Night School by Lee Child
Night School revisits 1996, with Reacher in Hamburg teaming with CIA and NSA agents to stop a jihadist selling a nuclear weapon.
Books
Blog
What are the mdmclient processes?
If you see mdmclient processes running on your Mac, here is what these Mobile Device Management processes do.
Mac
What is deleted?
If you see a process called deleted in Activity Monitor, here is what it does and why it is there.
Mac
The Fall of a Rebel Angel by Enigma
Enigma's 2016 album is a cinematic electronic concept record about a soul's journey through doubt toward a new life.
Music
What is WirelessRadioManager-osx?
If you see WirelessRadioManager-osx running on your Mac, here is what this wireless radio management process does.
Mac
Monthly update #0318 • October 2016
Monthly update 318 • October 2016 • 2016-10-01 - 2016-10-31
Monthly Updates
The Promised Land by Jul
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.
Books
Server APIs Work Group
Swift grew popular for server use after its Linux port, sparking frameworks like Kitura, Vapor, Perfect, and Zewo.
Development
What is boswatcher?
If you see boswatcher running on your Mac, here is what this boot and shutdown monitoring process does.
Mac
Whole-Module Optimization in Swift 3
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.
Development
Never Lose Sight by Chris Tomlin
Chris Tomlin's 2016 album is bright, melodic worship about keeping your eyes fixed, led by the hymn Good Good Father.
Music
Let There Be Light by Hillsong Worship
Hillsong Worship's 2016 live album is a bright set of congregational songs, carried by the hymn What a Beautiful Name.
Music
Use Touch ID to authenticate sudo in Terminal
You can use Touch ID instead of typing your password every time you run a sudo command in Terminal.
Mac
Spam iCloud calendar invitations
If your iCloud calendar is filling up with spam event invitations, here is how to deal with them and stop them from coming back.
Mac
How Can We Be Silent by BarlowGirl
BarlowGirl's 2007 release, guitars with weight and drive. It came to me long after release and earned its place.
Music
What is logd?
If you see logd running on your Mac, here is what this unified logging process does and why it matters.
Mac
Monthly update #0317 • September 2016
Monthly update 317 • September 2016 • 2016-09-01 - 2016-09-30
Monthly Updates
Quiet
Quiet is a content blocker for Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Projects
How to Fix “xcrun: error: invalid active developer path” after upgrading macOS
After every major macOS update (including the recent macOS Tahoe), many people open Terminal and try to use git or any other command-line tool.
Mac
The Very Next Thing by Casting Crowns
Casting Crowns' 2016 album is warm pop rock about taking the next faithful step rather than waiting for a grand plan.
Music
Swift 3.0 Released!
Apple released Swift 3.0 as the first major version since the language became open source. This update brings big changes to the core language and standard library through many Swift Evolution proposals, but it does not work with code from Swift 2.2 or 2.3.
Development
Remembering Omi
Omi, the mother of my father, died today. She was born in April 1942 and lived to the age of 74 years. She was the fun grandma that everyone in the family loved.
Remembering
Useful macOS defaults: Time Machine
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.TimeMachine, controlling backup behaviour.
Mac
What is wifianalyticsd?
If you see wifianalyticsd running on your Mac, here is what this Wi-Fi diagnostics process does.
Mac
Monthly update #0316 • August 2016
Monthly update 316 • August 2016 • 2016-08-01 - 2016-08-31
Monthly Updates