Always by Chris Tomlin
Chris Tomlin's 2022 album Always is warm, singable worship about a God who stays close in every season.
Music
2022
86 posts
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
Life After Death by TobyMac
TobyMac's 2022 album Life After Death is bright hip hop and pop rock about grief, loss, and stubborn hope.
Music
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
Bemoediging by Martin Mans
Martin Mans's 2015 release, a rich set of works for the king of instruments. It came to me long after release and earned its place.
Music
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
Monthly update #0386 • June 2022
Monthly update 386 • June 2022 • 2022-06-01 - 2022-06-30
Monthly Updates
Love Divine II by Jan Mulder
Jan Mulder's 2015 release, wordless music for reflection. It came to me long after release and earned its place.
Music
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
Announcing the Language Workgroup
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.
Development
What is iomfb_fdr_loader?
If you see iomfb_fdr_loader running on your Mac, here is what this display data process does.
Mac
What is managedappdistributiond?
If you see managedappdistributiond running on your Mac, here is what this enterprise app distribution process does.
Mac
Vapor URLEncodedFormDecoder Security Vulnerability
We've just released Vapor 4.61.1 which contains a fix for a security vulnerability in Vapor's URLEncodedFormDecoder.
Development
Monthly update #0385 • May 2022
Monthly update 385 • May 2022 • 2022-05-01 - 2022-05-31
Monthly Updates
Pentecost
Each Pentecost I return to the core message. The Holy Spirit came to live in believers.
Christianity
Vapor FileMiddleware Security Vulnerability
We've just released Vapor 4.60.3 which contains a fix for a security vulnerability in Vapor's FileMiddleware.
Development