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macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

Applications and games in this list, are just my personal experiments. Bottles support more games and applications like other users reports. This list should not be intended as "What run on Bottles" but "Oh, these works".

Official installers

Bottles now supports installers, check here.

Games

Games tested using Bottles Gaming environment.

A half-hour to learn Zig

This is inspired by https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust/

Basics

the command zig run my_code.zig will compile and immediately run your Zig program. Each of these cells contains a zig program that you can try to run (some of them contain compile-time errors that you can comment out to play with)

iOS app introspection

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	node {
	echo 'Results included as an inline comment exactly how they are returned as of Jenkins 2.121, with $BUILD_NUMBER = 1'
	echo 'No quotes, pipeline command in single quotes'
	sh 'echo $BUILD_NUMBER' // 1
	echo 'Double quotes are silently dropped'
	sh 'echo "$BUILD_NUMBER"' // 1
	echo 'Even escaped with a single backslash they are dropped'
	sh 'echo \"$BUILD_NUMBER\"' // 1
	echo 'Using two backslashes, the quotes are preserved'
	sh 'echo \\"$BUILD_NUMBER\\"' // "1"

	git clean -xfd
	git submodule foreach --recursive git clean -xfd
	git reset --hard
	git submodule foreach --recursive git reset --hard
	git submodule update --init --recursive

-# delete local tag '12345'
-git tag -d 12345
-# delete remote tag '12345' (eg, GitHub version too)
-git push origin :refs/tags/12345
-# alternative approach
-git push --delete origin tagName
-git tag -d tagName