Allied (2016), directed by Robert Zemeckis, is a wartime thriller set during the Second World War. Brad Pitt plays Max Vatan, a Canadian intelligence officer who falls in love with a French resistance fighter during a mission in North Africa.
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), directed by Chad Stahelski, follows John as a blood oath from his past forces him back into the world he tried to leave. Keanu Reeves plays John Wick, who must travel to Rome to fulfil a debt he cannot refuse.
Monthly update 321 • January 2017 • 2017-01-01 - 2017-01-31
Build times in Xcode projects that mix Objective-C and Swift rise due to the Swift compiler re-processing large bridging headers for each Swift file.
Apple announced the new Swift Evolution status page as a central spot for details on proposed changes to Swift.
If you see datastored running on your Mac, here is what this CloudKit data storage process does.
Sherlock is a British crime drama series. It aired on BBC One from 25 July 2010 to 15 January 2017. Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss created it. Benedict Cumberbatch plays Sherlock Holmes, a consulting detective in modern day London who solves cases the police cannot.
Monthly update 320 • December 2016 • 2016-12-01 - 2016-12-31
Reflection on the year 2016, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
Today we’re building another world-changing technology, machine intelligence. We know that it will affect the world in profound ways, change how the economy works, and have knock-on effects we can’t predict.
Christmas remains a time of reflection for me. The coming of Jesus proves the depth of Gods love.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.SoftwareUpdate, controlling how macOS checks for and installs updates.
If you see parsecd in Activity Monitor and wonder what it is, here is what this macOS process does.
Swift 3.1 aims to maintain source compatibility with Swift 3.0 while adding minor language enhancements, improvements to the Swift Package Manager, better Linux support, and general fixes to the compiler and standard library, with a planned release in spring 2017.
Monthly update 319 • November 2016 • 2016-11-01 - 2016-11-30
Night School revisits 1996, with Reacher in Hamburg teaming with CIA and NSA agents to stop a jihadist selling a nuclear weapon.
If you see mdmclient processes running on your Mac, here is what these Mobile Device Management processes do.
If you see a process called deleted in Activity Monitor, here is what it does and why it is there.
If you see WirelessRadioManager-osx running on your Mac, here is what this wireless radio management process does.
Monthly update 318 • October 2016 • 2016-10-01 - 2016-10-31
Swift grew popular for server use after its Linux port, sparking frameworks like Kitura, Vapor, Perfect, and Zewo.
If you see boswatcher running on your Mac, here is what this boot and shutdown monitoring process does.
Whole-module optimisation boosts Swift code performance by compiling all files in a module together, which allows the compiler to inline functions, specialise generics for specific types, and remove unused code across files.
You can use Touch ID instead of typing your password every time you run a sudo command in Terminal.
If your iCloud calendar is filling up with spam event invitations, here is how to deal with them and stop them from coming back.