It has been nearly 6 years since Apple first open sourced the Swift language and brought it to Linux. In ...
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Updating From Such a Repository Can’t Be Done SecurelyUpdating From Such a Repository Can’t Be Done Securely
I recently came across the (incredibly frustrating) error message Updating from such a repository can't be done securely while trying ...
Ubuntu 18.04 on AWSUbuntu 18.04 on AWS
Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver was released several months ago now, and is currently (as of this writing) not available as ...
SSH HardeningSSH Hardening
DevOps ToolChain, WikiPedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 Why Hardening Hardening, as I define it, is the process of applying best practices ...
MQTT Last Will and TestamentMQTT Last Will and Testament
This is another post in a series on writing MQTT clients using Swift on Linux. In this post we’ll look ...
Upgrading CMake for a Happier Swift BuildUpgrading CMake for a Happier Swift Build
There have been a number of updates to Open Source Swift that take advantage of newer versions of CMake to ...
Handling MQTT Subscriptions with Swift on LinuxHandling MQTT Subscriptions with Swift on Linux
In our last post we looked at a Swift MQTT client which published information to a HiveMQ broker. Now let’s ...
Creating New Packages with SwiftPMCreating New Packages with SwiftPM
Back in December I opened an enhancement request in the Swift JIRA site, issue SR-353, to add an npm init-style ...
Another Look at Swift LoggingAnother Look at Swift Logging
Shortly after Apple released Swift a number of folks provided logging libraries, as the venerable Lumberjack didn’t work out of ...
Raspberry Pi 2 GPIO with SwiftyGPIORaspberry Pi 2 GPIO with SwiftyGPIO
Working with open source developers worldwide is a fun and rewarding experience. As the cost of computing devices and broadband ...