What is storagekitd?
If you see storagekitd running on your Mac, here is what this storage management process does.
Mac
2019
142 posts
Paradoxology by Elevation Worship
Elevation Worship's 2019 record reworks recent songs into a quieter, more reflective set of modern worship.
Music
What is runningboardd?
If you see runningboardd running on your Mac, here is what this process lifecycle manager does.
Mac
Monthly update #0353 • September 2019
Monthly update 353 • September 2019 • 2019-09-01 - 2019-09-30
Monthly Updates
The Spy
The Spy is a French limited series. It aired on Netflix on 6 September 2019. Gideon Raff created it. Sacha Baron Cohen plays Eli Cohen, a real Mossad agent who went undercover in Syria during the early 1960s and rose to the highest levels of its government.
TV Series
Privacy Roundup #0158 • September 2019
September 2019 stacked leaky databases, a record children's privacy fine and two landmark EU and US court rulings into one of the busiest privacy months of the year.
Privacy
Eurobloat #0112 • August 2019
The month a rescue ship sat off Lampedusa for three weeks while Brussels haggled over who would take which migrants, Brexit Britain was told the backstop was non-negotiable, and the EU funded a robot that reads your face for lies.
Eurobloat
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
Mexicanisimo by Yanni
Yanni's 2010 release, a set of melodic instrumental pieces. It came to me long after release and earned its place.
Music
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
Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey (2019), directed by Michael Engler, continues the story of the Crawley family and their servants as they prepare for a royal visit from King George V and Queen Mary. Hugh Bonneville plays Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham.
Movies
Useful macOS defaults: Screen Sharing
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.ScreenSharing, controlling the Screen Sharing viewer app.
Mac
What is uninstalld?
If you see uninstalld running on your Mac, here is what this app removal process does.
Mac
Privacy Roundup #0157 • August 2019
August 2019 was dominated by the voice assistant listening scandal as Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook were each caught letting humans review private recordings, while a run of careless breaches spilled biometric, payment and hotel data.
Privacy
To the Ends of the Earth by Hillsong United
A later discovery of Hillsong United's 2002 live record, an early, eager set of youth worship anthems.
Music
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
Eurobloat #0111 • July 2019
The month the Union handed its five biggest jobs to people nobody voted for, scraped a new Commission President through by nine votes, and fined a chipmaker for charging too little.
Eurobloat
England Day 02
Day 2 of my trip to England.
Trips
England Day 01
Day 1 of my trip to England.
Trips