Jens Alfke

Relative URLs?

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The spec doesn't mention relative URLs — are they allowed? And if so, what is the base URL they're interpreted relative to? I recall this coming up as a bit...

Worth noting: No newlines in JSON strings

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If the history of RSS is any guide, people are going to be writing code that generates JSON feeds by ad-hoc string concatenation or template substitution, without going through a...

Zero-length NSData parameter binds to SQL null value

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A zero-length NSData object passed as a parameter binding for a SQL statement results in a SQL 'null' value, not a zero-length blob as expected. ``` objective-c // Test case:...

In general, most C APIs that register callbacks have a `void*` parameter in the callback, and in the function that registers it, for passing arbitrary client state. Otherwise the callback...

Support for logging NSErrors and similar 'out' parameters

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The Cocoa error handling conventions involve passing an `NSError` error object by reference, and if the called function/method fails, the `error` parameter will have been populated with a value containing...

Python 3.12 Support

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## 🐞Describing the bug - I'm following the directions at "[Installing Core ML Tools](https://apple.github.io/coremltools/docs-guides/source/installing-coremltools.html)". - I went through "Set Up Conda": created the virtual environment, ran `conda install pip`. -...

Mac fixes

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## Description Fixed issues using doctest on macOS. Each fix is in a separate commit. - Build error #833 - Platform check doesn’t detect macOS if `` isn't included before...

## Description Building doctest with CMake on a Mac with Xcode 15.0 produces this error: ``` doctest/parts/doctest.cpp:1468:60: error: zero as null pointer constant [-Werror,-Wzero-as-null-pointer-constant] if(sysctl(mib, DOCTEST_COUNTOF(mib), &info, &size, 0, 0)...

doctest outputs ANSI escapes to non-color TTYs, resulting in visible junk

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## Description doctest’s check for whether to enable color output is too simplistic: it just tests `isatty(STDOUT_FILENO)` (e.g. in the `color_to_stream` function.) But **not all TTYs support ANSI color**; one...

Just tried to set this up on macOS 13.0.1 and got a whole heap of errors and warnings :( Looks like a bunch of the dependencies are rev-locked to obsolete...