GPS
Global Positioning System is, without a doubt, one of the most useful inventions of the late 20th century. It made it significantly easier for ships, airplanes, cars, and hikers to figure out where they are with high degree of accuracy.
Gems
Blog
Useful macOS defaults: Simulator
Handy defaults write commands for Apple's iOS/iPadOS Simulator, controlling window behaviour and performance.
Mac
Monthly update #0380 • December 2021
Monthly update 380 • December 2021 • 2021-12-01 - 2021-12-31
Monthly Updates
Reflecting on the year 2021
Reflection on the year 2021, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
Journal
Merry Christmas
Christmas brings perspective on the passing years. The birth of Christ remains central to everything.
Christianity
Hanna
Hanna is a British-American action thriller series. It aired on Amazon Prime Video from 29 March 2019 to 24 November 2021. David Farr created it, based on the 2011 film of the same name. Esmé Creed-Miles plays Hanna, a teenage girl raised in a remote forest by her father to be a skilled fighter.
TV Series
Monthly update #0379 • November 2021
Monthly update 379 • November 2021 • 2021-11-01 - 2021-11-30
Monthly Updates
Better Off Dead by Lee Child
Better Off Dead, co-authored with Andrew Child, has Reacher searching for a missing twin in a desert town, clashing with a bomber plotting deadly attacks.
Books
Asterix and the Griffin by Jean-Yves Ferri
It is the thirty-ninth book in the Asterix series. The Gauls travel east to the frozen lands of the Sarmatians. They must protect a legendary griffin from Roman capture.
Books
Monthly update #0378 • October 2021
Monthly update 378 • October 2021 • 2021-10-01 - 2021-10-31
Monthly Updates
Curves and Surfaces
From fonts to animated movies, curves and surfaces constitute fundamental building blocks of many geometrical designs.
Gems
What is micactivityd?
If you see micactivityd running on your Mac, here is what this microphone activity monitoring process does.
Mac
Introducing Swift Distributed Actors
Apple announced Swift Distributed Actors, a new open-source package for server-side Swift that provides a complete cluster library for the experimental distributed actor language feature, released early to gather community feedback.
Development
Swift-DocC is Now Open Source
Apple introduced Swift-DocC at WWDC21 as a new documentation compiler for Swift frameworks and packages, now released as open source with support for macOS and Linux.
Development
What is audioanalyticsd?
If you see audioanalyticsd running on your Mac, here is what this sound recognition process does.
Mac
Monthly update #0377 • September 2021
Monthly update 377 • September 2021 • 2021-09-01 - 2021-09-30
Monthly Updates
Sunsetting SecKey
Unfortunately the time has come to say goodbye to SecKey. It served us all for almost 4 years. In that time I enjoyed the feedback you have given and also the donations given as a sign of appreciation.
Projects
Swift 5.5 Released!
Swift 5.5 is a major release introducing powerful concurrency features like async/await, structured concurrency, and Actors, alongside other enhancements.
Development
Clarkson's Farm
Clarkson's Farm is a British documentary series. It came out on Amazon Prime Video on 11 June 2021. The show follows Jeremy Clarkson, known from car programmes, as he takes over running his 1000-acre farm in the Cotswolds after the old manager retires.
TV Series
What is fairplaydeviceidentityd?
If you see fairplaydeviceidentityd running on your Mac, here is what this device identity process does.
Mac
Monthly update #0376 • August 2021
Monthly update 376 • August 2021 • 2021-08-01 - 2021-08-31
Monthly Updates
What is seld?
If you see seld running on your Mac, here is what this sealed system volume process does.
Mac
Time for a Turning Point by Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk’s The College Scam: How America's Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth challenges the value of traditional college education, arguing it burdens students with debt while promoting progressive ideologies.
Books
Useful macOS defaults: Messages
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.MobileSMS, controlling how Messages behaves on macOS.
Mac
Monthly update #0375 • July 2021
Monthly update 375 • July 2021 • 2021-07-01 - 2021-07-31
Monthly Updates