travisbrown

The current version of this document is here.

This document contains additional supporting material for the claims in this post (published 1 September 2019), in response to a cease and desist letter from John De Goes that I received on 6 July 2020.

Please see also this post for more information about De Goes deleting the FCoP repository on GitHub shortly before sending the cease and desist letter.

Table of contents

• The complaints
• Response to complaint 1

ryanpcmcquen

#!/bin/sh
# Darkify Slack on Mac OS or Linux.

# curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ryanpcmcquen/8a7ddc72460eca0dc1f2dc389674dde1/raw/darkify_slack.sh | sh

if [ "`uname -s`" = "Darwin" ]; then
    SLACK_INTEROP_JS="/Applications/Slack.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/dist/ssb-interop.bundle.js"
else
    SLACK_INTEROP_JS="/usr/lib/slack/resources/app.asar.unpacked/dist/ssb-interop.bundle.js"
fi

catlan

Diff output of two lldb commands

Setup

1. Copy the contents of the last snippet (lldbinit) from the gist page, and paste into your .lldbinit file. This makes the ksdiff macro known inside lldb.
2. Put file ksdiff.py in ~/.lldb/
3. sudo pip install temp
4. Restart Xcode debug session

Example

(lldb) ksdiff ;

orta

DougGregor

import Darwin

@dynamicMemberLookup
struct Environment {
  subscript(dynamicMember name: String) -> String? {
    get {
      guard let value = getenv(name) else { return nil }

      return String(validatingUTF8: value)
    }

jpsim

Running jazzy from a fresh Ubuntu machine:

Create a brand new Ubuntu machine

$ doctl compute droplet create jazzy --size 16gb \
    --image ubuntu-16-10-x64 --region sfo1
$ doctl compute ssh jazzy

Install Swift

scooooooooby

Of the books I've read this year here's my verdict on the ones worth (re-)reading:

Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado: A collection of short stories from Carmen Maria Machado. When trying to describe it to other people I've tried "fantastical horror while trying to describe the female experience" but I don't mean that with some sort of Stephen King IT connotation: all of the stories have a fantastical element to them, and they're worrisome, but they're not out-right terrifying. The only exception to this (for me in any case) was the third story that was basically a fanfiction of Law & Order SVU. Opinions in my book club were pretty split and many hated it but I found it to be the most haunting thing I've read all year.

Also, met the author in person and she seems pretty rad. Gifting this book to a few ladies in my life this year. [Plot](https://www.goodreads

mbrandonw

class Function<B> {
  func call<A>(_ a: A) -> B {
    fatalError("unimplemented")
  }
}

final class PrintInt: Function<Void> {
  func call(_ a: Int) -> Void {
    print(a)
  }

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.

mikeash

#!/bin/bash

# Exit the script immediately on error
set -e

# We'll work in /tmp
cd /tmp

# Clone mach_override unless we already have it
if [ ! -d mach_override ]; then