2016

39 posts

Reflecting on the year 2016

Reflection on the year 2016, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.

2016-12-31 17:00 Journal

Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

Today we’re building another world-changing technology, machine intelligence. We know that it will affect the world in profound ways, change how the economy works, and have knock-on effects we can’t predict.

2016-12-27 17:00 Gems

Swift 3.1 Release Process

Swift 3.1 aims to maintain source compatibility with Swift 3.0 while adding minor language enhancements, improvements to the Swift Package Manager, better Linux support, and general fixes to the compiler and standard library, with a planned release in spring 2017.

2016-12-10 17:00 Development

Monthly update #0319 • November 2016

Monthly update 319 • November 2016 • 2016-11-01 - 2016-11-30

2016-12-05 17:00 Monthly Updates

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.

2016-11-25 17:00 Books

Monthly update #0318 • October 2016

Monthly update 318 • October 2016 • 2016-10-01 - 2016-10-31

2016-11-07 17:00 Monthly Updates

Server APIs Work Group

Swift grew popular for server use after its Linux port, sparking frameworks like Kitura, Vapor, Perfect, and Zewo.

2016-10-26 17:00 Development

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.

2016-10-22 17:00 Development

Monthly update #0317 • September 2016

Monthly update 317 • September 2016 • 2016-09-01 - 2016-09-30

2016-10-03 17:00 Monthly Updates

Quiet

Quiet is a content blocker for Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

2016-09-24 17:00 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.

2016-09-19 17:00 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.

2016-09-14 17:00 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.

2016-09-06 17:00 Remembering

Monthly update #0316 • August 2016

Monthly update 316 • August 2016 • 2016-08-01 - 2016-08-31

2016-09-05 17:00 Monthly Updates

Jason Bourne

Jason Bourne (2016), directed by Paul Greengrass, brings back the lost agent. Matt Damon plays Bourne with hard eyes and quick fists. He fights in crowds and dark streets.

2016-08-14 17:00 Movies

Monthly update #0315 • July 2016

Monthly update 315 • July 2016 • 2016-07-01 - 2016-07-31

2016-08-08 17:00 Monthly Updates

Person of Interest

Person of Interest is an American crime drama series. It aired on CBS from 22 September 2011 to 21 June 2016. Jonathan Nolan created it. The show stars Jim Caviezel as John Reese, a former CIA agent thought dead. Michael Emerson plays Harold Finch, a rich tech expert.

2016-07-12 17:00 TV Series

Xcode Playground Support

Apple introduced Xcode Playground Support as part of the open source Swift community, which lets developers build a toolchain to use the latest Swift features in Xcode 8 playgrounds.

2016-07-08 17:00 Development

Monthly update #0314 • June 2016

Monthly update 314 • June 2016 • 2016-06-01 - 2016-06-30

2016-07-04 17:00 Monthly Updates

Swift 3.0 Preview 1 Released!

Apple announced Developer Preview 1 of Swift 3.0, which offers stable builds to test the work-in-progress version before the final release.

2016-06-14 17:00 Development

Swift 2.3

Apple announced Swift 2.3 as a minor update from Swift 2.2.1. The main change is that it works with Apple’s macOS 10.12, iOS 10, watchOS 3, and tvOS 10 SDKs, and it updates LLVM and Clang to match Swift 3.

2016-06-13 17:00 Development

Monthly update #0313 • May 2016

Monthly update 313 • May 2016 • 2016-05-01 - 2016-05-31

2016-06-06 17:00 Monthly Updates

Homebrew - List of all packages installed

When you use Homebrew to manage software on your Mac, you often want to know exactly what you have installed. This helps when you set up a new computer or share your setup with others.

2016-05-22 17:00 Mac

Swift 3.0 Release Process

Swift 3.0 marks a major release without source compatibility to Swift 2.2. It brings key changes to the language and standard library through the evolution process.

2016-05-07 17:00 Development

Monthly update #0312 • April 2016

Monthly update 312 • April 2016 • 2016-04-01 - 2016-04-30

2016-05-02 17:00 Monthly Updates