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nicklockwood / Shape.swift
Created December 31, 2022 18:56
PolymorphicCoding.swift
import Foundation
// Here's a pretty typical scenario where you want to encode a polymorphic type -
// in this case a Shape type that can be either a Square or Circle. Swift provides
// a nice pattern for doing this in a type-safe way using enums:
struct Circle: Codable {
var radius: Int
}
@magnus404
magnus404 / semantic-layout.html
Created October 7, 2020 06:58 — forked from thomd/semantic-layout.html
Standard HTML5 Semantic Layout
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Title</title>
<link href="stylesheets/main.css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
<body>
<header>
<hgroup>
@AliSoftware
AliSoftware / Bindings.swift
Last active May 4, 2024 06:18
Re-implementation of @binding and @State (from SwiftUI) myself to better understand it
/*:
This is a concept re-implementation of the @Binding and @State property wrappers from SwiftUI
The only purpose of this code is to implement those wrappers myself
just to understand how they work internally and why they are needed,
⚠️ This is not supposed to be a reference implementation nor cover all
subtleties of the real Binding and State types.
The only purpose of this playground is to show how re-implementing
them myself has helped me understand the whole thing better
@tclementdev
tclementdev / libdispatch-efficiency-tips.md
Last active April 26, 2024 10:15
Making efficient use of the libdispatch (GCD)

libdispatch efficiency tips

The libdispatch is one of the most misused API due to the way it was presented to us when it was introduced and for many years after that, and due to the confusing documentation and API. This page is a compilation of important things to know if you're going to use this library. Many references are available at the end of this document pointing to comments from Apple's very own libdispatch maintainer (Pierre Habouzit).

My take-aways are:

  • You should create very few, long-lived, well-defined queues. These queues should be seen as execution contexts in your program (gui, background work, ...) that benefit from executing in parallel. An important thing to note is that if these queues are all active at once, you will get as many threads running. In most apps, you probably do not need to create more than 3 or 4 queues.

  • Go serial first, and as you find performance bottle necks, measure why, and if concurrency helps, apply with care, always validating under system pressure. Reuse

@Ovid
Ovid / .perldb
Last active July 5, 2022 15:50
My debugger file
package Ovids::Debugger;
# vim: syntax=perl
=head1 NAME
.perldb - Customize your Perl debugger
=head1 USAGE
@andymatuschak
andymatuschak / CollectionViewDataSource.swift
Last active February 12, 2021 09:44
Type-safe value-oriented collection view data source
//
// CollectionViewDataSource.swift
// Khan Academy
//
// Created by Andy Matuschak on 10/14/14.
// Copyright (c) 2014 Khan Academy. All rights reserved.
//
import UIKit