Monthly update #0379 • November 2021
Monthly update 379 • November 2021 • 2021-11-01 - 2021-11-30
Monthly Updates
2021
30 posts
Better Off Dead by Lee Child
Better Off Dead, co-authored with Andrew Child, has Reacher searching for a missing twin in a desert town, clashing with a bomber plotting deadly attacks.
Books
Monthly update #0378 • October 2021
Monthly update 378 • October 2021 • 2021-10-01 - 2021-10-31
Monthly Updates
Curves and Surfaces
From fonts to animated movies, curves and surfaces constitute fundamental building blocks of many geometrical designs.
Gems
Introducing Swift Distributed Actors
Apple announced Swift Distributed Actors, a new open-source package for server-side Swift that provides a complete cluster library for the experimental distributed actor language feature, released early to gather community feedback.
Development
Swift-DocC is Now Open Source
Apple introduced Swift-DocC at WWDC21 as a new documentation compiler for Swift frameworks and packages, now released as open source with support for macOS and Linux.
Development
Monthly update #0377 • September 2021
Monthly update 377 • September 2021 • 2021-09-01 - 2021-09-30
Monthly Updates
Sunsetting SecKey
Unfortunately the time has come to say goodbye to SecKey. It served us all for almost 4 years. In that time I enjoyed the feedback you have given and also the donations given as a sign of appreciation.
Projects
Swift 5.5 Released!
Swift 5.5 is a major release introducing powerful concurrency features like async/await, structured concurrency, and Actors, alongside other enhancements.
Development
Clarkson's Farm
Clarkson's Farm is a British documentary series. It came out on Amazon Prime Video on 11 June 2021. The show follows Jeremy Clarkson, known from car programmes, as he takes over running his 1000-acre farm in the Cotswolds after the old manager retires.
TV Series
Monthly update #0376 • August 2021
Monthly update 376 • August 2021 • 2021-08-01 - 2021-08-31
Monthly Updates
Time for a Turning Point by Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk’s The College Scam: How America's Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth challenges the value of traditional college education, arguing it burdens students with debt while promoting progressive ideologies.
Books
Monthly update #0375 • July 2021
Monthly update 375 • July 2021 • 2021-07-01 - 2021-07-31
Monthly Updates
Naval Architecture
When I first heard the term naval architecture I thought it was the artistic practice of designing beautiful boats. It turns out it’s a proper scientific discipline dedicated to the engineering of ships.
Gems
Monthly update #0374 • June 2021
Monthly update 374 • June 2021 • 2021-06-01 - 2021-06-30
Monthly Updates
I do not have a smartphone
I sold my iPhone and bought a basic Nokia phone for 35 euros. I also sold my smarthome devices, Apple Watch, and AirPods.
Journal
Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier
Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage examines the rapid increase in teenage girls identifying as transgender. Shrier argues this surge is driven by social contagion, with online platforms like Tumblr and TikTok influencing girls struggling with anxiety or depression to identify as trans.
Books
Package Collections
Swift 5.5 introduces package collections to the Swift Package Manager, enabling curated lists of packages to simplify discovery and adoption for specific tasks.
Development
Monthly update #0373 • May 2021
Monthly update 373 • May 2021 • 2021-05-01 - 2021-05-31
Monthly Updates
Celebrating five years of Quiet, and a note on our exciting future
As the world has become more and more digitally driven, it has never been easier to become distracted. Today, we have a whole world of possibilities and answers at our very fingertips. However, these possibilities can lead to distractions, and it can also lead to risks.
Projects
Beyond Order by Jordan B. Peterson
Jordan B. Peterson's Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life builds on his first book with twelve new rules to help people face chaos and find balance.
Books
Monthly update #0372 • April 2021
Monthly update 372 • April 2021 • 2021-04-01 - 2021-04-30
Monthly Updates
Internal Combustion Engine
The invention of the internal combustion engine in the 19th century has revolutionized transportation over land, water, and air.
Gems
Swift 5.4 Released!
Swift 5.4 introduces new language features like multiple variadic parameters, extended implicit member syntax, result builders, and support for overloading local functions and property wrappers for local variables.
Development
Introducing Swift Collections
Swift Collections is a new open-source package that adds advanced data structures like Deque, OrderedSet, and OrderedDictionary to extend the Swift Standard Library’s offerings beyond Array, Set, and Dictionary.
Development