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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019), directed by Chad Stahelski, follows John as he is declared excommunicado and given a bounty of fourteen million dollars. Keanu Reeves plays John Wick, now hunted by every assassin in New York with nowhere to hide.

Movies

The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang Theory is an American comedy series. It aired on CBS from 24 September 2007 to 16 May 2019. Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady created it. Jim Parsons plays Sheldon Cooper, a brilliant but socially lost physicist who shares a flat with his friend and fellow scientist Leonard Hofstadter.

TV Series

Maps of Meaning 09: Patterns of Symbolic Representation

Peterson discusses archetypes as universal patterns. They appear in myths, stories, and images. These patterns are deep. They come from human experience across time.

Gems

What is mediaremoteagent?

If you see mediaremoteagent in Activity Monitor, here is what this macOS process does.

Mac

Monthly update #0348 • April 2019

Monthly update 348 • April 2019 • 2019-04-01 - 2019-04-30

Monthly Updates

Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

Peterson explores what makes things most real. Real things last long across time. They appear in many situations. He rejects the idea that humans evolved only on the African veldt. Patterns from all evolutionary history shape people.

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Privacy and User Experience

Good serie on privacy and user experience by Smashing Magazine. Worth the read!

Development

Internal Phone Numbers

Internal Phone Numbers let you quickly lookup phone numbers from your colleagues.

Projects

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.

Development

Maps of Meaning 07: Images of Story and Metastory

Peterson explores how basic categories frame the world. These categories appear first in images. They exist long before names or words.

Gems

Guided Access

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.

Development

What is displaypolicyd?

If you see displaypolicyd running on your Mac, here is what this display management process does.

Mac

RealCharlieKirk

The YouTube channel RealCharlieKirk is run by Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, and focuses on conservative political commentary, interviews, and discussions.

Gems

Monthly update #0347 • March 2019

Monthly update 347 • March 2019 • 2019-03-01 - 2019-03-31

Monthly Updates

Maps of Meaning 06: Story and Metastory (Part 2)

Peterson discusses the human struggle with complexity. Individual consciousness is limited. The world around and inside people is vast and hard to grasp.

Gems

Swift 5 Released!

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.

Development

UTF-8 String

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.

Development

Maps of Meaning 05: Story and Metastory (Part 1)

Peterson explains why people see so little of the world. The brain simplifies reality to help action.

Gems

LocalizedError, RecoverableError, CustomNSError

Swift’s error handling works well with Cocoa’s NSError system. Swift 3 added three little-known protocols to make this link even better.

Development

Berlin Station

Berlin Station is an American spy drama series. It aired on Epix from 16 October 2016 to 17 February 2019. Olen Steinhauer created it. Richard Armitage plays Daniel Miller, a CIA officer sent to the agency's Berlin station to find a mole leaking classified information.

TV Series

Campus Battlefield by Charlie Kirk

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.

Books

What is audioclocksyncd?

If you see audioclocksyncd running on your Mac, here is what this audio clock synchronisation process does.

Mac

What is AudioComponentRegistrar?

If you see AudioComponentRegistrar running on your Mac, here is what this audio plugin registration process does.

Mac

What is usbpowerd?

If you see usbpowerd running on your Mac, here is what this USB power management process does.

Mac

Maps of Meaning 04: Marionettes & Individuals (Part 3)

Peterson completes the analysis of Disney's Pinocchio. He covers the final parts of the story.

Gems