Hey You, I Love Your Soul by Skillet
Skillet's brighter 1998 second album, a poppier turn for the band that I went back to discover.
Music
2019
142 posts
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.
Development
What is registerassistantservice?
If you see cmio.registerassistantservice running on your Mac, here is what this camera registration process does.
Mac
Monthly update #0351 • July 2019
Monthly update 351 • July 2019 • 2019-07-01 - 2019-07-31
Monthly Updates
Victorious by Skillet
Skillet's 2019 album is hard rock about rising from defeat, all big riffs and bigger choruses about winning through.
Music
Privacy Roundup #0156 • July 2019
July 2019 was defined by record regulatory penalties, a wave of cloud misconfigurations and breaches, and fresh proof that voice assistants and police camera networks were quietly turning people into data.
Privacy
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.
Gems
Eurobloat #0110 • June 2019
The month Brussels weaponised stock-market access against the Swiss, lectured Italy on its own budget, struck down a Polish law and a German toll, and banned the plastic straw.
Eurobloat
Toy Story 4
Toy Story 4 (2019), directed by Josh Cooley, finds Woody with a new child named Bonnie. Tom Hanks voices Woody, the cowboy who still leads. Tim Allen acts as Buzz Lightyear, the ranger who seeks his voice.
Movies
Wonder by Michael W. Smith
Michael W. Smith's 2010 release, craft and polish in every chorus. I reached it late and it has stayed with me.
Music
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.
Development
United by Newsboys
Newsboys United's 2019 record reunites two eras of the band for a bright set of arena-ready Christian pop rock.
Music
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.
Development
Monthly update #0350 • June 2019
Monthly update 350 • June 2019 • 2019-06-01 - 2019-06-30
Monthly Updates
Privacy Roundup #0155 • June 2019
June 2019 was dominated by the cascading American Medical Collection Agency breach, a string of government and corporate data exposures, and a growing public reckoning over facial recognition and surveillance.
Privacy
Eurobloat #0109 • May 2019
May 2019: Luxembourg ordered every employer in Europe to keep a stopwatch, Brussels gathered in Sibiu to admire itself, and the upload filters went into the rulebook while the voters were busy electing more sceptics.
Eurobloat
Maps of Meaning 12: Final: The Divinity of the Individual
Peterson reflects on the core problem he addressed in the class: why people cling to belief systems and even fight over them.
Gems
What is containermanagerd?
If you see containermanagerd running on your Mac, here is what this app sandbox container process does.
Mac
Operation Finale
Operation Finale (2018), directed by Chris Weitz, tells the true story of how Israeli agents caught Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960 AD. Oscar Isaac plays Peter Malkin, the agent who grabs Eichmann.
Movies
Arctic
Arctic (2018), directed by Joe Penna, follows a man stranded alone in the Arctic after a plane crash. Mads Mikkelsen plays Overgard, a pilot surviving day by day in the frozen wilderness, waiting for a rescue that does not come.
Movies
Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower
Peterson explores belief systems. They help people assign value and act in the world. Belief systems regulate emotions. They allow cooperation and competition without constant conflict.
Gems
Pentecost
The meaning of Pentecost stays vital in adulthood. The coming of the Holy Spirit marks the birth of the church.
Christianity
Privacy Roundup #0154 • May 2019
May 2019 paired a wave of careless data exposures with a hardening political mood against face surveillance, as cities, shareholders and Congress all weighed limits on the technology.
Privacy
Mezzamorphis by Delirious?
A late discovery of Delirious?'s 1999 album, a bold step from worship band into ambitious British rock.
Music
Useful macOS defaults: Image Capture
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.ImageCapture, controlling what happens when you connect a camera or phone.
Mac