What is mediaremoteagent?
If you see mediaremoteagent in Activity Monitor, here is what this macOS process does.
Mac
Blog
Monthly update #0348 • April 2019
Monthly update 348 • April 2019 • 2019-04-01 - 2019-04-30
Monthly Updates
Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation
Peterson explores what makes things most real. Real things last long across time. They appear in many situations. He rejects the idea that humans evolved only on the African veldt. Patterns from all evolutionary history shape people.
Gems
Privacy and User Experience
Good serie on privacy and user experience by Smashing Magazine. Worth the read!
Development
Internal Phone Numbers
Internal Phone Numbers let you quickly lookup phone numbers from your colleagues.
Projects
People by Hillsong United
Hillsong United's 2019 live worship record gathers a congregation around songs of grace, fire, and being found.
Music
CoreGraphics Geometry Primitives
The article provides a concise guide to Core Graphics geometry types in Swift, essential for Quartz 2D drawing on Apple platforms, covering CGFloat, CGPoint, CGVector, CGSize, and CGRect, with iOS using a top-left origin and macOS a bottom-left origin by default.
Development
Happy Easter
The meaning of Easter stays vital in adulthood. Resurrection day marks the start of new possibilities.
Christianity
Good Friday
The meaning of Good Friday stays vital in adulthood. The death of Christ marks the cost of sin and the gift of grace.
Christianity
Maps of Meaning 07: Images of Story and Metastory
Peterson explores how basic categories frame the world. These categories appear first in images. They exist long before names or words.
Gems
Guided Access
Guided Access, introduced in iOS 6, is an accessibility feature that locks an iOS app to prevent unintended exits, configurable to disable specific screen regions, hardware buttons, motion, keyboards, touch, or set time limits, activated via triple-clicking the Home/Side button or Siri.
Development
What is displaypolicyd?
If you see displaypolicyd running on your Mac, here is what this display management process does.
Mac
Inception: Music from the Motion Picture by Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer's 2010 release, a cinematic score built to carry a story. I came to it well after release and have returned to it since.
Music
RealCharlieKirk
The YouTube channel RealCharlieKirk is run by Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, and focuses on conservative political commentary, interviews, and discussions.
Gems
Monthly update #0347 • March 2019
Monthly update 347 • March 2019 • 2019-03-01 - 2019-03-31
Monthly Updates
Maps of Meaning 06: Story and Metastory (Part 2)
Peterson discusses the human struggle with complexity. Individual consciousness is limited. The world around and inside people is vast and hard to grasp.
Gems
Swift 5 Released!
Swift 5.0 marks a major milestone with ABI stability on Apple platforms, integrating the Swift runtime into macOS, iOS, tvOS, and watchOS for smaller apps and better performance.
Development
UTF-8 String
Swift 5 changes String's preferred encoding from UTF-16 to UTF-8 for better performance in modern computing, like server-side work and C interop, while keeping efficient Objective-C bridging.
Development
Maps of Meaning 05: Story and Metastory (Part 1)
Peterson explains why people see so little of the world. The brain simplifies reality to help action.
Gems
LocalizedError, RecoverableError, CustomNSError
Swift’s error handling works well with Cocoa’s NSError system. Swift 3 added three little-known protocols to make this link even better.
Development
Berlin Station
Berlin Station is an American spy drama series. It aired on Epix from 16 October 2016 to 17 February 2019. Olen Steinhauer created it. Richard Armitage plays Daniel Miller, a CIA officer sent to the agency's Berlin station to find a mole leaking classified information.
TV Series
Victory by Bethel Music
Bethel Music's 2019 live record gathers a worship collective around songs of resurrection and an empty grave.
Music
Campus Battlefield by Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk’s Campus Battlefield: How Conservatives Can WIN the Battle on Campus and Why It Matters, argues that American colleges have become centres of progressive indoctrination, stifling free speech and conservative values.
Books
What is audioclocksyncd?
If you see audioclocksyncd running on your Mac, here is what this audio clock synchronisation process does.
Mac
What is AudioComponentRegistrar?
If you see AudioComponentRegistrar running on your Mac, here is what this audio plugin registration process does.
Mac