Monthly update #0412 • August 2024
Monthly update 412 • August 2024 • 2024-08-01 - 2024-08-31
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Great Rivers Path part 9
Walking from Hei- en Boeicop to Leerdam (13.12 km).
Great Rivers Path part 8
Hiking from Ameide to Hei- en Boeicop (16.47 km).
Great Rivers Path part 7
Hiking from Bergambacht to Ameide (22.61 km).
Great Rivers Path part 6
Hiking from Krimpen aan den IJssel to Bergambacht (14.77 km).
Introducing Oblivious HTTP support in Swift
Apple has introduced SwiftNIO Oblivious HTTP, a new open-source package implementing provisional support for Oblivious HTTP, enhancing client privacy by preventing servers from identifying request sources through encryption and a trusted third-party relay.
Great Rivers Path part 5
Hiking from Rijsoord to Krimpen aan den IJssel (16.06 km).
Great Rivers Path part 4
Hiking from Rhoon to Rijsoord (18.37 km).
Milestone - Weight: sub 100 kg
Today, I reached a significant milestone in my journey. I now weigh less than 100 kilograms.
Nerdy internals of an Apple text editor
A lovely deep dive in TextView and related API's. Very well written, accompanied with good images/videos to explain something, absolutely worth the read.
Great Rivers Path part 3
Hiking from Geervliet to Rhoon (15.13 km).
Great Rivers Path part 2
Hiking from Maasland to Geervliet (18.00 km).
Monthly update #0411 • July 2024
Monthly update 411 • July 2024 • 2024-07-01 - 2024-07-31
Great Rivers Path part 1
Hiking from Hoek van Holland beach to Maasland (23.67 km).
Announcing Swift Homomorphic Encryption
Apple has announced swift-homomorphic-encryption, a new open-source Swift package that brings Homomorphic Encryption (HE) to Swift.
Milestone - Weight: sub 110 kg
Today, I reached a significant milestone in my journey. I now weigh less than 110 kilograms.
Monthly update #0410 • June 2024
Monthly update 410 • June 2024 • 2024-06-01 - 2024-06-30
Right Wing Revolution by Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk’s Right Wing Revolution: How to Beat the Woke and Save the West argues that “wokeism” threatens American freedom and traditional values.
Plotting a Path to a Package Ecosystem without Data Race Errors
Swift 6 introduces compile-time data race safety checks for code opting into the Swift 6 language mode, significantly reducing crashes and performance issues, but full benefits require ecosystem-wide adoption.
This is the start of an epic journey!
Welcome to my epic journey of moving 384400 kilometres – the exact distance from earth to the moon!
New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project
The Swift programming language is migrating to a dedicated GitHub organisation at GitHub.com/swiftlang, reflecting its growing versatility and community maturity beyond Apple’s ecosystems.
Update on privacy in Apple's ecosystem 2024
Every year, WWDC showcases Apple’s commitment to user privacy, and 2024 is no exception. I watched four sessions totalling about 1 hour and 20 minutes, and I’m excited to share the highlights of Apple’s privacy advancements.
Monthly update #0409 • May 2024
Monthly update 409 • May 2024 • 2024-05-01 - 2024-05-31
Little Snitch
Little Snitch is a powerful firewall and network monitoring application designed for macOS. Developed by Objective Development, it gives you control over your Mac’s incoming and outgoing network connections.
On Fluent Models and Sendable warnings
Since FluentKit 1.48.0, users have encountered a warning about mutable stored properties in Sendable-conforming Model classes due to Swift’s concurrency requirements and property wrapper limitations.