Swift 5.6 and 5.7 bring major updates to the type system, concurrency, and ecosystem, with 5.6 laying the groundwork and 5.7 introducing features like shorthand optional unwrapping, regex literals, and enhanced generics with primary associated types and existential type improvements.
Monthly update 386 • June 2022 • 2022-06-01 - 2022-06-30
Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library follows Nora Seed, a woman overwhelmed by regret, who attempts suicide and finds herself in a magical library between life and death.
The Swift.org website is now open source, inviting community contributions to enhance its role as a central hub for all Swift users, supported by the new Swift Website Workgroup (SWWG) to guide its development.
If you see iomfb_fdr_loader running on your Mac, here is what this display data process does.
If you see managedappdistributiond running on your Mac, here is what this enterprise app distribution process does.
We've just released Vapor 4.61.1 which contains a fix for a security vulnerability in Vapor's URLEncodedFormDecoder.
Monthly update 385 • May 2022 • 2022-05-01 - 2022-05-31
Each Pentecost I return to the core message. The Holy Spirit came to live in believers.
We've just released Vapor 4.60.3 which contains a fix for a security vulnerability in Vapor's FileMiddleware.
Each Ascension Day I return to the core message. Jesus went up to heaven after his resurrection.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.sidebarlists, controlling which items appear in the Finder sidebar.
If you see ecosystemd or ecosystemanalyticsd running on your Mac, here is what these device ecosystem processes do.
Fluent, a Swift ORM, lacks native support for adding database table indexes during creation or migration due to complexities across supported databases, but you can achieve this using SQLKit.
Killing Eve is a British spy thriller series. It aired on BBC America from 8 April 2018 to 10 April 2022. Phoebe Waller-Bridge developed the first season, based on the novel series Villanelle by Luke Jennings. Sandra Oh plays Eve Polastri, a bored MI5 desk officer who becomes obsessed with tracking a skilled assassin.
In the world of modern portable devices, it may be hard to believe that merely a few decades ago the most convenient way to keep track of time was a mechanical watch.
Monthly update 384 • April 2022 • 2022-04-01 - 2022-04-30
Unfortunately the time has come to say goodbye to Quiet. It served us all for almost 6 years. In that time I enjoyed the feedback you have given.
Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022), directed by Simon Curtis, follows the Crawley family as they face two journeys at once. A film crew arrives to shoot a picture at Downton while Violet reveals she has inherited a villa in the south of France from a man no one has heard of.
The Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG) welcomed Adam Fowler, Fabian Fett, and Patrick Freed as new members on September 3, 2021, replacing Johannes Weiss after his three-year tenure.
Each Easter I return to the core message. Death could not hold Jesus. He lives and intercedes for us.
Each Good Friday I return to the core message. Jesus died on the cross for our sins.
If you see AppleQEMUGuestAgent running on your Mac, here is what this virtualisation process does.
If you see triald running on your Mac, here is what this feature flag process does.
Monthly update 383 • March 2022 • 2022-03-01 - 2022-03-31