Monthly update #0360 • April 2020
Monthly update 360 • April 2020 • 2020-04-01 - 2020-04-30
Blog
SecKey moving to Universal Purchases
SecKey moving to Universal Purchases
Quiet moving to Universal Purchases
Quiet moving to Universal Purchases
The MAGA Doctrine by Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk’s Right Wing Revolution: How to Beat the Woke and Save the West argues that “wokeism” threatens American freedom and traditional values.
Monthly update #0359 • March 2020
Monthly update 359 • March 2020 • 2020-03-01 - 2020-03-31
I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did
It is not uncommon that I raise an accessibility or usability issue with a client’s design or implementation and am met with either “But Google does this,” or “But Apple does this.”
Swift 5.3 Release Process
Swift 5.3 focuses on significant quality and performance improvements while expanding platform support to include Windows and additional Linux distributions.
Swift 5.2 Released!
Swift 5.2 enhances the developer experience with improved compiler diagnostics, faster code completion, better debugging, and refined Swift Package Manager dependency handling.
Monthly update #0358 • February 2020
Monthly update 358 • February 2020 • 2020-02-01 - 2020-02-29
Announcing ArgumentParser
The Swift ArgumentParser library simplifies parsing command-line arguments with a type-safe, declarative approach using Swift features like property wrappers and reflection.
Standard Library Preview Package
Swift 5 introduces the Standard Library Preview package, an open-source tool bundling accepted Swift Evolution features not yet in official releases, starting with SE-0270 for subrange operations like subranges(where:) and moveSubranges(_:to:) on collections, plus the RangeSet type.
Gears
I’ve always been fascinated by mechanical gears. There is something captivating about the way their teeth come together to create a fluid, unified motion.
Library Evolution in Swift
Swift's library evolution support, enabled via BUILD_LIBRARY_FOR_DISTRIBUTION in Xcode or -enable-library-evolution in swiftc, allows framework authors to make additive API changes while maintaining binary compatibility, ensuring clients don't need recompilation.
Introducing Swift Crypto
Swift Crypto is a new open-source Swift package that extends Apple CryptoKit's APIs to non-Apple platforms by using BoringSSL for cryptographic primitives, while deferring to CryptoKit on Apple systems for seamless cross-platform development.
Monthly update #0357 • January 2020
Monthly update 357 • January 2020 • 2020-01-01 - 2020-01-31
The 5 AM Club by Robin Sharma
In “The 5 AM Club,” renowned leadership expert Robin Sharma elucidates the transformative potential of early morning wake-up and purposeful daily commencement.
Norway Tromsø Day 08
Day 8 of the trip to Tromsø with my brother.
Norway Tromsø Day 07
Day 7 of the trip to Tromsø with my brother.
Norway Tromsø Day 06
Day 6 of the trip to Tromsø with my brother.
Norway Tromsø Day 05
Day 5 of the trip to Tromsø with my brother.
Monthly update #0356 • December 2019
Monthly update 356 • December 2019 • 2019-12-01 - 2019-12-31
Norway Tromsø Day 04
Day 4 of the trip to Tromsø with my brother.
Norway Tromsø Day 03
Day 3 of the trip to Tromsø with my brother.
Norway Tromsø Day 02
Day 2 of the trip to Tromsø with my brother.
Norway Tromsø Day 01
Day 1 of the trip to Tromsø with my brother.