Privacy Roundup #0114 • January 2016
January 2016 reopened the crypto wars and exposed fragile firewalls, with NSA-tainted backdoors, point-of-sale breaches and a landmark European surveillance ruling all landing in one month.
Privacy
2016
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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.
Development
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.
Development
Privacy Roundup #0113 • December 2015
December 2015 closed the year with breaches of children's data, freshly discovered firewall backdoors, and a wave of European and American rule-making over surveillance and consent.
Privacy
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.
Development
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.
Development