The Swift Async Algorithms package, introduces algorithms tailored for AsyncSequence in Swift 5.5, focusing on seamless async/await integration, time-based operations like debounce and throttle, and cross-platform, open-source development.
The Swift.org website is now an open-source project, welcoming community contributions to enhance its role as a hub for all Swift users, not just contributors.
Swift 5.6 introduces type system enhancements like type placeholders and explicit existential types with the any keyword, improves pointer interactions with temporary buffers and relaxed diagnostics, and refines concurrency safety by suppressing Sendable diagnostics by default.
If you see iomfb_bics_daemon running on your Mac, here is what this display calibration process does.
Monthly update 382 • February 2022 • 2022-02-01 - 2022-02-28
Vapor, a popular Swift web framework, is planning its next major release, Vapor 5, which will fully embrace Swift Concurrency by eliminating EventLoopFutures and leveraging AsyncSequences, actors, and Sendable conformances for improved performance and safety.
If you see relatived running on your Mac, here is what this related content process does.
Monthly update 381 • January 2022 • 2022-01-01 - 2022-01-31
In from the Cold is an American thriller series. It aired on Netflix from 28 January 2022. Adam Glass created it. Margarita Levieva plays Jenny Franklin, a single mother on holiday in Spain whose past as a Soviet bioweapon agent catches up with her.
If you see countryd running on your Mac, here is what this country detection process does.
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.
Handy defaults write commands for Apple's iOS/iPadOS Simulator, controlling window behaviour and performance.
Monthly update 380 • December 2021 • 2021-12-01 - 2021-12-31
Reflection on the year 2021, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
Christmas brings perspective on the passing years. The birth of Christ remains central to everything.
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.
Monthly update 379 • November 2021 • 2021-11-01 - 2021-11-30
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.
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.
Monthly update 378 • October 2021 • 2021-10-01 - 2021-10-31
From fonts to animated movies, curves and surfaces constitute fundamental building blocks of many geometrical designs.
If you see micactivityd running on your Mac, here is what this microphone activity monitoring process does.
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.
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.
If you see audioanalyticsd running on your Mac, here is what this sound recognition process does.