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.
Monthly update 386 • June 2022 • 2022-06-01 - 2022-06-30
Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library follows Nora Seed, a woman overwhelmed by regret, who attempts suicide and finds herself in a magical library between life and death.
The Swift.org website is now open source, inviting community contributions to enhance its role as a central hub for all Swift users, supported by the new Swift Website Workgroup (SWWG) to guide its development.
If you see iomfb_fdr_loader running on your Mac, here is what this display data process does.
If you see managedappdistributiond running on your Mac, here is what this enterprise app distribution process does.
We've just released Vapor 4.61.1 which contains a fix for a security vulnerability in Vapor's URLEncodedFormDecoder.
Monthly update 385 • May 2022 • 2022-05-01 - 2022-05-31
We've just released Vapor 4.60.3 which contains a fix for a security vulnerability in Vapor's FileMiddleware.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.sidebarlists, controlling which items appear in the Finder sidebar.
If you see ecosystemd or ecosystemanalyticsd running on your Mac, here is what these device ecosystem processes do.
Fluent, a Swift ORM, lacks native support for adding database table indexes during creation or migration due to complexities across supported databases, but you can achieve this using SQLKit.
Killing Eve is a British spy thriller series. It aired on BBC America from 8 April 2018 to 10 April 2022. Phoebe Waller-Bridge developed the first season, based on the novel series Villanelle by Luke Jennings. Sandra Oh plays Eve Polastri, a bored MI5 desk officer who becomes obsessed with tracking a skilled assassin.
In the world of modern portable devices, it may be hard to believe that merely a few decades ago the most convenient way to keep track of time was a mechanical watch.
Monthly update 384 • April 2022 • 2022-04-01 - 2022-04-30
Unfortunately the time has come to say goodbye to Quiet. It served us all for almost 6 years. In that time I enjoyed the feedback you have given.
Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022), directed by Simon Curtis, follows the Crawley family as they face two journeys at once. A film crew arrives to shoot a picture at Downton while Violet reveals she has inherited a villa in the south of France from a man no one has heard of.
The Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG) welcomed Adam Fowler, Fabian Fett, and Patrick Freed as new members on September 3, 2021, replacing Johannes Weiss after his three-year tenure.
If you see AppleQEMUGuestAgent running on your Mac, here is what this virtualisation process does.