Earth and Sun
The day-night cycle and the cycle of the seasons have been an important part of human civilization for millennia.
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New Diagnostic Architecture Overview
Swift 5.2 enhances compiler diagnostics through a new infrastructure that uses 'constraint fixes' to pinpoint type errors more accurately, allowing the type checker to continue solving and report multiple issues with actionable guidance, unlike the old system's vague guesses.
Monthly update #0353 • September 2019
Monthly update 353 • September 2019 • 2019-09-01 - 2019-09-30
Swift 5.2 Release Process
Swift 5.2 focuses on delivering significant improvements in quality and performance.
Swift 5.1 Released!
Swift 5.1 advances Swift 5 by introducing module stability, enabling binary frameworks that work across compiler versions, alongside library evolution support for resilient APIs.
Apple Push Notification Device Tokens
In iOS 13 where a change in NSData’s description format—from a full hexadecimal string to a summarised form—breaks push notification workflows that relied on string manipulation of deviceToken in application(_:didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:).
England Day 07
Day 7 of my trip to England.
England Day 06
Day 6 of my trip to England.
Monthly update #0352 • August 2019
Monthly update 352 • August 2019 • 2019-08-01 - 2019-08-31
England Day 05
Day 5 of my trip to England.
England Day 04
Day 4 of my trip to England.
England Day 03
Day 3 of my trip to England.
England Day 02
Day 2 of my trip to England.
England Day 01
Day 1 of my trip to England.
Thread Sanitizer for Swift on Linux
Swift 5.1 introduces Thread Sanitizer on Linux, enabling runtime detection of data races in multithreaded code, which can cause unexpected behaviour or memory corruption despite Swift's single-threaded safety guarantees.
Monthly update #0351 • July 2019
Monthly update 351 • July 2019 • 2019-07-01 - 2019-07-31
Alpha Compositing
Transparency may not seem particularly exciting. The GIF image format which allowed some pixels to show through the background was published over 30 years ago.
Toy Story 4
Toy Story 4 (2019), directed by Josh Cooley, finds Woody with a new child named Bonnie. Tom Hanks voices Woody, the cowboy who still leads. Tim Allen acts as Buzz Lightyear, the ranger who seeks his voice.
Formatter
The article explores the Formatter class in Swift’s Foundation framework, essential for transforming data into human-readable formats, addressing complexities like user language, calendar, and currency preferences.
CAEmitterLayer
The article introduces CAEmitterLayer for creating a confetti effect on iOS, explaining its role as a high-performance particle system within the Quartz Core framework for rendering effects like confetti, fire, or rain.
Monthly update #0350 • June 2019
Monthly update 350 • June 2019 • 2019-06-01 - 2019-06-30
Operation Finale
Operation Finale (2018), directed by Chris Weitz, tells the true story of how Israeli agents caught Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960 AD. Oscar Isaac plays Peter Malkin, the agent who grabs Eichmann.
Monthly update #0349 • May 2019
Monthly update 349 • May 2019 • 2019-05-01 - 2019-05-31
Monthly update #0348 • April 2019
Monthly update 348 • April 2019 • 2019-04-01 - 2019-04-30
Privacy and User Experience
Good serie on privacy and user experience by Smashing Magazine. Worth the read!