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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.

Development

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 Updates

Monthly update #0373 • May 2021

Monthly update 373 • May 2021 • 2021-05-01 - 2021-05-31

    Projects

    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.

    Books

    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.

    Monthly Updates

    Monthly update #0372 • April 2021

    Monthly update 372 • April 2021 • 2021-04-01 - 2021-04-30

      Gems

      Internal Combustion Engine

      The invention of the internal combustion engine in the 19th century has revolutionized transportation over land, water, and air.

      Development

      Swift 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.

      Development

      Introducing 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 Updates

      Monthly update #0371 • March 2021

      Monthly update 371 • March 2021 • 2021-03-01 - 2021-03-31

        Monthly Updates

        Monthly update #0370 • February 2021

        Monthly update 370 • February 2021 • 2021-02-01 - 2021-02-28

          Monthly Updates

          Monthly update #0369 • January 2021

          Monthly update 369 • January 2021 • 2021-01-01 - 2021-01-31

            Projects

            SecKey 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 Updates

            Monthly update #0368 • December 2020

            Monthly update 368 • December 2020 • 2020-12-01 - 2020-12-31

              Gems

              Cameras 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 Updates

              Monthly update #0367 • November 2020

              Monthly update 367 • November 2020 • 2020-11-01 - 2020-11-30

                Books

                The 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.

                Projects

                Apple Silicon Support

                All my Mac apps have native support for Apple Silicon Macs. From the following versions Apple Silicon is supported...

                Development

                Introducing 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 Updates

                Monthly update #0366 • October 2020

                Monthly update 366 • October 2020 • 2020-10-01 - 2020-10-31

                  Projects

                  Available?

                  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.

                    Development

                    Introducing 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.

                    Projects

                    Talning

                    With Talning you will never miss an important day again. Like a birthday, wedding day, retirement day, sport event, vacation, and much more.

                      Development

                      Announcing 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.

                      Books

                      The 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.