PETER HOSEY

Programs English-language writings; Web-based: Gobble, a word game; Recipient Checklist, a utility to aid manually writing mail (e.g., letters or postcards) to a list of names and addresses; Mac apps and programming libraries: Apple Extended Keyboard II Overlay Generator, an app to make printable function-key overlays for that keyboard; EasyHash, an app to show you the MD5 and SHA-1 hashes of EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POINTERS IN C Interlude: Declaration syntax. The obvious way to declare two pointer variables in a single declaration is: int* ptr_a, ptr_b; If the type of a variable containing a pointer to int is int *,; and a single declaration can declare multiple variables of the same type by simply providing a comma-separated list (ptr_a, ptr_b),then you can declare multiple int-pointer variables by simply giving the

HOW TO DRAW BEADS

Step 2: Light and shadow. The Aqua Human Interface Guidelines (specific page: Icon Perspectives and Materials) say “All Aqua interface elements have a common light source from directly above”, so we need a highlight on top and a shadow on the bottom.. I use a CGShading to achieve this affect. The shading function takes a value t ranging from 0 (bottom) to 1 (top). GLYPHA, AND OTHER WORKS OF JOHN CALHOUN What is Glypha? Glypha is a Joust-like game by john 'Scheherazade' calhoun.. I love the game, and so I've devoted this little corner of my website to it. Glypha The original. Runs in a 512x342 window in the center of the screen, in black-and-white.

BZ SOUNDBOARD

How to use it. First, drag files onto the Soundboard window. You can place as many files as you have cells (buttons). You can create more cells by resizing the window, and you can change the size of all the cells by holding down option and resizing the window. Dragging the window without the option key held down resizes the matrix

(adds/removes

MAKE RAM DISK: A UTILITY FOR MAC OS X BY PETER HOSEY Version history 1.0 (release number 2) First release. No code changes since the beta. 1.0b1 (release number 1) Private beta. D&D HIT POINT COUNTER Description. This is a simple paper tool to make it easy for you to always know how many hit points you have. The tool consists of numbered cells, in columnar strips. CPU USAGE, BY PETER HOSEY Fixed in version 0.3: The application gushed memory (approx. 10 K per second, according to top) because host_processor_info (the function that returns the accumulated CPU usage numbers) allocates a new array in memory, and I was not calling vm_deallocate on that array.. The application is now multi-threaded. The theory behind this is that OS X's scheduler may distribute the threads between the APPLE EXTENDED KEYBOARD II OVERLAY GENERATOR Description. From October 1990 until its replacement by the AppleDesign Keyboard in 1994, Apple sold a keyboard named the Apple Extended Keyboard II.Many people, including myself, consider this to be the best keyboard ever made for the Macintosh. Among the many advantages of the Nimitz (for that was its code-name) over other keyboards were two small pegs, next to the Escape and Power keys. D&D HIT POINT COUNTER 345 344 343 342 341 340 339 338 337 336 335 334 333 332 331 330 329 328 327 326 325 324 323 322 321 320 319 318 317 316 315 314 313 312 311 310 309 308 307 306 305

PETER HOSEY

Programs English-language writings; Web-based: Gobble, a word game; Recipient Checklist, a utility to aid manually writing mail (e.g., letters or postcards) to a list of names and addresses; Mac apps and programming libraries: Apple Extended Keyboard II Overlay Generator, an app to make printable function-key overlays for that keyboard; EasyHash, an app to show you the MD5 and SHA-1 hashes of EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POINTERS IN C Interlude: Declaration syntax. The obvious way to declare two pointer variables in a single declaration is: int* ptr_a, ptr_b; If the type of a variable containing a pointer to int is int *,; and a single declaration can declare multiple variables of the same type by simply providing a comma-separated list (ptr_a, ptr_b),then you can declare multiple int-pointer variables by simply giving the

HOW TO DRAW BEADS

Step 2: Light and shadow. The Aqua Human Interface Guidelines (specific page: Icon Perspectives and Materials) say “All Aqua interface elements have a common light source from directly above”, so we need a highlight on top and a shadow on the bottom.. I use a CGShading to achieve this affect. The shading function takes a value t ranging from 0 (bottom) to 1 (top). GLYPHA, AND OTHER WORKS OF JOHN CALHOUN What is Glypha? Glypha is a Joust-like game by john 'Scheherazade' calhoun.. I love the game, and so I've devoted this little corner of my website to it. Glypha The original. Runs in a 512x342 window in the center of the screen, in black-and-white.

BZ SOUNDBOARD

How to use it. First, drag files onto the Soundboard window. You can place as many files as you have cells (buttons). You can create more cells by resizing the window, and you can change the size of all the cells by holding down option and resizing the window. Dragging the window without the option key held down resizes the matrix

(adds/removes

MAKE RAM DISK: A UTILITY FOR MAC OS X BY PETER HOSEY Version history 1.0 (release number 2) First release. No code changes since the beta. 1.0b1 (release number 1) Private beta. D&D HIT POINT COUNTER Description. This is a simple paper tool to make it easy for you to always know how many hit points you have. The tool consists of numbered cells, in columnar strips. CPU USAGE, BY PETER HOSEY Fixed in version 0.3: The application gushed memory (approx. 10 K per second, according to top) because host_processor_info (the function that returns the accumulated CPU usage numbers) allocates a new array in memory, and I was not calling vm_deallocate on that array.. The application is now multi-threaded. The theory behind this is that OS X's scheduler may distribute the threads between the APPLE EXTENDED KEYBOARD II OVERLAY GENERATOR Description. From October 1990 until its replacement by the AppleDesign Keyboard in 1994, Apple sold a keyboard named the Apple Extended Keyboard II.Many people, including myself, consider this to be the best keyboard ever made for the Macintosh. Among the many advantages of the Nimitz (for that was its code-name) over other keyboards were two small pegs, next to the Escape and Power keys. D&D HIT POINT COUNTER 345 344 343 342 341 340 339 338 337 336 335 334 333 332 331 330 329 328 327 326 325 324 323 322 321 320 319 318 317 316 315 314 313 312 311 310 309 308 307 306 305

PETER HOSEY

Programs English-language writings; Web-based: Gobble, a word game; Recipient Checklist, a utility to aid manually writing mail (e.g., letters or postcards) to a list of names and addresses; Mac apps and programming libraries: Apple Extended Keyboard II Overlay Generator, an app to make printable function-key overlays for that keyboard; EasyHash, an app to show you the MD5 and SHA-1 hashes of HOW TO WEAR A FACE MASK How to wear a face mask. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, folks are starting to wear face masks in public to help inhibit the spread of the virus (which spreads through respiratory droplets). MAKE RAM DISK: A UTILITY FOR MAC OS X BY PETER HOSEY Version history 1.0 (release number 2) First release. No code changes since the beta. 1.0b1 (release number 1) Private beta. VI / VIM TUTORIAL FOR DVORAK About this document. I found this on digg: vi/vim Graphical Cheat Sheet & Tutorial.As of this writing, it has 1133 diggs.. Like all vi tutorials (and vi itself), it is designed for a QWERTY keyboard. I, on the other hand, use Dvorak.As I said in my comment on the digg page:. I like it, and will print it out. CPU USAGE, BY PETER HOSEY Fixed in version 0.3: The application gushed memory (approx. 10 K per second, according to top) because host_processor_info (the function that returns the accumulated CPU usage numbers) allocates a new array in memory, and I was not calling vm_deallocate on that array.. The application is now multi-threaded. The theory behind this is that OS X's scheduler may distribute the threads between the NAIL POLISH, AND MY WEARING OF IT Pictures. 2016-03-19: My first polish, L.A. Colors “Wired”, bought at Dollar Tree along with cheap base coat and top coat. This picture is of my very first nail polish job, back in 2016—a little messy round the edges, but still a really promising start. ISO 8601 DATE FORMATTER Description. ISO 8601 provides a standard unambiguous format (several, actually) for dates and times. Unfortunately, NSDateFormatter alone does not completely support ISO 8601; in particular, it does not support week dates or ordinal dates. This came to my attention when I began writing a patch for Vienna to add support for the ttl element of RSS 2.0 and the updatePeriod, updateFrequency, and EASYHASH: ONE-STEP MD5 AND SHA-1 HASHING Description. A digest, also called a hash, is a fairly big number that summarizes the contents of a file. This can be used for determining a file's integrity: if the digest of your copy is the same as the digest of the original file, then your copy is probably correct, but if the digests are different, then you know that the contents are different (which probably means that your copy of the IMAGE SHADOW ADDER, BY PETER HOSEY What it does. Image Shadow Adder adds a shadow to an image (huh!) that appears to my eyes to be equivalent to the shadow normally added to windows by Mac OS X. IDLE TIME » BLOG ARCHIVE » VIRTUAL KEY-CODES Virtual key-codes. 2007-05-22 13:42:10 UTC. Anybody who’s ever needed to work with virtual key-codes—especially to program a hotkey—has had the problem of looking up the key-code for a specific key. The usual solution is to fire up Peter Maurer’s Key Codes.app and press the key, but wouldn’t it be nice to look it up in a handy

table

PETER HOSEY

Programs English-language writings; Web-based: Gobble, a word game; Recipient Checklist, a utility to aid manually writing mail (e.g., letters or postcards) to a list of names and addresses; Mac apps and programming libraries: Apple Extended Keyboard II Overlay Generator, an app to make printable function-key overlays for that keyboard; EasyHash, an app to show you the MD5 and SHA-1 hashes of HOW TO WEAR A FACE MASK How to wear a face mask. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, folks are starting to wear face masks in public to help inhibit the spread of the virus (which spreads through respiratory droplets).

HOW TO DRAW BEADS

Step 2: Light and shadow. The Aqua Human Interface Guidelines (specific page: Icon Perspectives and Materials) say “All Aqua interface elements have a common light source from directly above”, so we need a highlight on top and a shadow on the bottom.. I use a CGShading to achieve this affect. The shading function takes a value t ranging from 0 (bottom) to 1 (top). EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POINTERS IN C Interlude: Declaration syntax. The obvious way to declare two pointer variables in a single declaration is: int* ptr_a, ptr_b; If the type of a variable containing a pointer to int is int *,; and a single declaration can declare multiple variables of the same type by simply providing a comma-separated list (ptr_a, ptr_b),then you can declare multiple int-pointer variables by simply giving the GLYPHA, AND OTHER WORKS OF JOHN CALHOUN What is Glypha? Glypha is a Joust-like game by john 'Scheherazade' calhoun.. I love the game, and so I've devoted this little corner of my website to it. Glypha The original. Runs in a 512x342 window in the center of the screen, in black-and-white. MAKE RAM DISK: A UTILITY FOR MAC OS X BY PETER HOSEY Version history 1.0 (release number 2) First release. No code changes since the beta. 1.0b1 (release number 1) Private beta. IDLE TIMESEE MORE ON BOREDZO.ORG CPU USAGE, BY PETER HOSEY Fixed in version 0.3: The application gushed memory (approx. 10 K per second, according to top) because host_processor_info (the function that returns the accumulated CPU usage numbers) allocates a new array in memory, and I was not calling vm_deallocate on that array.. The application is now multi-threaded. The theory behind this is that OS X's scheduler may distribute the threads between the IDLE TIME » BLOG ARCHIVE » MASKS ARE GOOD AND WE SHOULDSEE MORE ON

BOREDZO.ORG

D&D HIT POINT COUNTER 345 344 343 342 341 340 339 338 337 336 335 334 333 332 331 330 329 328 327 326 325 324 323 322 321 320 319 318 317 316 315 314 313 312 311 310 309 308 307 306 305

PETER HOSEY

Programs English-language writings; Web-based: Gobble, a word game; Recipient Checklist, a utility to aid manually writing mail (e.g., letters or postcards) to a list of names and addresses; Mac apps and programming libraries: Apple Extended Keyboard II Overlay Generator, an app to make printable function-key overlays for that keyboard; EasyHash, an app to show you the MD5 and SHA-1 hashes of HOW TO WEAR A FACE MASK How to wear a face mask. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, folks are starting to wear face masks in public to help inhibit the spread of the virus (which spreads through respiratory droplets).

HOW TO DRAW BEADS

Step 2: Light and shadow. The Aqua Human Interface Guidelines (specific page: Icon Perspectives and Materials) say “All Aqua interface elements have a common light source from directly above”, so we need a highlight on top and a shadow on the bottom.. I use a CGShading to achieve this affect. The shading function takes a value t ranging from 0 (bottom) to 1 (top). EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POINTERS IN C Interlude: Declaration syntax. The obvious way to declare two pointer variables in a single declaration is: int* ptr_a, ptr_b; If the type of a variable containing a pointer to int is int *,; and a single declaration can declare multiple variables of the same type by simply providing a comma-separated list (ptr_a, ptr_b),then you can declare multiple int-pointer variables by simply giving the GLYPHA, AND OTHER WORKS OF JOHN CALHOUN What is Glypha? Glypha is a Joust-like game by john 'Scheherazade' calhoun.. I love the game, and so I've devoted this little corner of my website to it. Glypha The original. Runs in a 512x342 window in the center of the screen, in black-and-white. MAKE RAM DISK: A UTILITY FOR MAC OS X BY PETER HOSEY Version history 1.0 (release number 2) First release. No code changes since the beta. 1.0b1 (release number 1) Private beta. IDLE TIMESEE MORE ON BOREDZO.ORG CPU USAGE, BY PETER HOSEY Fixed in version 0.3: The application gushed memory (approx. 10 K per second, according to top) because host_processor_info (the function that returns the accumulated CPU usage numbers) allocates a new array in memory, and I was not calling vm_deallocate on that array.. The application is now multi-threaded. The theory behind this is that OS X's scheduler may distribute the threads between the IDLE TIME » BLOG ARCHIVE » MASKS ARE GOOD AND WE SHOULDSEE MORE ON

BOREDZO.ORG

D&D HIT POINT COUNTER 345 344 343 342 341 340 339 338 337 336 335 334 333 332 331 330 329 328 327 326 325 324 323 322 321 320 319 318 317 316 315 314 313 312 311 310 309 308 307 306 305

PETER HOSEY

Programs English-language writings; Web-based: Gobble, a word game; Recipient Checklist, a utility to aid manually writing mail (e.g., letters or postcards) to a list of names and addresses; Mac apps and programming libraries: Apple Extended Keyboard II Overlay Generator, an app to make printable function-key overlays for that keyboard; EasyHash, an app to show you the MD5 and SHA-1 hashes of MAKE RAM DISK: A UTILITY FOR MAC OS X BY PETER HOSEY Version history 1.0 (release number 2) First release. No code changes since the beta. 1.0b1 (release number 1) Private beta.

BZ SOUNDBOARD

How to use it. First, drag files onto the Soundboard window. You can place as many files as you have cells (buttons). You can create more cells by resizing the window, and you can change the size of all the cells by holding down option and resizing the window. Dragging the window without the option key held down resizes the matrix

(adds/removes

CPU USAGE, BY PETER HOSEY Fixed in version 0.3: The application gushed memory (approx. 10 K per second, according to top) because host_processor_info (the function that returns the accumulated CPU usage numbers) allocates a new array in memory, and I was not calling vm_deallocate on that array.. The application is now multi-threaded. The theory behind this is that OS X's scheduler may distribute the threads between the

IDLE TIME

Twitter, at least the way I’d been using it up to now, which I think is coincidentally in broad alignment with how Twitter wants to be used, is two things at once: Both a social network, and a news site.. Its news function, particularly when viewed through a third-party client not subject to Twitter’s injection of hot garbage into the web client’s timeline, consists of curating one’s ISO 8601 DATE FORMATTER iOS users can now tell the ISO 8601 date formatter class to drop its caches (which you should do when you receive a memory warning). 2bb1725914b1. Added a couple of command-line options to the calendar-format-unparser test tool. c644aadb2b14. DIFF-COLORIZE, A UTILITY TO COLORIZE UNIFIED AND GIT-STYLE Description. diff-colorize is a simple utility that syntax-colors and syntax-highlights unified (diff -u) and git-style (diff --git) diff

output.

APPLE EXTENDED KEYBOARD II OVERLAY GENERATOR Description. From October 1990 until its replacement by the AppleDesign Keyboard in 1994, Apple sold a keyboard named the Apple Extended Keyboard II.Many people, including myself, consider this to be the best keyboard ever made for the Macintosh. Among the many advantages of the Nimitz (for that was its code-name) over other keyboards were two small pegs, next to the Escape and Power keys. IDLE TIME » BLOG ARCHIVE » VIRTUAL KEY-CODES Virtual key-codes. 2007-05-22 13:42:10 UTC. Anybody who’s ever needed to work with virtual key-codes—especially to program a hotkey—has had the problem of looking up the key-code for a specific key. The usual solution is to fire up Peter Maurer’s Key Codes.app and press the key, but wouldn’t it be nice to look it up in a handy

table

IDLE TIME » BLOG ARCHIVE » PLEASE DO NOT USE %X FOR POINTERS 6 Responses to “Please do not use %x for pointers” Colin Barrett Says: January 23rd, 2007 at 23:46:56. So true. %p forever. While we’re sharing development practices, I find it really helpful, especially on a large codebase with spammy log messages, to prefix my debug logs with the name of the file they’re in (and possibly the line number as well).

PETER HOSEY

Programs English-language writings; Web-based: Gobble, a word game; Recipient Checklist, a utility to aid manually writing mail (e.g., letters or postcards) to a list of names and addresses; Mac apps and programming libraries: Apple Extended Keyboard II Overlay Generator, an app to make printable function-key overlays for that keyboard; EasyHash, an app to show you the MD5 and SHA-1 hashes of EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POINTERS IN C Interlude: Declaration syntax. The obvious way to declare two pointer variables in a single declaration is: int* ptr_a, ptr_b; If the type of a variable containing a pointer to int is int *,; and a single declaration can declare multiple variables of the same type by simply providing a comma-separated list (ptr_a, ptr_b),then you can declare multiple int-pointer variables by simply giving the HOW TO WEAR A FACE MASK How to wear a face mask. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, folks are starting to wear face masks in public to help inhibit the spread of the virus (which spreads through respiratory droplets).

HOW TO DRAW BEADS

Step 2: Light and shadow. The Aqua Human Interface Guidelines (specific page: Icon Perspectives and Materials) say “All Aqua interface elements have a common light source from directly above”, so we need a highlight on top and a shadow on the bottom.. I use a CGShading to achieve this affect. The shading function takes a value t ranging from 0 (bottom) to 1 (top).

PRESENTATION TIPS

The tips. Work on your slides and rehearse in alternation. Don't wait until you've “finished” your slides before you start rehearsing. Make a rough draft that hits all the points you intend to GLYPHA, AND OTHER WORKS OF JOHN CALHOUN What is Glypha? Glypha is a Joust-like game by john 'Scheherazade' calhoun.. I love the game, and so I've devoted this little corner of my website to it. Glypha The original. Runs in a 512x342 window in the center of the screen, in black-and-white. MAKE RAM DISK: A UTILITY FOR MAC OS X BY PETER HOSEY Version history 1.0 (release number 2) First release. No code changes since the beta. 1.0b1 (release number 1) Private beta. DIFF-COLORIZE, A UTILITY TO COLORIZE UNIFIED AND GIT-STYLE Description. diff-colorize is a simple utility that syntax-colors and syntax-highlights unified (diff -u) and git-style (diff --git) diff

output.

APPLE EXTENDED KEYBOARD II OVERLAY GENERATOR Description. From October 1990 until its replacement by the AppleDesign Keyboard in 1994, Apple sold a keyboard named the Apple Extended Keyboard II.Many people, including myself, consider this to be the best keyboard ever made for the Macintosh. Among the many advantages of the Nimitz (for that was its code-name) over other keyboards were two small pegs, next to the Escape and Power keys. IDLE TIME » BLOG ARCHIVE » ON THE API DESIGN OF This is especially bad in a C function, because it’s easy to lose track of what each value specifies, especially when so many of them are numbers. Suppose you want to make an 8-by-8-pixel grayscale context: CGContextRef myContext = CGBitmapContextCreate (NULL, 8, 8, 8, 8, myGrayColorSpace, kCGImageAlphaNone); Now, without looking at

the

PETER HOSEY

Programs English-language writings; Web-based: Gobble, a word game; Recipient Checklist, a utility to aid manually writing mail (e.g., letters or postcards) to a list of names and addresses; Mac apps and programming libraries: Apple Extended Keyboard II Overlay Generator, an app to make printable function-key overlays for that keyboard; EasyHash, an app to show you the MD5 and SHA-1 hashes of EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POINTERS IN C Interlude: Declaration syntax. The obvious way to declare two pointer variables in a single declaration is: int* ptr_a, ptr_b; If the type of a variable containing a pointer to int is int *,; and a single declaration can declare multiple variables of the same type by simply providing a comma-separated list (ptr_a, ptr_b),then you can declare multiple int-pointer variables by simply giving the HOW TO WEAR A FACE MASK How to wear a face mask. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, folks are starting to wear face masks in public to help inhibit the spread of the virus (which spreads through respiratory droplets).

HOW TO DRAW BEADS

Step 2: Light and shadow. The Aqua Human Interface Guidelines (specific page: Icon Perspectives and Materials) say “All Aqua interface elements have a common light source from directly above”, so we need a highlight on top and a shadow on the bottom.. I use a CGShading to achieve this affect. The shading function takes a value t ranging from 0 (bottom) to 1 (top).

PRESENTATION TIPS

The tips. Work on your slides and rehearse in alternation. Don't wait until you've “finished” your slides before you start rehearsing. Make a rough draft that hits all the points you intend to GLYPHA, AND OTHER WORKS OF JOHN CALHOUN What is Glypha? Glypha is a Joust-like game by john 'Scheherazade' calhoun.. I love the game, and so I've devoted this little corner of my website to it. Glypha The original. Runs in a 512x342 window in the center of the screen, in black-and-white. MAKE RAM DISK: A UTILITY FOR MAC OS X BY PETER HOSEY Version history 1.0 (release number 2) First release. No code changes since the beta. 1.0b1 (release number 1) Private beta. DIFF-COLORIZE, A UTILITY TO COLORIZE UNIFIED AND GIT-STYLE Description. diff-colorize is a simple utility that syntax-colors and syntax-highlights unified (diff -u) and git-style (diff --git) diff

output.

APPLE EXTENDED KEYBOARD II OVERLAY GENERATOR Description. From October 1990 until its replacement by the AppleDesign Keyboard in 1994, Apple sold a keyboard named the Apple Extended Keyboard II.Many people, including myself, consider this to be the best keyboard ever made for the Macintosh. Among the many advantages of the Nimitz (for that was its code-name) over other keyboards were two small pegs, next to the Escape and Power keys. IDLE TIME » BLOG ARCHIVE » ON THE API DESIGN OF This is especially bad in a C function, because it’s easy to lose track of what each value specifies, especially when so many of them are numbers. Suppose you want to make an 8-by-8-pixel grayscale context: CGContextRef myContext = CGBitmapContextCreate (NULL, 8, 8, 8, 8, myGrayColorSpace, kCGImageAlphaNone); Now, without looking at

the

PRESENTATION TIPS

The tips. Work on your slides and rehearse in alternation. Don't wait until you've “finished” your slides before you start rehearsing. Make a rough draft that hits all the points you intend to IDLE TIME » BLOG ARCHIVE » MASKS ARE GOOD AND WE SHOULD First: Masks are good in their own right. Masks are stylish. Cloth masks in particular. Some of us have a variety of cloth masks that we cycle through whenever we go out, much like some people have a wardrobe of T-shirts or full outfits.

IDLE TIME

Twitter, at least the way I’d been using it up to now, which I think is coincidentally in broad alignment with how Twitter wants to be used, is two things at once: Both a social network, and a news site.. Its news function, particularly when viewed through a third-party client not subject to Twitter’s injection of hot garbage into the web client’s timeline, consists of curating one’s DIFF-COLORIZE, A UTILITY TO COLORIZE UNIFIED AND GIT-STYLE Mercurial repository. If you want to contribute bug-fixes or enhancements to diff-colorize, the easiest way to do that is to clone the Mercurial repository for diff-colorize.To do this, type this

command into a

ICONGRABBER BY PETER HOSEY Version history 2.0.1. Cleared default value of width and height fields, making use-biggest-available-size behavior more obvious. Use-biggest-available-size behavior (triggered by both width and height being empty or 0) now detects 256- and 512-pixel

representations.

COUNTER - BOREDZO.ORG What it is. Counter is a Cocoa app to allow you to keep a manual count. You can use the keyboard (up/down arrows) when the stepper is focused, or you can use the mouse. ISO 8601 DATE FORMATTER iOS users can now tell the ISO 8601 date formatter class to drop its caches (which you should do when you receive a memory warning). 2bb1725914b1. Added a couple of command-line options to the calendar-format-unparser test tool. c644aadb2b14. D&D HIT POINT COUNTER Description. This is a simple paper tool to make it easy for you to always know how many hit points you have. The tool consists of numbered cells, in columnar strips. IDLE TIME » BLOG ARCHIVE » COLORIZED MAN PAGES: UNDERSTOOD 44. Set background color to blue. There are more than just those options for our foreground and background colors, of course! We’ll see more shortly. So, for example, the first variable: LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$ (printf "\e [1;31m") \. says that when we want to IDLE TIME » BLOG ARCHIVE » PLEASE DO NOT USE %X FOR POINTERS 6 Responses to “Please do not use %x for pointers” Colin Barrett Says: January 23rd, 2007 at 23:46:56. So true. %p forever. While we’re sharing development practices, I find it really helpful, especially on a large codebase with spammy log messages, to prefix my debug logs with the name of the file they’re in (and possibly the line number as well).

PETER HOSEY

Programs English-language writings; Web-based: Gobble, a word game; Recipient Checklist, a utility to aid manually writing mail (e.g., letters or postcards) to a list of names and addresses; Mac apps and programming libraries: Apple Extended Keyboard II Overlay Generator, an app to make printable function-key overlays for that keyboard; EasyHash, an app to show you the MD5 and SHA-1 hashes of EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POINTERS IN C Interlude: Declaration syntax. The obvious way to declare two pointer variables in a single declaration is: int* ptr_a, ptr_b; If the type of a variable containing a pointer to int is int *,; and a single declaration can declare multiple variables of the same type by simply providing a comma-separated list (ptr_a, ptr_b),then you can declare multiple int-pointer variables by simply giving the HOW TO WEAR A FACE MASK How to wear a face mask. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, folks are starting to wear face masks in public to help inhibit the spread of the virus (which spreads through respiratory droplets).

HOW TO DRAW BEADS

Step 2: Light and shadow. The Aqua Human Interface Guidelines (specific page: Icon Perspectives and Materials) say “All Aqua interface elements have a common light source from directly above”, so we need a highlight on top and a shadow on the bottom.. I use a CGShading to achieve this affect. The shading function takes a value t ranging from 0 (bottom) to 1 (top).

PRESENTATION TIPS

The tips. Work on your slides and rehearse in alternation. Don't wait until you've “finished” your slides before you start rehearsing. Make a rough draft that hits all the points you intend to GLYPHA, AND OTHER WORKS OF JOHN CALHOUN What is Glypha? Glypha is a Joust-like game by john 'Scheherazade' calhoun.. I love the game, and so I've devoted this little corner of my website to it. Glypha The original. Runs in a 512x342 window in the center of the screen, in black-and-white. MAKE RAM DISK: A UTILITY FOR MAC OS X BY PETER HOSEY Version history 1.0 (release number 2) First release. No code changes since the beta. 1.0b1 (release number 1) Private beta. DIFF-COLORIZE, A UTILITY TO COLORIZE UNIFIED AND GIT-STYLE Description. diff-colorize is a simple utility that syntax-colors and syntax-highlights unified (diff -u) and git-style (diff --git) diff

output.

APPLE EXTENDED KEYBOARD II OVERLAY GENERATOR Description. From October 1990 until its replacement by the AppleDesign Keyboard in 1994, Apple sold a keyboard named the Apple Extended Keyboard II.Many people, including myself, consider this to be the best keyboard ever made for the Macintosh. Among the many advantages of the Nimitz (for that was its code-name) over other keyboards were two small pegs, next to the Escape and Power keys. IDLE TIME » BLOG ARCHIVE » ON THE API DESIGN OF This is especially bad in a C function, because it’s easy to lose track of what each value specifies, especially when so many of them are numbers. Suppose you want to make an 8-by-8-pixel grayscale context: CGContextRef myContext = CGBitmapContextCreate (NULL, 8, 8, 8, 8, myGrayColorSpace, kCGImageAlphaNone); Now, without looking at

the

PETER HOSEY

Programs English-language writings; Web-based: Gobble, a word game; Recipient Checklist, a utility to aid manually writing mail (e.g., letters or postcards) to a list of names and addresses; Mac apps and programming libraries: Apple Extended Keyboard II Overlay Generator, an app to make printable function-key overlays for that keyboard; EasyHash, an app to show you the MD5 and SHA-1 hashes of EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POINTERS IN C Interlude: Declaration syntax. The obvious way to declare two pointer variables in a single declaration is: int* ptr_a, ptr_b; If the type of a variable containing a pointer to int is int *,; and a single declaration can declare multiple variables of the same type by simply providing a comma-separated list (ptr_a, ptr_b),then you can declare multiple int-pointer variables by simply giving the HOW TO WEAR A FACE MASK How to wear a face mask. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, folks are starting to wear face masks in public to help inhibit the spread of the virus (which spreads through respiratory droplets).

HOW TO DRAW BEADS

Step 2: Light and shadow. The Aqua Human Interface Guidelines (specific page: Icon Perspectives and Materials) say “All Aqua interface elements have a common light source from directly above”, so we need a highlight on top and a shadow on the bottom.. I use a CGShading to achieve this affect. The shading function takes a value t ranging from 0 (bottom) to 1 (top).

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The tips. Work on your slides and rehearse in alternation. Don't wait until you've “finished” your slides before you start rehearsing. Make a rough draft that hits all the points you intend to GLYPHA, AND OTHER WORKS OF JOHN CALHOUN What is Glypha? Glypha is a Joust-like game by john 'Scheherazade' calhoun.. I love the game, and so I've devoted this little corner of my website to it. Glypha The original. Runs in a 512x342 window in the center of the screen, in black-and-white. MAKE RAM DISK: A UTILITY FOR MAC OS X BY PETER HOSEY Version history 1.0 (release number 2) First release. No code changes since the beta. 1.0b1 (release number 1) Private beta. DIFF-COLORIZE, A UTILITY TO COLORIZE UNIFIED AND GIT-STYLE Description. diff-colorize is a simple utility that syntax-colors and syntax-highlights unified (diff -u) and git-style (diff --git) diff

output.

APPLE EXTENDED KEYBOARD II OVERLAY GENERATOR Description. From October 1990 until its replacement by the AppleDesign Keyboard in 1994, Apple sold a keyboard named the Apple Extended Keyboard II.Many people, including myself, consider this to be the best keyboard ever made for the Macintosh. Among the many advantages of the Nimitz (for that was its code-name) over other keyboards were two small pegs, next to the Escape and Power keys. IDLE TIME » BLOG ARCHIVE » ON THE API DESIGN OF This is especially bad in a C function, because it’s easy to lose track of what each value specifies, especially when so many of them are numbers. Suppose you want to make an 8-by-8-pixel grayscale context: CGContextRef myContext = CGBitmapContextCreate (NULL, 8, 8, 8, 8, myGrayColorSpace, kCGImageAlphaNone); Now, without looking at

the

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The tips. Work on your slides and rehearse in alternation. Don't wait until you've “finished” your slides before you start rehearsing. Make a rough draft that hits all the points you intend to IDLE TIME » BLOG ARCHIVE » MASKS ARE GOOD AND WE SHOULD First: Masks are good in their own right. Masks are stylish. Cloth masks in particular. Some of us have a variety of cloth masks that we cycle through whenever we go out, much like some people have a wardrobe of T-shirts or full outfits.

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Twitter, at least the way I’d been using it up to now, which I think is coincidentally in broad alignment with how Twitter wants to be used, is two things at once: Both a social network, and a news site.. Its news function, particularly when viewed through a third-party client not subject to Twitter’s injection of hot garbage into the web client’s timeline, consists of curating one’s DIFF-COLORIZE, A UTILITY TO COLORIZE UNIFIED AND GIT-STYLE Mercurial repository. If you want to contribute bug-fixes or enhancements to diff-colorize, the easiest way to do that is to clone the Mercurial repository for diff-colorize.To do this, type this

command into a

ICONGRABBER BY PETER HOSEY Version history 2.0.1. Cleared default value of width and height fields, making use-biggest-available-size behavior more obvious. Use-biggest-available-size behavior (triggered by both width and height being empty or 0) now detects 256- and 512-pixel

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COUNTER - BOREDZO.ORG What it is. Counter is a Cocoa app to allow you to keep a manual count. You can use the keyboard (up/down arrows) when the stepper is focused, or you can use the mouse. ISO 8601 DATE FORMATTER iOS users can now tell the ISO 8601 date formatter class to drop its caches (which you should do when you receive a memory warning). 2bb1725914b1. Added a couple of command-line options to the calendar-format-unparser test tool. c644aadb2b14. D&D HIT POINT COUNTER Description. This is a simple paper tool to make it easy for you to always know how many hit points you have. The tool consists of numbered cells, in columnar strips. IDLE TIME » BLOG ARCHIVE » COLORIZED MAN PAGES: UNDERSTOOD 44. Set background color to blue. There are more than just those options for our foreground and background colors, of course! We’ll see more shortly. So, for example, the first variable: LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$ (printf "\e [1;31m") \. says that when we want to IDLE TIME » BLOG ARCHIVE » PLEASE DO NOT USE %X FOR POINTERS 6 Responses to “Please do not use %x for pointers” Colin Barrett Says: January 23rd, 2007 at 23:46:56. So true. %p forever. While we’re sharing development practices, I find it really helpful, especially on a large codebase with spammy log messages, to prefix my debug logs with the name of the file they’re in (and possibly the line number as well).

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MY NAME IS PETER HOSEY. -------------------------

* My blog

* Me on Twitter

* My Flickr photostream

* My code on GitHub

ABOUT ME

I am a programmer currently living in San Francisco, California. Here's a by-no-means-complete list of things I've created:

PROGRAMS

ENGLISH-LANGUAGE WRITINGS

WEB-BASED:

* Gobble , a word game * Recipient Checklist , a utility to aid manually writing mail (e.g., letters or postcards) to a list of names

and addresses

MAC APPS AND PROGRAMMING LIBRARIES: * Apple Extended Keyboard II Overlay Generator , an app to make printable function-key overlays for that keyboard * EasyHash , an app to show you the MD5 and SHA-1 hashes of the contents of a file * A subclass of NSDateFormatter for parsing and unparsing ISO 8601 date and time strings * LMX , an XML parser that works backwards * Make RAM Disk , a simple application to create a RAM disk on Mac OS X * UTI Property List Helper , an application for programmmers to make it easy to declare and use Uniform Type Identifiers in your Info.plist

* My blog

* My Twitter feed

------------------------- * A case study in critical reading on the internet * How to wear a cloth face mask (and how not to do that), illustrated * How to wear an N95 mask

(video tutorial)

* How to wear nail polish , with a gallery of colors

I've worn

* How to make shorts from jeans * Non-Obvious Solutions , a running catalog of simple, innovative ways of doing everyday tasks * A list of presentation tips

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------------------------- * A photo-illustrated guide to replacing the hard drive in your G4

Cube

* My CocoaHeads Lake Forest

presentation on

hunting leaks with Instruments * Everything you need to know about pointers in C (the most popular thing on this site) * A vi/vim cheatsheet for Dvorak or QWERTY ------------------------- * My résumé, in HTML or PDF . ------------------------- 2020-10-11 https://boredzo.org/

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