The Swift community continues to expand, with developers increasingly relying on ecosystem projects to streamline app development for specific tasks. To foster better interaction, Swift Forums has introduced a new top-level category called Related Projects.
Ascension Day calls me to remember the basics with fresh eyes. Jesus going up to heaven stands as evidence of victory.
If you see tailspind running on your Mac, here is what this background diagnostic process does.
Monthly update 336 • April 2018 • 2018-04-01 - 2018-04-30
Swift.org has expanded its continuous integration testing system to include community-hosted nodes for additional platforms.
April 2018 was dominated by the widening Cambridge Analytica fallout, a run of large retail and app breaches, and a scramble to comply with the looming GDPR deadline.
Swift 4.1 reimplements implicitly unwrapped optionals (IUOs) so they act as regular optionals with a flag that allows automatic unwrapping when needed, rather than as a distinct type.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.universalaccess, controlling accessibility and visual settings.
If you see PerfPowerServices running on your Mac, here is what this performance and power management process does.
If you see lskdd running on your Mac, here is what this Launch Services process does.
If you see ionodecache running on your Mac, here is what this I/O registry caching process does.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal broke this month and dragged Facebook into a global reckoning over data harvesting, while breaches, a sweeping surveillance law and a ransomware siege of Atlanta filled out the rest.
Monthly update 335 • March 2018 • 2018-03-01 - 2018-03-31
Easter calls me to remember the basics with fresh eyes. The empty tomb stands as evidence of divine power.
Apple released Swift 4.1 as a minor update that maintains source compatibility with Swift 4.0. It adds generics features such as conditional conformance and synthesised Equatable and Hashable support.
Good Friday calls me to remember the basics with fresh eyes. The cross stands as evidence of divine love and justice.
In Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, Michael Pollan simplifies the complex world of nutrition into easy-to-follow tips for eating well.
If you see biomed or biometrickitd running on your Mac, here is what these biometric processes do.
If you see dprivacyd running on your Mac, here is what this differential privacy process does.
Monthly update 334 • February 2018 • 2018-02-01 - 2018-02-28
Swift 4.2 serves as a step towards ABI stability in Swift 5, incorporating ABI changes for performance, bug fixes, and targeted improvements to compile-time speed.
February 2018 was dominated by leaky cloud buckets, hijacked websites mining cryptocurrency, and European courts and regulators putting Facebook and other trackers on notice.
Swift 4.1 adds a new optimisation mode called -Osize. This mode helps reduce code size by 5 to 30 percent in some projects.
Monthly update 333 • January 2018 • 2018-01-01 - 2018-01-31
January 2018 opened with the Meltdown and Spectre chip flaws and closed with the Strava heatmap exposing military bases, a month when hardware, fitness apps and national databases all leaked at once.