Monthly update #0360 • April 2020
Monthly update 360 • April 2020 • 2020-04-01 - 2020-04-30
Monthly Updates
Blog
Graves Into Gardens by Elevation Worship
Elevation Worship's 2020 live album turns loss into hope, anchored by its title song and the wide-open Blessing.
Music
SecKey moving to Universal Purchases
SecKey moving to Universal Purchases
Projects
Quiet moving to Universal Purchases
Quiet moving to Universal Purchases
Projects
Church Volume One by Jesus Culture
Jesus Culture's 2020 live worship record gathers a roomful of voices around songs of revival, trust and steady hope.
Music
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
Glory by Michael W. Smith
Michael W. Smith's 2011 release, calm and patient instrumental writing. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
Music
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
Let Them Talk by Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie's 2011 release, a record that leans on tone and touch. I came to it well after release and have returned to it since.
Music
What is endpointsecurityd?
If you see endpointsecurityd running on your Mac, here is what this security framework process does.
Mac