A hard to spot runtime error results if you try to embed the key < in a dictionary. But when converting plain text for embedding in XML, that's one character you need to substitute.
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Seaweed is one of the few ‘crops’ confined to the coast. Its harvesting and processing, performed almost exclusively by women, has been shown in paintings of Brittany, particularly by Gauguin and his circle.
In the year ahead, Gustav Klimt, Ferdinand Hodler, Tintoretto, Egon Schiele, and several others: anniversaries which I will celebrate here.
When to use as, as!, or as?, how to handle Any, and when you need to use var instead of let even though you don’t change the value.
2017 was never going to be easy, and Apple had a lot of accidents over its closing months. It delivered a lot of new products, and with them a lot of new problems.
A starter Xcode 9.2 project to form a base for quick, scripting-style apps. Free of all copyright, free to use. Runs on El Capitan, Sierra, and High Sierra.
You want to read in a property list to structured data in Swift. The solution – in Swift 4 – is in a Coder, as explained here.
Extension functions for the URL class which provide full access to xattrs without leaving the comfort of Swift 4.
New updates to these apps fix crashing bugs when using styled log display, or converting log excerpts to CSV (Consolation).
Why has High Sierra suffered such glaring security and other bugs? Look carefully at where they have occurred, and it suggests that this isn’t just carelessness.
