Tesseract
The day-night cycle and the cycle of the seasons have been an important part of human civilization for millennia.
44 posts with the year “2019”
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.
Monthly update #0355 • November 2019
Monthly update 355 • November 2019 • 2019-11-01 - 2019-11-30
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.
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.
Monthly update #0354 • October 2019
Monthly update 354 • October 2019 • 2019-10-01 - 2019-10-31
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.
Earth and Sun
The day-night cycle and the cycle of the seasons have been an important part of human civilization for millennia.
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.
Monthly update #0353 • September 2019
Monthly update 353 • September 2019 • 2019-09-01 - 2019-09-30
Swift 5.2 Release Process
Swift 5.2 focuses on delivering significant improvements in quality and performance.
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.
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:).
Monthly update #0352 • August 2019
Monthly update 352 • August 2019 • 2019-08-01 - 2019-08-31
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.
Monthly update #0351 • July 2019
Monthly update 351 • July 2019 • 2019-07-01 - 2019-07-31
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.
Formatter
The article explores the Formatter class in Swift’s Foundation framework, essential for transforming data into human-readable formats, addressing complexities like user language, calendar, and currency preferences.
CAEmitterLayer
The article introduces CAEmitterLayer for creating a confetti effect on iOS, explaining its role as a high-performance particle system within the Quartz Core framework for rendering effects like confetti, fire, or rain.
Monthly update #0350 • June 2019
Monthly update 350 • June 2019 • 2019-06-01 - 2019-06-30
Monthly update #0349 • May 2019
Monthly update 349 • May 2019 • 2019-05-01 - 2019-05-31
Monthly update #0348 • April 2019
Monthly update 348 • April 2019 • 2019-04-01 - 2019-04-30
Privacy and User Experience
Good serie on privacy and user experience by Smashing Magazine. Worth the read!
Internal Phone Numbers
Internal Phone Numbers let you quickly lookup phone numbers from your colleagues.
CoreGraphics Geometry Primitives
The article provides a concise guide to Core Graphics geometry types in Swift, essential for Quartz 2D drawing on Apple platforms, covering CGFloat, CGPoint, CGVector, CGSize, and CGRect, with iOS using a top-left origin and macOS a bottom-left origin by default.