What is UpdateSettings?
If you see UpdateSettings running on your Mac, here is what this update configuration process does.
Mac
2022
110 posts
Privacy Roundup #0194 • September 2022
September 2022 paired a wave of high profile breaches with landmark regulation, as Optus, Uber and Rockstar were ransacked while Instagram drew a record fine and California moved to shield children online.
Privacy
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
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
Always by Chris Tomlin
Chris Tomlin's 2022 album Always is warm, singable worship about a God who stays close in every season.
Music
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
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
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
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
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