mattt

Howdy howdy, NSHipsters!

If you alloc init an NSCalendar, you'll notice that New Year's Eve falls on a Monday this year, a.k.a. "the day NSHipster is published every week". What fun!

So in celebration of the upcoming year++, I thought it'd be fun to compile a list of some of your favorite tips and tricks of the trade. Submit your favorite piece of Objective-C trivia, framework arcana, hidden Xcode feature, or anything else you think is cool, and you could have it featured in the year-end blowout article. Just comment on this gist below!

Here are a few examples of the kind of things I'd like to see:

• StaticObjcMethods from [Apple]((http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#samplecode/CocoaTipsAndTricks/Introduction/Intro.html): Demonstrates how to use static Objective-C m

romaonthego

 a:  AM/PM
 A:	0~86399999 (Millisecond of Day)
 
 c/cc:	1~7 (Day of Week)
 ccc:	Sun/Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri/Sat
 cccc:	Sunday/Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday/Saturday
 
 d:	1~31 (0 padded Day of Month)
 D:	1~366 (0 padded Day of Year) 
 

stefanschmidt

chmod 0000 ~/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/*.tgz

jtbandes

#if os(iOS)
import UIKit
#else
import AppKit
#endif

/// A set of constraints prepared from a visual format string, in the style of
/// `NSLayoutConstraint.constraintsWithVisualFormat()`, with the additional ability
/// to supply views and metrics in a string interpolation.
///

gtallen1187

"Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out"

04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.

This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it's hard both for personal relationships and for business relationships. And to me, it's pretty amazing that two people can stay married for 25 years without killing each other.

[Laughter]

> But honestly, most professional relationships don't last anywhere near that long. The best bands always seem to break up after 2 or 3 years. And business partnerships fall apart, and there's all these problems in these relationships that just don't last. So, why is that? Well, in my view, it’s relationships don't fail because there some single catastrophic event to destroy them, although often there is a single catastrophic event around the the end of the relation

jtbandes

/// Decodes a dynamically-generated Uniform Type Identifier for inspection purposes. (**NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!**)
/// Many, many thanks to http://alastairs-place.net/blog/2012/06/06/utis-are-better-than-you-think-and-heres-why/
///
/// <https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/understanding_utis/understand_utis_conc/understand_utis_conc.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001319-CH202-BCGCDHIJ>
func decodeDynUTI(_ uti: String) -> String?
{
    let vec = Array("abcdefghkmnpqrstuvwxyz0123456789")

    let encoded = Array(uti).suffix(from: 5)
    var result: [UInt8] = []

chockenberry

#!/bin/sh

defaults read com.apple.finder CreateDesktop > /dev/null 2>&1
enabled=$?

if [ "$1" = "off" ]; then
	if [ $enabled -eq 1 ]; then
		defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop false
		osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to quit'
		open -a Finder

inamiy

React & Elm inspired frameworks in Swift

This is a curated list of iOS (Swift & ObjC) frameworks which are inspired by React and Elm.

Swift frameworks

React-inspired

• ReactSwift by @ColinEberhardt
• https://github.com/ColinEberhardt/ReactSwift

nubbel

New Build System Tricks

Command Line

# enable internal menu
defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode ShowDVTDebugMenu -book YES

alias xcbuild=$(xcode-select -p)/../SharedFrameworks/XCBuild.framework/Versions/A/Support/xcbuild

Catfish-Man

As of iOS 11/macOS High Sierra, and only including ones in Foundation and CoreFoundation

Strings:

_NSCFString - a CFStringRef or CFMutableStringRef. This is the most common type of string object currently.
    - May have 8 bit (ASCII) or 16 bit (UTF-16) backing store
_NSCFConstantString - a compile time constant CFStringRef, like you'd get with @"foo"
    - May also be generated by dynamic string creation if matches a string in a pre-baked table of common strings called the StringROM
NSBigMutableString - an NSString backed by a CFStorage (https://github.com/opensource-apple/CF/blob/master/CFStorage.h) for faster handling of very large strings
NSCheapMutableString - a very limited NSMutableString that allows for zero-copy initialization. Used in NSFileManager for temporarily wrapping stack buffers.