Useful macOS defaults: Keyboard
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.keyboard and related domains, controlling key repeat, function keys, and input behaviour.
Mac
Blog
Monthly update #0329 • September 2017
Monthly update 329 • September 2017 • 2017-09-01 - 2017-09-30
Monthly Updates
Swift 4.0 Released!
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.
Development
Everything by Jesus Culture
Jesus Culture's 2006 live worship album, an early recording from the movement that I came to later.
Music
Love Has a Name by Jesus Culture
Jesus Culture's 2017 live album is a long, warm gathering of praise, centred on a love that names and finds people.
Music
Monthly update #0328 • August 2017
Monthly update 328 • August 2017 • 2017-08-01 - 2017-08-31
Monthly Updates
Swift Local Refactoring
Xcode 9 features a new refactoring engine that transforms Swift code either locally in one file or globally across files and languages.
Development
The Resistance by Skillet
You can take my heart, you can take my breath; When you pry it from my cold, dead chest;
Music
Monthly update #0327 • July 2017
Monthly update 327 • July 2017 • 2017-07-01 - 2017-07-31
Monthly Updates
Cars 3
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.
Movies
Alpha / Omega by Kutless
Kutless's 2017 worship record gives well-loved praise songs a rock edge, steady and direct from start to finish.
Music
Read All About It by Newsboys
The Newsboys' 1988 debut, the rough Australian beginning of a long band that I traced back to.
Music
Bad for You Baby by Gary Moore
Gary Moore's 2008 release, guitar-led music with real feeling. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
Music
Monthly update #0326 • June 2017
Monthly update 326 • June 2017 • 2017-06-01 - 2017-06-30
Monthly Updates
Useful macOS defaults: Trackpad
Handy defaults write commands for the trackpad, controlling gestures, tap to click, speed, and more.
Mac
Swift Package Manager Manifest API Redesign
Swift 4 redesigned the Package.swift manifest API in the Package Manager to make it simpler and match the design rules.
Development
Wonder by Hillsong United
Hillsong United's 2017 album leans into awe and creation, a worship record that keeps reaching for the vast and the unseen.
Music
Monthly update #0325 • May 2017
Monthly update 325 • May 2017 • 2017-05-01 - 2017-05-31
Monthly Updates
Pentecost
Over the years my grasp of Pentecost has matured. The Holy Spirit came for all who believe in Jesus.
Christianity
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), directed by Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg, follows the son of Will Turner as he searches for the Trident of Poseidon to free his father from a curse. Johnny Depp plays Jack Sparrow, now down on his luck and hunted by a ghost from his past.
Movies
Ascension Day
Over the years my grasp of Ascension Day has matured. Jesus ascended to heaven for all who believe.
Christianity
Home for Christmas by BarlowGirl
BarlowGirl's 2008 release, guitars with weight and drive. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
Music
What is avbdeviced?
If you see avbdeviced running on your Mac, here is what this audio/video networking process does.
Mac
Pop by U2
U2's 1997 dance-rock experiment, a restless record about faith and emptiness that I found long after its release.
Music
Monthly update #0324 • April 2017
Monthly update 324 • April 2017 • 2017-04-01 - 2017-04-30
Monthly Updates