In a world where constant connectivity is not guaranteed, ensuring your app works offline is vital. Users expect apps to function smoothly, whether they are on a plane, in a remote area, or facing a weak signal.
My adult view of Easter focuses on daily application. The risen Christ calls for obedience and love.
My adult view of Good Friday focuses on daily application. The cross of Christ calls for obedience and love.
Monthly update 395 • March 2023 • 2023-03-01 - 2023-03-31
Swift 5.8 introduces features to prepare for Swift 6, including the hasFeature directive and conditional attributes for incremental adoption, alongside enhancements like concise magic file names and regex literals.
In February I wanted to release an update for Quiet. There is a big update to the iOS app. Quiet can hide apps according to the rules active in Quiet. For example if you block TikTok in Quiet, the TikTok app will disappear from your iOS device.
Today we’re building another world-changing technology, machine intelligence. We know that it will affect the world in profound ways, change how the economy works, and have knock-on effects we can’t predict.
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023), directed by Chad Stahelski, follows John as he wages a final war against the High Table. Keanu Reeves plays John Wick, who must defeat a powerful new enemy to earn his freedom or die trying.
Cloud computing has swept the business world, with many companies rushing to migrate their operations to cloud-based solutions or building new projects entirely in the cloud.
If you see cryptexd running on your Mac, here is what this Rapid Security Response process does.
If you see fskitd, userfsd, or other filesystems processes on your Mac, here is what they do.
Apple has released two new open-source Swift packages, swift-certificates and swift-asn1, to provide a faster, safer implementation of X.509 certificates for TLS security.
The Vapor team has launched a monthly blog series to share updates on their work, increase transparency, and outline future plans for the framework.
Monthly update 394 • February 2023 • 2023-02-01 - 2023-02-28
Leslie Berlin, from the Steve Jobs Archive, shares a favourite photo from 1984. It shows Steve Jobs, aged almost 29, bent over to watch a stranger use a Macintosh through a shop window in New Orleans.
Social media has changed how we connect, but new research shows it hurts mental health, especially for teen girls. Studies prove platforms like Instagram cause poor mental health, not just relate to it.
The Swift Programming Language book (TSPL) is now published using Swift-DocC starting with Swift 5.8, enabling content contributions under the Swift Documentation Workgroup’s guidance.
Tutorials interrupt users, don’t necessarily improve task performance, and are quickly forgotten. Contextual help signals can avoid these pitfalls but require unintrusive ways to activate.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.controlcenter, controlling which items appear in the menu bar.
Monthly update 393 • January 2023 • 2023-01-01 - 2023-01-31
If you see usbctelemetryd running on your Mac, here is what this USB-C monitoring process does.
If you see lightsoutmanagementd running on your Mac, here is what this power management process does.
TLDR: Quiet 4.0 is a restart of Quiet and a commitment to support it for a while.
We were like strangers on a train, the passengers and I, hurtling through the night, revealing intimacies we would never have dreamed of sharing during the brighter light of day.
Owning a corner of the internet gives you control. A personal website lets you build something lasting. Here is why you should create one, how to start, and what to include.