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Making a PDF that's larger than Germany
We’re gonna need a bigger printer.
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Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time
It's not quite the number of seconds since 1 January 1970.
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Cut the cutesy errors
If your app has just ruined my day, I need help, not humour.
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Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line
We can use the `createWebArchiveData` method on `WKWebView` to write a Swift script that creates Safari webarchive files.
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When square pixels aren't square
When you want to get the dimensions of a video file, you probably want the display aspect ratio. Using the dimensions of a stored frame may result in a stretched or squashed video.
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Cut the Cutesy Errors
If your app has just ruined my day, I need help, not humour.