44. Grab Bag

Soroush has a new mic

• ATR2500-USB

Thanks to you, Patreon supporters, for buying us new mics!

Chris is making an Alexa Skill

• FlightAware
• ADS-B Exchange
• Cheap ADS-B Aircraft Radar (this isn’t Chris’s exact setup, but it’s similar)
• What it’s like to build an Alexa skill - and how you can do it yourself
• Build your First Alexa Skill
• Fact Skill Tutorial: Build an Alexa Skill in 6 Steps
• AWS Lambda
• Creating a Deployment Package (Node.js)
• Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Reference
• Chris’s ADS-B posts:
  • Monitoring aircraft via ADS-B on OS X
  • Quick ADS-B monitoring on OS X

Soroush is using Sourcery

• Sourcery
• Sourcery in Practice
• Kyle Fuller: GitHub @kylef, Twitter @kylefuller
• Stencil
• SwiftTemplate
  • Commit from Krunoslav Zaher: “Swift templates proof of concept”
  • Equality.swifttemplate

Chris helped a friend who’s making a Swift CLI program

dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/libswiftAppKit.dylib

Referenced from: /Users/friend/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/application-gqcotuckdopephaodrgawgaxuzwr/Build/Products/Debug/CSwiftV/CSwiftV.framework/Versions/A/CSwiftV

Reason: image not found

If my advice turns out to have been helpful, I’ll publish it verbatim in a blog post. In the meantime, here are some relevant links I sent this friend:

• CocoaPods 0.36 - Framework and Swift Support
• What are Frameworks?
• Bundle Structures
• Swift.org - ABI Dashboard
• Swift.org - Package Manager
• Building a command line tool using the Swift Package Manager
• How to build a custom Swift framework and how is it related to the SPM?
• Getting Started with Swift Package Manager
• An Introduction to the Swift Package Manager
• SO question: OSX Command Line Tool with Swift Cocoa Library, Library not loaded
• SO answer about dynamic frameworks in a CLI tool
• SO question: Setting up a Framework on macOS Command Line apps - Reason: image not found
• kylef/Commander README: frameworks and rpath
• JP Simard on Twitter: “the app’s rpath should point to the frameworks’ parent locations”
• realm-cocoa-converter: “A library that provides the ability to import/export Realm files from a variety of data container formats.”