Monthly update #0301 • May 2015
Monthly update 301 • May 2015 • 2015-05-01 - 2015-05-31
Monthly Updates
Blog
De Cock en moord in triplo by A.C. Baantjer
Arendje van Nijmegen reports her husband missing, and he is soon found dead. When her lover dies too, De Cock stops believing in coincidence.
Books
Pentecost
At this stage Pentecost prompts serious thought. The Holy Spirit came to give us power and direction.
Christianity
Empires by Hillsong United
Hillsong United's 2015 album, an atmospheric worship record about mercy that outlasts the empires we build.
Music
Fletta
Fletta is a webbrowser specially designed for usages in public places, for example in hotels, restaurants, libraries, etc. It wil take cares of your users privacy.
Projects
Ascension Day
At this stage Ascension Day prompts serious thought. Christ went up to heaven to give us hope and direction.
Christianity
De Cock en de dartele weduwe by A.C. Baantjer
Soon after a young widow reports being stalked by a former lover, her new partner is found murdered. Money, blackmail and jealousy all seem to play a part.
Books
Monthly update #0300 • April 2015
Monthly update 300 • April 2015 • 2015-04-01 - 2015-04-30
Monthly Updates
Useful macOS defaults: Crash Reporter
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.CrashReporter, controlling how crash dialogs behave.
Mac
The Imitation Game
The Grey (2011), directed by Joe Carnahan, follows men who crash in Alaska. Liam Neeson plays Ottway, a hunter who guards oil workers. He knows wolves and death.
Movies
De Cock en de dood van een kunstenaar by A.C. Baantjer
A painter who is De Cock's friend fears for his life and asks him to lead the case if anything happens. Soon after, the man is shot dead while walking his dog.
Books
Monthly update #0299 • March 2015
Monthly update 299 • March 2015 • 2015-03-01 - 2015-03-31
Monthly Updates
Happy Easter
At this stage Easter prompts serious thought. Christ rose to give us new life and purpose.
Christianity
Good Friday
At this stage Good Friday prompts serious thought. Christ died on the cross to give us purpose and forgiveness.
Christianity
About labels and icons
In the battle of clarity between icons and labels, labels always win.
Development
Parks and Recreation
Parks and Recreation is an American comedy series. It aired on NBC from 9 April 2009 to 24 February 2015. Greg Daniels and Michael Schur created it. Amy Poehler plays Leslie Knope, a cheerful and driven mid-level bureaucrat in the parks department of Pawnee, Indiana.
TV Series
The Mentalist
The Mentalist is an American crime drama series. It aired on CBS from 23 September 2008 to 18 February 2015. Bruno Heller created it. Simon Baker plays Patrick Jane, a former fake psychic who now works as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation.
TV Series
NSCalendar Additions
NSCalendar offers many tools for working with dates beyond basic NSDateComponents.
Development
What is system_installd?
If you see system_installd running on your Mac, here is what this system-level installer process does.
Mac
Zoolook by Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre's 1984 album built from sampled human voices, a strange record I discovered long after.
Music
De Cock en de broeders van de haat by A.C. Baantjer
On his last day before a forced holiday, De Cock hears of the murder of Alexander de Rijke, a charismatic leader with many followers, and people soon arrive asking for his help.
Books
NSScanner
NSScanner wraps a string to pull out substrings and numbers. It has properties like caseSensitive (for matches), charactersToBeSkipped (ignores chars), scanLocation (current position), locale (for numbers).
Development
Monthly update #0298 • February 2015
Monthly update 298 • February 2015 • 2015-02-01 - 2015-02-28
Monthly Updates
The Heavy Water War
The Heavy Water War is a Norwegian miniseries. It aired on NRK in January 2015. Petter S. Rosenlund directed it. The show tells the true story of the Allied effort to stop Nazi Germany from building an atomic bomb by sabotaging the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant at Vemork in occupied Norway during the Second World War.
TV Series
Batman Begins: Music from the Motion Picture by Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer's 2005 release, an atmospheric film score of mood and motion. I reached it late and it has stayed with me.
Music