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Merlin's Wisdom Project

Or: “Everybody likes being given a glass of water.”

By Merlin Mann.

It's only advice for you because it had to be advice for me.

The 5-minute backpack demo

Here's what I carry in a Tom Bihn Synapse 19 bag when I travel for 1-to-n days. In general, I optimize for low-weight items, with a secondary focus on reducing maintenance. You can peruse a gallery of pictures, too.

Clothing

Using `<details>` in GitHub

Suppose you're opening an issue and there's a lot noisey logs that may be useful.

Rather than wrecking readability, wrap it in a <details> tag!

<details>
 Summary Goes Here

Things that programmers don't know but should

(A book that I might eventually write!)

Gary Bernhardt

I imagine each of these chapters being about 2,000 words, making the whole book about the size of a small novel. For comparison, articles in large papers like the New York Times average about 1,200 words. Each topic gets whatever level of detail I can fit into that space. For simple topics, that's a lot of space: I can probably walk through a very basic, but working, implementation of the IP protocol.

	As of iOS 11/macOS High Sierra, and only including ones in Foundation and CoreFoundation

	Strings:

	_NSCFString - a CFStringRef or CFMutableStringRef. This is the most common type of string object currently.
	- May have 8 bit (ASCII) or 16 bit (UTF-16) backing store
	_NSCFConstantString - a compile time constant CFStringRef, like you'd get with @"foo"
	- May also be generated by dynamic string creation if matches a string in a pre-baked table of common strings called the StringROM
	NSBigMutableString - an NSString backed by a CFStorage (https://github.com/opensource-apple/CF/blob/master/CFStorage.h) for faster handling of very large strings
	NSCheapMutableString - a very limited NSMutableString that allows for zero-copy initialization. Used in NSFileManager for temporarily wrapping stack buffers.

	// Props to the fine folks on this thread http://bbs.iosre.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=694
	//
	// Example output of a call to dailyUsageStasticsForBundleIdentifier or weeklyUsageStasticsForBundleIdentifier
	// Inline comments are educated guesses at meaning
	// {
	// Airdrop = 0; // Has App used Airdrop
	// Airplay = 0; // Has App used Airplay
	// BBCondition = 0; // ?? BB = Backboard? This number is a float (ie 24.8766038700895)
	//
	// // No idea what the below units are, or what BLD means

	// This ensures that the automaticallyAdjustsScrollViewInsets magic works
	// On our newly added view controller as well.
	// This triggers _layoutViewController which then triggers
	// _computeAndApplyScrollContentInsetDeltaForViewController:
	// which finally updates our content inset of the scroll view (if any)
	// rdar://19053416
	[self.navigationController.view setNeedsLayout];

	//
	// DynamicTypeLabel.swift
	//
	// Created by Indragie on 10/16/14.
	// Copyright (c) 2014 Indragie Karunaratne. All rights reserved.
	//

	import UIKit

	class DynamicTypeLabel : UILabel {

	import UIKit

	class MyView: UIView {

	// I could define this as UIPanGestureRecognizer! but that feels like the wrong solution
	let panGestureRecognizer: UIPanGestureRecognizer

	init(frame: CGRect) {

	// Can't do this here because self is not initialized yet