kconner

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

moyix

#!/bin/bash

gdb -p "$1" -batch -ex 'set {short}$rip = 0x050f' -ex 'set $rax=231' -ex 'set $rdi=0' -ex 'cont'

sts10

A curated list of command-line utilities written in Rust

Note: I have moved this list to a proper repository. I'll leave this gist up, but it won't be updated. To submit an idea, open a PR on the repo.

Note that I have not tried all of these personally, and cannot and do not vouch for all of the tools listed here. In most cases, the descriptions here are copied directly from their code repos. Some may have been abandoned. Investigate before installing/using.

The ones I use regularly include: bat, dust, fd, fend, hyperfine, miniserve, ripgrep, just, cargo-audit and cargo-wipe.

• atuin: "Magical shell history"
• bandwhich: Terminal bandwidth utilization tool

mimoo

I wrote a very primitive script to produce a flamegraph out of a number of asciidoc files. See this blog post for some idea of the result.

WARNING: It's heavily taylored to my own setup, so not sure it'll work directly with yours, or you might have some customization to do. (If there's enough interest I could do a more general script / Dockerfile.)

How to use?

brunocalza

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"unsafe"

	"github.com/edsrzf/mmap-go"
)

func main() {

JLChnToZ

How to play ASCII-Art Star Wars offline

Following will teach you how to play the "easter-egg" (which actually isn't, but many people describe this as an easter egg) of ASCII-Art Star Wars (or Star Wars in terminal/telnet, whatever), the one you normally starts like this:

$ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

1. Before you start, ensure Node.js is installed.
2. Navigate to www.asciimation.co.nz, the original home of that ASCII-Art Star Wars.
3. Press F12 to open developer tools.

sleepyfox

'Users hate change'

This week NN Group released a video by Jakob Nielsen in which he attempts to help designers deal with the problem of customers being resistant to their new site/product redesign. The argument goes thusly:

1. Humans naturally resist change
2. Your change is for the better
3. Customers should just get used to it and stop complaining

There's slightly more to it than that, he caveats his argument with requiring you to have of course followed their best practices on product design, and allows for a period of customers being able to elect to continue to use the old site, although he says this is obviously only a temporary solution as you don't want to support both.

teivah

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"testing"
)

type foo struct {
	ID            string  `json:"_id"`
	Index         int     `json:"index"`

andy-thomason

Genomics - A programmer's guide.

Andy Thomason is a Senior Programmer at Genomics PLC. He has been witing graphics systems, games and compilers since the '70s and specialises in code performance.

https://www.genomicsplc.com

dominictarr

Hey everyone - this is not just a one off thing, there are likely to be many other modules in your dependency trees that are now a burden to their authors. I didn't create this code for altruistic motivations, I created it for fun. I was learning, and learning is fun. I gave it away because it was easy to do so, and because sharing helps learning too. I think most of the small modules on npm were created for reasons like this. However, that was a long time ago. I've since moved on from this module and moved on from that thing too and in the process of moving on from that as well. I've written way better modules than this, the internet just hasn't fully caught up.

@broros

otherwise why would he hand over a popular package to a stranger?

If it's not fun anymore, you get literally nothing from maintaining a popular package.

One time, I was working as a dishwasher in a restu