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File Magic Numbers

Magic numbers are the first bits of a file which uniquely identify the type of file. This makes programming easier because complicated file structures need not be searched in order to identify the file type.

For example, a jpeg file starts with ffd8 ffe0 0010 4a46 4946 0001 0101 0047 ......JFIF.....G ffd8 shows that it's a JPEG file, and ffe0 identify a JFIF type structure. There is an ascii encoding of "JFIF" which comes after a length code, but that is not necessary in order to identify the file. The first 4 bytes do that uniquely.

This gives an ongoing list of file-type magic numbers.

Image Files

New Build System Tricks

Command Line

alias xcbuild=$(xcode-select -p)/../SharedFrameworks/XCBuild.framework/Versions/A/Support/xcbuild
# THIS DOESNT WORK YET: xcbuild openIDEConsole  # … then switch to Xcode ➡️
xcbuild showSpecs
xcbuild build <foo.pif> [—target <target>]

Using Git Commit Message Templates to Write Better Commit Messages

The always enthusiastic and knowledgeable mr. @jasaltvik shared with our team an article on writing (good) Git commit messages: How to Write a Git Commit Message. This excellent article explains why good Git commit messages are important, and explains what constitutes a good commit message. I wholeheartedly agree with what @cbeams writes in his article. (Have you read it yet? If not, go read it now. I'll wait.) It's sensible stuff. So I decided to start following the

How to use

In iTerm2, in the menu bar go to Scripts > Manage > New Python Script

Select Basic. Select Long-Running Daemon

Give the script a decent name (I chose auto_dark_mode.py)

Save and open the script in your editor of choice.

	# Ways to execute a shell script in Ruby
	# Example Script - Joseph Pecoraro

	cmd = "echo 'hi'" # Sample string that can be used

	# 1. Kernel#` - commonly called backticks - `cmd`
	# This is like many other languages, including bash, PHP, and Perl
	# Synchronous (blocking)
	# Returns the output of the shell command
	# Docs: http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M001111

	i386 : iPhone Simulator
	x86_64 : iPhone Simulator
	arm64 : iPhone Simulator
	iPhone1,1 : iPhone
	iPhone1,2 : iPhone 3G
	iPhone2,1 : iPhone 3GS
	iPhone3,1 : iPhone 4
	iPhone3,2 : iPhone 4 GSM Rev A
	iPhone3,3 : iPhone 4 CDMA
	iPhone4,1 : iPhone 4S

	{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
	{-\|

	Tokenizer for SLF0 serialization format, used by Xcode to, at the very least,
	encode some log files.

	For example, `.xcactivitylog` logs are gzipped files of this format,
	serializing some objc classes which represent the build log.

	This class tokenizes the raw byte stream into a flat list of tokens. The actual

	#!/bin/sh

	UNIVERSAL_OUTPUTFOLDER=${BUILD_DIR}/${CONFIGURATION}-universal

	# make sure the output directory exists
	mkdir -p "${UNIVERSAL_OUTPUTFOLDER}"

	# Step 1. Build Device and Simulator versions
	xcodebuild -target "${PROJECT_NAME}" ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=NO -configuration ${CONFIGURATION} -sdk iphoneos BUILD_DIR="${BUILD_DIR}" BUILD_ROOT="${BUILD_ROOT}" clean build
	xcodebuild -target "${PROJECT_NAME}" -configuration ${CONFIGURATION} -sdk iphonesimulator ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=NO BUILD_DIR="${BUILD_DIR}" BUILD_ROOT="${BUILD_ROOT}" clean build

	// MIT License
	//
	// Copyright (c) 2017 Dariusz Rybicki Darrarski
	//
	// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	// of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	// in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	// to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	// copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
	// furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

	Add the following in .zshrc:

	...
	plugins=(osx git zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh-nvm docker kubectl)
	...

	### Fix slowness of pastes with zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
	pasteinit() {
	OLD_SELF_INSERT=${${(s.:.)widgets[self-insert]}[2,3]}
	zle -N self-insert url-quote-magic # I wonder if you'd need `.url-quote-magic`?