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julien_pon Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak

That doesn't sound like the actual issue, or am I not understanding it correctly?

This talk https://talks.golang.org/2019/playground-v3/playground-v3.sl... on the golang playground has some details on its security considerations.

julien_pon Soundslice – Living Sheet Music

You'll probably like this talk by Adrian about the history behind soundslice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fmU1ZXNov8

julien_pon Compiler Warnings for Objective-C Developers

The author just retweeted a link to this header file to enable Clang warnings using #pragma's https://github.com/macmade/SeriousCode https://twitter.com/macmade/status/328219581879558144

julien_pon Your Mac Keeps A Log Of Your Downloads

Files get a "quarantine flag" set on them as metadata when downloaded on OS X. Gatekeeper uses this (along with the developer signature) to check if an app is "safe" to open or not. Not sure where this sqlite database fits in, but it's very likely related to that.

julien_pon Our Django Book is Launched

This looks fantastic and the timing couldn't have been better for me. It's been a while that I started a new Django project and I was looking for exactly this type of best practices just this afternoon.

julien_pon Behind enemy lines: 3 months as an iOS developer at Google

Probably https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012/?id=243 I haven't watched it yet, but it's been on my to-watch list for a while now.

julien_pon Apple kills a Kickstarter project

> Why would we have thought that they would sell the new adapter any different then the old 30 pin?

Before the new connector was announced there were rumours that licensing for it would be more restrictive. Also notice how you can't license MagSafe at all.

I'm not saying Apple's decision is the right one, but IMHO it was clear there was a risk regarding licensing.

julien_pon Live video stream of the Apple special event online starting at 10:00 a.m. PDT.

They've been live streaming the iTunes festival too. I wonder if they are using this to test their streaming infrastructure ...

julien_pon YouTube.app

IMO directly viewing the videos in safari and not having YouTube.app hijack the links actually makes for a better experience overall.

julien_pon 30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes

http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/ lists the following macs as supporing AirPlay

  * iMac (Mid 2011 or newer)
  * Mac mini (Mid 2011 or newer)
  * MacBook Air (Mid 2011 or newer)
  * MacBook Pro (Early 2011 or newer)

I remember reading that AirPlay mirroring uses the video encoding capabilities of SandyBridge CPUs, but I can't find a source for that now. Anecdotally, http://airparrot.com really taxes my 2010 MacBook's CPU.

julien_pon 30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes

Also keep in mind that AirPlay mirroring requires at least a Sandybridge CPU, so you need a mac released in 2011 or later.

julien_pon Git-based fabric deploys are awesome

When I ran into this problem I simply added a post-checkout hook that deletes *.pyc files within the git root.

julien_pon Quote Stream - Push real-time stock quotes in JSON over web-sockets with node.js

It's taking the data from google.com, for example http://www.google.com/finance/info?client=ig&q=AAPL which AFAIK isn't a public Google API. As noted in other comments, real time quote APIs tend to be subscription services that are somewhat expensive ...

julien_pon DuckDuckGo is blowing up

I've certainly noticed a speed difference recently. DDG feels pretty snappy to me now, whereas before it was annoyingly slow, easily taking a second or so to load. I'm located in Luxembourg.

julien_pon Vector based UI design tool that generates ObjC

Apparently a demo/trial is in the works https://twitter.com/#!/chockenberry/status/18033170184996045...

julien_pon Scroogled (2007)

Previous discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3285671

julien_pon Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support to Open Source XQuartz

The X11 that comes with Lion is XQuartz anyway.

All this changes is that the first time you run an application that uses X11 a dialog box pops up directing you to the XQuartz project page.

julien_pon How Habits Hold Us

This New York Times article by Charles Duhigg (whose book is mentioned in this story) is a much better read: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...

julien_pon Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to technical computing

More likely Matlab than Pascal.

  Julia's syntax is intended to be familiar to users of MATLAB®.

julien_pon Fix The Sandbox

Relevant comment by Brent Simmons:

  I toss all my Mac app ideas that require more than the default sandboxing rules — no matter how cool the idea is.

  The sandbox has a chilling effect on at least one developer. I’d be surprised if it were just me.

http://inessential.com/2012/02/17/daniel_on_fixing_the_sandb...

julien_pon List of vim plugins I use - with mini tutorials

This is extremely close to my vim setup. Two additional plugins I'd recommend are ack.vim (https://github.com/mileszs/ack.vim) to provide search across multiple files and ropevim (http://rope.sourceforge.net/ropevim.html) for better python completion and some refactorings. Check out rope-omni (https://github.com/rygwdn/rope-omni) for ropevim and supertab integration.

julien_pon Apple Tells Lodsys Patent Troll to Back Off

The full text of the letter: http://www.macworld.com/article/160031/2011/05/apple_legal_l...

julien_pon Front End Development Guidelines

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but it covers very similar material http://na.isobar.com/standards/