2024

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Great Rivers Path part 10

Hiking from Leerdam to Geldermalsen (22.26 km).

Hiking

The Future of Vapor

After over four years and nearly 400 releases, Vapor 4 is transitioning to maintenance mode, with Vapor 5 now in development to leverage Swift 6’s capabilities and modernise the framework.

Development

Monthly update #0412 • August 2024

Monthly update 412 • August 2024 • 2024-08-01 - 2024-08-31

Monthly Updates

Great Rivers Path part 9

Walking from Hei- en Boeicop to Leerdam (13.12 km).

Hiking

Great Rivers Path part 8

Hiking from Ameide to Hei- en Boeicop (16.47 km).

Hiking

Great Rivers Path part 7

Hiking from Bergambacht to Ameide (22.61 km).

Hiking

Great Rivers Path part 6

Hiking from Krimpen aan den IJssel to Bergambacht (14.77 km).

Hiking

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

What is liquiddetectiond?

If you see liquiddetectiond running on your Mac, here is what this liquid damage detection process does.

Mac

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