brutal daily life, forced work, and psychological toll on prisoners.
Monthly update #0363 • July 2020
Monthly update 363 • July 2020 • 2020-07-01 - 2020-07-31
Introducing Swift Service Lifecycle
Swift Service Lifecycle is a new open-source Swift package designed to simplify and standardise the management of startup and shutdown sequences for server applications.
Monthly update #0362 • June 2020
Monthly update 362 • June 2020 • 2020-06-01 - 2020-06-30
Lights and Shadows
It’s hard to describe how paramount light is. Ultimately, it is the only thing we see. But just as important the presence of light is, so is its absence.
The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1] by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1] exposes the Soviet Union's vast prison camp system through a blend of personal stories, historical facts, and sharp analysis.
Monthly update #0361 • May 2020
Monthly update 361 • May 2020 • 2020-05-01 - 2020-05-31
Introducing Swift AWS Lambda Runtime
The Swift AWS Lambda Runtime is a new open-source Swift package that simplifies building server-less functions for AWS Lambda, enabling Swift developers to create scalable, cost-effective cloud solutions with low memory use and fast startup.
BrandBook
BrandBook makes connecting your employees with your brand identity as easy as clicking a button. By keeping everything about your brand in one place, you can empower your team to use it the right way.
12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos gives clear advice on how to live better. He draws from psychology, old stories, religion, and his own life.
Additional Linux Distributions
The Swift project now officially supports Ubuntu 20.04, CentOS 8, and Amazon Linux 2, alongside Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04, with downloadable toolchains and Docker images available on Swift.org.
Monthly update #0360 • April 2020
Monthly update 360 • April 2020 • 2020-04-01 - 2020-04-30
SecKey moving to Universal Purchases
SecKey moving to Universal Purchases
Quiet moving to Universal Purchases
Quiet moving to Universal Purchases
The MAGA Doctrine by Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk’s Right Wing Revolution: How to Beat the Woke and Save the West argues that “wokeism” threatens American freedom and traditional values.
Monthly update #0359 • March 2020
Monthly update 359 • March 2020 • 2020-03-01 - 2020-03-31
I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did
It is not uncommon that I raise an accessibility or usability issue with a client’s design or implementation and am met with either “But Google does this,” or “But Apple does this.”
Swift 5.3 Release Process
Swift 5.3 focuses on significant quality and performance improvements while expanding platform support to include Windows and additional Linux distributions.
Swift 5.2 Released!
Swift 5.2 enhances the developer experience with improved compiler diagnostics, faster code completion, better debugging, and refined Swift Package Manager dependency handling.
Monthly update #0358 • February 2020
Monthly update 358 • February 2020 • 2020-02-01 - 2020-02-29
Announcing ArgumentParser
The Swift ArgumentParser library simplifies parsing command-line arguments with a type-safe, declarative approach using Swift features like property wrappers and reflection.
Standard Library Preview Package
Swift 5 introduces the Standard Library Preview package, an open-source tool bundling accepted Swift Evolution features not yet in official releases, starting with SE-0270 for subrange operations like subranges(where:) and moveSubranges(_:to:) on collections, plus the RangeSet type.
Gears
I’ve always been fascinated by mechanical gears. There is something captivating about the way their teeth come together to create a fluid, unified motion.