You know that person on your team who seems to be good at everything? I mean the literal definition of the word good. Not master. Good. When a problem comes up that nobody else has any experience with, this person volunteers to jump in head-first.
Viktor E. Frankl’s Man's Search for Meaning recounts his survival in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and introduces his psychological theory, logotherapy.
Apple announced a new open-source Foundation project, rewritten in Swift to eliminate C code wrapping, improve performance, and simplify contributions.
Monthly update 391 • November 2022 • 2022-11-01 - 2022-11-30
No Plan B, co-authored with Andrew Child, witnesses Reacher a 'suicide' that's murder, leading to a prison release scheme and organ harvesting.
So, I do not have have a smartphone anymore. After a while I missed listening to music and podcasts; therefore, I bought an iPod Classic.
The Swift Core Team has shared a roadmap for the next year, highlighting plans across workgroups, though these are not tied to specific releases and may evolve.
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A good user experience for a permission request is important, because often permission request are the first thing the user sees.
Monthly update 390 • October 2022 • 2022-10-01 - 2022-10-31
A beautiful song that is now the soundtrack of the protests in Iran.
Invisible and relentless, sound is seemingly just there, traveling through our surroundings to carry beautiful music or annoying noises. In this article I’ll explain what sound is, how it’s created and propagated.
Monthly update 389 • September 2022 • 2022-09-01 - 2022-09-30
Swift 5.7, officially released, brings significant updates including shorthand syntax for optional unwrapping and closures, enhanced generics with a rewritten type checker for better performance, and improved data race safety with new concurrency annotations.
Monthly update 388 • August 2022 • 2022-08-01 - 2022-08-31
The Swift Server Workgroup introduced SwiftNIO IMAP, a new open-source package for parsing and encoding IMAPv4 messages, offering type-safe Swift data structures, high performance, and integration with SwiftNIO.
The Swift Server Workgroup has relocated its open-source guides for Swift on Server development to the now open-source swift.org website.
Vapor is updating its supported Swift versions to a minimum of Swift 5.6 to align with Swift 6 and prepare for Vapor 5, focusing on back-deploying async/await to older OSes, ensuring safety in a concurrent environment, and adopting Sendable for compile-time data race checks.
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.
Monthly update 387 • July 2022 • 2022-07-01 - 2022-07-31
The Documentation Workgroup has been formed to enhance the Swift documentation experience, focusing on guiding tools like Swift-DocC and defining contribution processes for documentation tooling.
When deploying Vapor apps in Docker, omitting libcurl4 and libxml2 can reduce the image size from 233 MB to 189 MB.
The Swift Extension for Visual Studio Code offers a cross-platform development environment for Swift on macOS, Linux, and Windows, addressing the lack of a first-class IDE outside Apple’s ecosystem.
Fluent drivers, such as FluentPostgreSQL, log generated SQL at the debug level by default, aligning with Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG) guidelines to keep logs non-intrusive.
Swift 5.6 and 5.7 bring major updates to the type system, concurrency, and ecosystem, with 5.6 laying the groundwork and 5.7 introducing features like shorthand optional unwrapping, regex literals, and enhanced generics with primary associated types and existential type improvements.