In Frederick Forsyth’s thrilling modern espionage novel, The Fox, a British teen with Asperger’s, Luke Jennings, turns out to be a cyber-genius who can hack into the world’s most secure systems, like the Pentagon, NSA, and CIA.
Monthly update 341 • September 2018 • 2018-09-01 - 2018-09-30
Johnny English Strikes Again (2018), directed by David Kerr, follows Johnny English as he comes out of retirement to stop a cyber attack that has exposed every active spy in Britain. Rowan Atkinson plays Johnny, now a geography teacher who longs for the old days.
for KING & COUNTRY's 2018 pop rock record about leaving the past behind and pressing forward with hope.
Swift provides runtime type inspection through the Mirror API. This allows developers to examine arbitrary values and traverse object graphs without prior knowledge of types at compile time.
Swift 5.0 aims to achieve ABI stability to enable a stable runtime for operating systems, with module stability as a key focus that may land in this release or a later 5.x update.
Elevation Worship's 2018 live album about lifting praise from the ordinary ground of everyday life.
Swift 4.2 is a major update that enhances compile times, debugging, the standard library, and moves closer to binary compatibility, while maintaining source compatibility with Swift 4 and 4.1 but marking the last release to support Swift 3 compatibility.
If you see nesessionmanager running on your Mac, here is what this VPN and network extension process does.
Opi, the father of my father, died today. He was born in March 1936 and lived to the age of 82 years. He worked as a pastor for many years.
The Core Motion framework in Swift simplifies access to iOS and watchOS device sensors, enabling innovative user interactions beyond touch by leveraging a dedicated motion coprocessor for efficient accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer data processing.
The Core Motion framework’s CMMotionActivityManager on iOS and watchOS uses a device’s motion coprocessor to process sensor data from accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers, determining user activities like walking, running, cycling, automotive travel, or being stationary with varying confidence levels.
Lauren Daigle's 2018 album, a soulful Christian pop record about lifting your eyes when life feels low.
Monthly update 340 • August 2018 • 2018-08-01 - 2018-08-31
NSDataDetector finds dates, links, phone numbers, addresses, and transit details in natural language text. It is a subclass of NSRegularExpression.
Asset catalogs in Xcode let you store not just images but also data files like JSON. This helps apps load faster on first launch by avoiding network calls.
Steve Jobs once said, “You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying ‘no’ to 1,000 things.”
BarlowGirl's 2009 release, songs that build and push forward. I came to it well after release and have returned to it since.
Apple’s Natural Language framework (iOS 12+) finally lets developers use the same powerful language-detection technology that powers Siri and system features.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.menuextras, controlling legacy menu bar items.
Monthly update 339 • July 2018 • 2018-07-01 - 2018-07-31
Day 12 of the road trip my brother and I made in Norway.
Day 11 of the road trip my brother and I made in Norway.
Day 10 of the road trip my brother and I made in Norway.
Day 9 of the road trip my brother and I made in Norway.