Warm hè. Binnen is het eigenlijk al te warm hoor. Och och wat warm. Maar morgen. Morgen wordt het dus nog veel warmer. Zo warm, dat ze van het KNMI nu een CODE ROOD hebben afgegeven voor iedereen Noord-Holland, Zuid-Holland, Utrecht, Flevoland, Overijssel, Gelderland, Noord-Brabant en Limburg. Het is voor het eerst dat code rood is afgegeven vanwege de hitte, dus alvast gefeliciteerd daarmee. "Meteorologisch gezien is er geen verschil tussen code oranje en code rood. Het besluit om code rood af te geven, wordt genomen door het zogenoemde weerimpactteam (WIT), waarin het KNMI aan tafel zit met partijen als politie en brandweer, het Nationaal Crisiscentrum, het Verkeerscentrum Nederland, ProRail en het ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat." U wordt geadviseerd genoeg te drinken, maar geen alcohol dus. Nu al in zin in de GeenStijl Zomerborrel.

DE BILT (ANP) - Voor het eerst in Nederland geldt vrijdag in een groot deel van het land code rood om de verwachte hoge temperaturen. Het weeralarm geldt alleen niet voor de provincies Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe en Zeeland. Daar blijft code oranje gelden, op de Waddeneilanden blijft het code geel.

De temperatuur kan vrijdag plaatselijk mogelijk oplopen tot 40 graden, meldt het KNMI. De afgelopen dagen gold al voor bijna het hele land code oranje.

Het zogenoemde weerimpactteam nam de beslissing om code rood in te stellen. Hierin zitten naast de weerdienst ook vertegenwoordigers van het ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat, het Nationaal CrisisCentrum, Verkeerscentrum Nederland, politie, brandweer en ProRail. Zij hebben onder meer zicht op de gevolgen van het weer op de weg, het spoor en op het water en weten welke landelijke evenementen er staan gepland.

Code rood wordt gegeven bij extreem weer dat een grote impact heeft op de samenleving. "De weersituatie kan voor zoveel schade, letsel en overlast zorgen dat het maatschappij-ontwrichtend kan zijn", staat op de site van het KNMI.

De vrees is dat bij de aardbeving van woensdag veel slachtoffers zijn gevallen. Over een lengte van 100 tot 200 kilometer zijn twee zijden van een breuk een paar meter ten opzichte van elkaar verschoven

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Paddle boats finished for the day.
Torrens Lake, Adelaide CBD

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Paddle boats finished for the day.
Torrens Lake, Adelaide CBD

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Beautiful old tree overlooking Adelaide City

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Montefiore Hill, North Adelaide

Light’s Vision is a lookout on Montefiore Hill, North Adelaide. Created in 1938, the lookout was built as a stage for its centrepiece, the life-size bronze statue of Adelaide's founding father, Colonel William Light.

Light was responsible for fixing and surveying the site of the City of Adelaide in the summer of 1837 and today his statue stands on Montefiore Hill, looking out at the city he was instrumental in founding.

Visitors to Light’s Vision will enjoy its sweeping views of the park lands and the city.

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Email! “In the pre-match photo of Ben Stokes, he’s batting in a sleeveless top (and probably shorts as well) — presumably what he’s most comfortable wearing while doing a physical activity in this weather,” begins Smylers. “Has there been any discussion of relaxing player kit requirements during the heatwave? I’m in an office where we’ve been allowed to wear shorts this week; my children’s schools have told pupils to come in in PE kit rather than their normal uniforms. When the rest of us are making adjustments, it seems curious for profession cricketers to have to play wearing more clothes than they need to. Is it just tradition?”

I guess it’s mainly tradition and perhaps the need to slide. But as a lifelong member of the shorts-wearing community, I’d say that, when it’s really hot, the feeling is more one of freedom than of cooling so, once they’re focused, maybe it doesn’t make too much difference.

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The Swift Package Index (SPI), a search engine for open source packages for the Swift programming language, is now part of Apple, though it will remain open source. Dave Verwer, who created SPI over six years ago along with Sven A. Schmidt, said on Mastodon that "I'll be joining Apple to continue working on everything related to Swift packages." Apple senior product manager Dave Lester said that SPI has become an "essential part of the Swift ecosystem" and referenced the intent to build a comprehensive package registry for Swift. The news follows Apple’s sponsorship of SPI back in March 2023. SPI is open source on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license and Verwer, Schmidt, and Swift Core Team member Ted Kremenek said that it will remain open source and continue to operate as it does today, though they also promised accelerated development. New capabilities are promised, including package signing and identity to improve "robustness and security." Currently anyone can add a package to SPI, and developers are reliant on metadata to judge the reliability and trustworthiness of a package. Each package in the index shows information, including the number of contributors; how long the project has been in development; the number of open issues; how many dependencies it has; the project README from GitHub; release notes; and a Use this package button, which shows how to use it from Xcode (the official Apple IDE) or using the Swift Package Manager. On its launch in 2020, SPI contained around 2,500 packages, and now has over 11,000: significant growth, but miniscule in comparison to the likes of PyPi (Python Package Index), which has over 8 million, the main reason being the niche status of Swift outside development for Apple platforms. That said, SPI has some strong features including that it runs compatibility-testing builds against each version of every package on a range of operating systems, including macOS, iOS, WatchOS, VisionOS, Linux, Wasm, and Android. A snag is that many packages report no compatibility information along with the message "we are currently processing a large build job backlog," making the feature useless for recent releases. A common complaint about SPI is that it only supports packages hosted on GitHub. Soon after the project launched, a user asked for GitLab support to be added. Verwer said "I would definitely like to get to it one day," but two years later admitted that "the situation has only got worse and we are more tightly coupled to GitHub than we were at the start." In May this year, another user remarked that "being attached only to GitHub is not good for the wider Swift community," but Verwer said that "this isn’t a current priority for us." The Apple move appears to signal a change of direction though. On Hacker News, Verwer said that "the great thing about a registry is that it doesn't care where the original source is hosted. We will be moving away from that model completely as we work towards this." Verwer’s remark suggests that, despite the news announcement emphasizing that SPI will remain as-is for now, big changes are planned. Apple’s resources may fix issues such as long waits for build results, though developers will also be wary of the implications of a well-liked independent package index coming under the company’s full control.®