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South Africa Day 07

Day 7 of the trip to South Africa

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South Africa Day 06

Day 6 of the trip to South Africa

    Monthly Updates

    Monthly update #0408 • April 2024

    Monthly update 408 • April 2024 • 2024-04-01 - 2024-04-30

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      South Africa Day 05

      Day 5 of the trip to South Africa

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      South Africa Day 04

      Day 4 of the trip to South Africa

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        South Africa Day 02

        Day 2 of the trip to South Africa

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          South Africa Day 01

          Day 1 of the trip to South Africa

          Books

          Geheim Verzet by Beene Dubbelboer

          Beene Dubbelboer's Geheim Verzet follows two boys, Wim and Geert, in a Dutch village near the German border during World War II. They overhear German soldiers plotting the 1940 invasion of the Netherlands and alert their families.

          Monthly Updates

          Monthly update #0407 • March 2024

          Monthly update 407 • March 2024 • 2024-03-01 - 2024-03-31

            Development

            Get Started with Embedded Swift on ARM and RISC-V Microcontrollers

            Apple has introduced a repository, swift-embedded-examples, showcasing Embedded Swift, a new experimental compilation mode for Swift targeting constrained microcontrollers like ARM and RISC-V, suitable for IoT and electronics projects.

            Trips

            Stockholm Day 04

            Day 4 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. Time flew by and it is already time to fly back home.

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            Stockholm Day 03

            Day 3 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. I walked around the old city centre of Stockholm, plenty to see.

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              Stockholm Day 02

              Day 2 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. I also hiked the Tyresta Lakes Loop in Tyresta National Park...

                Hiking

                Tyresta Lakes Loop

                Hiked the Tyresta Lakes Loop with a distance of 13.4 kilometres in Tyresta National Park.

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                Stockholm Day 01

                Day 1 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. Flight was pleasant.

                Development

                SSWG 2024 Annual Update

                The Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG) 2024 annual update highlights 2023 achievements and sets goals for the coming year.

                Development

                Writing GNOME Apps with Swift

                Adwaita for Swift is a new open-source package that enables Swift developers to create GNOME applications for Linux, leveraging Swift’s clean syntax, static typing, and result builders for a declarative, readable, and memory-safe user interface design.

                Development

                Introducing the Benchmark Package: Complementing Unit Tests with Performance Checks

                The Swift Benchmark package, a new open-source tool developed due to the lack of suitable multi-platform benchmarking solutions, integrates performance testing into Swift’s ecosystem, emphasising the importance of speed alongside functionality in software development.

                Development

                Byte-sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate

                Swift is a versatile language for embedded systems due to its memory safety and ergonomics, as shown by porting games to the Playdate handheld console using the new embedded language mode.

                Books

                The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes

                In Terry Hayes’ The Year of the Locust, a sprawling espionage thriller, CIA Denied Access Area spy Ridley Kane ventures into the volatile borderlands of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan to extract an informant with critical intelligence on a rising terrorist threat.

                Trips

                Barcelona Day 03

                Day 3 of the weekend trip to Barcelona. Today was actual nice weather, but unfortunately also the last day in Barcelona.

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                Barcelona Day 02

                Day 2 of the weekend trip to Barcelona. Of course it is raining when I am in Barcelona...

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                  Barcelona Day 01

                  Day 1 of the weekend trip to Barcelona.

                  Development

                  Iterate Over Parameter Packs in Swift 6.0

                  Swift 6.0 introduces pack iteration, enhancing parameter packs from Swift 5.9 to simplify working with variable-length generic arguments.