Penny Update
The Vapor team announced a new update for Penny, their Discord bot, enhancing it to post Swift Evolution proposal updates in the #swift-evolution channel, with an option for users to follow these updates on their own servers.
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Personal Voice
Users can create a Personal Voice by reading along with a randomized set of text prompts to record 15 minutes of audio on iPhone or iPad.
PostgresNIO Security Vulnerability
We released PostgresNIO 1.14.2 last week, which contains a security fix for a vulnerability in PostgresNIO's TLS support. This has been designated as CVE-2023-31136.
Updating Vapor's Templates for Swift 5.8
The Vapor team has updated its project templates to support Swift 5.8, adopting a unified target with the @main syntax for application entry points, aligning with Swift’s modern features and enabling asynchronous setup functions.
Make Something Wonderful by Steve Jobs
Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs In His Own Words, curated by the Steve Jobs Archive, gathers speeches, emails, interviews, and personal notes from Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder who reshaped technology and culture.
Monthly update #0396 • April 2023
Monthly update 396 • April 2023 • 2023-04-01 - 2023-04-30
Krickenbecker Seen
Hiked 16.6 kilometres from Kaldenkirchen to Venlo.
Have an iPhone and Apple Watch again
In recent weeks I bought an iPhone because I missed the camera and the Photo app too much. I am very happy to have them back in my life.
Helderse Duinen
Hiked 16.1 kilometres around Den Helder.
Do not Run Servers
I listen for a few years now to the podcast Under the Radar. It is about developing apps as an indie developer. Highly recommended to add to your podcast app if you have any interest in developing apps.
Foundation Package Preview Now Available
The Swift Core Team is restructuring the Swift project by organising workgroups into steering groups and workgroups to enhance community contributions and focus.
Foundation Package Preview Now Available
The preview of a new, unified Foundation package, written in Swift, is now available on GitHub, offering faster, safer, and more approachable implementations for types like AttributedString, JSONEncoder, and Calendar, with more to be added.
Quiet 4.1
Learn what is new in Quiet 4.1
Moving away from building Prettified JSON Viewers
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Offline experience of apps
In a world where constant connectivity is not guaranteed, ensuring your app works offline is vital. Users expect apps to function smoothly, whether they are on a plane, in a remote area, or facing a weak signal.
Monthly update #0395 • March 2023
Monthly update 395 • March 2023 • 2023-03-01 - 2023-03-31
Swift 5.8 Released!
Swift 5.8 introduces features to prepare for Swift 6, including the hasFeature directive and conditional attributes for incremental adoption, alongside enhancements like concise magic file names and regex literals.
Getting an entitlement for Family Controls (Distribution)
In February I wanted to release an update for Quiet. There is a big update to the iOS app. Quiet can hide apps according to the rules active in Quiet. For example if you block TikTok in Quiet, the TikTok app will disappear from your iOS device.
Bicycle
Today we’re building another world-changing technology, machine intelligence. We know that it will affect the world in profound ways, change how the economy works, and have knock-on effects we can’t predict.
Case against the cloud
Cloud computing has swept the business world, with many companies rushing to migrate their operations to cloud-based solutions or building new projects entirely in the cloud.
Introducing Swift Certificates and Swift ASN.1
Apple has released two new open-source Swift packages, swift-certificates and swift-asn1, to provide a faster, safer implementation of X.509 certificates for TLS security.
What We're Working On: March 2023
The Vapor team has launched a monthly blog series to share updates on their work, increase transparency, and outline future plans for the framework.
Monthly update #0394 • February 2023
Monthly update 394 • February 2023 • 2023-02-01 - 2023-02-28
Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic
Social media has changed how we connect, but new research shows it hurts mental health, especially for teen girls. Studies prove platforms like Instagram cause poor mental health, not just relate to it.
The Swift Programming Language book now published with DocC
The Swift Programming Language book (TSPL) is now published using Swift-DocC starting with Swift 5.8, enabling content contributions under the Swift Documentation Workgroup’s guidance.