South Africa Day 03
Day 3 of the trip to South Africa
2024
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South Africa Day 02
Day 2 of the trip to South Africa
South Africa Day 01
Day 1 of the trip to South Africa
Geheim Verzet by Beene Dubbelboer
Beene Dubbelboer's Geheim Verzet follows two boys, Wim and Geert, in a Dutch village near the German border during World War II. They overhear German soldiers plotting the 1940 invasion of the Netherlands and alert their families.
Monthly update #0407 • March 2024
Monthly update 407 • March 2024 • 2024-03-01 - 2024-03-31
Get Started with Embedded Swift on ARM and RISC-V Microcontrollers
Apple has introduced a repository, swift-embedded-examples, showcasing Embedded Swift, a new experimental compilation mode for Swift targeting constrained microcontrollers like ARM and RISC-V, suitable for IoT and electronics projects.
Stockholm Day 04
Day 4 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. Time flew by and it is already time to fly back home.
Stockholm Day 03
Day 3 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. I walked around the old city centre of Stockholm, plenty to see.
Stockholm Day 02
Day 2 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. I also hiked the Tyresta Lakes Loop in Tyresta National Park...
Tyresta Lakes Loop
Hiked the Tyresta Lakes Loop with a distance of 13.4 kilometres in Tyresta National Park.
Stockholm Day 01
Day 1 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. Flight was pleasant.
SSWG 2024 Annual Update
The Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG) 2024 annual update highlights 2023 achievements and sets goals for the coming year.
Writing GNOME Apps with Swift
Adwaita for Swift is a new open-source package that enables Swift developers to create GNOME applications for Linux, leveraging Swift’s clean syntax, static typing, and result builders for a declarative, readable, and memory-safe user interface design.
Introducing the Benchmark Package: Complementing Unit Tests with Performance Checks
The Swift Benchmark package, a new open-source tool developed due to the lack of suitable multi-platform benchmarking solutions, integrates performance testing into Swift’s ecosystem, emphasising the importance of speed alongside functionality in software development.
Byte-sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate
Swift is a versatile language for embedded systems due to its memory safety and ergonomics, as shown by porting games to the Playdate handheld console using the new embedded language mode.
The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes
In Terry Hayes’ The Year of the Locust, a sprawling espionage thriller, CIA Denied Access Area spy Ridley Kane ventures into the volatile borderlands of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan to extract an informant with critical intelligence on a rising terrorist threat.
Barcelona Day 03
Day 3 of the weekend trip to Barcelona. Today was actual nice weather, but unfortunately also the last day in Barcelona.
Barcelona Day 02
Day 2 of the weekend trip to Barcelona. Of course it is raining when I am in Barcelona...
Barcelona Day 01
Day 1 of the weekend trip to Barcelona.
Iterate Over Parameter Packs in Swift 6.0
Swift 6.0 introduces pack iteration, enhancing parameter packs from Swift 5.9 to simplify working with variable-length generic arguments.
Swift 5.10 Released
Swift 5.10 achieves full data isolation in its concurrency model, enforcing compile-time checks to prevent data races when using the -strict-concurrency=complete flag, building on features like async/await and actors from Swift 5.5 and Sendable from Swift 5.7.
Monthly update #0406 • February 2024
Monthly update 406 • February 2024 • 2024-02-01 - 2024-02-29
Airfoil
We’ll find out how the shape and the orientation of the airfoil helps airplanes remain airborne. We’ll also learn about the behavior and properties of air and other flowing matter.
JWTKit is no longer Boring!
The Swift Server Workgroup announced that Swift 5.10 will be the final release before Swift 6, prompting Vapor to plan Vapor 5, with JWTKit v5 as the first package to adopt modern Swift features like full Sendable compliance and Swift 6’s strict concurrency mode.
SwiftData, pre-seed database
I started developing a new app, and it's been an exciting journey so far. Recently, I've begun utilising SwiftData, which is proving to be a fantastic tool for managing data within the app.