Worldwide Revival, Pt. 1 by Newsboys
Newsboys' 2024 worship record, the first half of a revival project, built on big choruses and a plain call to faith.
Music
Blog
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
Stockholm Day 04
Day 4 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. Time flew by and it is already time to fly back home.
Trips
Stockholm Day 03
Day 3 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. I walked around the old city centre of Stockholm, plenty to see.
Trips
Happy Easter
Easter serves as an annual reminder of truth. Jesus defeated sin and death once for all.
Christianity
Stockholm Day 02
Day 2 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. I also hiked the Tyresta Lakes Loop in Tyresta National Park...
Trips
Tyresta Lakes Loop
Hiked the Tyresta Lakes Loop with a distance of 13.4 kilometres in Tyresta National Park.
Hiking
Stockholm Day 01
Day 1 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. Flight was pleasant.
Trips
Good Friday
Good Friday serves as an annual reminder of truth. Jesus gave his life on the cross once for all.
Christianity
SSWG 2024 Annual Update
The Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG) 2024 annual update highlights 2023 achievements and sets goals for the coming year.
Development
A Million Lights by Michael W. Smith
Michael W. Smith's 2018 release, melodic songs with a strong hook. I came to it well after release and have returned to it since.
Music
Writing GNOME Apps with Swift
Adwaita for Swift is a new open-source package that enables Swift developers to create GNOME applications for Linux, leveraging Swift’s clean syntax, static typing, and result builders for a declarative, readable, and memory-safe user interface design.
Development
Introducing the Benchmark Package: Complementing Unit Tests with Performance Checks
The Swift Benchmark package, a new open-source tool developed due to the lack of suitable multi-platform benchmarking solutions, integrates performance testing into Swift’s ecosystem, emphasising the importance of speed alongside functionality in software development.
Development
Byte-sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate
Swift is a versatile language for embedded systems due to its memory safety and ergonomics, as shown by porting games to the Playdate handheld console using the new embedded language mode.
Development
The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes
In Terry Hayes’ The Year of the Locust, a sprawling espionage thriller, CIA Denied Access Area spy Ridley Kane ventures into the volatile borderlands of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan to extract an informant with critical intelligence on a rising terrorist threat.
Books
Barcelona Day 03
Day 3 of the weekend trip to Barcelona. Today was actual nice weather, but unfortunately also the last day in Barcelona.
Trips
Barcelona Day 02
Day 2 of the weekend trip to Barcelona. Of course it is raining when I am in Barcelona...
Trips
Barcelona Day 01
Day 1 of the weekend trip to Barcelona.
Trips
Iterate Over Parameter Packs in Swift 6.0
Swift 6.0 introduces pack iteration, enhancing parameter packs from Swift 5.9 to simplify working with variable-length generic arguments.
Development
Swift 5.10 Released
Swift 5.10 achieves full data isolation in its concurrency model, enforcing compile-time checks to prevent data races when using the -strict-concurrency=complete flag, building on features like async/await and actors from Swift 5.5 and Sendable from Swift 5.7.
Development
Monthly update #0406 • February 2024
Monthly update 406 • February 2024 • 2024-02-01 - 2024-02-29
Monthly Updates
Airfoil
We’ll find out how the shape and the orientation of the airfoil helps airplanes remain airborne. We’ll also learn about the behavior and properties of air and other flowing matter.
Gems
JWTKit is no longer Boring!
The Swift Server Workgroup announced that Swift 5.10 will be the final release before Swift 6, prompting Vapor to plan Vapor 5, with JWTKit v5 as the first package to adopt modern Swift features like full Sendable compliance and Swift 6’s strict concurrency mode.
Development