On this day 40 years ago (24 January 1984) it all began, when Apple Inc. introduced the first Macintosh computer to the world. Back then, it was a groundbreaking moment, as the Macintosh was one of the first personal computers to feature a graphical user interface and a mouse.
If you see appleh16camerad running on your Mac, here is what this camera process does.
Continuing my exploration of HTMLKit, I find its potential quite promising. In this post, I delve deeper into leveraging its capabilities to seamlessly integrate HTML into Swift.
Continuing my exploration of HTMLKit, I find its potential quite promising. In this post, I delve deeper into leveraging its capabilities to seamlessly integrate HTML into Swift.
If you see eligibilityd running on your Mac, here is what this feature eligibility process does.
If you see modelcatalogd or modelmanagerd running on your Mac, here is what these machine learning model processes do.
The Beekeeper (2024), directed by David Ayer, follows a retired operative who wages a one man war against a phishing scam network after his elderly neighbour loses her life savings and takes her own life. Jason Statham plays Adam Clay, a beekeeper with a violent past.
If you see aonsensed running on your Mac, here is what this always-on sensor process does.
If you see devicemanagementclient processes running on your Mac, here is what these declarative management processes do.
Monthly update 404 • December 2023 • 2023-12-01 - 2023-12-31
A while ago I wrote about making Quiet open source. I've been getting quite a few emails from other indie app developers lately, who, like me, decided to make their apps open source but later wished they hadn't.
We've just released Vapor 4.90.0 which contains a fix for a security vulnerability in Vapor's URI parsing.
Reflection on the year 2023, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
My adult view of Christmas focuses on daily application. The birth of Christ calls for obedience and love.
Monthly update 403 • November 2023 • 2023-11-01 - 2023-11-30
The Secret, co-authored with Andrew Child, places Reacher on a 1992 task force hunting killers of scientists linked to a bioweapon project from the 1960s.
Fauda is an Israeli thriller series. It aired on Yes TV from 15 February 2015 and later reached a worldwide audience through Netflix. Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff created it. Lior Raz plays Doron Kavillio, an Israeli undercover agent who operates deep inside Palestinian territory.
Swift 5.9 enhances debugging with an out-of-process crash handler that provides detailed backtraces, interactive inspection, and just-in-time debugging, improving on the limited crash messages of prior versions.
It is the fortieth book in the Asterix series. Caesar sends a wellness guru to the village. He spreads calm and positivity to weaken the Gauls from within.
Monthly update 402 • October 2023 • 2023-10-01 - 2023-10-31
Swift.org now has a new top-level Packages page. This page helps users explore the Swift package ecosystem. It lists common categories such as server, networking, testing, and logging.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.systemsettings, controlling the System Settings app on macOS Ventura and later.
Swift’s design emphasises seamless interoperability with other languages, particularly C and C++, by embedding clang to avoid the performance and boilerplate costs of traditional C-based Foreign Function Interfaces (FFI) like libffi.
We've just released Vapor 4.84.2 which contains a fix for a security vulnerability in Vapor's error handling.
Monthly update 401 • September 2023 • 2023-09-01 - 2023-09-30