Tesseract
The day-night cycle and the cycle of the seasons have been an important part of human civilization for millennia.
Gems
2019
66 posts
AVSpeechSynthesizer
The article highlights the role of Swift’s AVSpeechSynthesizer, introduced in iOS 7 and macOS 10.14, in enabling speech synthesis for computer-assisted communication across languages, supporting over 30 languages with voices selected via IETF Language Tags.
Development
Monthly update #0355 • November 2019
Monthly update 355 • November 2019 • 2019-11-01 - 2019-11-30
Monthly Updates
Blue Moon by Lee Child
Blue Moon pits Reacher against rival Albanian and Ukrainian gangs in a city turf war after he helps an elderly man robbed for loan shark debts.
Books
Swift Numerics
The Swift Numerics open-source project introduces a modular Swift package for numerical computing, filling gaps in the Standard Library with modules like Real and Complex.
Development
Monthly update #0354 • October 2019
Monthly update 354 • October 2019 • 2019-10-01 - 2019-10-31
Monthly Updates
SSWG Annual Update '19
The Swift Server Work Group (SSWG) has made significant progress in its first year, establishing an incubation process for defining high-quality Swift packages through community pitches, reviews, and acceptance.
Development
Earth and Sun
The day-night cycle and the cycle of the seasons have been an important part of human civilization for millennia.
Gems
New Diagnostic Architecture Overview
Swift 5.2 enhances compiler diagnostics through a new infrastructure that uses 'constraint fixes' to pinpoint type errors more accurately, allowing the type checker to continue solving and report multiple issues with actionable guidance, unlike the old system's vague guesses.
Development
Monthly update #0353 • September 2019
Monthly update 353 • September 2019 • 2019-09-01 - 2019-09-30
Monthly Updates
Swift 5.2 Release Process
Swift 5.2 focuses on delivering significant improvements in quality and performance.
Development
Swift 5.1 Released!
Swift 5.1 advances Swift 5 by introducing module stability, enabling binary frameworks that work across compiler versions, alongside library evolution support for resilient APIs.
Development
Apple Push Notification Device Tokens
In iOS 13 where a change in NSData’s description format, from a full hexadecimal string to a summarised form, breaks push notification workflows that relied on string manipulation of deviceToken in application(_:didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:).
Development
England Day 07
Day 7 of my trip to England.
Trips
England Day 06
Day 6 of my trip to England.
Trips
Monthly update #0352 • August 2019
Monthly update 352 • August 2019 • 2019-08-01 - 2019-08-31
Monthly Updates
England Day 05
Day 5 of my trip to England.
Trips
England Day 04
Day 4 of my trip to England.
Trips
England Day 03
Day 3 of my trip to England.
Trips
England Day 02
Day 2 of my trip to England.
Trips
England Day 01
Day 1 of my trip to England.
Trips
Thread Sanitizer for Swift on Linux
Swift 5.1 introduces Thread Sanitizer on Linux, enabling runtime detection of data races in multithreaded code, which can cause unexpected behaviour or memory corruption despite Swift's single-threaded safety guarantees.
Development
Monthly update #0351 • July 2019
Monthly update 351 • July 2019 • 2019-07-01 - 2019-07-31
Monthly Updates
Alpha Compositing
Transparency may not seem particularly exciting. The GIF image format which allowed some pixels to show through the background was published over 30 years ago.
Gems
Toy Story 4
Toy Story 4 (2019), directed by Josh Cooley, finds Woody with a new child named Bonnie. Tom Hanks voices Woody, the cowboy who still leads. Tim Allen acts as Buzz Lightyear, the ranger who seeks his voice.
Movies