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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016), directed by Michael Bay, shows the attack on a US compound in Libya in 2012 AD. John Krasinski plays Jack Silva, a guard who fights to stay alive.

Movies

Monthly update #0311 • March 2016

Monthly update 311 • March 2016 • 2016-03-01 - 2016-03-31

Monthly Updates

New Features in Swift 2.2

Swift 2.2 adds features such as compile-time version checks with #if swift(>=3.0), checked selectors using #selector to avoid runtime errors, built-in tuple comparisons up to six elements, and allows most keywords as argument labels without backticks.

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Swift 2.2 Released!

Apple launched Swift as an open source project with the Swift.org site, which includes key parts like the compiler, standard library, LLDB debugger, core libraries, and package manager.

Development

Monthly update #0310 • February 2016

Monthly update 310 • February 2016 • 2016-02-01 - 2016-02-29

Monthly Updates

Expanding Commit Access

Now that the Swift Continuous Integration system is established and proven, we’d like to grant commit access on a more frequent basis to project contributors who have established a track record of good contributions.

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Swift Benchmark Suite now Available

Apple's Swift Team has released the benchmark suite as open source. It includes 75 benchmarks for key Swift tasks, libraries for common functions, a driver to run and show metrics, and a tool to compare versions.

Development

Monthly update #0309 • January 2016

Monthly update 309 • January 2016 • 2016-01-01 - 2016-01-31

Monthly Updates

Continuous Integration now Available

Apple has rolled out continuous integration for the Swift project. Jenkins powers the system, which builds and tests on macOS, iOS simulator, and Ubuntu versions 14.04 and 15.10.

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It's Coming: the Great Swift API Transformation

Apple saw a style gap between Cocoa interfaces and the Swift standard library. This gap made coding, debugging, and upkeep harder.

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Swift 2.2 Release Process

Swift 2.2 marks the first official release after Swift became open source. It stays mostly compatible with Swift 2.1 and focuses on core fixes, better diagnostics, and faster code without big language changes.

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Why I developed Fletta?

Quiet moving to Universal Purchases

Projects

Monthly update #0308 • December 2015

Monthly update 308 • December 2015 • 2015-12-01 - 2015-12-31

Monthly Updates

The Website Obesity Crisis

In conversations with web performance advocates, I sometimes feel like a hippie talking to SUV owners about fuel economy. They have all kinds of weirdly specific tricks to improve mileage. Deflate the front left tire a little bit.

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