Foundation Package Preview Now Available
The Swift Core Team is restructuring the Swift project by organising workgroups into steering groups and workgroups to enhance community contributions and focus.
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Foundation Package Preview Now Available
The preview of a new, unified Foundation package, written in Swift, is now available on GitHub, offering faster, safer, and more approachable implementations for types like AttributedString, JSONEncoder, and Calendar, with more to be added.
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Quiet 4.1
Learn what is new in Quiet 4.1
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Moving away from building Prettified JSON Viewers
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Offline experience of apps
In a world where constant connectivity is not guaranteed, ensuring your app works offline is vital. Users expect apps to function smoothly, whether they are on a plane, in a remote area, or facing a weak signal.
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Why Not Right Now? by Jesus Culture
Jesus Culture's 2023 live album is urgent, hopeful worship, asking why we should wait for God to move.
Music
Happy Easter
My adult view of Easter focuses on daily application. The risen Christ calls for obedience and love.
Christianity
Good Friday
My adult view of Good Friday focuses on daily application. The cross of Christ calls for obedience and love.
Christianity
Blade Runner 2049 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer's 2017 release, an atmospheric film score of mood and motion. I reached it late and it has stayed with me.
Music
Monthly update #0395 • March 2023
Monthly update 395 • March 2023 • 2023-03-01 - 2023-03-31
Monthly Updates
Swift 5.8 Released!
Swift 5.8 introduces features to prepare for Swift 6, including the hasFeature directive and conditional attributes for incremental adoption, alongside enhancements like concise magic file names and regex literals.
Development
Getting an entitlement for Family Controls (Distribution)
In February I wanted to release an update for Quiet. There is a big update to the iOS app. Quiet can hide apps according to the rules active in Quiet. For example if you block TikTok in Quiet, the TikTok app will disappear from your iOS device.
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Bicycle
Today we’re building another world-changing technology, machine intelligence. We know that it will affect the world in profound ways, change how the economy works, and have knock-on effects we can’t predict.
Gems
John Wick: Chapter 4
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023), directed by Chad Stahelski, follows John as he wages a final war against the High Table. Keanu Reeves plays John Wick, who must defeat a powerful new enemy to earn his freedom or die trying.
Movies
Case against the cloud
Cloud computing has swept the business world, with many companies rushing to migrate their operations to cloud-based solutions or building new projects entirely in the cloud.
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What is cryptexd?
If you see cryptexd running on your Mac, here is what this Rapid Security Response process does.
Mac
Songs of Surrender by U2
U2's 2023 album re-records forty songs from across their catalogue in stripped, acoustic, reflective form.
Music
What are fskitd and userfsd?
If you see fskitd, userfsd, or other filesystems processes on your Mac, here is what they do.
Mac
Introducing Swift Certificates and Swift ASN.1
Apple has released two new open-source Swift packages, swift-certificates and swift-asn1, to provide a faster, safer implementation of X.509 certificates for TLS security.
Development
What We're Working On: March 2023
The Vapor team has launched a monthly blog series to share updates on their work, increase transparency, and outline future plans for the framework.
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Monthly update #0394 • February 2023
Monthly update 394 • February 2023 • 2023-02-01 - 2023-02-28
Monthly Updates
Steve Jobs: Take a closer look
Leslie Berlin, from the Steve Jobs Archive, shares a favourite photo from 1984. It shows Steve Jobs, aged almost 29, bent over to watch a stranger use a Macintosh through a shop window in New Orleans.
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Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic
Social media has changed how we connect, but new research shows it hurts mental health, especially for teen girls. Studies prove platforms like Instagram cause poor mental health, not just relate to it.
Essays
The Swift Programming Language book now published with DocC
The Swift Programming Language book (TSPL) is now published using Swift-DocC starting with Swift 5.8, enabling content contributions under the Swift Documentation Workgroup’s guidance.
Development
Onboarding Tutorials vs. Contextual Help
Tutorials interrupt users, don’t necessarily improve task performance, and are quickly forgotten. Contextual help signals can avoid these pitfalls but require unintrusive ways to activate.
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