Maps of Meaning 04: Marionettes & Individuals (Part 3)
Peterson completes the analysis of Disney's Pinocchio. He covers the final parts of the story.
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Monthly update #0346 • February 2019
Monthly update 346 • February 2019 • 2019-02-01 - 2019-02-28
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JavaScriptCore
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.
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Behind the Proposal, SE-0200 Enhancing String Literals Delimiters to Support Raw Text
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.
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Color Spaces
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.
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Maps of Meaning 03: Marionettes & Individuals (Part 2)
Peterson continues the analysis of Disney's Pinocchio. He links the story to child development and morality. Good parenting lets a child's unique nature emerge.
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Swift 5.1 Release Process
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.
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Evolving Swift On Apple Platforms After ABI Stability
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.
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ABI Stability and More
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.
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Introducing the sourcekitd Stress Tester
Sourcekitd powers essential editor features like code completion and refactoring in Xcode and SourceKit-LSP, handling both syntactic and semantic requests for Swift files.
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Maps of Meaning 02: Marionettes & Individuals (Part 1)
This lecture is the second in the 2017 Maps of Meaning series. Peterson reviews ideas from the first lecture. He stresses that humans see the world through stories. These stories help solve the problem of how to act across time in social groups.
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Swift 5 Exclusivity Enforcement
Swift 5 turns on runtime checks for exclusive access to memory by default in release builds.
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Monthly update #0345 • January 2019
Monthly update 345 • January 2019 • 2019-01-01 - 2019-01-31
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Maps of Meaning 01: Context and Background
Jordan Peterson opens this lecture with personal stories from the 1980s. He describes his fear of nuclear war during the Cold War. He recounts a visit to a decommissioned missile silo.
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Dictionary Services
The article explores dictionary-related APIs in Swift across Unix, macOS, and iOS, highlighting their role in features like spell check and semantic analysis.
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Monthly update #0344 • December 2018
Monthly update 344 • December 2018 • 2018-12-01 - 2018-12-31
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Exposing Floating Point
Despite everyday use, floating point numbers are often understood in a hand-wavy manner and their behavior raises many eyebrows.
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