Underused and Overused GCD Patterns
All serial queues ultimately target a global queue, which is responsible for actually executing the work; but, for historical reasons, the default target is an overcommit queue. That means it has a higher max thread cap and creates threads more aggressively. This avoids that. Read more
Apple’s Supply Chain
Biden’s question put Cook, who’d become Apple’s CEO the previous August, in an awkward position. He was the architect of the strategy to outsource Apple’s production to China, a trend of increasing concern for the Obama administration. Read more
The Evolution of “safe” and “unsafe” in Swift
One of the interesting take-aways is that the terms “safe” and “unsafe”, or at least the specific implications of when they’re used in the swift language, are broadening what they cover with the upcoming changes. Read more
China passes U.S. in the fast lane
The Biden administration’s new pandemic relief aspirations are getting pushback from Republicans Still, said Julia Coronado, founder and president of MacroPolicy Perspectives, “so far, so good.” “It feels like a productive negotiation. They were never going to just sign on to the $1. Read more
Vaccine supply and demand are about to flip
With 127 million “jabs” administered in America so far, and more manufacturers on their way to Food and Drug Administration approval, the market for vaccines is about to change very quickly. What happens to the holdouts? We’ll talk about it. Read more
我对比特币的理解
比特币最近涨势很好，但今天刚刚有一个大的回落，跌到 5 万美元 / 个以下。对于比特币，市场有两个极端对立的观点：一波观点（代表者是巴菲特）认为是废纸，另一波观点认为比特币是黄金。 Read more
Focalboard: Open source alternative to Trello, Asana, and Notion
Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. It helps define, organize, track and manage work across individuals and teams. Focalboard comes in two editions: Read more
Building Rich terminal dashboards
Rich has become a popular (20K stars on GH) way of beautifying CLIs, and I’m pleased to see a number of projects using it. Since Rich is mature and battle-tested now, I had considered winding-down development. Until, I saw this tweet: Read more
Blogs, by GovTechies
Learn more about our product development journeys, lessons learnt, and behind-the-scenes stories penned by our GovTechies. Read more
How one GovTech employee worked in two places in 2020
You might not have heard about it, but GovTech has this thing called the (Digital Technology Attachment Programme, or DTAP for short, that allows staff to get seconded to industry partners – while remaining as GovTech staff, of course. Read more