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There are a lot of blogs and video tutorials on how to set up Filebeat and Logstash with self-hosted Elasticsearch. But when I tried to connect the same thing with Elastic Cloud, I faced too many problems. Because there was very little discussion about that in the community forums like StackOverflow or their own forums. […]
By default, the various navigation APIs that SwiftUI provides are very much centered around direct user input — that is, navigation that’s handled by the system in response to events like button taps and tab switching. However, sometimes we might want to take more direct control over how an app’s navigation is performed, and although […]
Extracted from Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love by Noor Murad and Yotam Ottolenghi (Ebury Press, £25)1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F fan. Poke the sweet potatoes all over with a fork (about 8–10 times) and place them on a medium, parchment-lined baking tray. Bake for 45–50 minutes, or until cooked through and softened. Set aside […]
In 2007, American anthropologist Katherine Verdery found herself staring at almost 3,000 pages worth of Top Secret files… all about her. What Katherine found in that dossier turned her world upside-down and tested her most basic assumptions about trust, betrayal, friendship and power. Additional Resources: More from Katherine Verdery: More about Communism and its aftermath […]
Before he traveled to Arrakis to tell the story of Dune, and before he took on one of sci-fi’s most popular legacies with Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villeneuve tackled a genre tale that was equally epic in its ideas but far more intimate in its storytelling: 2016’s Arrival. Its striking production design incorporates spaceships, fantastical […]
Marcin Krzyzanowski returns to the show to talk about building editors for Swift code, backend-driven user interfaces, and more. Also, the challenges of working with text-based data, the pros and cons of composition, and managing hobby projects. RevenueCat: In-app subscriptions made easy. RevenueCat handles the pain points of implementing subscriptions and in-app purchases, so that […]
Dinner seems so hard sometimes. I cook for SKCC during the day, so we have wonderful lunches, and obviously there are leftovers, but that leaves me not following my own advice as far as having a plan for dinner most nights. Ironic isn’t it? I have plans for lunch, we rotate the same few things […]
The opt-in mechanism in Kotlin allows you to mark APIs that should be used carefully – or perhaps not at all. If you mark a declaration (a class, a function, a property, anything really) as opt-in required, using it will produce a warning or error in the code, prompting the user to explicitly opt in […]
BOOKWORM NEWS: A Small Hotel by Suanne Laqueure is now live!! — “It’s the summer of 1941. Europe is at war, but New York’s Thousand Islands are at the height of the tourist season. Kennet Fiskare, son of a hotel proprietor, is having the summer of a lifetime, having fallen deeply in love with a […]
Many Americans feel an obligation to keep up with political news. But maybe we should be focusing our energies elsewhere. In this episode from 2020, political scientist Eitan Hersh says there’s been a rise in “political hobbyism” in the United States. We treat politics like entertainment, following the latest updates like we follow our favorite […]