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macguru / UncertainFuture.swift
Created February 16, 2026 22:55
Helper for implementing observations using cancellable async/await functions
import Foundation
import Synchronization
/// Synchronization mechanism to support cooperative and cancellable waiting on a value that _might_ become available _at some point in the future_.
public final class UncertainFuture<Value: Sendable>: Sendable {
/// Initializes a new uncertain future.
public init() {}
/// Return the passed value to all currently suspended callers waiting for ``value``.
public func complete(_ value: Value) {
@schwa
schwa / SwiftUI for macOS Missing Features.md
Last active January 31, 2024 02:45
SwiftUI for macOS Missing Features

https://mastodon.social/@schwa/111801520286334341

My list:

  • Tap location for contextual menus. A lot of apps need to know exactly where a context menu is being triggered from (e.g. canvas style editors etc).
  • Modifier key observation during button presses/gestures etc.
  • Cursor support
  • Native Undo Manager support (SwiftUI has Environment.undoManager but it just exposes Cocoa's UndoManager which doesn't feel very SwiftUI like).
  • Expanded File Dialog options (e.g. adding buttons to the dialog).
  • The outline variant of List (List(… children: …)) is missing a lot of the flexibility of NSOutlineView (TODO: flesh this out with concrete example).
@kconner
kconner / macOS Internals.md
Last active February 20, 2026 23:45
macOS Internals

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:

@nicklockwood
nicklockwood / Shape.swift
Created December 31, 2022 18:56
PolymorphicCoding.swift
import Foundation
// Here's a pretty typical scenario where you want to encode a polymorphic type -
// in this case a Shape type that can be either a Square or Circle. Swift provides
// a nice pattern for doing this in a type-safe way using enums:
struct Circle: Codable {
var radius: Int
}
@saagarjha
saagarjha / swizzler.h
Last active December 25, 2023 18:06
Type-safe, RAII swizzler for Objective-C++
// Example usage:
// Swizzler<NSString *, NSDateFormatter *, NSDate *> NSDateFormatter_stringFromDate_ {
// NSDateFormatter.class, @selector(stringFromDate:), [&](auto self, auto date) {
// if ([NSCalendar.currentCalendar components:NSCalendarUnitWeekday fromDate:date].weekday == 4) {
// return @"It Is Wednesday My Dudes";
// } else {
// return NSDateFormatter_stringFromDate_(self, date);
// }
// }
// };
@kylehughes
kylehughes / TornRectangle.swift
Last active February 17, 2026 08:04
A rectangle shape for SwiftUI that can render any edge like a torn piece of paper.
// Copyright 2021 Kyle Hughes
//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated
// documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
// rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
// permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
//
// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
// Software.
//
@saagarjha
saagarjha / library_injector.cpp
Last active February 21, 2026 10:45
Load a library into newly spawned processes (using DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES and EndpointSecurity)
// To compile: clang++ -arch x86_64 -arch arm64 -std=c++20 library_injector.cpp -lbsm -lEndpointSecurity -o library_injector,
// then codesign with com.apple.developer.endpoint-security.client and run the
// program as root.
#include <EndpointSecurity/EndpointSecurity.h>
#include <algorithm>
#include <array>
#include <bsm/libbsm.h>
#include <cstddef>
#include <cstdint>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>UnifiedBar</key>
<dict>
<key>DisclosureRequired</key>
<string>ace440ac-b4f6-4b43-aade-02bba1589aef</string>
<key>Enabled</key>
<false/>
--indent 4
--self insert
--extensionacl on-declarations
--modifierorder required,dynamic,override,public,private,private(set),lazy
--ranges no-space
--patternlet inline
--disable consecutiveBlankLines, strongOutlets, blankLinesAroundMark, unusedArguments
--disable spaceInsideComments, redundantParens, andOperator, consecutiveSpaces, redundantReturn
--disable indent, redundantNilInit, redundantType, redundantObjc, enumNamespaces
@cliss
cliss / MatchingHeightsPlaygroundPage.swift
Created February 2, 2021 14:39
Matching Heights Techniques
import UIKit
import SwiftUI
import PlaygroundSupport
/* *****************************************
* GeometryReader with PreferenceKey
* *****************************************/
struct HeightPreferenceKey: PreferenceKey {
static let defaultValue: CGFloat = 0