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marco79cgn / sonos-nowPlaying.js
Last active January 6, 2024 07:46
A scriptable widget that shows what's playing on SONOS
// Variables used by Scriptable.
// These must be at the very top of the file. Do not edit.
// icon-color: cyan; icon-glyph: magic;
// the node sonos http api base url (running on your Pi for example)
let sonosBaseUrl = "http://192.168.178.10:5005"
// optional for cover art: the ip address of one of your Sonos speakers
let sonosPlayerUrl = "http://192.168.178.38:1400"
let param = args.widgetParameter
@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
@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

Your goals are to reduce the number of things that you have to keep in your head at any given moment, and to rely as little as possible on your own ability to consistently do things right.
If you make a thing immutable ('let' in swift), you never have to think about what happens if it changes, or what other parts of the code you'll effect if you change it.
If you split complex functions into several smaller functions that only interact by passing arguments or getting return values, then you limit the amount of code you need to consider when hunting for a bug, and you can test each small piece separately.
If you understand what things must be true in your code (aka invariants, for example "a person's age must be greater than 0"), and either provide no function that can cause them to be untrue, or check and crash immediately when they're untrue, then you don't have to debug issues caused by incorrect assumptions.
If you remove possibilities (for example, Swift removes the possibility of things being nil unless
@tomlokhorst
tomlokhorst / Optional+Unwrap.swift
Last active December 26, 2017 19:50
Unwrap multiple optionals in Swift 1.0
func unwrap<T1, T2>(optional1: T1?, optional2: T2?) -> (T1, T2)? {
switch (optional1, optional2) {
case let (.Some(value1), .Some(value2)):
return (value1, value2)
default:
return nil
}
}
func unwrap<T1, T2, T3>(optional1: T1?, optional2: T2?, optional3: T3?) -> (T1, T2, T3)? {
@bpruitt-goddard
bpruitt-goddard / Backup-VMs.ps1
Created October 6, 2014 03:56
Export Hyper-V VMs (Powershell)
# Directions for use:
# Import this script using the Import-Module cmdlet
# On PoshCode at http://poshcode.org/5486 (modified from the original http://poshcode.org/3927)
# All output is logged to the backup directory in the $($BackupDriveLetter):\VMBackup\Backup-VMs.log file
# Use the Backup-VMs cmdlet to begin the process
# Parameter BackupDriveLetter indicates the drive to put this backup onto. It must be mounted to the host running the script.
# Parameter VMHost defines the host that contains the VMs you want to back up. If it's blank, then it just targets the host the script is running on
# Parameter VMNames defines the specific VMs you wish to backup, otherwise it'll back up all of them on the target host
# Switch parameter ShutHostDownWhenFinished will cause the specified host (and any VMs running on it) to shut down upon completion of the backup
# Example:
#
# Set the build number to the current git commit count.
# If we're using the Dev scheme, then we'll suffix the build
# number with the current branch name, to make collisions
# far less likely across feature branches.
# Based on: http://w3facility.info/question/how-do-i-force-xcode-to-rebuild-the-info-plist-file-in-my-project-every-time-i-build-the-project/
#
git=`sh /etc/profile; which git`
appBuild=`"$git" rev-list --all |wc -l`
if [ $CONFIGURATION = "Debug" ]; then
@steipete
steipete / Macros.h
Last active January 6, 2024 07:24
Declare on your main init that all other init methods should call. It's a nice additional semantic warning. Works with Xcode 5.1 and above. Not tested with earlier variants, but should just be ignored. A reference to this macro shortly appeared in https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/releasenotes/ObjectiveC/ModernizationObjC/AdoptingModernObj…
#ifndef NS_DESIGNATED_INITIALIZER
#if __has_attribute(objc_designated_initializer)
#define NS_DESIGNATED_INITIALIZER __attribute((objc_designated_initializer))
#else
#define NS_DESIGNATED_INITIALIZER
#endif
#endif
@steipete
steipete / UIKitLegacyDetector.m
Last active March 12, 2024 13:57
A simple way to detect at runtime if we're running in UIKit legacy mode or the new "flat" variant. Written for our PDF iOS SDK (http://pspdfkit.com), where the precompiled binary needs to detect at runtime in what variant it's running. Want more stuff like that? Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/steipete
// Taken from http://PSPDFKit.com. This snippet is under public domain.
#define UIKitVersionNumber_iOS_7_0 0xB57
BOOL PSPDFIsUIKitFlatMode(void) {
static BOOL isUIKitFlatMode = NO;
static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
// We get the modern UIKit if system is running >= iOS 7 and we were linked with >= SDK 7.
if (kCFCoreFoundationVersionNumber >= kCFCoreFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_7_0) {
isUIKitFlatMode = (NSVersionOfLinkTimeLibrary("UIKit") >> 16) >= UIKitVersionNumber_iOS_7_0;
}
@steipete
steipete / PSPDFUIKitMainThreadGuard.m
Last active March 10, 2024 19:23
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>