tinkerware

Maintaining Java Installs on macOS Using Homebrew Cask

Recently, I upgraded my MacBook Pro from a old, trusty Yosemite to Sierra, and reluctantly had to clean out the old JDK versions I had accumulated over a few years. I also wanted to have a Java 9 JDK to play around with the new module system and API’s.

Good news is that, for a while now, you have been able to install and upgrade multiple versions of JDK using only your shell, without having to deal with Oracle’s graphical installers.

To install Java from scratch, install Homebrew Cask cask-update (you need to have Homebrew already installed) first, then install Java using Cask:

brew tap buo/cask-upgrade & brew tap caskroom/versions
brew cask install java8

evancz

A vision for data interchange in Elm

How do you send information between clients and servers? What format should that information be in? What happens when the server changes the format, but the client has not been updated yet? What happens when the server changes the format, but the database cannot be updated?

These are difficult questions. It is not just about picking a format, but rather picking a format that can evolve as your application evolves.

Literature Review

By now there are many approaches to communicating between client and server. These approaches tend to be known within specific companies and language communities, but the techniques do not cross borders. I will outline JSON, ProtoBuf, and GraphQL here so we can learn from them all.

algal

// known-good: Xcode 8, Swift 3

import Foundation

var standardError = FileHandle.standardError

extension FileHandle : TextOutputStream {
  public func write(_ string: String) {
    guard let data = string.data(using: .utf8) else { return }

zehnpaard

(ns simple-hiccup.core
  (require
    [ring.adapter.jetty :refer [run-jetty]]
    [simple-hiccup.middleware :as m]
    [simple-hiccup.routes :as r]
  ))

(def app
  (-> r/routes
      m/logger

cobalamin

• Types are declared with : and not ::, and the consing operator conversely is :: instead of :
• No where clauses, only let/in
• The standard style is different, check http://elm-lang.org/docs/style-guide for reference
• Multiline strings are a thing with """
• Haskell's data corresponds to type in Elm, and also, Haskell's type corresponds to Elm's type alias
• ($) is (<|), but you don't use it all that much – Elm people like the flipped operator (|>) which lets you build something that reads like a pipeline
• Related: Backticks will likely die soon in favour of functions that have an argument order that lends itself to pipelining with (|>)
• Also, (.) is (<<), and a flipped version (>>) exists, but I don't see it used that much either
• (>>=) is not an available operator and would not be polymorphic (no typeclasses, see below), and is instead commonly named SomeType.andThen – e.g. Maybe.andThen : Maybe a -> (a -> Maybe b) -> Maybe b

emotality

NOTE (2022-07-09): Xcode finally added this functionality in Xcode 14, please see release notes here:

New Features in Xcode 14 Beta 3
When editing code, the Edit > Duplicate menu item and its corresponding keyboard shortcut now duplicate the selected text — or the line that currently contains the insertion point, if no text is selected. (8614499) (FB5618491)

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Xcode line duplicate

Bind keys to duplicate lines in Xcode

yang-wei

Should be work with 0.18

Destructuring(or pattern matching) is a way used to extract data from a data structure(tuple, list, record) that mirros the construction. Compare to other languages, Elm support much less destructuring but let's see what it got !

Tuple

myTuple = ("A", "B", "C")
myNestedTuple = ("A", "B", "C", ("X", "Y", "Z"))

rmondello

Exporting (iCloud) Keychain and Safari credentials to a CSV file

Update (October 2021)

Exporting password + one-time code data from iCloud Keychain is now officially supported in macOS Monterey and Safari 15 (for Monterey, Big Sur, and Catalina). You can access it in the Password Manager’s “gear” icon (System Preferences > Passwords on Monterey, and Safari > Passwords everywhere else), or via the File > Export > Passwords... menu item). You shouldn't need to hack up your own exporter anymore.

Original, Obsolete Content (2014)

After my dad died, I wanted to be able to have access any of his online accounts going forward. My dad was a Safari user and used iCloud Keychain to sync his credentials across his devices. I don’t want to have to keep an OS X user account around just to access his accounts, so I wanted to export his credentials to a portable file.

prakhar1989

Rich Hickey on becoming a better developer

Rich Hickey • 3 years ago

Sorry, I have to disagree with the entire premise here.

A wide variety of experiences might lead to well-roundedness, but not to greatness, nor even goodness. By constantly switching from one thing to another you are always reaching above your comfort zone, yes, but doing so by resetting your skill and knowledge level to zero.

Mastery comes from a combination of at least several of the following:

evancz

Union Types

If Elm community is going to begin referring to "union types" instead of "algebraic data types" we should think about how that will work in practice. What discussions will we have? Will we find ourselves in awkward spots trying to explain things?

The following question/answer pairs simulate things I'd expect to see in a world of "union types". The pairs are grouped by what background I expect the questions to come from so we know the subtext. I have also added some meta comments in italic to explain my phrasing.

One thing to consider is that a lot of learners will not have a person to ask, so the path to arriving at these answers needs to be easy if you are just searching online.

General Questions