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JeOam / Animation.md
Last active February 18, 2024 21:18
iOS Core Animation: Advanced Techniques, Part 1: The Layer Beneath

Author: https://www.cyanhall.com/

1. The Layer Tree

Core Animation's original name is Layer Kit

Core Animation is a compositing engine; its job is to compose different pieces of visual content on the screen, and to do so as fast as possible. The content in question is divided into individual layers stored in a hierarchy known as the layer tree. This tree forms the underpinning for all of UIKit, and for everything that you see on the screen in an iOS application.

In UIView, tasks such as rendering, layout and animation are all managed by a Core Animation class called CALayer. The only major feature of UIView that isn’t handled by CALayer is user interaction.

There are four hierarchies, each performing a different role:

anonymous
anonymous / angular-SignalTowerService.markdown
Created March 5, 2015 20:05
angular SignalTowerService

angular SignalTowerService

Adds the js-signals implementation to AngularJS. There is no good way for AngularJS services to send or receive events. The 'angular way' for events to be sent uses $rootScope, but angular services should never know about any scope. Enter SignalTowerService and it's publish/subscribe model of Signals ala js-signals

A Pen by Keldon Rush on CodePen.

License.

//
// Demonstration of using a channel to receive and dispatch IOHIDManager events using the ChannelZ framework.
//
// Created by Marc Prud'hommeaux on 3/8/15.
//
import Cocoa
import IOKit
import ChannelZ
@NSApplicationMain
@chrismdp
chrismdp / s3.sh
Last active March 5, 2024 12:57
Uploading to S3 in 18 lines of Shell (used to upload builds for http://soltrader.net)
# You don't need Fog in Ruby or some other library to upload to S3 -- shell works perfectly fine
# This is how I upload my new Sol Trader builds (http://soltrader.net)
# Based on a modified script from here: http://tmont.com/blargh/2014/1/uploading-to-s3-in-bash
S3KEY="my aws key"
S3SECRET="my aws secret" # pass these in
function putS3
{
path=$1
@chantastic
chantastic / on-jsx.markdown
Last active March 20, 2024 01:03
JSX, a year in

Hi Nicholas,

I saw you tweet about JSX yesterday. It seemed like the discussion devolved pretty quickly but I wanted to share our experience over the last year. I understand your concerns. I've made similar remarks about JSX. When we started using it Planning Center, I led the charge to write React without it. I don't imagine I'd have much to say that you haven't considered but, if it's helpful, here's a pattern that changed my opinion:

The idea that "React is the V in MVC" is disingenuous. It's a good pitch but, for many of us, it feels like in invitation to repeat our history of coupled views. In practice, React is the V and the C. Dan Abramov describes the division as Smart and Dumb Components. At our office, we call them stateless and container components (view-controllers if we're Flux). The idea is pretty simple: components can't

@non
non / answer.md
Last active January 9, 2024 22:06
answer @nuttycom

What is the appeal of dynamically-typed languages?

Kris Nuttycombe asks:

I genuinely wish I understood the appeal of unityped languages better. Can someone who really knows both well-typed and unityped explain?

I think the terms well-typed and unityped are a bit of question-begging here (you might as well say good-typed versus bad-typed), so instead I will say statically-typed and dynamically-typed.

I'm going to approach this article using Scala to stand-in for static typing and Python for dynamic typing. I feel like I am credibly proficient both languages: I don't currently write a lot of Python, but I still have affection for the language, and have probably written hundreds of thousands of lines of Python code over the years.

@kristopherjohnson
kristopherjohnson / sumAndMean.swift
Last active September 21, 2019 13:29
Generic sum() and mean() extensions for Swift numeric collections
/// To use reduce() to sum a sequence, we need
///
/// - a zero (identity) element
/// - an addition operator
protocol Summable {
/// Identity element for this type and the + operation.
static var Zero: Self { get }
@dericed
dericed / sips-r.sh
Created September 10, 2015 16:45
recursive use of sips to create a directory of thumbnails from a directory of images
#!/bin/bash
if [[ ! "${#}" == 2 ]] ; then
echo "Please provide input and output directories, and no other arguments."
exit 1
fi
input="${1}"
output="${2}"
@jesperronn
jesperronn / docx2md.md
Last active November 21, 2023 12:49 — forked from aembleton/docx2md.md
Convert a Word Document into MD

Converting a Word Document to Markdown in One Move

The Problem

A lot of important government documents are created and saved in Microsoft Word (*.docx). But Microsoft Word is a proprietary format, and it's not really useful for presenting documents on the web. So, I wanted to find a way to convert a .docx file into markdown.

Installing Pandoc

On a mac you can use homebrew by running the command brew install pandoc.

The Solution