steipete

PSPDF_EXTERN BOOL PSPDFIsBlock(id _Nullable block) {
    static Class blockClass;
    static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
    dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
        blockClass = [^{} class];
        while ([blockClass superclass] != NSObject.class) {
            blockClass = [blockClass superclass];
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marick

Around 2006-2007, it was a bit of a fashion to hook lava lamps up to the build server. Normally, the green lava lamp would be on, but if the build failed, it would turn off and the red lava lamp would turn on.

By coincidence, I've actually met, about that time, (probably) the first person to hook up a lava lamp to a build server. It was Alberto Savoia, who'd founded a testing tools company (that did some very interesting things around generative testing that have basically never been noticed). Alberto had noticed that people did not react with any urgency when the build broke. They'd check in broken code and go off to something else, only reacting to the breakage they'd caused when some other programmer pulled the change and had problems.

rakaramos

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   type = "4"
   version = "2.0">
   <Breakpoints>
      <BreakpointProxy
         BreakpointExtensionID = "Xcode.Breakpoint.SymbolicBreakpoint">
         <BreakpointContent
            shouldBeEnabled = "Yes"
            ignoreCount = "0"

amercier

Synology scheduled tasks

Usage

Go to Control Panel / Task Scheduler and add the content of these scripts as root scripts.

Leds

mtauraso

#!/bin/bash

# This will add lauchd to the list of allowed processes for accessibility access
sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db "INSERT or REPLACE INTO access VALUES('kTCCServiceAccessibility','/sbin/launchd',1,1,1,NULL)"

# This outputs the rows in the TCC database
sudo sqlite3 /Library/Application\ Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db 'select * from access'

echo "Restart is required for these changes to take effect"

dannguyen

Iowa Liquor Sales dataset via Socrata/data.iowa.gov

(preliminary exploration)

The state of Iowa has released an 800MB+ dataset of more than 3 million rows showing weekly liquor sales, broken down by liquor category, vendor, and product name, e.g. STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKIES, Jim Beam Brands, Maker's Mark

This dataset contains the spirits purchase information of Iowa Class “E” liquor licensees by product and date of purchase from January 1, 2014 to current. The dataset can be used to analyze total spirits sales in Iowa of individual products at the store level.

You can view the dataset via Socrata

rbranson

The point of this is to use cheap machines with small/slow storage to coordinate client requests while dedicating the machines with the big and fast storage to doing what they do best. I found that request coordination was contributing to about half the CPU usage on our Cassandra nodes, on average. Solid state storage is quite expensive, nearly doubling the cost of typical hardware. It also means that if people have control over hardware placement within the network, they can place proxy nodes closer to the client without impacting their storage footprint or fault tolerance characteristics.

This is accomplished in Cassandra by passing the -Dcassandra.join_ring=false option when the process is started. These nodes will connect to the seeds, cache the gossip data, load the schema, and begin listening for client requests. Messages like "/x.x.x.x is now UP!" will appear on the other nodes.

There are also some more practical benefits to this. Handling client requests caused us to push the NewSize of the heap up

steipete

// Xcode 6.3 defines new language features to declare nullability
#if __has_feature(nullability)
#define PSPDF_ASSUME_NONNULL_BEGIN _Pragma("clang assume_nonnull begin")
#define PSPDF_ASSUME_NONNULL_END _Pragma("clang assume_nonnull end")
#define ps_nullable nullable
#define ps_nonnull nonnull
#define ps_null_unspecified null_unspecified
#define ps_null_resettable null_resettable
#define __ps_nullable __nullable
#define __ps_nonnull __nonnull

steipete

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jspahrsummers

/// Observes a run loop to detect any stalling or blocking that occurs.
///
/// This class is thread-safe.
@interface GHRunLoopWatchdog : NSObject

/// Initializes the receiver to watch the specified run loop, using a default
/// stalling threshold.
- (id)initWithRunLoop:(CFRunLoopRef)runLoop;

/// Initializes the receiver to detect when the specified run loop blocks for