How Swift 5.5 enables computed properties to become either throwing or asynchronous, and what sort of situations that these new capabilities could become useful in. (more…)

Four years ago I blogged about the oddities of leap days. (more…)

Leveraging the native Swift library to perform face recognition and detection in an iOS app... (more…)

My last post explained that invoking swift/utils/build-script compiles the C++ source code in the apple/swift project and produces a swift compiler executable. (more…)

A few years ago, I kept hearing casual conversations about Ceph vs Swift. “Ceph’s going to win out and Swift will fade.” “Ceph cannot be used to scale out cloud storage.” Some called it a rivalry. I found it funny considering very few enterprises were act... (more…)