Last time, I shared how to use the TQL Insight in TelemetryDeck to see organic traffic sources. Today, I want to share with you a much, much simpler approach to use TelemetryDeck to analyze website traffic without the need for the TelemetryDeck Query Language.
Maybe you have some old code (you wouldn’t write this nowadays, of course) that uses someValue is SomeType checks. Maybe you need to check if someValue is a generic type, like the following Box: Then your is predicates won’t work: The good news is that since you treat the concrete type as a mere marker, you can express this condition with a type marker protocol:
Watching Stephen Celis’ “How to Control the World”, NSSpain 2018 presentation, one of the common Swift/iOS patterns he brings up caught my attention.
It’s this piece of code:
protocol APIClientProvider {
var api: APIClientProtocol { get }
}
protocol DateProvider {
func date() -> Date
}
extension World: APIClientProvider, DateProvider {}
class MyViewController: UIViewController {
typealias Dependencies = APIClientProvider & DateProvider
let label = UILabel()
let dependencies: Dependencies
init(dependencies: Dependencies) {
self.dependencies = dependencies
}
func greet() {
self.dependencies.api.fetchCurrentUser { result in
if let user = result.success {
self.label.text = "Hi, \(user.name)! It’s \(self.dependencies.date())."
}
}
}
}
I never saw usage of a typealias Dependencies declaration that uses Protocol Composition to declare which dependencies are needed (expressed as 1 type being the combination of all actual dependencies).
This was news to me, so I wonder if you ran into something like this out there in the wild.
Early this year, I wrote about my upgrade to modus-themes v4.x and how I used a custo mechanism to style the scroll bar indicator I like using, mlscroll.el, so that it looks nice.
Sven Schmidt alerted me to the fact that you can check in Package.resolved to pin Swift package versions in Xcode-managed projects if you add the file from within the generated project.xcworkspace file in your .xcodeproj bundle:
The current TelemetryDeck for web setup guide (version of 2023-12-01) is quite simple. Insert this into your HTML, and you’re set: From that point onward, you’ll be collecting signals per web site hit. Internally, the signal’s type is "type":"pageview". These signals will include all the usual suspects: browser, os and version, url (the page that was visited), and also referrer (where visitors may have come from, following a link).
TableFlip v1.5.1 just got approved to the Mac App Store (direct customers got the update a bit earlier, as usual). Again: kudos to Marin Todorov for the export improvements on HTML! From the release notes: Oh boy, just wait for v1.6.0 🥁 It’ll be really cool. Until then, get TableFlip today and enjoy some plain text table flipping.
This is a note from 2022 I found by accident today. Teaser: It will become relevant again, soon, so I want to share the rough idea with you today. JSON data containing nested object lists within object lists, namely, arrays of objects within other arrays, cannot be mapped directly to a 2D table representation.
I’m upgrading my 4TB drives in the NAS to 12TB drives. “Let’s be clever,” I thought (foreshadowing), “and do two things in parallel!” So installing the next drive into the disk array of my Unraid NAS, I let Unraid do these tasks: Does that speed things up, though? No, not at all, because Preclearing a disk takes 3x as long: Around 21 hours for each step that checks every nook and cranny of the HDD.