Guided Access, introduced in iOS 6, is an accessibility feature that locks an iOS app to prevent unintended exits, configurable to disable specific screen regions, hardware buttons, motion, keyboards, touch, or set time limits, activated via triple-clicking the Home/Side button or Siri.
The YouTube channel RealCharlieKirk is run by Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, and focuses on conservative political commentary, interviews, and discussions.
Monthly update 347 • March 2019 • 2019-03-01 - 2019-03-31
Swift 5.0 marks a major milestone with ABI stability on Apple platforms, integrating the Swift runtime into macOS, iOS, tvOS, and watchOS for smaller apps and better performance.
Swift 5 changes String's preferred encoding from UTF-16 to UTF-8 for better performance in modern computing, like server-side work and C interop, while keeping efficient Objective-C bridging.
Charlie Kirk’s Campus Battlefield: How Conservatives Can WIN the Battle on Campus and Why It Matters, argues that American colleges have become centres of progressive indoctrination, stifling free speech and conservative values.
Monthly update 346 • February 2019 • 2019-02-01 - 2019-02-28
The article explores the JavaScriptCore framework, which integrates WebKit’s JavaScript engine into Swift apps, allowing developers to execute JavaScript code and interoperate with Swift.
SE-0200 introduces custom delimiters for Swift string literals in Swift 5, allowing raw text that ignores escape sequences unless adjusted with matching pound signs, blending features from languages like Rust while retaining Swift's interpolation.
For the longest time we didn’t have to pay a lot of attention to the way we talk about color. The modern display technologies capable of showing more vivid shades have, for better or for worse, changed the rules of the game.
Swift 5.1 aims to achieve module stability for the language. On Apple platforms, it keeps binary compatibility with Swift 5.0 and future releases because the ABI is now stable.
Swift 5.0 achieves ABI stability on Apple platforms, allowing apps to use the OS-provided Swift runtime instead of bundling it, which reduces download sizes and enables better performance through deeper integration.
Swift 5 achieves ABI stability on Apple platforms, ensuring binary compatibility for apps and libraries across future Swift versions without needing to embed the Swift runtime in app bundles.
Sourcekitd powers essential editor features like code completion and refactoring in Xcode and SourceKit-LSP, handling both syntactic and semantic requests for Swift files.
Swift 5 turns on runtime checks for exclusive access to memory by default in release builds.
Monthly update 345 • January 2019 • 2019-01-01 - 2019-01-31
The article explores dictionary-related APIs in Swift across Unix, macOS, and iOS, highlighting their role in features like spell check and semantic analysis.
Monthly update 344 • December 2018 • 2018-12-01 - 2018-12-31
Despite everyday use, floating point numbers are often understood in a hand-wavy manner and their behavior raises many eyebrows.