Monthly update #0389 • September 2022
Monthly update 389 • September 2022 • 2022-09-01 - 2022-09-30
Monthly Updates
2022
95 posts
Eurobloat #0148 • August 2022
The month Brussels rationed your radiator, declared Russian gas the new green, and lectured Europeans about their thermostats while signing energy deals with a regime that launders money to bribe MEPs.
Eurobloat
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
Privacy Roundup #0193 • August 2022
August 2022 was dominated by the Oktapus phishing spree that toppled Twilio and dozens of firms, alongside fresh scrutiny of data brokers, police location buying and Big Tech tracking.
Privacy
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
Eurobloat #0147 • July 2022
The month Brussels declared gas and nuclear officially green, printed a fresh bond-buying tool to rescue its own currency, and found time to sue post-Brexit Britain four more times before lunch.
Eurobloat
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
The College Scam 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 #0387 • July 2022
Monthly update 387 • July 2022 • 2022-07-01 - 2022-07-31
Monthly Updates
Privacy Roundup #0192 • July 2022
The fall of Roe drove July's privacy agenda, as location data, period apps and police access collided with fresh breaches, spyware revelations and a record breach settlement.
Privacy
Eurobloat #0146 • June 2022
The month Brussels turned the rulebook on your garden into directly applicable law, voted to abolish the petrol engine, and decided the cure for ten years of charger choice was a single mandated port.
Eurobloat
Announcing the Documentation Workgroup
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.
Development
Dockerfile makes adding optional Swift dependencies easier
When deploying Vapor apps in Docker, omitting libcurl4 and libxml2 can reduce the image size from 233 MB to 189 MB.
Development
Swift Extension for Visual Studio Code
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.
Development
Enable SQL Query Logging
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.
Development
Swift language announcements from WWDC22
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.
Development
Privacy Roundup #0191 • June 2022
The fall of Roe drove the month's privacy news, as researchers, lawmakers and companies scrambled over location data, health tracking and surveillance spyware.
Privacy
Monthly update #0386 • June 2022
Monthly update 386 • June 2022 • 2022-06-01 - 2022-06-30
Monthly Updates
Eurobloat #0145 • May 2022
The month Brussels decided to read everyone's private messages, abolish the national veto and buy the gas itself, all while granting itself a clean budget bill of health.
Eurobloat
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
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.
Books