To the Ends of the Earth by Hillsong United
A later discovery of Hillsong United's 2002 live record, an early, eager set of youth worship anthems.
Music
Blog
England Day 07
Day 7 of my trip to England.
Trips
England Day 06
Day 6 of my trip to England.
Trips
Monthly update #0352 • August 2019
Monthly update 352 • August 2019 • 2019-08-01 - 2019-08-31
Monthly Updates
England Day 05
Day 5 of my trip to England.
Trips
England Day 04
Day 4 of my trip to England.
Trips
England Day 03
Day 3 of my trip to England.
Trips
England Day 02
Day 2 of my trip to England.
Trips
England Day 01
Day 1 of my trip to England.
Trips
Hey You, I Love Your Soul by Skillet
Skillet's brighter 1998 second album, a poppier turn for the band that I went back to discover.
Music
Thread Sanitizer for Swift on Linux
Swift 5.1 introduces Thread Sanitizer on Linux, enabling runtime detection of data races in multithreaded code, which can cause unexpected behaviour or memory corruption despite Swift's single-threaded safety guarantees.
Development
What is registerassistantservice?
If you see cmio.registerassistantservice running on your Mac, here is what this camera registration process does.
Mac
Monthly update #0351 • July 2019
Monthly update 351 • July 2019 • 2019-07-01 - 2019-07-31
Monthly Updates
Victorious by Skillet
Skillet's 2019 album is hard rock about rising from defeat, all big riffs and bigger choruses about winning through.
Music
Alpha Compositing
Transparency may not seem particularly exciting. The GIF image format which allowed some pixels to show through the background was published over 30 years ago.
Gems
Toy Story 4
Toy Story 4 (2019), directed by Josh Cooley, finds Woody with a new child named Bonnie. Tom Hanks voices Woody, the cowboy who still leads. Tim Allen acts as Buzz Lightyear, the ranger who seeks his voice.
Movies
Wonder by Michael W. Smith
Michael W. Smith's 2010 release, craft and polish in every chorus. I reached it late and it has stayed with me.
Music
Formatter
The article explores the Formatter class in Swift’s Foundation framework, essential for transforming data into human-readable formats, addressing complexities like user language, calendar, and currency preferences.
Development
United by Newsboys
Newsboys United's 2019 record reunites two eras of the band for a bright set of arena-ready Christian pop rock.
Music
CAEmitterLayer
The article introduces CAEmitterLayer for creating a confetti effect on iOS, explaining its role as a high-performance particle system within the Quartz Core framework for rendering effects like confetti, fire, or rain.
Development
Monthly update #0350 • June 2019
Monthly update 350 • June 2019 • 2019-06-01 - 2019-06-30
Monthly Updates
Maps of Meaning 12: Final: The Divinity of the Individual
Peterson reflects on the core problem he addressed in the class: why people cling to belief systems and even fight over them.
Gems
What is containermanagerd?
If you see containermanagerd running on your Mac, here is what this app sandbox container process does.
Mac
Operation Finale
Operation Finale (2018), directed by Chris Weitz, tells the true story of how Israeli agents caught Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960 AD. Oscar Isaac plays Peter Malkin, the agent who grabs Eichmann.
Movies
Arctic
Arctic (2018), directed by Joe Penna, follows a man stranded alone in the Arctic after a plane crash. Mads Mikkelsen plays Overgard, a pilot surviving day by day in the frozen wilderness, waiting for a rescue that does not come.
Movies