Privacy Roundup #0164 • March 2020
The coronavirus turned March 2020 into a month of state phone tracking and rushed video apps, even as old fashioned breaches kept exposing millions of records.
Privacy
2020
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I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did
It is not uncommon that I raise an accessibility or usability issue with a client’s design or implementation and am met with either “But Google does this,” or “But Apple does this.”
Development
Eurobloat #0118 • February 2020
The month Brussels gathered every leader in one room, spent two days arguing about money, and produced nothing but a press conference and a bigger spending plan.
Eurobloat
Swift 5.3 Release Process
Swift 5.3 focuses on significant quality and performance improvements while expanding platform support to include Windows and additional Linux distributions.
Development
Swift 5.2 Released!
Swift 5.2 enhances the developer experience with improved compiler diagnostics, faster code completion, better debugging, and refined Swift Package Manager dependency handling.
Development
Useful macOS defaults: QuickTime Player
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX, controlling how QuickTime Player behaves.
Mac
What is IOAccelMemoryInfoCollector?
If you see IOAccelMemoryInfoCollector running on your Mac, here is what this GPU memory monitoring process does.
Mac
Ride Upon the Storm
Ride Upon the Storm is a Danish drama series. It aired on DR1 from 1 October 2017 to 2020. Adam Price created it. Lars Mikkelsen plays Johannes Krogh, the powerful patriarch of a family of Lutheran ministers in Denmark.
TV Series
What is musicd?
If you see musicd running on your Mac, here is what this Apple Music process does.
Mac
Privacy Roundup #0163 • February 2020
February 2020 was dominated by leaky databases, government purchases of location data and a reckoning over facial recognition, as Clearview AI lost its own client list.
Privacy
Monthly update #0358 • February 2020
Monthly update 358 • February 2020 • 2020-02-01 - 2020-02-29
Monthly Updates
Announcing ArgumentParser
The Swift ArgumentParser library simplifies parsing command-line arguments with a type-safe, declarative approach using Swift features like property wrappers and reflection.
Development
Eurobloat #0117 • January 2020
The month Brussels lost a member, mislaid a trillion euros, mused about banning faces and decided what your phone charger should look like, all while insisting it had never been more united.
Eurobloat
Standard Library Preview Package
Swift 5 introduces the Standard Library Preview package, an open-source tool bundling accepted Swift Evolution features not yet in official releases, starting with SE-0270 for subrange operations like subranges(where:) and moveSubranges(_:to:) on collections, plus the RangeSet type.
Development
What is endpointsecurityd?
If you see endpointsecurityd running on your Mac, here is what this security framework process does.
Mac
Gears
I’ve always been fascinated by mechanical gears. There is something captivating about the way their teeth come together to create a fluid, unified motion.
Gems
Library Evolution in Swift
Swift's library evolution support, enabled via BUILD_LIBRARY_FOR_DISTRIBUTION in Xcode or -enable-library-evolution in swiftc, allows framework authors to make additive API changes while maintaining binary compatibility, ensuring clients don't need recompilation.
Development
What is installcoordination_proxy?
If you see installcoordination_proxy running on your Mac, here is what this installation helper process does.
Mac
Privacy Roundup #0162 • January 2020
January 2020 opened the decade with facial recognition and data brokers under the spotlight, as breach after breach showed how little control people held over their own records.
Privacy
Introducing Swift Crypto
Swift Crypto is a new open-source Swift package that extends Apple CryptoKit's APIs to non-Apple platforms by using BoringSSL for cryptographic primitives, while deferring to CryptoKit on Apple systems for seamless cross-platform development.
Development
Monthly update #0357 • January 2020
Monthly update 357 • January 2020 • 2020-01-01 - 2020-01-31
Monthly Updates
Mr. Robot
Mr. Robot is an American thriller drama series. It aired on USA Network from 24 June 2015 to 22 December 2019. Sam Esmail created it. Rami Malek plays Elliot Alderson, a young cyber security engineer in New York who suffers from social anxiety and depression.
TV Series
What is retimerd?
If you see retimerd running on your Mac, here is what this Thunderbolt/USB-C signal process does.
Mac
Occupied
Occupied is a Norwegian political thriller series. It aired on TV 2 from 5 October 2015 to 12 December 2019. Jo Nesbø came up with the original idea. The show imagines a near future where Russia occupies Norway with the backing of the European Union after Norway stops producing oil and gas.
TV Series
The 5 AM Club by Robin Sharma
In “The 5 AM Club,” renowned leadership expert Robin Sharma elucidates the transformative potential of early morning wake-up and purposeful daily commencement.
Books