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2023
115 posts
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
Eurobloat #0154 • February 2023
The month Brussels voted to abolish the engine, threw money at a subsidy war it claims to hate, and quietly drew up the blueprint for a wallet that knows who you are.
Eurobloat
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
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.
Development
What is cryptexd?
If you see cryptexd running on your Mac, here is what this Rapid Security Response process does.
Mac
What are fskitd and userfsd?
If you see fskitd, userfsd, or other filesystems processes on your Mac, here is what they do.
Mac
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.
Development
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.
Development
Monthly update #0394 • February 2023
Monthly update 394 • February 2023 • 2023-02-01 - 2023-02-28
Monthly Updates
Privacy Roundup #0199 • February 2023
February 2023 paired aggressive enforcement, from the first FTC health breach penalty to a landmark Illinois biometrics ruling, with a steady drumbeat of breaches, ransomware and surveillance disputes.
Privacy
Steve Jobs: Take a closer look
Leslie Berlin, from the Steve Jobs Archive, shares a favourite photo from 1984. It shows Steve Jobs, aged almost 29, bent over to watch a stranger use a Macintosh through a shop window in New Orleans.
Gems
Eurobloat #0153 • January 2023
The month Brussels fined a phone app for asking nicely, flew to Davos to promise a subsidy war, and celebrated thirty years of the single market while quietly losing the keys to its own front door.
Eurobloat
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.
Essays
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.
Development
Onboarding Tutorials vs. Contextual Help
Tutorials interrupt users, don’t necessarily improve task performance, and are quickly forgotten. Contextual help signals can avoid these pitfalls but require unintrusive ways to activate.
Development
Useful macOS defaults: Control Centre
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.controlcenter, controlling which items appear in the menu bar.
Mac
Monthly update #0393 • January 2023
Monthly update 393 • January 2023 • 2023-01-01 - 2023-01-31
Monthly Updates