The month Brussels declared itself the planet's first artificial-intelligence referee, blessed a fresh migrant-sharing scheme nobody asked for, and watched one prime minister walk out of the room so the rest could spend fifty billion euros without him.
Reflection on the year 2023, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
The month Brussels agreed to let governments break the padlock on your browser, voted to abolish national vetoes, and began printing a euro that watches you spend it.
Jan Mulder's 2018 release, a set of melodic instrumental pieces. I reached it late and it has stayed with me.
My adult view of Christmas focuses on daily application. The birth of Christ calls for obedience and love.
November 2023 brought a wave of mass breach disclosures, fresh regulatory action on surveillance and tracking, and renewed fights over encryption and government data buying.
Monthly update 403 • November 2023 • 2023-11-01 - 2023-11-30
The Secret, co-authored with Andrew Child, places Reacher on a 1992 task force hunting killers of scientists linked to a bioweapon project from the 1960s.
The month Brussels appointed itself referee of free speech, switched on a border carbon tax it dare not call a tax, and held a grand summit on the future of Europe that could not even agree to mention migration.
Fauda is an Israeli thriller series. It aired on Yes TV from 15 February 2015 and later reached a worldwide audience through Netflix. Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff created it. Lior Raz plays Doron Kavillio, an Israeli undercover agent who operates deep inside Palestinian territory.
Jan Mulder's 2018 release, a set of melodic instrumental pieces. I reached it late and it has stayed with me.
Swift 5.9 enhances debugging with an out-of-process crash handler that provides detailed backtraces, interactive inspection, and just-in-time debugging, improving on the limited crash messages of prior versions.
It is the fortieth book in the Asterix series. Caesar sends a wellness guru to the village. He spreads calm and positivity to weaken the Gauls from within.
Monthly update 402 • October 2023 • 2023-10-01 - 2023-10-31
Swift.org now has a new top-level Packages page. This page helps users explore the Swift package ecosystem. It lists common categories such as server, networking, testing, and logging.
October 2023 was dominated by the 23andMe genetic data theft and the Okta support breach, alongside landmark moves on data brokers, encryption and Big Tech accountability.
The month Brussels paid an autocrat to guard a border it cannot guard, lectured a social network about truth, and decreed how a citizen should change a phone battery.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.systemsettings, controlling the System Settings app on macOS Ventura and later.
Swift’s design emphasises seamless interoperability with other languages, particularly C and C++, by embedding clang to avoid the performance and boilerplate costs of traditional C-based Foreign Function Interfaces (FFI) like libffi.
Bethel Music's 2023 live album gathers spacious congregational worship around an invitation to draw near to God.
We've just released Vapor 4.84.2 which contains a fix for a security vulnerability in Vapor's error handling.
September 2023 paired Europe's largest children's data fine with Britain's encryption-busting Online Safety Act, while social-engineering crews ransacked casinos and spyware chased an Egyptian opposition candidate.
Martin Mans's 2017 release, a rich set of works for the king of instruments. I found it some years after it appeared and was glad I did.
Monthly update 401 • September 2023 • 2023-09-01 - 2023-09-30
Golda (2023), directed by Guy Nattiv, tells the story of Golda Meir during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Helen Mirren plays Meir with firm resolve and deep weariness. She leads Israel as armies attack.