douglashill

#! /usr/bin/swift

// Douglas Hill, March 2020

/*
 Extracts the most common translations from Apple’s glossary files.

 This script helped with localisation for KeyboardKit (https://github.com/douglashill/KeyboardKit) by leveraging Apple’s existing translations.

 More detail in the article at https://douglashill.co/localisation-using-apples-glossaries/

rmcdongit

macOS 10.15 System Preference Panes

Below are a list of System Preference pane URLs and paths that can be accessed with scripting to assist users with enabling macOS security settings without having to walk them through launching System Preferences, finding panes, and scrolling to settings. Not all panes have an accessible anchor and some are OS specific.

To find the Pane ID of a specific pane, open the System Preferences app and select the desired Preference Pane. With the pane selected, open the ScriptEditor.app and run the following script to copy the current Pane ID to your clipboard and display any available anchors:

tell application "System Preferences"
	set CurrentPane to the id of the current pane
	set the clipboard to CurrentPane

lukele

Summary

If a user enters the wrong password, when they are asked for their macOS user credentials to access the password of a keychain item, and press "Do not allow" when asked again, the following happens:

• programmatic access to the keychain item's password using SecItemCopyMatching consistently fails with error OSStatus -25293, yet the user is never prompted to enter their macOS credentials

• programmatic access to the password of any keychain item of the same keychain fails with error -25293

• the user is not asked for their credentials again until they manually lock and unlock the login keychain (or any custom keychain the keychain item belonged to) in Keychain Access.app (or perform an action which locks and unlocks the keychain, like log out or restart of macOS)

rnapier

//
//  main.m
//  test
//
//  Created by Rob Napier on 4/5/19.
//

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface MyClass: NSObject

tclementdev

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

ddunbar

#!/bin/sh

set -e

if [ -z "${CONFIGURATION}" ]; then
    CONFIGURATION=debug
fi

# Create the development toolchain.
rm -rf ~/public/swift-project/build/Ninja-ReleaseAssert/swift-dev.xctoolchain

mattshepherd

//disable TOC button
window.HelpViewer.showTOCButton(false);

//enable TOC button
//If you call this on window load it will flash active for a brief second and then disable again.
//Call if after a delay of 250ms and is works fine
//Not sure what the second variable does yet, but passing false works fine
window.HelpViewer.showTOCButton( true, false, function() {
	 //do something to toggle TOC in your webpage
});

amake

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <!-- Convert Apple *.lg glossaries to TMX. Usage:
         xsltproc [-o <output file>] [-\-stringparam srclang <source lang>] lg2tmx.xsl <input file>
       If not specified, the TMX header's srclang attribute defaults to "*all*".
       Get glossaries at https://developer.apple.com/downloads/?name=glossaries -->
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" />
  <xsl:param name="srclang" select="'*all*'" />
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <tmx version="1.4">

mittsh

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2013 Micha Mazaheri
 * Released under the MIT License: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
 */

#define LMWindowDEBUGResponders

#ifdef LMWindowDEBUGResponders
static BOOL _showFirstResponderOverlay = YES;
#endif

cyberfox

#!/usr/bin/env ruby                                                                                                                                                                                                          
#                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
# Usage:                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
#   security dump-keychain -d login.keychain > keychain_logins.txt                                                                                                                                                           
#   # Lots of clicking 'Always Allow', or just 'Allow', until it's done...