Paddington 2 (2017), directed by Paul King, follows Paddington as he is wrongly sent to prison after a thief steals the birthday present he planned to give his aunt. Ben Whishaw voices Paddington, now a beloved member of the Brown family and the neighbourhood.
It is the thirty-seventh book in the Asterix series. Caesar organises a chariot race across Italy. Asterix and Obelix enter to represent Gaul.
Monthly update 330 • October 2017 • 2017-10-01 - 2017-10-31
If you see AssetCache processes running on your Mac, here is what this content caching service does.
Skillet's 2000 album, a heavier and more electronic turn for the band, a record I came to long after release.
Swift 4.1 is a source-compatible update to Swift 4.0 that adds minor language enhancements, improves the Swift Package Manager and Linux support, and includes quality fixes to the compiler and standard library, but it lacks binary compatibility due to ABI stabilisation work for Swift 5.
Bethel Music's 2017 live album, recorded on tour, gathers light and courage into songs built for a crowd to sing.
If you see apfsd running on your Mac, here is what this Apple File System process does.
If you see coupond in Activity Monitor, here is what this macOS process does.
Swift has features that let you set expectations in your code. If these are not met at runtime, the program stops.
Swift 4 adds new methods and initialisers to dictionaries and sets that simplify tasks like grouping, filtering, and transforming data.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.keyboard and related domains, controlling key repeat, function keys, and input behaviour.
Monthly update 329 • September 2017 • 2017-09-01 - 2017-09-30
Apple released Swift 4 as a major update that builds on Swift 3 with better robustness, stability, source compatibility, standard library improvements, and new features like archival and serialisation.
Jesus Culture's 2006 live worship album, an early recording from the movement that I came to later.
Jesus Culture's 2017 live album is a long, warm gathering of praise, centred on a love that names and finds people.
Monthly update 328 • August 2017 • 2017-08-01 - 2017-08-31
Xcode 9 features a new refactoring engine that transforms Swift code either locally in one file or globally across files and languages.
You can take my heart, you can take my breath; When you pry it from my cold, dead chest;
Monthly update 327 • July 2017 • 2017-07-01 - 2017-07-31
Cars 3 (2017), directed by Brian Fee, brings Lightning McQueen back to the track. Owen Wilson voices McQueen with age and drive. He faces new fast cars. Cristela Alonzo acts as Cruz Ramirez, the young trainer who dreams big.
Kutless's 2017 worship record gives well-loved praise songs a rock edge, steady and direct from start to finish.
The Newsboys' 1988 debut, the rough Australian beginning of a long band that I traced back to.
Gary Moore's 2008 release, guitar-led music with real feeling. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
Monthly update 326 • June 2017 • 2017-06-01 - 2017-06-30