I am happy with TipKit
Over the years I became more convinced that onboarding flows were users are educated are not working. It is much better to educate people in context and when needed.
Development
Blog
On Device Machine Learning
I loved how during the WWDC Keynote and The State of Union not once the term AI was used. AI is an hype word and could mean a lot of things. Love how Apple keeps saying “On Device Machine Learning”.
Development
Monthly update #0397 • May 2023
Monthly update 397 • May 2023 • 2023-05-01 - 2023-05-31
Monthly Updates
Using Upcoming Feature Flags
Swift 5.8 introduces a flexible mechanism to adopt upcoming features via the -enable-upcoming-feature compiler flag and the hasFeature() condition, allowing developers to incrementally prepare for Swift 6 while maintaining source compatibility.
Development
Pentecost
My adult view of Pentecost focuses on daily application. The Holy Spirit calls for obedience and surrender.
Christianity
Upcoming changes to Vapor with Sendable
The Vapor team is implementing Sendable annotations across its repositories, starting with a significant pull request, to enhance safety in Swift Concurrency, following a challenging but unsuccessful attempt to use actors for some internals.
Development
Why not Flutter?
Flutter, Google’s cross-platform framework, promises fast development for Android and iOS apps, but it comes with notable limitations.
Development
Ascension Day
My adult view of Ascension Day focuses on daily application. The ascension of Christ calls for obedience and hope.
Christianity
Penny Update
The Vapor team announced a new update for Penny, their Discord bot, enhancing it to post Swift Evolution proposal updates in the #swift-evolution channel, with an option for users to follow these updates on their own servers.
Development
Personal Voice
Users can create a Personal Voice by reading along with a randomized set of text prompts to record 15 minutes of audio on iPhone or iPad.
Gems
Wedding of my brother
My brother and his now wife got married today.
Journal
PostgresNIO Security Vulnerability
We released PostgresNIO 1.14.2 last week, which contains a security fix for a vulnerability in PostgresNIO's TLS support. This has been designated as CVE-2023-31136.
Development
Updating Vapor's Templates for Swift 5.8
The Vapor team has updated its project templates to support Swift 5.8, adopting a unified target with the @main syntax for application entry points, aligning with Swift’s modern features and enabling asynchronous setup functions.
Development
Make Something Wonderful by Steve Jobs
Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs In His Own Words, curated by the Steve Jobs Archive, gathers speeches, emails, interviews, and personal notes from Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder who reshaped technology and culture.
Books
What is AppleCredentialManagerDaemon?
If you see AppleCredentialManagerDaemon running on your Mac, here is what this credentials process does.
Mac
Monthly update #0396 • April 2023
Monthly update 396 • April 2023 • 2023-04-01 - 2023-04-30
Monthly Updates
Krickenbecker Seen
Hiked 16.6 kilometres from Kaldenkirchen to Venlo.
Hiking
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), directed by James Gunn, tells the story of Rocket's origins and the team's final mission together. Chris Pratt plays Peter Quill, who must hold the group together one last time to save the friend who never asked for help.
Movies
Have an iPhone and Apple Watch again
In recent weeks I bought an iPhone because I missed the camera and the Photo app too much. I am very happy to have them back in my life.
Journal
Helderse Duinen
Hiked 16.1 kilometres around Den Helder.
Hiking
Do not Run Servers
I listen for a few years now to the podcast Under the Radar. It is about developing apps as an indie developer. Highly recommended to add to your podcast app if you have any interest in developing apps.
Development
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.
Development
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.
Development
Quiet 4.1
Learn what is new in Quiet 4.1
Projects
Moving away from building Prettified JSON Viewers
System fonts used on this website...
Development