Disclaimer: These were all the links in my read later for this week. It doesn’t mean that I agree or approve any of the content. The longest ones will be included in hr to keep them separated from the rest of the content.
Notice: Some of the links may be either explicit or may disturb someone. It should be obvious (99% of the times it will) from the title if that’s the case or not . Proceed at your own risk.
[Creating a class at runtime - objc[(https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa–2010–11–6-creating-classes-at-runtime-in-objective-c.html)
And a related article about metaclasses.
Class mySubclass = objc_allocateClassPair([NSObject class], "MySubclass", 0);
How side projects saved our startup
[The engineering behind instagram](https://iosdevweek.ly/5tmDvfM?m=email&sid=hoQMVe59
Some use cases
Stack Overflow temporary logo change
Striking taxi trivers in france plotting their own demise
It’s only obvious that people are going to use Uber and co. even more in the event of a taxi driver strike. How they can’t realize that is mindboggling.
That’s some JavaScript level of == insanity in the example.
Facebook rolls out its own IDE
Windows Firewall from the command line
App Store broken after Mavericks upgrade
Processing a recording in real time on iOS
With even a link to the Github page of a ready to use framework for that.
Not sure if legit, but if it is it looks really promising
Xcode crashing on submitting Archive
I can’t wait for Xcode 7 crash reports, but for now this should suffice.
Dev porting metal gear solid to PC talks about the development process
The first comment is from someone making an MMORPG himself and giving examples of successful MMORPG made by small teams.
8.000.000.000 Transistors at once
Samsung deliberately disabling windows update
Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C
Well, they both look terribly ugly and I’m saying that also as an objective-C programmer.
Redditor explains in great details how and why a Star Destroyer has at least 50k people on it
Stealing credentials on http forms
Webkit - Introduction to WebKit Content Blockers
Confusable Detection in Unicode
Renaming a project with cocoapods
Toggles between upper, lower, and title casing of selected text in Drafts app
Create playing cards with ruby
Using git tags to set the version number of your app
Paternoster: elevators with no doors
Epic and scary threads from 4chan
Why selfie sticks are banned in Disneyland
Why looking for the cheapest insurance at all costs is bad for you
Wordpress Custom Page Template
Why Most “digital” dictionaries are a chore and what you should do about it
[Doctors, what’s the most incorrect self diagnosis you’ve ever witnessed](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/37a1oz/doctors_of_reddit_what_was_the_most_incorrect/
Procedural generated room map + GIF
Hilarious how they would first say “won’t fix it” and change their minds later on.
GOT - someone misspelled Sansa to Salsa, hilarity ensues
I love the idea, I’ve always been for owning my own content, but I love twitter too, so that always felt like an incostistency, but I always view it as the price to pay to use the platform and it was a fair price for what I get in return from Twitter. I’m not sure if I’ll end up using it since I’ve been toying with the idea of using a proper static generator based website. Unfortunately my host doesn’t support ssh access for now so I’m stuck, unless I change it of course. We’ll see what the future brings ;)
A Rain of Bombs in the Nuba Mountains
Fathers who abandoned your family, why’d you do it?
Returns true iff object is a non-@objc class instance with a single strong reference.
CloudFlare - achieve low latency
Arnold Schwarzenegger replies to a fan who brought his old father to watch the new Terminator movie
Youching story - Everything is (not) yours
Reddit lets go the only person in charge of coordinating AMAs with Mods, the community Rebels