Recently I switched this website from Django to a static site. This article gives an overview of the core concepts of Pelican, covering areas that are not directly captured in the official docs. This is written primarily to solidify my own understanding and also act as a reference for myself …

Here's some sample code that shows how to display server validation errors sent by a django-restframework REST server.

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Media keys along with some other keys are not handled through the standard apple keyboard event subsystem. They are treated differently, and therefore emulating them from software requires special code (EventTap won't work!). Here's a function that does this: void HIDPostAuxKey(uint32_t key, bool down) { @autoreleasepool { NSEvent* ev = [NSEvent otherEventWithType …

An excellent piece of code to do the above is here: //clang++ -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++ -framework Foundation nsarray.mm -o nsarray /* Note: * - libstdc++ has been frozen by Apple at a pre-C++11 version, so you must opt for the newer, BSD-licensed libc++ * - Apple clang 4.0 …

How to get/set master volume in OS X. Many sample codes online use the deprecated API. This uses the currently 'legal' API. #include #include #include #include #include static AudioDeviceID getDefaultOutputDeviceID() { AudioDeviceID outputDeviceID = kAudioObjectUnknown; // get …