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Homeland

Homeland is an American spy thriller series. It aired on Showtime from 2 October 2011 to 26 April 2020. Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa created it. The show bases loosely on the Israeli series Prisoners of War. Claire Danes plays Carrie Mathison, a CIA officer with bipolar disorder.

TV Series

12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson

Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos gives clear advice on how to live better. He draws from psychology, old stories, religion, and his own life.

Books

Additional Linux Distributions

The Swift project now officially supports Ubuntu 20.04, CentOS 8, and Amazon Linux 2, alongside Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04, with downloadable toolchains and Docker images available on Swift.org.

Development

Monthly update #0360 • April 2020

Monthly update 360 • April 2020 • 2020-04-01 - 2020-04-30

Monthly Updates

SecKey moving to Universal Purchases

SecKey moving to Universal Purchases

Projects

Quiet moving to Universal Purchases

Quiet moving to Universal Purchases

Projects

Bordertown

Bordertown is a Finnish crime drama series. It aired on Yle from 16 October 2016 to 2020. Miikko Oikkonen created it. Ville Virtanen plays Kari Sorjonen, a brilliant detective with an unusual mind who moves his family from Helsinki to the quiet border town of Lappeenranta, near the Russian frontier.

TV Series

The MAGA Doctrine by Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk’s Right Wing Revolution: How to Beat the Woke and Save the West argues that “wokeism” threatens American freedom and traditional values.

Books

What is contextstored?

If you see contextstored running on your Mac, here is what this context awareness process does.

Mac

Happy Easter

Three decades after my first memories Easter still inspires. Jesus rose and that fact changes history.

Christianity

PlanesTrainsEverything

Planes, Trains, Everything is a YouTube channel run by Scott Manson, a Scottish travel vlogger from Paisley near Glasgow.

Gems

Good Friday

Three decades after my first memories Good Friday still inspires. Jesus died on the cross and that fact changes history.

Christianity

Monthly update #0359 • March 2020

Monthly update 359 • March 2020 • 2020-03-01 - 2020-03-31

Monthly Updates

I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did

It is not uncommon that I raise an accessibility or usability issue with a client’s design or implementation and am met with either “But Google does this,” or “But Apple does this.”

Development

Swift 5.3 Release Process

Swift 5.3 focuses on significant quality and performance improvements while expanding platform support to include Windows and additional Linux distributions.

Development

Swift 5.2 Released!

Swift 5.2 enhances the developer experience with improved compiler diagnostics, faster code completion, better debugging, and refined Swift Package Manager dependency handling.

Development

Useful macOS defaults: QuickTime Player

Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX, controlling how QuickTime Player behaves.

Mac

What is IOAccelMemoryInfoCollector?

If you see IOAccelMemoryInfoCollector running on your Mac, here is what this GPU memory monitoring process does.

Mac

Ride Upon the Storm

Ride Upon the Storm is a Danish drama series. It aired on DR1 from 1 October 2017 to 2020. Adam Price created it. Lars Mikkelsen plays Johannes Krogh, the powerful patriarch of a family of Lutheran ministers in Denmark.

TV Series

What is musicd?

If you see musicd running on your Mac, here is what this Apple Music process does.

Mac

Monthly update #0358 • February 2020

Monthly update 358 • February 2020 • 2020-02-01 - 2020-02-29

Monthly Updates

Announcing ArgumentParser

The Swift ArgumentParser library simplifies parsing command-line arguments with a type-safe, declarative approach using Swift features like property wrappers and reflection.

Development

Standard Library Preview Package

Swift 5 introduces the Standard Library Preview package, an open-source tool bundling accepted Swift Evolution features not yet in official releases, starting with SE-0270 for subrange operations like subranges(where:) and moveSubranges(_:to:) on collections, plus the RangeSet type.

Development

What is endpointsecurityd?

If you see endpointsecurityd running on your Mac, here is what this security framework process does.

Mac

Gears

I’ve always been fascinated by mechanical gears. There is something captivating about the way their teeth come together to create a fluid, unified motion.

Gems