Have It All by Bethel Music
Bethel Music's 2016 live album is a generous worship set about surrender, asking God to have it all.
Music
Blog
Convert .mov to .mp4
How to convert a .mov file to .mp4 on a Mac using ffmpeg in Terminal.
Mac
Monthly update #0310 • February 2016
Monthly update 310 • February 2016 • 2016-02-01 - 2016-02-29
Monthly Updates
Love Riot by Newsboys
Newsboys' 2016 album is upbeat pop rock that calls for a gentle uprising of love rather than noise and division.
Music
Expanding Commit Access
Now that the Swift Continuous Integration system is established and proven, we’d like to grant commit access on a more frequent basis to project contributors who have established a track record of good contributions.
Development
Useful macOS defaults: Contacts
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.AddressBook, controlling how Contacts displays and sorts people.
Mac
What is coreduetd?
If you see coreduetd running on your Mac, here is what this usage intelligence process does.
Mac
The Book of Kells by Iona
Iona's 1992 album inspired by the ancient gospel manuscript, an ambitious record I found years later.
Music
Swift Benchmark Suite now Available
Apple's Swift Team has released the benchmark suite as open source. It includes 75 benchmarks for key Swift tasks, libraries for common functions, a driver to run and show metrics, and a tool to compare versions.
Development
Monthly update #0309 • January 2016
Monthly update 309 • January 2016 • 2016-01-01 - 2016-01-31
Monthly Updates
Here as in Heaven by Elevation Worship
Elevation Worship's 2016 live album is a bold worship set about heaven touching earth, led by O Come to the Altar.
Music
Continuous Integration now Available
Apple has rolled out continuous integration for the Swift project. Jenkins powers the system, which builds and tests on macOS, iOS simulator, and Ubuntu versions 14.04 and 15.10.
Development
It's Coming: the Great Swift API Transformation
Apple saw a style gap between Cocoa interfaces and the Swift standard library. This gap made coding, debugging, and upkeep harder.
Development
Let It Echo by Jesus Culture
Jesus Culture's 2016 live album is a stirring worship set about a presence that fills a room and echoes outward.
Music
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest by Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer's 2006 release, a cinematic score built to carry a story. I came to it well after release and have returned to it since.
Music
Swift 2.2 Release Process
Swift 2.2 marks the first official release after Swift became open source. It stays mostly compatible with Swift 2.1 and focuses on core fixes, better diagnostics, and faster code without big language changes.
Development
Why I developed Fletta?
Quiet moving to Universal Purchases
Projects
Monthly update #0308 • December 2015
Monthly update 308 • December 2015 • 2015-12-01 - 2015-12-31
Monthly Updates
The Website Obesity Crisis
In conversations with web performance advocates, I sometimes feel like a hippie talking to SUV owners about fuel economy. They have all kinds of weirdly specific tricks to improve mileage. Deflate the front left tire a little bit.
Development
Reflecting on the year 2015
Reflection on the year 2015, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
Journal
Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey is a British drama series. It aired on ITV from 26 September 2010 to 25 December 2015. Julian Fellowes wrote it. Hugh Bonneville plays Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, who runs a grand estate in the Yorkshire countryside during the early twentieth century.
TV Series
Merry Christmas
At this stage Christmas prompts serious thought. Christ was born to give us forgiveness and new life.
Christianity
The Patriot Attack by Robert Ludlum
In Robert Ludlum’s The Patriot Attack, co-authored with Kyle Mills, Covert-One's Jon Smith investigates a brewing war between Japan and China driven by a powerful new metal.
Books
A Head Full of Dreams by Coldplay
Coldplay's joyful 2015 album, a bright farewell of sorts that I discovered well after its release.
Music
Bridge of Spies
Bridge of Spies (2015), directed by Steven Spielberg, tells the true story of James Donovan. He is a lawyer who swaps spies during the Cold War. Tom Hanks plays Donovan with steady calm.
Movies