2024

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Introducing Oblivious HTTP support in Swift

Apple has introduced SwiftNIO Oblivious HTTP, a new open-source package implementing provisional support for Oblivious HTTP, enhancing client privacy by preventing servers from identifying request sources through encryption and a trusted third-party relay.

Development

Great Rivers Path part 5

Hiking from Rijsoord to Krimpen aan den IJssel (16.06 km).

Hiking

Great Rivers Path part 4

Hiking from Rhoon to Rijsoord (18.37 km).

Hiking

Milestone - Weight: sub 100 kg

Today, I reached a significant milestone in my journey. I now weigh less than 100 kilograms.

Journal

Nerdy internals of an Apple text editor

A lovely deep dive in TextView and related API's. Very well written, accompanied with good images/videos to explain something, absolutely worth the read.

Development

Great Rivers Path part 3

Hiking from Geervliet to Rhoon (15.13 km).

Hiking

Great Rivers Path part 2

Hiking from Maasland to Geervliet (18.00 km).

Hiking

Monthly update #0411 • July 2024

Monthly update 411 • July 2024 • 2024-07-01 - 2024-07-31

Monthly Updates

Great Rivers Path part 1

Hiking from Hoek van Holland beach to Maasland (23.67 km).

Hiking

Announcing Swift Homomorphic Encryption

Apple has announced swift-homomorphic-encryption, a new open-source Swift package that brings Homomorphic Encryption (HE) to Swift.

Development

Milestone - Weight: sub 110 kg

Today, I reached a significant milestone in my journey. I now weigh less than 110 kilograms.

Journal

Monthly update #0410 • June 2024

Monthly update 410 • June 2024 • 2024-06-01 - 2024-06-30

Monthly Updates

Right Wing Revolution by Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk’s Right Wing Revolution: How to Beat the Woke and Save the West argues that “wokeism” threatens American freedom and traditional values.

Books

Plotting a Path to a Package Ecosystem without Data Race Errors

Swift 6 introduces compile-time data race safety checks for code opting into the Swift 6 language mode, significantly reducing crashes and performance issues, but full benefits require ecosystem-wide adoption.

Development

This is the start of an epic journey!

Welcome to my epic journey of moving 384400 kilometres – the exact distance from earth to the moon!

Journal

New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project

The Swift programming language is migrating to a dedicated GitHub organisation at GitHub.com/swiftlang, reflecting its growing versatility and community maturity beyond Apple’s ecosystems.

Development

Update on privacy in Apple's ecosystem 2024

Every year, WWDC showcases Apple’s commitment to user privacy, and 2024 is no exception. I watched four sessions totalling about 1 hour and 20 minutes, and I’m excited to share the highlights of Apple’s privacy advancements.

Development

Monthly update #0409 • May 2024

Monthly update 409 • May 2024 • 2024-05-01 - 2024-05-31

Monthly Updates

Little Snitch

Little Snitch is a powerful firewall and network monitoring application designed for macOS. Developed by Objective Development, it gives you control over your Mac’s incoming and outgoing network connections.

Mac

On Fluent Models and Sendable warnings

Since FluentKit 1.48.0, users have encountered a warning about mutable stored properties in Sendable-conforming Model classes due to Swift’s concurrency requirements and property wrapper limitations.

Development

South Africa Day 07

Day 7 of the trip to South Africa

Trips

South Africa Day 06

Day 6 of the trip to South Africa

Trips

Monthly update #0408 • April 2024

Monthly update 408 • April 2024 • 2024-04-01 - 2024-04-30

Monthly Updates

South Africa Day 05

Day 5 of the trip to South Africa

Trips

South Africa Day 04

Day 4 of the trip to South Africa

Trips