2013

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Iceland Day 08

Day 08 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

Trips

Iceland Day 07

Day 07 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

Trips

Iceland Day 06

Day 06 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

Trips

Iceland Day 05

Day 05 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

Trips

Iceland Day 04

Day 04 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

Trips

Iceland Day 03

Day 03 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

Trips

Iceland Day 02

Day 02 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

Trips

Iceland Day 01

Day 01 of 11 to Iceland together with my brother.

Trips

NSError

NSError is Cocoa's way to handle errors without exceptions. It tells about failures with a code, domain, and userInfo dictionary.

Development

Key-Value Observing

Key-Value Observing (KVO) has an ugly, wordy API, but it is one of Cocoa’s most powerful features.

Development

Monthly update #0281 • September 2013

Monthly update 281 • September 2013 • 2013-09-01 - 2013-09-30

Monthly Updates

De Cock en de geur van rottend hout by A.C. Baantjer

A woman wearing a heady perfume reports that her husband, who runs an export firm, has disappeared. De Cock and Vledder soon meet the hard reality of the crime.

Books

Privacy Roundup #0086 • September 2013

The Snowden disclosures reached their peak as the NSA was shown to undermine encryption itself, while leaders abroad and watchdogs at home pushed back.

Privacy

Eurobloat #0040 • August 2013

The month Brussels carved up its own solar market for Beijing, declared the recession over by a third of a percent, and sent a fact-finding team to Gibraltar to discover that Spain was being difficult.

Eurobloat

The Kill List by Frederick Forsyth

In Frederick Forsyth’s The Kill List, a gripping espionage thriller, a mysterious U.S. agency called TOSA is on a mission to hunt down threats to national security.

Books

De Cock en moord bij maanlicht by A.C. Baantjer

A sect moves into a former printing works in Amsterdam. Soon after, a psychiatrist is killed on the Kalkmarkt. De Cock must find out if the two are connected.

Books

Privacy Roundup #0085 • August 2013

August 2013 belonged to the Snowden fallout, as fresh leaks, an audit of thousands of NSA violations and the shutdown of encrypted email services laid bare the cost of mass surveillance.

Privacy

Monthly update #0280 • August 2013

Monthly update 280 • August 2013 • 2013-08-01 - 2013-08-31

Monthly Updates

Eurobloat #0039 • July 2013

The month Brussels swallowed Croatia, drafted its own prosecutor, lectured Washington about snooping while building a snooping directive of its own, and approved a tax its own lawyers said was illegal.

Eurobloat

NSHashTable & NSMapTable

NSHashTable acts as a general version of NSSet. It is mutable, holds weak references, can copy items on input, and handles arbitrary pointers using pointer identity for equality and hashing.

Development

Useful macOS defaults: System Preferences

Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.systempreferences, controlling the legacy System Preferences app.

Mac

What are the coredisplay and corestorage processes?

If you see coredisplay or corestorage processes on your Mac, here is what they do.

Mac

What is TrustEvaluationAgent?

If you see TrustEvaluationAgent running on your Mac, here is what this certificate trust process does.

Mac

The Utopia Experiment by Robert Ludlum

In Robert Ludlum’s The Utopia Experiment, co-authored with Kyle Mills, Covert-One's Jon Smith looks into a new brain-computer device that may not be the gift its inventor claims.

Books

De Cock en het roodzijden nachthemd by A.C. Baantjer

De Cock and Vledder try to find the person who has murdered several women, each dressed in a red silk nightgown.

Books