How can you get the Unicode normalised form from within an app, or when you’re writing your own tools and scripts? unorml may be just the job.
Swift
A quick tour through String normalisation, mapping closures, and a small burst of colour.
I never thought that I’d be writing C in Swift, even down to handling null-terminated strings. But the code works.
A basic document-based Swift app shell into which you can quickly add functional code. Saves time starting a new project.
Nearly three years after Swift was launched, its interface to macOS is still only partly complete. And the docs are misleading and contradictory. Oh fun!
Does Xcode 8.3 deal with the many problems in 8.2.1? Is Swift 3.1 much better than 3.0?
Trying to decide whether a selected item is an app bundle turns out to be simple, if you cheat.
How to sort an array of arrays of strings, on the contents of one of those strings, in just 4 lines of Swift.
How HelpHelp accesses a large nested Property List files, handles its data as arrays, and uses NSHelpManager.
Apple will be judged by its ability to surprise us with the new, revelatory, and enabling – which have become less frequent.
The Eclectic Light Company 