April 2021 was dominated by mass data scraping at Facebook, LinkedIn and Clubhouse, fresh regulatory pressure from Apple and Brussels, and rare government moves into private servers and the surveillance market.
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.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.reminders, controlling how Apple Reminders behaves.
Monthly update 372 • April 2021 • 2021-04-01 - 2021-04-30
The invention of the internal combustion engine in the 19th century has revolutionized transportation over land, water, and air.
The month Brussels invented a papers-please app for the continent, threatened to seize vaccines it was barely using, and declared the whole bloc a freedom zone while suing one of its own members.
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.
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.
Monthly update 371 • March 2021 • 2021-03-01 - 2021-03-31
Easter brings perspective on the passing years. The sacrifice and triumph of Christ remain central.
Good Friday brings perspective on the passing years. The sacrifice of Christ remains central.
March 2021 was dominated by the Microsoft Exchange mass hacking, a wave of ransomware breaches, and fresh fights over facial recognition, location brokers and browser tracking.
The month Brussels tried to retain everyone's metadata, got its foreign chief thrown out of Moscow, and waved through three quarters of a trillion euros of borrowed money it has no idea how to pay back.
If you see aned or aneuserd running on your Mac, here is what these Neural Engine processes do.
If you see oahd running on your Apple Silicon Mac, here is what this Rosetta translation process does.
Monthly update 370 • February 2021 • 2021-02-01 - 2021-02-28
February 2021 was dominated by the spreading Accellion file transfer breach, fresh rulings against facial recognition, and a wave of disclosures that showed how supply chain weaknesses keep leaking ordinary people's data.
The month Brussels botched the vaccines, threatened a hard border it had spent four years lecturing Britain to avoid, and then put the unredacted contract online by leaving the bookmarks in.
Monthly update 369 • January 2021 • 2021-01-01 - 2021-01-31
Today it snowed :D and it stayed on the ground. So time for a walk in Utrecht.
January 2021 was dominated by the WhatsApp policy revolt, a wave of fresh data breaches, and the SolarWinds intruders spreading deeper into security firms.
SecKey is rebuild from the ground up with SwiftUI - a new technology from Apple for building apps with a bright future in front of it.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.Music, controlling how Apple Music and the Music app behave.
If you see appleh13camerad running on your Mac, here is what this camera process does.
If you see trustdFileHelper running on your Mac, here is what this certificate trust helper process does.