Reflecting on the year 2020
Reflection on the year 2020, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
Journal
Blog
Merry Christmas
Three decades after my first memories Christmas still inspires. Jesus was born and that fact changes history.
Christianity
Cameras and Lenses
Pictures have always been a meaningful part of the human experience. From the first cave drawings, to sketches and paintings, to modern photography, we’ve mastered the art of recording what we see.
Gems
Monthly update #0367 • November 2020
Monthly update 367 • November 2020 • 2020-11-01 - 2020-11-30
Monthly Updates
Privacy Roundup #0172 • November 2020
November 2020 paired a wave of breach disclosures and ransomware with landmark votes and regulatory action on consumer privacy, location data and encryption.
Privacy
What is handwritingd?
If you see handwritingd running on your Mac, here is what this handwriting recognition process does.
Mac
The Sentinel by Lee Child
Co-authored with Andrew Child, The Sentinel sees Reacher save an IT manager from kidnappers in Tennessee, uncovering a ransomware plot threatening local elections.
Books
Apple Silicon Support
All my Mac apps have native support for Apple Silicon Macs. From the following versions Apple Silicon is supported...
Projects
Introducing SwiftNIO SSH
SwiftNIO SSH is a new open-source Swift package for the Swift Server ecosystem, providing a programmatic implementation of the SSHv2 protocol for building custom SSH clients and servers.
Development
What are gamecontrollerd and gamepolicyd?
If you see gamecontrollerd or gamepolicyd running on your Mac, here is what these gaming processes do.
Mac
What is trustd?
If you see trustd making network connections from your Mac, here is what it does and whether it leaks information to Apple.
Mac
Privacy Roundup #0171 • October 2020
October 2020 brought record regulatory fines, the brutal extortion of therapy patients, election-eve botnet takedowns, and a steady run of breaches that exposed how fragile personal data remained.
Privacy
Monthly update #0366 • October 2020
Monthly update 366 • October 2020 • 2020-10-01 - 2020-10-31
Monthly Updates
A Cowboy in High Cotton by Jul
Lucky Luke unwillingly inherits a Louisiana cotton plantation and hands it to the enslaved people who work it, turning every planter in the parish against him.
Books
Available?
Tired of checking everyday if a movie is available for purchase? No more… add the desired movie to Available? and it will send you a notification when a movie is available for purchase.
Projects
Introducing Swift Service Discovery
Swift Service Discovery is a new open-source package for the Swift Server ecosystem, providing a standard API for service discovery backends like DNS or key-value stores, without implementing the functionality itself.
Development
Talning
With Talning you will never miss an important day again. Like a birthday, wedding day, retirement day, sport event, vacation, and much more.
Projects
Useful macOS defaults: Photos
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.Photos, controlling how Apple Photos behaves.
Mac
What is ContainerMigrationService?
If you see ContainerMigrationService running on your Mac, here is what this app data migration process does.
Mac
Announcing Swift Algorithms
Swift Algorithms is a new open-source package offering a suite of generic sequence and collection algorithms, such as chunking, combinations, permutations, and random sampling, designed to replace error-prone loops with clear, performant code.
Development
The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3] by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3] chronicles the later stages of the Gulag system, including hard labor prisons, exile, and the post-Stalin era.
Books
Monthly update #0365 • September 2020
Monthly update 365 • September 2020 • 2020-09-01 - 2020-09-30
Monthly Updates
Introducing Swift Atomics
Swift Atomics is a new open-source package enabling low-level atomic operations in Swift, allowing systems programmers to build concurrent data structures safely.
Development
Privacy Roundup #0170 • September 2020
September 2020 brought courtroom defeats for mass surveillance and the Trump app bans, a wave of insider and misconfiguration breaches, and the first death linked to a hospital ransomware attack.
Privacy
Swift System is Now Open Source
Swift System is a new open-source library for Apple platforms and Linux, providing idiomatic, type-safe interfaces to system calls and low-level types, replacing error-prone C interfaces like the open function.
Development