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.”
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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.
Development
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.
Development
Monthly update #0358 • February 2020
Monthly update 358 • February 2020 • 2020-02-01 - 2020-02-29
Monthly Updates
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.
Development
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.
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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.
Gems
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.
Development
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.
Development
Monthly update #0357 • January 2020
Monthly update 357 • January 2020 • 2020-01-01 - 2020-01-31
Monthly Updates
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.
Books
Norway Tromsø Day 08
Day 8 of the trip to Tromsø with my brother.
Trips
Norway Tromsø Day 07
Day 7 of the trip to Tromsø with my brother.
Trips
Norway Tromsø Day 06
Day 6 of the trip to Tromsø with my brother.
Trips
Norway Tromsø Day 05
Day 5 of the trip to Tromsø with my brother.
Trips
Monthly update #0356 • December 2019
Monthly update 356 • December 2019 • 2019-12-01 - 2019-12-31
Monthly Updates
Norway Tromsø Day 04
Day 4 of the trip to Tromsø with my brother.
Trips
Norway Tromsø Day 03
Day 3 of the trip to Tromsø with my brother.
Trips
Norway Tromsø Day 02
Day 2 of the trip to Tromsø with my brother.
Trips
Norway Tromsø Day 01
Day 1 of the trip to Tromsø with my brother.
Trips
Reflecting on the year 2019
Reflection on the year 2019, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
Journal
Tesseract
The day-night cycle and the cycle of the seasons have been an important part of human civilization for millennia.
Gems
AVSpeechSynthesizer
The article highlights the role of Swift’s AVSpeechSynthesizer, introduced in iOS 7 and macOS 10.14, in enabling speech synthesis for computer-assisted communication across languages, supporting over 30 languages with voices selected via IETF Language Tags.
Development
Monthly update #0355 • November 2019
Monthly update 355 • November 2019 • 2019-11-01 - 2019-11-30
Monthly Updates
Blue Moon by Lee Child
Blue Moon pits Reacher against rival Albanian and Ukrainian gangs in a city turf war after he helps an elderly man robbed for loan shark debts.
Books