Getting started with Swift 3 and OpenGL on Linux and macOS with GLFW 3. Practical example - drawing a square...

Algebraic types… seems like the kind of math-y work Haskell programmers would use. But in reality you don’t need to know type theory or have a PhD in mathematics to understand them. Algebraic types arent new types. They are simply a new way of thinking ab... (more…)

overlook - The Judge, Jury and Executioner for the file system...

For the first time, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory tracked water loss from an interstellar comet as it approached and rounded the Sun. The object, 2I/Borisov, traveled through the solar system in late 2019. (more…)

Soon after Swift was initially open sourced, I wrote an article about how weak references are implemented. Time moves on and things change, and the implementation is different from what it once was. Today I'm going to talk about the current implementation... (more…)