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@douglashill
douglashill / AdaptiveTraitsContainer.swift
Created April 13, 2019 01:15
Experimenting altering an iOS app size class to be responsive to the Dynamic Text size.
import UIKit
/// A wrapper view controller that makes the horizontal size class
/// be based on both the Dynamic Text size and the width available.
class AdaptiveTraitsContainer: UIViewController {
let wrappedViewController: UIViewController
init(wrappedViewController: UIViewController) {
self.wrappedViewController = wrappedViewController
super.init(nibName: nil, bundle: nil)
@mayoff
mayoff / convert.swift
Last active June 16, 2021 23:07
How to convert from DispatchData to Data without copying the bytes
import Dispatch
import Foundation
var x = 7
let dd = withUnsafeBytes(of: &x, { DispatchData.init(bytes: $0) })
print(dd as? Data) // Case 1: nil
print(dd as? NSData) // Case 2: nil
print(dd as Any as? Data) // Case 3: nil
print(dd as Any as? NSData) // Case 4: .some
print(dd as Any as? NSData as Data?) // Case 5: .some
#!/bin/bash
#
# Faster toolchain build: skips as much as possible.
#
# To use this toolchain from the command line:"
# export TOOLCHAINS=$(whoami)
#
# we build to the same prefix every time (instead of building
# to a versioned prefix) because every time the prefix changes
# *everything* rebuilds.
@jspahrsummers
jspahrsummers / bad.m
Last active January 20, 2021 11:55
Synchronizing with multiple GCD queues
//
// DON'T do this, or else you risk a deadlock (e.g., by accidentally performing it in a different order somewhere)
//
dispatch_async(firstQueue, ^{
dispatch_sync(secondQueue, ^{
// code requiring both queues
});
});
@mattshepherd
mattshepherd / apple help book example.txt
Last active November 3, 2022 13:32
To support the table of contents button in the OS X Help Book app you need to implement the following code. This isn't documented anywhere but I found it in Apple's own help files and tested it to work. I believe it only works in the more recent versions of OS X, so you if your app supports really old versions you might want to check it.
//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
});
@steipete
steipete / NSData+PSPDFFoundation.m
Created July 16, 2015 08:08
After playing around with dispatch_io (https://gist.github.com/steipete/b22babbf3014e29c19f0), I ended up with this. Upside: Uses way less memory, controllable caching, similar performance, simpler code and supports priority donation implicitly since everything's sync.
static NSData *PSPDFCalculateSHA256FromFileURL(NSURL *fileURL, CC_LONG dataLength, NSError **error) {
NSCParameterAssert(fileURL);
NSData *shaData;
int fd = open(fileURL.path.UTF8String, O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0) {
if (error) *error = [NSError pspdf_errorWithCode:PSPDFErrorCodeUnableToOpenPDF description:@"Failed to open file for calculating SHA256."];
return nil;
}
@steipete
steipete / NSData+PSPDFFoundation.m
Last active March 21, 2017 16:00
Haven't done much with dispatch_io yet so I'd appreciate a few more eyeballs on this. Am I closing things correctly in all error conditions? Are there other knobs I could change to make things even faster? (I know I've been lazy on the NSError's)
static NSData *PSPDFCalculateSHA256FromFileURL(NSURL *fileURL, CC_LONG dataLength, NSError **error) {
NSCParameterAssert(fileURL);
dispatch_queue_t shaQueue = dispatch_queue_create("com.pspdfkit.sha256-queue", DISPATCH_QUEUE_SERIAL);
__block dispatch_io_t readChannel;
void (^processIntError)(int intError) = ^(int intError) {
if (intError != 0) {
PSPDFLogWarning(@"Stream error: %d", intError);
if (error) *error = [NSError errorWithDomain:@"SHA256Error" code:100 userInfo:@{NSLocalizedDescriptionKey: @"failed to open file for calculating SHA256."}];
@praeclarum
praeclarum / ArrayDiff.swift
Last active January 8, 2021 06:10
A generic diffing operation that can calculate the minimal steps needed to convert one array to another. It can be used to generate standard diffs, or it can be used more creatively to calculate minimal UI updates.
//
// ArrayDiff.swift
//
// Created by Frank A. Krueger on 6/30/15.
// Copyright © 2015 Krueger Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
// License: MIT http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
//
import Foundation
@AlamofireSoftwareFoundation
AlamofireSoftwareFoundation / alamofire-04-27-2015-statement.md
Last active January 10, 2020 06:25
A response to recent concerns about security vulnerabilities in AFNetworking

Last week, a number of publications ran a story about 1,000's of apps allegedly being vulnerable due to an SSL bug in AFNetworking. These articles contain a number of inaccurate and misleading statements on this matter.

We are publishing this response to clarify and correct these statements.

Background Information

For those not familiar with AFNetworking, here are some relevant details about the library for this story:

  • AFNetworking is an open source, third-party library that provides convenience functionality on top of Apple's built-in frameworks.
  • One component of AFNetworking is AFSecurityPolicy, which handles authentication challenges according to a policy configured by the application. This includes the evaluation of X.509 certificates which servers send back when connecting over HTTPS.