John Kuipers's 'Het bedrog van Göring' follows detective Charlie Swieninck in occupied The Hague in 1941. A murdered art expert and the theft of a Frans Hals painting draw him into Nazi art looting and the schemes of Hermann Göring.
Books
New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project
The Swift programming language is migrating to a dedicated GitHub organisation at GitHub.com/swiftlang, reflecting its growing versatility and community maturity beyond Apple’s ecosystems.
Development
Update on privacy in Apple's ecosystem 2024
Every year, WWDC showcases Apple’s commitment to user privacy, and 2024 is no exception. I watched four sessions totalling about 1 hour and 20 minutes, and I’m excited to share the highlights of Apple’s privacy advancements.
Development
Privacy Roundup #0214 • May 2024
May 2024 was dominated by the Snowflake breach wave and a fierce backlash against artificial intelligence features that quietly harvest personal data.
Privacy
Monthly update #0409 • May 2024
Monthly update 409 • May 2024 • 2024-05-01 - 2024-05-31
Monthly Updates
Musserts Schaduw by John Kuipers
John Kuipers's 'Musserts schaduw' follows detective Charlie Swieninck in occupied The Hague in 1940. He investigates the murder of an NSB official and the trail leads straight to Anton Mussert and other Dutch Nazis.
Books
Little Snitch
Little Snitch is a powerful firewall and network monitoring application designed for macOS. Developed by Objective Development, it gives you control over your Mac’s incoming and outgoing network connections.
Mac
On Fluent Models and Sendable warnings
Since FluentKit 1.48.0, users have encountered a warning about mutable stored properties in Sendable-conforming Model classes due to Swift’s concurrency requirements and property wrapper limitations.
Development
Pentecost
Pentecost serves as an annual reminder of truth. The Holy Spirit came once for all who trust Jesus.
Christianity
Young Sheldon
Young Sheldon is an American comedy drama series. It aired on CBS from 25 September 2017 to 16 May 2024. Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro created it. Iain Armitage plays Sheldon Cooper as a nine year old genius growing up in East Texas during the late 1980s and 1990s.
TV Series
Ascension Day
Ascension Day serves as an annual reminder of truth. Jesus ascended to heaven once for all.
Christianity
South Africa Day 07
Day 7 of the trip to South Africa
Trips
South Africa Day 06
Day 6 of the trip to South Africa
Trips
Monthly update #0408 • April 2024
Monthly update 408 • April 2024 • 2024-04-01 - 2024-04-30
Monthly Updates
South Africa Day 05
Day 5 of the trip to South Africa
Trips
South Africa Day 04
Day 4 of the trip to South Africa
Trips
South Africa Day 03
Day 3 of the trip to South Africa
Trips
Privacy Roundup #0213 • April 2024
April 2024 brought record health breaches, a near 200 million dollar location data fine, a fresh two year expansion of mass surveillance and a wave of new American privacy statutes.
Privacy
South Africa Day 02
Day 2 of the trip to South Africa
Trips
South Africa Day 01
Day 1 of the trip to South Africa
Trips
Geheim Verzet by Beene Dubbelboer
Beene Dubbelboer's Geheim Verzet follows two boys, Wim and Geert, in a Dutch village near the German border during World War II. They overhear German soldiers plotting the 1940 invasion of the Netherlands and alert their families.
Books
Monthly update #0407 • March 2024
Monthly update 407 • March 2024 • 2024-03-01 - 2024-03-31
Monthly Updates
Get Started with Embedded Swift on ARM and RISC-V Microcontrollers
Apple has introduced a repository, swift-embedded-examples, showcasing Embedded Swift, a new experimental compilation mode for Swift targeting constrained microcontrollers like ARM and RISC-V, suitable for IoT and electronics projects.
Development
Privacy Roundup #0212 • March 2024
March 2024 brought big breaches at AT&T and Fujitsu, fresh sanctions against spyware makers, and courts and lawmakers pushing back on surveillance and Big Tech.
Privacy
Stockholm Day 04
Day 4 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. Time flew by and it is already time to fly back home.