Wedding of my brother
My brother and his now wife got married today.
Journal
2023
103 posts
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.
Development
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.
Development
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.
Books
What is AppleCredentialManagerDaemon?
If you see AppleCredentialManagerDaemon running on your Mac, here is what this credentials process does.
Mac
Monthly update #0396 • April 2023
Monthly update 396 • April 2023 • 2023-04-01 - 2023-04-30
Monthly Updates
Krickenbecker Seen
Hiked 16.6 kilometres from Kaldenkirchen to Venlo.
Hiking
Privacy Roundup #0201 • April 2023
April 2023 paired heavy regulatory pressure on Big Tech and AI with a steady run of breach disclosures and fresh proof of commercial spyware and corporate surveillance.
Privacy
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), directed by James Gunn, tells the story of Rocket's origins and the team's final mission together. Chris Pratt plays Peter Quill, who must hold the group together one last time to save the friend who never asked for help.
Movies
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.
Journal
Helderse Duinen
Hiked 16.1 kilometres around Den Helder.
Hiking
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.
Development
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.
Development
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.
Development
Quiet 4.1
Learn what is new in Quiet 4.1
Projects
Moving away from building Prettified JSON Viewers
System fonts used on this website...
Development
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.
Development
Happy Easter
My adult view of Easter focuses on daily application. The risen Christ calls for obedience and love.
Christianity
Good Friday
My adult view of Good Friday focuses on daily application. The cross of Christ calls for obedience and love.
Christianity
Privacy Roundup #0200 • March 2023
March 2023 brought a wave of regulatory action on health data and spyware, record-breaking breaches in healthcare and finance, and a hardening political fight over TikTok, encryption and artificial intelligence.
Privacy
Monthly update #0395 • March 2023
Monthly update 395 • March 2023 • 2023-03-01 - 2023-03-31
Monthly Updates
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.
Development
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.
Development
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.
Gems
John Wick: Chapter 4
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023), directed by Chad Stahelski, follows John as he wages a final war against the High Table. Keanu Reeves plays John Wick, who must defeat a powerful new enemy to earn his freedom or die trying.
Movies