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gdavis / xcode-vim.markdown
Last active May 26, 2025 12:44
Notes for working with Xcode VIM mode

Xcode VIM

Learning VIM in Xcode comes with its own set of challenges and limitations, but there is enough there for you to give your mousing hand a break and master the keyboard.

A limited set of commands are available in Xcode, and this document attempts help ease the learning curve of using VIM in Xcode by providing a handy reference as well as what I find works for me in practice.

NOTE: Commands are case-sensitive. A command of N means pressing shift + n on the keyboard.

This document is a work in progress! Leave a comment if you would like to see a change.

Parsing Apple Health data

If you’ve ever wanted to analyze your own health data, here’s how.

Exporting as XML

  1. Open the Health app.
  2. Tap on your profile in the top right.
  3. Tap Export All Health Data.
  4. Share the archive with yourself (e.g. via AirDrop, Files, Mail, etc.).
@artem-sherbachuk
artem-sherbachuk / FadingInOutAVPlayer.swift
Created January 19, 2017 09:43
Fading audio in and out AVPlayer
let player = AVPlayer()
func playFileAtURL(url: NSURL) {
let asset = AVAsset.assetWithURL(url) as AVAsset
let duration = asset.duration
let durationInSeconds = CMTimeGetSeconds(duration)
let item = AVPlayerItem(asset: asset)
let params = AVMutableAudioMixInputParameters(track: asset.tracks.first! as AVAssetTrack)

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.


Effective Engineer - Notes

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@vszakats
vszakats / s3-upload-aws4.sh
Last active April 29, 2025 07:26
AWS S3 upload using signature v4
#!/bin/sh
# To the extent possible under law, Viktor Szakats
# has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this
# script.
# CC0 - https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
# THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
@gruber
gruber / Liberal Regex Pattern for All URLs
Last active March 28, 2025 11:25
Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching All URLs
The regex patterns in this gist are intended to match any URLs,
including "mailto:foo@example.com", "x-whatever://foo", etc. For a
pattern that attempts only to match web URLs (http, https), see:
https://gist.github.com/gruber/8891611
# Single-line version of pattern:
(?i)\b((?:[a-z][\w-]+:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))