What is apfsd?
If you see apfsd running on your Mac, here is what this Apple File System process does.
Mac
2017
100 posts
What is coupond?
If you see coupond in Activity Monitor, here is what this macOS process does.
Mac
Xcode 9.1 Improves Display of Fatal Errors
Swift has features that let you set expectations in your code. If these are not met at runtime, the program stops.
Development
Dictionary and Set Improvements in Swift 4.0
Swift 4 adds new methods and initialisers to dictionaries and sets that simplify tasks like grouping, filtering, and transforming data.
Development
Privacy Roundup #0134 • September 2017
September 2017 was dominated by the Equifax catastrophe, a cascade of cloud misconfigurations and supply chain attacks, and fresh fights over surveillance at the border and online.
Privacy
Useful macOS defaults: Keyboard
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.keyboard and related domains, controlling key repeat, function keys, and input behaviour.
Mac
Monthly update #0329 • September 2017
Monthly update 329 • September 2017 • 2017-09-01 - 2017-09-30
Monthly Updates
Eurobloat #0088 • August 2017
The month Brussels paid Libyan militias to do the border work it refuses to do itself, threatened Washington to protect Russian gas, and decided your vacuum cleaner was the real menace.
Eurobloat
Swift 4.0 Released!
Apple released Swift 4 as a major update that builds on Swift 3 with better robustness, stability, source compatibility, standard library improvements, and new features like archival and serialisation.
Development
Everything by Jesus Culture
Jesus Culture's 2006 live worship album, an early recording from the movement that I came to later.
Music
Love Has a Name by Jesus Culture
Jesus Culture's 2017 live album is a long, warm gathering of praise, centred on a love that names and finds people.
Music
Privacy Roundup #0133 • August 2017
August 2017 paired landmark wins for privacy as a right with a steady drumbeat of breaches, leaks and state surveillance overreach.
Privacy
Monthly update #0328 • August 2017
Monthly update 328 • August 2017 • 2017-08-01 - 2017-08-31
Monthly Updates
Eurobloat #0087 • July 2017
The month Brussels graded Poland for the third time, drew up its own tax register, started dreaming of a eurozone finance minister, and paid the Libyan coastguard to do the border control it forbids itself.
Eurobloat
Swift Local Refactoring
Xcode 9 features a new refactoring engine that transforms Swift code either locally in one file or globally across files and languages.
Development
The Resistance by Skillet
You can take my heart, you can take my breath; When you pry it from my cold, dead chest;
Music
Monthly update #0327 • July 2017
Monthly update 327 • July 2017 • 2017-07-01 - 2017-07-31
Monthly Updates
Privacy Roundup #0132 • July 2017
July 2017 was dominated by misconfigured cloud servers spilling millions of customer records, while governments pushed harder against encryption and anonymity tools.
Privacy
Eurobloat #0086 • June 2017
The month Brussels fined a search engine the price of a small navy, drew up plans for an EU finance minister and an EU defence chequebook, and abolished a roaming charge it had spent a decade legislating into existence.
Eurobloat
Cars 3
Cars 3 (2017), directed by Brian Fee, brings Lightning McQueen back to the track. Owen Wilson voices McQueen with age and drive. He faces new fast cars. Cristela Alonzo acts as Cruz Ramirez, the young trainer who dreams big.
Movies
Alpha / Omega by Kutless
Kutless's 2017 worship record gives well-loved praise songs a rock edge, steady and direct from start to finish.
Music
Read All About It by Newsboys
The Newsboys' 1988 debut, the rough Australian beginning of a long band that I traced back to.
Music
Privacy Roundup #0131 • June 2017
June 2017 turned data exposure into a global spectacle, as leaked voter files, spilled customer records, fresh CIA hacking tools and a wave of surveillance laws collided with a few hard-won wins for privacy.
Privacy
Bad for You Baby by Gary Moore
Gary Moore's 2008 release, guitar-led music with real feeling. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
Music
Monthly update #0326 • June 2017
Monthly update 326 • June 2017 • 2017-06-01 - 2017-06-30
Monthly Updates