Swift 6 claims built-in support for writing asynchronous and parallel code. But these are very different, and that for multithreading appears elusive.
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Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Roll on […]
Extensions or INITs in Classic Mac OS required Conflict Catcher for their management. But they remain a vulnerability, and can’t be used with full boot security any more.
Introduced in macOS Ventura, these monitor for potentially malicious behaviours, according to 12 Bastion rules. Detections are recorded in its local database and reported to Apple as security intelligence.
How Swift supports cooperative multitasking using async/await. How to call asynchronous code from within synchronous code, and does it also multithread code in parallel?
Apparently Sequoia includes user space file system support, as now used for the MSDOS file system in macOS. Is it ready to use yet?
Chicago, Charcoal, Lucida Grande, Helvetica Neue, and San Francisco or SF Pro – a visual journey through 40 years.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 261. Here are my solutions to them. 1: From […]
All about Mac firmware, from PowerPC Open Firmware to Apple silicon’s LLB and iBoot, and what the rules are for updating firmware.
This weekend we’re in the Lake District. Wouldn’t it have been simpler if, rather than preparing a notebook, all I needed was a VM with all my apps pre-installed and ready to go?
