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.
Jean-Michel Jarre's second Electronica volume is a sprawl of collaborations, an instrumental tour through decades of electronic sound.
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.
Gary Moore's 2007 release, a record that leans on tone and touch. I reached it late and it has stayed with me.
A later discovery: Gregorian's 2006 album sets carols and modern songs to choral chant and soft new age textures for the season.
In Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari looks ahead from the rise of Homo sapiens to a possible future where biotech and data give people the power once given to the gods.
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
Jean-Michel Jarre's 2016 album closes the Oxygène trilogy, warm analogue electronic music marking forty years of the original.
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.
Enigma's 2016 album is a cinematic electronic concept record about a soul's journey through doubt toward a new life.
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
Lucky Luke escorts the Stern family, Jewish immigrants newly arrived from Poland, across the country to the home a friend has waiting for them in the West.
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.
Chris Tomlin's 2016 album is bright, melodic worship about keeping your eyes fixed, led by the hymn Good Good Father.