The winners of the 2021 Swift Community Awards, organized by Paul Hudson of Hacking With Swift, has been announced.

The winners of the 2021 Swift Community Awards, organized by Paul Hudson of Hacking With Swift, has been announced.

The winners, and the runner ups, in all the categories, are well worth reviewing!

https://www.hackingwithswift.com/awards

No, this is not an Augmented Reality demonstration, it is an amazing Drone swarm! Or would be a Drone school?

No, this is not an Augmented Reality demonstration, it is an amazing Drone swarm! Or would be a Drone school?

This aquatic scene was viewed at a performance in Madison Square Garden for the band Phish.

https://marcusleshock.com/phish-whale-and-dolphin-drones-turn-madison-square-garden-into-an-aquarium/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ZM58WjhKk

Tech Humor

Whoever said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results has obviously never had to reboot a computer.

—William Petersen

An excellent explanation of the use of the keyword Final in Swift by Steven Curtis.

An excellent explanation of the use of the keyword Final in Swift by Steven Curtis.

Steven mentions that using Final can help prevent the overuse of Inheritance (i.e. Composition over inheritance).

https://stevenpcurtis.medium.com/your-swift-classes-should-be-final-78cb41b79da0

Did you know the “@“ symbol was called the “Strudel” in Israel?

Did you know the “@“ symbol was called the “Strudel” in Israel? 

Here is a cute article from BBC talking about the famous At Sign. 

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160307-how-do-you-say-in-other-languages

Wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign

Another @ article: https://people.howstuffworks.com/arroba.htm

Here Ia a bit of Internet history, the archived copies of AppleLink magazine.

Here Ia a bit of Internet history, the archived copies of AppleLink magazine.

Before iCloud, Facebook, and even AOL, there was AppleLink Personal Edition (made by the folks who became AOL).

https://archive.org/details/@savetz?query=applelink

PS. If you have some old copies of this publication, please check if you have some of the missing issues!

Here is a CNN article on the surprising (for them) success of VR Exercising.

Here is a CNN article on the surprising (for them) success of VR Exercising.

“The Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise (VRHI) found that popular VR fitness apps can be just as vigorous as common real-world workouts.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/21/vr-workout-games/