South Africa Day 07
Day 7 of the trip to South Africa
Trips
2024
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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
South Africa Day 03
Day 3 of the trip to South Africa
Trips
South Africa Day 02
Day 2 of the trip to South Africa
Trips
Privacy Roundup #0213 • April 2024
April 2024 brought record health breaches, a near 200 million dollar location data fine, a fresh two year expansion of mass surveillance and a wave of new American privacy statutes.
Privacy
South Africa Day 01
Day 1 of the trip to South Africa
Trips
Eurobloat #0167 • March 2024
March was the month Brussels billed a phone maker the better part of two billion euros, switched on its censorship machine for journalists, and quietly drafted the paperwork to read everybody's private messages.
Eurobloat
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.
Books
Monthly update #0407 • March 2024
Monthly update 407 • March 2024 • 2024-03-01 - 2024-03-31
Monthly Updates
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.
Development
Privacy Roundup #0212 • March 2024
March 2024 brought big breaches at AT&T and Fujitsu, fresh sanctions against spyware makers, and courts and lawmakers pushing back on surveillance and Big Tech.
Privacy
Stockholm Day 04
Day 4 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. Time flew by and it is already time to fly back home.
Trips
Stockholm Day 03
Day 3 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. I walked around the old city centre of Stockholm, plenty to see.
Trips
Happy Easter
Easter serves as an annual reminder of truth. Jesus defeated sin and death once for all.
Christianity
Stockholm Day 02
Day 2 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. I also hiked the Tyresta Lakes Loop in Tyresta National Park...
Trips
Tyresta Lakes Loop
Hiked the Tyresta Lakes Loop with a distance of 13.4 kilometres in Tyresta National Park.
Hiking
Stockholm Day 01
Day 1 of the weekend trip to Stockholm. Flight was pleasant.
Trips
Good Friday
Good Friday serves as an annual reminder of truth. Jesus gave his life on the cross once for all.
Christianity
SSWG 2024 Annual Update
The Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG) 2024 annual update highlights 2023 achievements and sets goals for the coming year.
Development
Eurobloat #0166 • February 2024
The month Brussels wrote the world's first rulebook for thinking machines, opened a new investigation into a dancing app, and graciously withdrew a law it should never have written, all while tractors blocked the door.
Eurobloat
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.
Development
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.
Development