Haiyang Wang callmewhy

OBSOLETE

This entire guide is based on an old version of Homebrew/Node and no longer applies. It was only ever intended to fix a specific error message which has since been fixed. I've kept it here for historical purposes, but it should no longer be used. Homebrew maintainers have fixed things and the options mentioned don't exist and won't work.

I still believe it is better to manually install npm separately since having a generic package manager maintain another package manager is a bad idea, but the instructions below don't explain how to do that.

Fixing npm On Mac OS X for Homebrew Users

Installing node through Homebrew can cause problems with npm for globally installed packages. To fix it quickly, use the solution below. An explanation is also included at the end of this document.

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

Generate the list yourself:

$ cd /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS*.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/UIKit.framework/Headers
$ grep UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR ./*     | \
  sed 's/NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(.*)//g'     | \
  sed 's/NS_DEPRECATED_IOS(.*)//g'    | \
  sed 's/API_AVAILABLE(.*)//g'        | \
  sed 's/API_UNAVAILABLE(.*)//g'      | \
 sed 's/UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR//g' | \

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

	dispatch_semaphore_t semaphore = dispatch_semaphore_create(1);


	// Then in some loop ...
	if(dispatch_semaphore_wait(semaphore, DISPATCH_TIME_NOW) == 0) {
	dispatch_async(queue, ^{
	// Some code that needs to run but doesn't need to fill up the queue.
	//
	dispatch_semaphore_signal(semaphore);
	});

	// Just before switching jobs:
	// Add one of these.
	// Preferably into the same commit where you do a large merge.
	//
	// This started as a tweet with a joke of "C++ pro-tip: #define private public",
	// and then it quickly escalated into more and more evil suggestions.
	// I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here.
	//
	// Contributors: @r2d2rigo, @joeldevahl, @msinilo, @_Humus_,
	// @YuriyODonnell, @rygorous, @cmuratori, @mike_acton, @grumpygiant,

	// 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>

	{:user {:dependencies [[org.clojure/tools.namespace "0.2.3"]
	[spyscope "0.1.3"]
	[criterium "0.4.1"]]
	:injections [(require '(clojure.tools.namespace repl find))
	; try/catch to workaround an issue where `lein repl` outside a project dir
	; will not load reader literal definitions correctly:
	(try (require 'spyscope.core)
	(catch RuntimeException e))]
	:plugins [[lein-pprint "1.1.1"]
	[lein-beanstalk "0.2.6"]

	# This script is based on the script provided at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9258344/xcode-better-way-of-incrementing-build-number
	# The only difference is, that it uses hexadecimal build numbers instead of decimal ones.
	# For instructions on how to use this script, see the link above.


	#!/bin/sh

	if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
	echo usage: $0 plist-file
	exit 1

	- (UIImage )compressImage:(UIImage )image{
	float actualHeight = image.size.height;
	float actualWidth = image.size.width;
	float maxHeight = 600.0;
	float maxWidth = 800.0;
	float imgRatio = actualWidth/actualHeight;
	float maxRatio = maxWidth/maxHeight;
	float compressionQuality = 0.5;//50 percent compression

	if (actualHeight > maxHeight \|\| actualWidth > maxWidth) {