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.
steipete
/ PSPDFUIKitMainThreadGuard.m
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July 26, 2026 21:05
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…
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| // 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> |
brentsimmons
/ gist:5810992
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November 1, 2025 17:39
Detect a tap on a URL inside a UITextView. Note: the rs_links method isn't included -- you'll need something that takes text and returns an array of detected links. This gist just demonstrates walking through the UITextView characters.
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| @implementation UITextView (RSExtras) | |
| static BOOL stringCharacterIsAllowedAsPartOfLink(NSString *s) { | |
| /*[s length] is assumed to be 0 or 1. s may be nil. | |
| Totally not a strict check.*/ | |
| if (s == nil || [s length] < 1) | |
| return NO; |
ttscoff
/ ifttt-pocket_to_nvalt.rb
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November 1, 2013 12:05
A Hazel script for converting IFTTT-saved Pocket favorites to nvALT notes
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| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| # Works with IFTTT recipe https://ifttt.com/recipes/125999 | |
| # | |
| # Set Hazel to watch the folder you specify in the recipe. | |
| # Make sure nvALT is set to store its notes as individual files. | |
| # Edit the $target_folder variable below to point to your nvALT | |
| # ntoes folder. | |
| require 'date' | |
| require 'open-uri' | |
| require 'net/http' |
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