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What is nehelper?

If you see nehelper running on your Mac, here is what this network extension process does.

2017-03-06 17:00 Mac

Monthly update #0322 • February 2017

Monthly update 322 • February 2017 • 2017-02-01 - 2017-02-28

2017-03-06 17:00 Monthly Updates

What is touchbarserver?

If you see touchbarserver running on your Mac, here is what this Touch Bar process does.

2017-02-20 17:00 Mac

Swift 4 Release Process

Swift 4 is a major release set for fall 2017. It focuses on source stability for Swift 3 code and essential features for binary stability, with big updates to generics and the String type.

2017-02-17 17:00 Development

What is mediaremoted?

If you see mediaremoted running on your Mac, here is what this media control process does.

2017-02-13 17:00 Mac

Allied

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.

2017-02-10 17:00 Movies

John Wick: Chapter 2

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.

2017-02-10 17:00 Movies

Monthly update #0321 • January 2017

Monthly update 321 • January 2017 • 2017-01-01 - 2017-01-31

2017-02-06 17:00 Monthly Updates

Faster Mix-and-Match Builds with Precompiled Bridging Headers

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.

2017-01-27 17:00 Development

Swift Evolution Status Page Now Available

Apple announced the new Swift Evolution status page as a central spot for details on proposed changes to Swift.

2017-01-19 17:00 Development

What is datastored?

If you see datastored running on your Mac, here is what this CloudKit data storage process does.

2017-01-16 17:00 Mac

Sherlock

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.

2017-01-15 17:00 TV Series

Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise by Jean-Michel Jarre

Jean-Michel Jarre's second Electronica volume is a sprawl of collaborations, an instrumental tour through decades of electronic sound.

2017-01-12 17:00 Music

Monthly update #0320 • December 2016

Monthly update 320 • December 2016 • 2016-12-01 - 2016-12-31

2017-01-02 17:00 Monthly Updates

Reflecting on the year 2016

Reflection on the year 2016, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.

2016-12-31 17:00 Journal

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

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.

2016-12-27 17:00 Gems

Merry Christmas

Christmas remains a time of reflection for me. The coming of Jesus proves the depth of Gods love.

2016-12-25 16:00 Christianity

Close as You Get by Gary Moore

Gary Moore's 2007 release, a record that leans on tone and touch. I reached it late and it has stayed with me.

2016-12-20 17:00 Music

Christmas Chants by Gregorian

A later discovery: Gregorian's 2006 album sets carols and modern songs to choral chant and soft new age textures for the season.

2016-12-16 17:00 Music

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

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.

2016-12-15 17:00 Books

Useful macOS defaults: Software Update

Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.SoftwareUpdate, controlling how macOS checks for and installs updates.

2016-12-12 17:00 Mac

What is parsecd?

If you see parsecd in Activity Monitor and wonder what it is, here is what this macOS process does.

2016-12-12 17:00 Mac

Swift 3.1 Release Process

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.

2016-12-10 17:00 Development

Monthly update #0319 • November 2016

Monthly update 319 • November 2016 • 2016-11-01 - 2016-11-30

2016-12-05 17:00 Monthly Updates

Oxygène 3 by Jean-Michel Jarre

Jean-Michel Jarre's 2016 album closes the Oxygène trilogy, warm analogue electronic music marking forty years of the original.

2016-12-02 17:00 Music