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
Eurobloat #0078 • October 2016
The month a Belgian region of three and a half million people halted a continental trade pact, while Brussels relaunched its dream of taxing companies itself, fast-tracked a treaty before its own members had ratified it, and offered teenagers free train tickets to feel European.
Eurobloat
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
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
Privacy Roundup #0123 • October 2016
October 2016 was dominated by mass surveillance disclosures, record breaking botnet attacks on the open internet and a wave of breaches and rulings that tested how far governments and companies could reach into private data.
Privacy
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
Eurobloat #0077 • September 2016
The month Brussels answered Brexit by demanding more Europe: a defence fund, an EU army headquarters, free wifi, a link tax, and a roaming cap so stupid that Juncker had to bin it himself within days.
Eurobloat
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
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
Privacy Roundup #0122 • September 2016
September 2016 was dominated by record breaches and record attacks, as Yahoo admitted to history's largest hack while a botnet of insecure cameras drove the biggest assaults the internet had then seen.
Privacy
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
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
Eurobloat #0076 • August 2016
The month Brussels billed one company for a country's entire tax policy, begged Erdogan not to open the gates, and quietly decided how many days your phone may leave home.
Eurobloat
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
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