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My book, Functional Programming, Simplified — 4.5-star rated on Amazon, their 6th-best selling book on functional programming, and 5-star rated on Gumroad.com — is currently on sale in three formats:
- This document is a Mac OS X manual page. Manual pages are a command-line technology for providing documentation. You can view these manual pages locally using the man(1) command. These manual pages come from many different sources, and thus, have a variety of writing styles.
- You can mount and unmount drives, volumes, and disks from the command line of MacOS and Mac OS X. For many users, the easiest way to unmount a drive in Mac is to either just drag a volume into the Trash, use the eject keys, disconnect the drive, or use one of the force eject methods.
- Apple announced last June at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference that the standalone iTunes app would be killed off when the company rolled out its new macOS operating system.
- A simple editor for PlantUML. Requires PlantUML (and its dependencies, java and graphviz/dot). Some features:. update the diagram while editing. code assistant to insert ready-made code snipets. written in Qt4, so it should run on all platforms supported by Qt4 and PlantUML. option to cache the PlantUML output to speed redo, undo and loading from disk. can be used as a PlantUML viewer.
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Sunrise at Virginia Beach, April 9, 2017. No filters have been applied, this is what it looked like. :)
Mama always told me not to look into the eye’s of the Sun .. sunrise in Virginia Beach, April, 2017.
Today (April 8, 2020) is a day off for me, so I woke up at 4:30am and went up on the roof of the apartment complex garage, and took a few photos of the Pink Moon. These are some small versions of the best Moon photos, along with one of the Sun, which was coming up behind me from the east as the Moon set in the west over the Rocky Mountains.
First, the “Pink Moon” setting over the Rockies:
Last night I was chasing people who were putting bombs in buildings and flying shape-shifters (who I would later realize were on my side). When I started to catch up to them I’d find myself yelling, “please comply.” I give a “thumbs up” for the action/adventure part of the dream, but the writing and line delivery were just horrible.
~ a dream from April 8, 2017
Doctors have been treating me for “suspicion of mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS)” since 2016, and I recently got my first Covid vaccination shot. Here’s a quick summary of the experience.
Before the shot I took one Allegra pill, as usual, and then two Xyzal pills (where I normally take one a day, but as many as four).
I got the Pfizer vaccine shot, and quickly developed these symptoms:
A “Love” sign you might find at a rest area somewhere in Virginia.
“In enlightenment, death has no relevance to one’s state of being.”
As I reflected on the meaning of Easter this morning, I remembered this quote from Tibetan lama, teacher, physician, sculptor, and painter, Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche. The quote is from his book, Life in Relation to Death.
As a note to self, if you see this sbt error message with sbt 1.4.8, it’s a known issue:
The short solution to the problem is to upgrade to sbt 1.4.9 or newer. The problem and solution are discussed in this Github sbt issue.
Here’s a photo of a snow white tree in Louisville, Colorado, one day in March, 2018. I was headed to a doctor’s appointment in Louisville, so this was probably somewhere between 7-8:30am. The full size image (not shown here) may be the prettiest photo I’ve ever taken in Colorado.
This is a photo of some white-tipped trees on a cloudy, overcast day in Louisville, Colorado, March, 2016 (a few miles east and south of Boulder, Colorado).
A “Boulderstrong” sign at the King Soopers in Louisville, Colorado, to honor the people who were killed at the mass shooting in Boulder last week.
I got vaccinated this past week at Boulder Community Hospital, in Boulder, Colorado.
Functional programming is interesting. On the one hand it’s very (extremely!) disciplined. But on the other hand, people can’t agree on certain definitions. As an example, here are the “three principles of functional programming,” from this tweet:
1. Orthogonal composability
2. Maximum polymorphism
3. Maximum deferment
Conversely, here are the “three pillars of functional programming,” from Functional and Reactive Domain Modeling:
1. Referential transparency
2. Substitution model
3. Equational reasoning
When I learned OOP I saw that it was based on several principles that everyone agrees upon. When I started learning FP (and later took two years to write Functional Programming, Simplified) I was surprised there wasn’t a single accepted definition of functional programming. I ran across the principles/pillars in the last two days and was reminded of that again.
macOS FAQ: How do I show a file’s character encoding?
On macOS you show a file’s character encoding using the -I
option of the file
command:
Here are two more examples, with and without the file
command’s -I
option:
March 23, 2021, a day after the horrible assault rifle mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, gave a us a day that looked a bit like Alaska. The ground here in Colorado never looks like Alaska, but today the mist in the mountains and overcast sky looked like Alaska, and made me feel a bit more like I was at home here.
When I edit my own text, I make comments like those shown in the images. A few of my own:
- Nice start — dig deeper
- Just say what you mean
- You lost me
- Feels fake — write from the heart (or, write to your muse)
- Passive!
When I write books I try to complete a chapter, then get away from it for at least a month, then come back and edit it like this.
The images here are from the excellent movie, Finding Forrester.
The Scala 2.13 collections updates introduced two new “chaining operations” named pipe
and tap
. Here’s a quick look at how they work, plus a little extra fun at the end.
pipe
pipe
works like a Unix pipe, passing values to functions. For example, given this setup:
As a brief note today, for the last year or so I’ve been experiencing various “visions” when I wake up at night. I mentioned them to a doctor recently, and he said, “No, you’re not crazy, they’re referred to as hypnagogic hallucinations.” I found out that more accurately, the ones I’m experiencing are known as hypnopompic hallucinations.
If you’re interested in what these look like, here are three that I experienced recently. I regularly see images of “splatter” on the ceiling, and they can be all sorts of color. Last night they were mostly black, but the night before that they were red and pink:
Some time ago I was at a party, and there was a woman there that I didn’t know, but I felt like I knew her. It was a strange feeling, kind of like deja vu, but it had nothing to do with this party, just the feeling that I knew this woman. Maybe I had seen somewhere before, but I couldn’t place it.
When that thought first came to me I was talking to some other people, so I shrugged it off for the time being. It was relatively early and I figured we’d meet soon enough. A little while later a trash can became full, so I took the bag out of the can and walked it to a garbage can outside by the detached garage. After I put the bag in the can outside I turned around, only to be startled to see the woman standing there. Hideous solitaire mac os.
“How do I know you,” she asked.
Watching Folders
The ability to watch folders and take action on incoming items is a powerful automation technique that enables the creation of fully unattended workflows. A watched folder might be used, for example, to watermark incoming photos, convert them to PDF, and email them to clients for review. Many companies set up script servers—dedicated robot machines that watch folders and process detected items, allowing employees to offload tedious and repetitious work in order to focus on other important tasks.
In OS X, there are two primary ways to set up scripting-based watched folders: folder actions and stay open script apps.
Using Folder Actions to Watch Folders
Folder actions is a feature in OS X that lets you connect scripts to folders on your Mac. A folder action script includes one or more event handlers that run in response to certain events, such as opening, closing, or adding items to the connected folder. With folder actions, you can create automated workflows that:
Notify you when new files and folders arrive in a folder
Notify you when existing files and folders are removed from a folder
Perform processing of newly detected files and folders
Initiate any automated task when a new file or folder is detected
Adjust or reset the view properties of a folder’s window when it’s opened, closed, or resized
Write a Folder Action Script
The event handlers supported by folder actions are defined in the Standard Additions scripting addition that comes with OS X. They are:
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Folder event | Event handler | Parameters |
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Items—files or folders—are added to the folder |
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Items are removed from the folder |
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The folder is opened in a new Finder window |
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The window of a folder is closed |
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The window of a folder is moved |
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Create a Script Editor document.
Add one or more folder action event handlers to the document.
Save the document as a compiled script to one of the following folders:
/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts/
—The script can be used by any user.~/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts/
—The script can be used by the current user only.
The following examples demonstrate how to use different folder action event handlers.
APPLESCRIPT
Listing 18-1AppleScript: Example of theopening folder
event handleron opening folder theAttachedFolder
-- Get the name of the attached folder
tell application 'Finder'
set theName to name of theAttachedFolder
-- Display an alert indicating that the folder was opened
activate
display alert 'Attention!' message 'The folder ' & (quoted form of theName) & ' was opened.'
end tell
end opening folder
APPLESCRIPT
Listing 18-2AppleScript: Example of theclosing folder window for
event handleron closing folder window for theAttachedFolder
-- Get the name of the attached folder
tell application 'Finder'
set theName to name of theAttachedFolder
-- Display an alert indicating that the folder was closed
activate
display alert 'Attention!' message 'The folder ' & (quoted form of theName) & ' was closed.'
end tell
end closing folder window for
APPLESCRIPT
Listing 18-3AppleScript: Example of theadding folder items to
event handleron adding folder items to theAttachedFolder after receiving theNewItems
-- Get the name of the attached folder
tell application 'Finder'
set theName to name of theAttachedFolder
-- Count the new items
set theCount to length of theNewItems
-- Display an alert indicating that the new items were received
activate
display alert 'Attention!' message (theCount & ' new items were detected in folder ' & (quoted form of theName) & '.' as string)
-- Loop through the newly detected items
repeat with anItem in theNewItems
-- Process the current item
-- Move the current item to another folder so it's not processed again in the future
end repeat
end tell
end adding folder items to
APPLESCRIPT
Listing 18-4AppleScript: Example of theremoving folder items from
event handleron removing folder items from theAttachedFolder after losing theRemovedItems
-- Get the name of the attached folder
tell application 'Finder'
set theName to name of theAttachedFolder
-- Count the removed items
set theCount to length of theRemovedItems
-- Display an alert indicating that items were removed
activate
display alert 'Attention!' message (theCount & ' items were removed from folder ' & (quoted form of theName) & '.' as string)
-- Loop through the removed items, performing any additional tasks
repeat with anItem in theRemovedItems
-- Process the current item
end repeat
end tell
end removing folder items from
Attaching a Folder Action Script to a Folder
A folder action script must be connected to a folder in order to use it. This is done with Folder Actions Setup, an app that’s launched from the Finder’s contextual menu.
Control-click the folder in Finder.
Skeleton dungeon mac os. Skytech reloaded mac os. Choose Folder Actions Setup from the contextual menu.
The Folder Actions Setup app launches, the folder is automatically added to the Folders with Actions list, and you’re prompted to select a script.
Choose a script to connect to the folder and click Attach.
Make sure the Enable Folder Actions checkbox is selected, as well as the On checkboxes next to the folder.
Once the script and folder are connected, the folder action event handlers in the script should run when the corresponding actions occur.
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Note
Folder Actions Setup can also be used to disable or remove folder action scripts and watched folders.
The Folder Actions Setup app itself resides in /System/Library/CoreServices/
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Watching Folders Using an Idle Loop and a Stay Open Script App
Although folder actions provide efficient folder watching capabilities, some scripters prefer to implement customized folder watching workflows that provide more control over the folder watching process. This is typically done by creating a stay-open script with an idle
handler that checks a folder at regular intervals for new items to process. Listing 18-5 demonstrates an idle
handler-based script that watches an Input folder on the Desktop.
APPLESCRIPT
Listing 18-5AppleScript: Watch a folder for files using an idle loopon idle
-- Locate the folder to watch
set theFolder to locateAndCreateFolder(path to desktop folder, 'Input')
-- Watch the folder
watchFolder(theFolder)
-- Delay 2 minutes before checking the folder again
return 120
end idle
on watchFolder(theFolder)
-- Check for files in the folder
tell application 'Finder'
set theFilesToProcess to every file of theFolder
end tell
-- Stop if there are no files to process
if theFilesToProcess = {} then return
-- Locate an output folder
set theOutputFolder to locateAndCreateFolder(path to desktop folder, 'Output')
repeat with aFile in theFilesToProcess
-- Process the current file
-- Move the current file to the output folder so it doesn't get processed again
tell application 'Finder'
move aFile to theOutputFolder
end tell
end repeat
end watchFolder
-- Locate a folder, creating it if it doesn't exist
on locateAndCreateFolder(theParentFolder, theFolderName)
tell application 'Finder'
if ((folder theFolderName of theParentFolder) exists) = false then make new folder at theParentFolder with properties {name:theFolderName}
return (folder theFolderName of theParentFolder) as alias
end tell
end locateAndCreateFolder
Folder Watching Best Practices
Regardless of what method you use for folder watching, follow these best practices to produce an efficient and reliable workflow:
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Wait for items to finish writing to disk before processing them. The adventures of captain carrot mac os.
Move processed items to an output folder so the same items aren’t detected and processed a second time.
Handle errors gracefully, such as by moving problematic items to an error folder so other processing can proceed.
Bring dialogs and alerts to the front so they’re visible and can be addressed.
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