andymatuschak

A composable pattern for pure state machines with effects

State machines are everywhere in interactive systems, but they're rarely defined clearly and explicitly. Given some big blob of code including implicit state machines, which transitions are possible and under what conditions? What effects take place on what transitions?

There are existing design patterns for state machines, but all the patterns I've seen complect side effects with the structure of the state machine itself. Instances of these patterns are difficult to test without mocking, and they end up with more dependencies. Worse, the classic patterns compose poorly: hierarchical state machines are typically not straightforward extensions. The functional programming world has solutions, but they don't transpose neatly enough to be broadly usable in mainstream languages.

Here I present a composable pattern for pure state machiness with effects,

steipete

# The trick is to link the DeviceSupport folder from the beta to the stable version.
# sudo needed if you run the Mac App Store version. Always download the dmg instead... you'll thank me later :)

# Support iOS 15 devices (Xcode 13.0) with Xcode 12.5:
sudo ln -s /Applications/Xcode-beta.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport/15.0 /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/DeviceSupport

# Then restart Xcode and reconnect your devices. You will need to do that for every beta of future iOS versions

# (A similar approach works for older versions too, just change the version number after DeviceSupport)

paulirish

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

• elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

isaacs

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# it is actually a highly expressive, efficient, and powerful way to build
# programs.
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# http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html
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irace

I'm not 100% sure this is all accurate but:

It seems as though share extension predicates are a lot more specific than we originally thought. For example, if Instapaper declares support for only NSExtensionActivationSupportsWebURLWithMaxCount = 1, this means that activity controllers configured with a URL but also some other item types too, e.g. a string, won't show Instapaper.

So basically if you have multiple items in your activity items array, your controller will only show extensions that support all types. I imagine this would be extremely limiting, and as such, think the best option is to:

• Only include a single provider in your items array. The provider would have a placeholder of a single type that will be provided to any activity or extension that isn't specifically accounted for
• In the provider, specifically hardcode alternative item types for activities that need an alternative to the placeholder type:
  • "Copy" activity could use photo data, if present
• "Mail" activity woul

jstn

/*
    var t = Timer()
    
    t.start()
    // do something
    t.stop()

    print("took \(t.seconds)")
*/

gruber

The regex patterns in this gist are intended only to match web URLs -- http,
https, and naked domains like "example.com". For a pattern that attempts to
match all URLs, regardless of protocol, see: https://gist.github.com/gruber/249502


# Single-line version:

(?i)\b((?:https?:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.](?:com|net|org|edu|gov|mil|aero|asia|biz|cat|coop|info|int|jobs|mobi|museum|name|post|pro|tel|travel|xxx|ac|ad|ae|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|as|at|au|aw|ax|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|cr|cs|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|dd|de|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|ee|eg|eh|er|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb|gd|ge|gf|gg|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|hk|hm|hn|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|im|in|io|iq|ir|is|it|je|jm|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kp|kr|kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|me|mg|mh|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|nc|ne|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nu|nz|om|pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|ps|pt|pw|py|qa|re|ro|rs|ru|rw|sa|sb|sc|sd|se|sg|sh|si|s

kyleve

/**
 Provides the ability to verify key paths at compile time.
 
 If "keyPath" does not exist, a compile-time error will be generated.
 
 Example:
    // Verifies "isFinished" exists on "operation".
    NSString *key = SQKeyPath(operation, isFinished);
 
    // Verifies "isFinished" exists on self.

brentsimmons

@implementation UITextView (RSExtras)


static BOOL stringCharacterIsAllowedAsPartOfLink(NSString *s) {

    /*[s length] is assumed to be 0 or 1. s may be nil.
     Totally not a strict check.*/

    if (s == nil || [s length] < 1)
        return NO;

nfarina

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface UIView (SMFrameAdditions)

@property (nonatomic, assign) CGPoint $origin;
@property (nonatomic, assign) CGSize $size;
@property (nonatomic, assign) CGFloat $x, $y, $width, $height; // normal rect properties
@property (nonatomic, assign) CGFloat $left, $top, $right, $bottom; // these will stretch the rect

@end