Making Quiet open source
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.
Projects
Blog
Vapor URI Parsing Security Vulnerability
We've just released Vapor 4.90.0 which contains a fix for a security vulnerability in Vapor's URI parsing.
Development
Reflecting on the year 2023
Reflection on the year 2023, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
Journal
Ocean of Dreams II by Jan Mulder
Jan Mulder's 2018 release, a set of melodic instrumental pieces. I reached it late and it has stayed with me.
Music
Merry Christmas
My adult view of Christmas focuses on daily application. The birth of Christ calls for obedience and love.
Christianity
Monthly update #0403 • November 2023
Monthly update 403 • November 2023 • 2023-11-01 - 2023-11-30
Monthly Updates
The Secret by Lee Child
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.
Books
Fauda
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.
TV Series
Love Divine V by Jan Mulder
Jan Mulder's 2018 release, a set of melodic instrumental pieces. I reached it late and it has stayed with me.
Music
On-Crash Backtraces in Swift
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.
Development
Asterix and the White Iris by Jean-Yves Ferri
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.
Books
Monthly update #0402 • October 2023
Monthly update 402 • October 2023 • 2023-10-01 - 2023-10-31
Monthly Updates
Introducing Packages on Swift.org
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.
Development
Useful macOS defaults: System Settings
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.systemsettings, controlling the System Settings app on macOS Ventura and later.
Mac
Swift Everywhere: Using Interoperability to Build on Windows
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.
Development
Come Up Here by Bethel Music
Bethel Music's 2023 live album gathers spacious congregational worship around an invitation to draw near to God.
Music
Vapor HTTP Error Handling Security Vulnerability
We've just released Vapor 4.84.2 which contains a fix for a security vulnerability in Vapor's error handling.
Development
MANS in de Bavo by Martin Mans
Martin Mans's 2017 release, a rich set of works for the king of instruments. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
Music
Monthly update #0401 • September 2023
Monthly update 401 • September 2023 • 2023-09-01 - 2023-09-30
Monthly Updates
Golda
Golda (2023), directed by Guy Nattiv, tells the story of Golda Meir during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Helen Mirren plays Meir with firm resolve and deep weariness. She leads Israel as armies attack.
Movies
Debugging Improvements in Swift 5.9
Swift 5.9 enhances debugging with three key improvements to the compiler and LLDB. The p and po commands now use the faster dwim-print command, avoiding persistent result variables and enabling po to print Swift objects from raw addresses.
Development
Swift 5.9 Released
Swift 5.9 introduces a powerful macro system for expressive libraries, parameter packs for flexible generic APIs, and ownership features like consume and noncopyable types to optimize low-level code performance.
Development
Monthly update #0400 • August 2023
Monthly update 400 • August 2023 • 2023-08-01 - 2023-08-31
Monthly Updates
Love Divine IV by Jan Mulder
Jan Mulder's 2017 release, wordless music for reflection. It came to me long after release and earned its place.
Music
What is noticeboard.state?
If you see noticeboard.state running on your Mac, here is what this system state sharing process does.
Mac