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A very helpful description of the binary list format is available at scribe.rip/@karaiskc/understanding-apples-binary-property-list-format-281e6da00dbd
@wader
#PList #BinaryPList #BPList -
TIL a nice way to tell which setting does what in #macOS Settings by diff'ing the `defaults` output before and after un/ticking the related checkbox in the Settings app:
```bash
defaults read > defaults.pre.txt
# *make a change in Settings*
defaults read > defaults.post.txt
diff defaults.pre.txt defaults.post.txt
```Source: https://github.com/sickcodes/osx-optimizer
PS: Another nice way is https://github.com/catilac/plistwatch, BTW
#dev #plist #bash -
TIL a nice way to tell which setting does what in #macOS Settings by diff'ing the `defaults` output before and after un/ticking the related checkbox in the Settings app:
```bash
defaults read > defaults.pre.txt
# *make a change in Settings*
defaults read > defaults.post.txt
diff defaults.pre.txt defaults.post.txt
```Source: https://github.com/sickcodes/osx-optimizer
PS: Another nice way is https://github.com/catilac/plistwatch, BTW
#dev #plist #bash -
CW: computing / OS history, TIL
Huh, I think I knew in the recesses of my mind that macOS (né Mac OS X) is basically descendant from NeXTSTEP, the operating system NeXT used for its computers – NeXT being the company Steve Jobs founded when he left Apple in the late 80s / early 90s, and which was in many ways "resorbed" into Apple upon Jobs' return to Apple in 1997. (NeXTSTEP is itself a sort of BSD derivative.)
What I did not know until today is that we have NeXTSTEP to thank for the weird sort-of-like-JSON-but-not-quite-JSON "property list" file format, which app preferences are stored in on macOS to this fucking day 🤯
Holy Choices-Locked-In-For-Bizarre-Reasons, Batman!!
#ComputingHistory #OSes #OperatingSystems #OSHistory #HistoryOfComputing #Apple #NeXT #NeXTSTEP #BSD #Darwin #MachKernel #plist
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CW: computing / OS history, TIL
Huh, I think I knew in the recesses of my mind that macOS (né Mac OS X) is basically descendant from NeXTSTEP, the operating system NeXT used for its computers – NeXT being the company Steve Jobs founded when he left Apple in the late 80s / early 90s, and which was in many ways "resorbed" into Apple upon Jobs' return to Apple in 1997. (NeXTSTEP is itself a sort of BSD derivative.)
What I did not know until today is that we have NeXTSTEP to thank for the weird sort-of-like-JSON-but-not-quite-JSON "property list" file format, which app preferences are stored in on macOS to this fucking day 🤯
Holy Choices-Locked-In-For-Bizarre-Reasons, Batman!!
#ComputingHistory #OSes #OperatingSystems #OSHistory #HistoryOfComputing #Apple #NeXT #NeXTSTEP #BSD #Darwin #MachKernel #plist