Love Divine III by Jan Mulder
Jan Mulder's 2016 release, calm and patient instrumental writing. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
Music
Blog
What is backgroundtaskmanagementd?
If you see backgroundtaskmanagementd running on your Mac, here is what this login item management process does.
Mac
Swift project in 2023
The Swift Core Team has shared a roadmap for the next year, highlighting plans across workgroups, though these are not tied to specific releases and may evolve.
Development
Pure Chants II by Gregorian
Gregorian's 2022 album Pure Chants II is calm choral crossover, hymns and pop reworked as gentle chant.
Music
System Fonts CSS
System fonts used on this website...
Development
Permission request guidelines
A good user experience for a permission request is important, because often permission request are the first thing the user sees.
Development
Monthly update #0390 • October 2022
Monthly update 390 • October 2022 • 2022-10-01 - 2022-10-31
Monthly Updates
Rin Tin Can's Ark by Jul
An animal-loving idealist named Ovide Byrde takes in Rantanplan and tries to turn a cattle town vegetarian, until a Mexican bandit twists his cause into a scheme to seize the place.
Books
Baraye
A beautiful song that is now the soundtrack of the protests in Iran.
Music
Oxymore by Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre's 2022 album Oxymore is a bold instrumental work of immersive, spatial electronic sound.
Music
Sound
Invisible and relentless, sound is seemingly just there, traveling through our surroundings to carry beautiful music or annoying noises. In this article I’ll explain what sound is, how it’s created and propagated.
Gems
What is UpdateSettings?
If you see UpdateSettings running on your Mac, here is what this update configuration process does.
Mac
What is xartstorageremoted?
If you see xartstorageremoted running on your Mac, here is what this secure storage process does.
Mac
Monthly update #0389 • September 2022
Monthly update 389 • September 2022 • 2022-09-01 - 2022-09-30
Monthly Updates
What is AppleVirtualPlatformHIDBridge?
If you see AppleVirtualPlatformHIDBridge running on your Mac, here is what this virtualisation input process does.
Mac
Swift 5.7 Released!
Swift 5.7, officially released, brings significant updates including shorthand syntax for optional unwrapping and closures, enhanced generics with a rewritten type checker for better performance, and improved data race safety with new concurrency annotations.
Development
What is attentionawarenessd?
If you see attentionawarenessd running on your Mac, here is what this attention detection process does.
Mac
Always by Chris Tomlin
Chris Tomlin's 2022 album Always is warm, singable worship about a God who stays close in every season.
Music
Useful macOS defaults: Feedback Assistant
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.feedback-assistant, controlling how Feedback Assistant behaves.
Mac
Monthly update #0388 • August 2022
Monthly update 388 • August 2022 • 2022-08-01 - 2022-08-31
Monthly Updates
Announcing SwiftNIO IMAP
The Swift Server Workgroup introduced SwiftNIO IMAP, a new open-source package for parsing and encoding IMAPv4 messages, offering type-safe Swift data structures, high performance, and integration with SwiftNIO.
Development
Server Guides Now on Swift.org
The Swift Server Workgroup has relocated its open-source guides for Swift on Server development to the now open-source swift.org website.
Development
Life After Death by TobyMac
TobyMac's 2022 album Life After Death is bright hip hop and pop rock about grief, loss, and stubborn hope.
Music
Vapor's Next Steps with async/await
Vapor is updating its supported Swift versions to a minimum of Swift 5.6 to align with Swift 6 and prepare for Vapor 5, focusing on back-deploying async/await to older OSes, ensuring safety in a concurrent environment, and adopting Sendable for compile-time data race checks.
Development
The College Scam 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