Reflecting on the year 2022
Reflection on the year 2022, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
Journal
2022
65 posts
What is a Wildcard Person?
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.
Gems
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
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.
Books
The Future of Foundation
Apple announced a new open-source Foundation project, rewritten in Swift to eliminate C code wrapping, improve performance, and simplify contributions.
Development
Monthly update #0391 • November 2022
Monthly update 391 • November 2022 • 2022-11-01 - 2022-11-30
Monthly Updates
No Plan B by Lee Child
No Plan B, co-authored with Andrew Child, witnesses Reacher a 'suicide' that's murder, leading to a prison release scheme and organ harvesting.
Books
Sync podcasts to iPod
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.
Mac
What is backgroundtaskmanagementd?
If you see backgroundtaskmanagementd running on your Mac, here is what this login item management process does.
Mac
Swift project in 2023
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.
Development
System Fonts CSS
System fonts used on this website...
Development
Permission request guidelines
A good user experience for a permission request is important, because often permission request are the first thing the user sees.
Development
Monthly update #0390 • October 2022
Monthly update 390 • October 2022 • 2022-10-01 - 2022-10-31
Monthly Updates
Baraye
A beautiful song that is now the soundtrack of the protests in Iran.
Music
Sound
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.
Gems
What is UpdateSettings?
If you see UpdateSettings running on your Mac, here is what this update configuration process does.
Mac
What is xartstorageremoted?
If you see xartstorageremoted running on your Mac, here is what this secure storage process does.
Mac
Monthly update #0389 • September 2022
Monthly update 389 • September 2022 • 2022-09-01 - 2022-09-30
Monthly Updates
What is AppleVirtualPlatformHIDBridge?
If you see AppleVirtualPlatformHIDBridge running on your Mac, here is what this virtualisation input process does.
Mac
Swift 5.7 Released!
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.
Development
What is attentionawarenessd?
If you see attentionawarenessd running on your Mac, here is what this attention detection process does.
Mac
Useful macOS defaults: Feedback Assistant
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.feedback-assistant, controlling how Feedback Assistant behaves.
Mac
Monthly update #0388 • August 2022
Monthly update 388 • August 2022 • 2022-08-01 - 2022-08-31
Monthly Updates
Announcing SwiftNIO IMAP
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.
Development
Server Guides Now on Swift.org
The Swift Server Workgroup has relocated its open-source guides for Swift on Server development to the now open-source swift.org website.
Development
Vapor's Next Steps with async/await
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.
Development