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@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active May 10, 2025 14:01
Big list of http static server one-liners

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
@steipete
steipete / PSPDFUIKitMainThreadGuard.m
Last active May 27, 2024 12:11
This is a guard that tracks down UIKit access on threads other than main. This snippet is taken from the commercial iOS PDF framework http://pspdfkit.com, but relicensed under MIT. Works because a lot of calls internally call setNeedsDisplay or setNeedsLayout. Won't catch everything, but it's very lightweight and usually does the job.You might n…
// 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>
@jackrusher
jackrusher / gist:5139396
Last active February 23, 2025 01:28
Hofstadter on Lisp: Atoms and Lists, re-printed in Metamagical Themas.

Hofstadter on Lisp

In the mid-80s, while reading through my roommate's collection of Scientific American back issues, I encountered this introduction to Lisp written by Douglas Hofstadter. I found it very charming at the time, and provide it here (somewhat illegally) for the edification of a new generation of Lispers.

In a testament to the timelessness of Lisp, you can still run all the examples below in emacs if you install these aliases:

(defalias 'plus #'+)
(defalias 'quotient #'/)
(defalias 'times #'*)
(defalias 'difference #'-)
@syzdek
syzdek / cli-nsrunloop.m
Created July 31, 2012 21:36
Creating an NSRunLoop for a command line utility.
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSRunLoop * runLoop;
CLIMain * main; // replace with desired class
@autoreleasepool
{
// create run loop
@mikeash
mikeash / test.m
Created July 9, 2012 21:15
Cocoa array slicing
// clang -framework Foundation -fobjc-arc -O3 test.m
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
@interface Slice : NSObject
@property NSInteger start;
@property NSInteger length;
@end
@implementation Slice