• http://lapcatsoftware.com/blog/2007/03/10/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-nsapplication/
• http://lapcatsoftware.com/blog/2007/05/16/working-without-a-nib-part-1/
• http://lapcatsoftware.com/blog/2007/06/04/working-without-a-nib-part-2-also-also-wik/
• http://lapcatsoftware.com/blog/2007/06/10/working-without-a-nib-part-5-no-3/
• http://lapcatsoftware.com/blog/2007/06/17/working-without-a-nib-part-4-setapplemenu/
• http://lapcatsoftware.com/blog/2007/11/25/working-without-a-nib-part-6-working-without-a-xib/
• http://lapcatsoftware.com/blog/2008/10/20/working-without-a-nib-part-7-the-empire-strikes-back/
• http://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/textured-tabbed-windows.html
• http://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/working-without-a-nib-part-8-the-nib-awakens.html
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2997333/creating-a-cocoa-application-without-nib-files
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/717442/how-do-i-create-cocoa-interfaces-without-interface-builder
• https://www.cocoawithlove.com/2010/09/minimalist-cocoa-programming.html
• https://gist.github.com/mcxiaoke/673e819046251e220b2e1903cc4251e3
• http://czak.pl/2015/09/23/single-file-cocoa-app-with-swift.html
• https://www.raizlabs.com/dev/2016/08/ib-free-living-without-interface-builder/
• https://www.raizlabs.com/dev/2017/03/ibfree-practice-1-managing-modal/
• https://github.com/sdegutis/choose
• http://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/weblog/2015/decoding_nibs_into_objective_.html
• http://www.thecave.com/2014/05/04/i-stopped-using-nibs-thanks-to-auto-layout/
• http://inessential.com/2013/03/06/how_much_or_how_little_i_use_interface
• http://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/10/18/working-without-a-nib/
• https://www.cocoawithlove.com/blog/a-view-construction-syntax.html
• https://github.com/toptensoftware/XibFree

• http://pewpewthespells.com/blog/migrating_code_signing.html
• http://furbo.org/2011/03/09/mac-app-store-guide/
• http://furbo.org/2013/10/17/code-signing-and-mavericks/
• https://gist.github.com/jbafford/d91ac15cf79a22e70f65
• http://blog.felix-schwarz.org/post/93968279039/how-to-build-on-10-8-and-earlier-then-sign-for-and
• https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/technotes/tn2206/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40007919-CH1-TNTAG205
• https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Security/Conceptual/CodeSigningGuide/Procedures/Procedures.html
• http://indiestack.com/2014/08/take-this-code-and-sign-it/
• http://tyler.io/2014/11/my-checklist-for-releasing-a-new-mac-app/
• http://indiestack.com/2014/08/take-this-code-and-sign-it/
• certtool y | grep Developer\ ID
• http://mjtsai.com/blog/2014/01/08/codesign-lies/
• To verify that my apps are signed properly before deployment, my Makefile includes these two lines:
  • spctl --status | grep "assessments enabled"
  • spctl --assess --type execute -v "${APP_PACKAGE}"

• http://bridgermaxwell.com/blog/building-on-auto-layout/
• https://github.com/mobitar/AutolayoutHelpers
• https://github.com/rentzsch/AutoLayoutShorthand
• https://github.com/jrturton/UIView-Autolayout, http://commandshift.co.uk/blog/2013/02/20/creating-individual-layout-constraints/
• http://carpeaqua.com/2012/11/02/issues-with-achieving-auto-layout-zen/
• http://vimeopro.com/360conferences/360idev-2013/video/75232527
• http://oleb.net/blog/2013/03/things-you-need-to-know-about-cocoa-autolayout/
• http://optshiftk.com/2013/11/an-auto-layout-adventure-nscell-intrinsiccontentsize-and-constraintsaffectinglayoutfororientation/
• http://optshiftk.com/2013/01/auto-layout-slides-available/
• https://github.com/cloudkite/Masonry
• http://oleb.net/blog/2014/03/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-auto-layout/
• http://devetc.org/code/2014/07/07/auto-layout-and-views-that-wrap.html
• http://blog.helftone.com/auto-layout-on-os-x/
• http://oleb.net/blog/2013/03/things-you-need-to-know-about-cocoa-autolayout/
• http://blog.helftone.com/auto-layout-on-os-x/
• http://themainthread.com/blog/2015/02/simple-auto-layout-in-swift.html
• Autolayout talk: http://vimeo.com/81215794

• http://nshipster.com/wkwebkit/
• https://tetontech.wordpress.com/tag/wkwebview/
• https://github.com/djyde/WebShell
• https://github.com/mkoehnke/WKZombie
• https://github.com/JadenGeller/Helium

• http://khanlou.com/2016/04/the-GCD-handbook/
• http://stackoverflow.com/users/25646/bbum?tab=answers
• http://www.mikeabdullah.net/atomically-copying-a-file.html, http://www.mikeabdullah.net/hunting-atomic-copy-failure.html
• http://www.mikeabdullah.net/convert-between-path+reference-urls.html
• http://www.mikeabdullah.net/url-paths-cheatsheet.html
• http://www.mikeabdullah.net/escaping-url-paths-in-cocoa.html
• http://www.mikeabdullah.net/escaping-url-queries-in-cocoa.html
• http://www.mikeabdullah.net/escaping-url-hosts-in-cocoa.html
• http://www.mikeabdullah.net/nsstring_posix_paths.html
• http://gigliwood.com/weblog/Cocoa/Core_Image__Practic.html
• http://gigliwood.com/weblog/Cocoa/Core_Image,_part_2.html
• http://www.mikeabdullah.net/colorspaces.html
• http://www.mikeabdullah.net/lion-restore-multi-window-document.html
• http://www.mikeabdullah.net/migrating-from-alias-handle.html
• http://www.mikeabdullah.net/NSBackgroundStyleRaised.html
• http://www.mikeabdullah.net/pre-populating-nssavepanel.html
• http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2013-07-21/how-to-decide-which-ownership-keyword-to-give-a-property
• http://www.cocoatoa.com/posts/2009/12/08/modernizing_the_responder_chain/
• http://blog.metaobject.com/2009/12/responder-chain-is-collection.html
• http://blog.metaobject.com/2013/01/more-objective-c-drawing-context.html
• http://blog.metaobject.com/2012/11/cglayer-performance-and-quality.html
• http://blog.metaobject.com/2012/10/coregraphics-patterns-and-resolution.html
• http://blog.metaobject.com/2012/06/pleasant-objective-c-drawing-context.html
• https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2009-11-13-dangerous-cocoa-calls.html
• http://funwithobjc.tumblr.com/post/1553469975/abusing-nspredicate
• http://www.friday.com/bbum/2010/10/17/when-is-a-leak-not-a-leak-using-heapshot-analysis-to-find-undesirable-memory-growth/
• http://gigliwood.com/blog/making-crisp-retina-icons.html
• https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-12-14-objective-c-pitfalls.html
• http://blog.securemacprogramming.com/2012/11/object-oriented-callback-design/
• http://nshipster.com/instancetype/
• http://blog.bignerdranch.com/296-arc-gotcha-unexpectedly-short-lifetimes/
• http://iamthewalr.us/blog/2012/11/ns_enum-and-ns_options/
• http://www.mikeabdullah.net/kspasswordfield.html
• http://blog.metaobject.com/2012/10/coregraphics-patterns-and-resolution.html
• http://nshipster.com/nscharacterset/
• https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-08-10-a-tour-of-commoncrypto.html
• http://useyourloaf.com/blog/2012/08/01/property-synthesis-with-xcode-4-dot-4.html
• http://brockerhoff.net/blog/2012/07/22/checking-receipts-on-os-x/
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1309958/avoiding-applescript-through-ruby-rb-appscript-or-rubyosa
• https://github.com/blog/1107-reactivecocoa-for-a-better-world
• https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-04-13-nib-memory-management.html
• http://www.betalogue.com/2012/03/27/lion-autosave-2/
• http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ObjectiveCLiterals.html
• http://blog.bignerdranch.com/316-a-timing-utility/
• http://www.cocoawithlove.com/2011/01/advanced-drawing-using-appkit.html
• https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2013-01-11-mach-exception-handlers.html
• http://spin.atomicobject.com/2014/02/03/objective-c-delegate-pattern/
• http://orangejuiceliberationfront.com/are-your-rectangles-blurry-pale-and-have-rounded-corners/
• http://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/artikel/Optimization/
• http://blog.bignerdranch.com/4736-javascriptcore-example/
• http://ciechanowski.me/blog/2014/04/08/exposing-nsdictionary/
• http://blog.amyworrall.com/post/97311712725/an-introduction-to-cocoa-bindings
• https://github.com/rodionovd/RDProcess
• https://github.com/rodionovd/liblorgnette
• http://joearms.github.io/2016/01/04/fun-with-swift.html

• https://github.com/shortcutrecorder/shortcutrecorder
• https://github.com/levey/AwesomeMenu - re-implementation of Path 2.0 menu using CoreAnimation, for iOS
• http://projectswithlove.com/ - a bunch of sample code
• https://github.com/uliwitness/UKSyntaxColoredTextDocument
• https://github.com/phildow/SPSearchStore
• https://github.com/stevestreza/XPCKit
• https://github.com/indragiek/SNRHUDKit
• https://github.com/indragiek/INAppStoreWindow, https://github.com/tomaz/INAppStoreWindow
• https://github.com/indragiek/INDockableWindow
• https://github.com/indragiek/OEGridView
• https://github.com/IdeasOnCanvas/Ashton
• https://github.com/IdeasOnCanvas/iMedia
• https://github.com/ButterKit/Butter
• https://github.com/mobitar/AutolayoutHelpers
• https://github.com/kgn/KGNoise
• https://github.com/mattgemmell/MGScopeBar
• https://github.com/mattgemmell/FolderSweep
• https://github.com/BigZaphod/Chameleon
• https://github.com/Cocoanetics/DTCoreText
• https://github.com/malcommac/DMInspectorPalette
• https://github.com/malcommac/DMSplitView
• https://github.com/malcommac/DMTabBar, https://github.com/Cocoanetics/DMTabBar
• https://github.com/MiMo42/MMTabBarView
• https://github.com/mattt/FormatterKit
• https://github.com/mattt/TransformerKit
• https://github.com/itod/parsekit
• https://github.com/Cocoanetics/DTFoundation
• https://github.com/Cocoanetics/DTMarkdownParser
• https://github.com/quartermaster/DB5
• https://github.com/soffes/sskeychain
• https://github.com/carlbrown/PDKeychainBindingsController
• https://github.com/foundationkit/FoundationKit
• https://github.com/ReactiveCocoa/ReactiveCocoa
• https://github.com/ZarraStudios/ZDS_Shared
• https://github.com/gwynne/NSFilesystemEnumerator
• https://github.com/quicksilver/VDKQueue
• https://github.com/mpw/MPWDrawingContext
• https://github.com/mpw/MPWFoundation
• https://github.com/MrNoodle/NoodleKit
• https://github.com/karelia/ConnectionKit
• https://github.com/karelia/KSFileUtilities
• https://github.com/SVGKit/SVGKit
• http://pfiddlesoft.com/frameworks/
• https://github.com/omnigroup/OmniGroup
• https://github.com/shpakovski/MASShortcut
• https://github.com/Cocoanetics/DTPDF
• https://github.com/tomersh/NanoProfiler
• https://github.com/arielelkin/PocketSVG
• https://github.com/brotchie/Parcoa
• https://github.com/joshaber/JAListView
• https://github.com/joshaber/JAViewController
• https://github.com/AXElements/AXElements
• https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text-objc
• https://github.com/github/twui
• https://github.com/mysterioustrousers/MTStringAttributes
• https://github.com/JanX2/UniversalDetector
• https://github.com/Uncommon/FullHeightToolbar
• https://github.com/Uncommon/RBSplitView
• https://github.com/mysterioustrousers/MYSRuntime
• https://github.com/mysterioustrousers/MYSCoreText
• https://github.com/mysterioustrousers/MTPDF
• https://github.com/mysterioustrousers/MTDates
• https://github.com/logancollins/Photon
• https://github.com/logancollins/Graviton
• https://github.com/kevinlawler/NSDate-TimeAgo
• https://github.com/yaptv/YapDatabase/
• https://github.com/MatthewYork/DateTools
• https://github.com/ButterKit/Butter
• https://github.com/jwilling/JNWCollectionView
• https://github.com/facebook/pop
• https://github.com/rentzsch/JRTranscriptView
• https://github.com/aaron-elkins/ENTabBarView
• https://github.com/monyschuk/LITabControl

• https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps : list of open-source apps
• https://github.com/kasper/phoenix : js scriptable window and app manager, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16787836
• https://github.com/macguru/Stapler - note-taking app
• https://github.com/dinhviethoa/dejalu
• https://github.com/sttz/MPlayer-OSX-Extended
• https://github.com/donmelton/MPlayerShell
• https://github.com/niltsh/MPlayerX/tree/sparkle
• https://github.com/zwaldowski/roaringdiff - very obsolete code, doesn't run under latest mac os because uses lots of deprecated/missing APIs (e.q. QuickDraw)
• https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu
• https://github.com/rowanj/gitx
• https://github.com/phildow/Journler
• https://github.com/sonoramac/Sonora
• https://github.com/rowanj/Chicken-of-the-VNC, http://sourceforge.net/projects/chicken/
• https://github.com/tylerhall/Highwire
• https://github.com/tylerhall/MacSosumi
• https://hg.adium.im/adium
• https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver
• https://github.com/sprang/Inkpad
• https://github.com/rentzsch/markdownlive
• https://github.com/nygard/class-dump
• https://bitbucket.org/snej/murky/wiki/Home
• http://appkido.com/
• https://github.com/pornel/ImageOptim
• https://github.com/JanX2/Play
• https://github.com/Uncommon/Xit
• https://github.com/jessegrosjean/NOTTaskPaperForIOS
• https://github.com/sdegutis/Phoenix/tree/master/Phoenix
• https://github.com/sdegutis/Leviathan - has tabs code and NSTextView with syntax highlighting
• https://github.com/sdegutis/bahamut
• https://github.com/graphsketcher/GraphSketcher
• http://gitweb.saurik.com/cycript.git
• https://github.com/Vluxe/Orca

• https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/SpotlightQuery/Concepts/QueryingMetadata.html
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8717268/how-to-find-the-newly-added-file-within-a-folder/8717979#8717979
• https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/UserExperience/Reference/SearchKit/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/c/func/SKIndexOpenWithURL

• https://github.com/atnan/QLPrettyPatch
• https://github.com/toland/qlmarkdown
• https://github.com/whomwah/qlstephen
• https://code.google.com/p/qlcolorcode/
• https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins - the list

• https://github.com/soffes/ssziparchive

// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2296667/unzipping-a-file-in-cocoa
- (void) unzip {
    NSFileManager* fm = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
    NSString* zipPath = @"myFile.zip";

    NSString* targetFolder = @"/tmp/unzipped"; //this it the parent folder
                                               //where your zip's content 
                                               //goes to (must exist)

    //create a new empty folder (unzipping will fail if any
    //of the payload files already exist at the target location)
    [fm createDirectoryAtPath:targetFolder withIntermediateDirectories:NO 
                                           attributes:nil error:NULL];


    //now create a unzip-task
    NSArray *arguments = [NSArray arrayWithObject:zipPath];
    NSTask *unzipTask = [[NSTask alloc] init];
    [unzipTask setLaunchPath:@"/usr/bin/unzip"];
    [unzipTask setCurrentDirectoryPath:targetFolder];
    [unzipTask setArguments:arguments];
    [unzipTask launch];
    [unzipTask waitUntilExit]; //remove this to start the task concurrently

}

• http://psionides.eu/2014/10/06/a-guide-to-nsbutton-styles/

• http://www.mikeabdullah.net/
• http://mjtsai.com/
• http://blog.securemacprogramming.com/
• http://nshipster.com/

• https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/conceptual/TextUILayer/Tasks/TextInScrollView.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000938-CJBBIAAF - Putting an NSTextView Object in an NSScrollView
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15172971/append-to-nstextview-and-scroll
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19216754/nstextview-live-text-highlighting
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2218415/nstextview-syntax-highlighting
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4760400/nstextview-drawing-custom-glyphs-that-cant-be-edited
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15527305/proper-way-to-replace-nstextstorage-in-nstextview
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/849655/nstextview-not-refreshed-properly-on-scrolling
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19777904/auto-resizing-of-nstextview-and-or-nsscrollview
• https://github.com/phildow/CHNotebookTextContainer
• http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2008/10/05/displaying-line-numbers-with-nstextview/
• http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2012/05/29/syntax-coloring-for-fun-and-profit/

• https://codejamming.org/2018/deploy-to-macos : deploying native apps to macOS
• https://github.com/sindresorhus/create-dmg : create nice dmg for an app
• https://github.com/koekeishiya/chunkwm : shows how to write nib-less cocoa app mostly in C++ (with bits of Objective-C)
• https://videos.raywenderlich.com/courses : lots of tutorial videos
• https://www.raywenderlich.com/category/macos : os x programming tutorials
• https://www.raywenderlich.com/159287/windows-windowcontroller-tutorial-macos : NSWindow tutorial
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8099247 : list of os x programming resources
• https://www.cocoawithlove.com/blog/cwllayout.html : auto layout helper
• https://blog.automatic.com/how-we-cut-our-ios-apps-launch-time-in-half-with-this-one-cool-trick-7aca2011e2ea : how to build one big dynamic framework out of many
• https://oleb.net/blog/2017/11/swift-4-strings/
• http://furbo.org/2011/03/09/mac-app-store-guide/

• https://github.com/kasper/phoenix : JavaScript scriptable window manager
• http://nshipster.com/javascriptcore/
• https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/javascriptcore-example/
• https://github.com/bang590/JSPatch : bridge Cocoa ⇒ JavaScript, for iOS only
• https://github.com/DynamicCocoa/DynamicCocoa : not actually released yet