Blog

Norway Road Trip Day 04

Day 4 of the road trip my brother and I made in Norway.

Trips

Norway Road Trip Day 03

Day 3 of the road trip my brother and I made in Norway.

Trips

UITextInputPasswordRules

Automatic Strong Passwords (iOS 12 / macOS Mojave) let Safari and your app generate truly random, high-entropy passwords that actually satisfy the site’s rules, no more “password too weak” after AutoFill.

Development

Norway Road Trip Day 02

Day 2 of the road trip my brother and I made in Norway.

Trips

Norway Road Trip Day 01

Day 1 of the road trip my brother and I made in Norway.

Trips

Monthly update #0338 • June 2018

Monthly update 338 • June 2018 • 2018-06-01 - 2018-06-30

Monthly Updates

Monthly update #0337 • May 2018

Monthly update 337 • May 2018 • 2018-05-01 - 2018-05-31

Monthly Updates

Introducing Related Projects to Swift Forums

The Swift community continues to expand, with developers increasingly relying on ecosystem projects to streamline app development for specific tasks. To foster better interaction, Swift Forums has introduced a new top-level category called Related Projects.

Development

Monthly update #0336 • April 2018

Monthly update 336 • April 2018 • 2018-04-01 - 2018-04-30

Monthly Updates

Swift Community-Hosted Continuous Integration

Swift.org has expanded its continuous integration testing system to include community-hosted nodes for additional platforms.

Development

Reimplementation of Implicitly Unwrapped Optionals

Swift 4.1 reimplements implicitly unwrapped optionals (IUOs) so they act as regular optionals with a flag that allows automatic unwrapping when needed, rather than as a distinct type.

Development

Monthly update #0335 • March 2018

Monthly update 335 • March 2018 • 2018-03-01 - 2018-03-31

Monthly Updates

Swift 4.1 Released!

Apple released Swift 4.1 as a minor update that maintains source compatibility with Swift 4.0. It adds generics features such as conditional conformance and synthesised Equatable and Hashable support.

Development

Food Rules by Michael Pollan

In Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, Michael Pollan simplifies the complex world of nutrition into easy-to-follow tips for eating well.

Books

Monthly update #0334 • February 2018

Monthly update 334 • February 2018 • 2018-02-01 - 2018-02-28

Monthly Updates

Swift 4.2 Release Process

Swift 4.2 serves as a step towards ABI stability in Swift 5, incorporating ABI changes for performance, bug fixes, and targeted improvements to compile-time speed.

Development

Code Size Optimization Mode in Swift 4.1

Swift 4.1 adds a new optimisation mode called -Osize. This mode helps reduce code size by 5 to 30 percent in some projects.

Development

Monthly update #0333 • January 2018

Monthly update 333 • January 2018 • 2018-01-01 - 2018-01-31

Monthly Updates

Swift Forums Now Open!

The Swift project has moved its main discussions from mailing lists to Swift Forums. The old mailing lists are shut down and archived, with their content imported into the new system.

Development

Conditional Conformance in the Standard Library

Swift 4.1 adds conditional conformances, which let generic types like Array and Optional conform to protocols such as Equatable or Hashable only when their elements do.

Development

Monthly update #0332 • December 2017

Monthly update 332 • December 2017 • 2017-12-01 - 2017-12-31

Monthly Updates

Reflecting on the year 2017

Reflection on the year 2017, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.

Journal

Origin by Dan Brown

Dan Brown’s Origin follows Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon as he investigates the murder of a tech billionaire in Bilbao, Spain, who claims to have solved humanity’s biggest questions...

Books

Monthly update #0331 • November 2017

Monthly update 331 • November 2017 • 2017-11-01 - 2017-11-30

Monthly Updates

The Midnight Line by Lee Child

In The Midnight Line, Reacher finds a West Point ring in a pawn shop and tracks its owner, a female veteran caught in Wyoming’s opioid trade.

Books