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kconner / macOS Internals.md
Last active June 21, 2024 20:02
macOS Internals

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

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@DreamingInBinary
DreamingInBinary / Best in Class iOS Checklist
Last active January 29, 2024 18:18
This is a public checklist updated every year after the latest version of iOS and iPadOS are shipped. It's a boiled down version of a "Best in Class" app checklist created by Jordan Morgan.
# A Best in Class Checklist
A boiled down checklist adapted from this [post](https://www.swiftjectivec.com/a-best-in-class-app/), created by @jordanmorgan10.
> To use this, create a Github Issue in your own repo, and simply copy and paste this text.
## iOS Core Technology
_Things any iOS app can benefit from_
- [ ] iCloud Sync
- [ ] Focus Filter Support
@AFRUITPIE
AFRUITPIE / fish-build-install.sh
Last active March 5, 2024 16:15
Install Fish Shell 3+ on Raspberry Pi
#!/bin/bash
# This is a quick installer
# script I made to build and install the latest version of
# fish on my Raspberry Pi.
#
# Use at your own risk as I have made no effort to make
# this install safe!
set -e
@masklinn
masklinn / cheatsheet.md
Last active June 18, 2024 17:54
launchctl/launchd cheat sheet

I've never had great understanding of launchctl but the deprecation of the old commands with launchctl 2 (10.10) has been terrible as all resources only cover the old commands, and documentation for Apple utilities is generally disgracefully bad, with launchctl not dissembling.

Mad props to https://babodee.wordpress.com/2016/04/09/launchctl-2-0-syntax/ which contains most details

domains

Internally, launchd has several domains, but launchctl 1 would only ask for service names,

@terabyte
terabyte / amazon.md
Created December 6, 2017 02:27
Amazon's Build System

Prologue

I wrote this answer on stackexchange, here: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/12597919/

It was wrongly deleted for containing "proprietary information" years later. I think that's bullshit so I am posting it here. Come at me.

The Question

Amazon is a SOA system with 100s of services (or so says Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels). How do they handle build and release?

@ahcode0919
ahcode0919 / swift-custom-encode-decode.swift
Last active July 16, 2022 22:25
Custom JSON encoding / decoding in Swift 4
import UIKit
//Abbreviated OpenAPI product response for example purposes
let jsonData = """
{
"paging": {
"total": 8,
"offset": 0,
"limit": 40,
"returned": 8
@rdougan
rdougan / CollectionViewListLayout.swift
Created September 29, 2015 10:42
A basic NSCollectionViewLayout subclass which displays NSCollectionView items in a list layout.
//
// CollectionViewListLayout.swift
// money
//
// Created by Robert Dougan on 29/09/15.
// Copyright © 2015 Phyn3t. All rights reserved.
//
import Cocoa
#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
#include <ESP8266WebServer.h>
const char* ssid = "..............";
const char* password = "................";
String form = "<form action='led'><input type='radio' name='state' value='1' checked>On<input type='radio' name='state' value='0'>Off<input type='submit' value='Submit'></form>";
String imagepage = "<img src='/led.png'>";
@steipete
steipete / PSPDFUIKitMainThreadGuard.m
Last active May 27, 2024 12:11
This is a guard that tracks down UIKit access on threads other than main. This snippet is taken from the commercial iOS PDF framework http://pspdfkit.com, but relicensed under MIT. Works because a lot of calls internally call setNeedsDisplay or setNeedsLayout. Won't catch everything, but it's very lightweight and usually does the job.You might n…
// Taken from the commercial iOS PDF framework http://pspdfkit.com.
// Copyright (c) 2014 Peter Steinberger, PSPDFKit GmbH. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under MIT (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
//
// You should only use this in debug builds. It doesn't use private API, but I wouldn't ship it.
// PLEASE DUPE rdar://27192338 (https://openradar.appspot.com/27192338) if you would like to see this in UIKit.
#import <objc/runtime.h>
#import <objc/message.h>