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Reverse Engineering on macOS

Some notes, tools, and techniques for reverse engineering macOS binaries.

Firefox pretty sliding sidebar / pinned / active tab theme for Tree Style Tab

Features

Auto-sliding draw for TST
Leaves 'pinned' and 'active' tabs visible in standard browser chrome
Leaves 'last-active' tabs visible for 3 minutes after becoming inactive
Where an active tab is pinned, leaves 'last-active' tab (x1) visible for 1hr

Download Wistia videos

right-click on the playing video, select Copy link
find Wistia video ID in the copied link e.g. wvideo=tra6gsm6rl
- alternative: look for e.g. hashedId=tra6gsm6rl in the page source
load http://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/ + video ID in your browser
look for "type":"original" in the page source and copy the URL from the next line e.g. "url":"http://embed.wistia.com/deliveries/129720d1762175bcd8e06dcab926ec76ad38ff00.bin"

alternative: look for "type":"hd_mp4_video"

Unfortunately, homebrew does not support --with-universal-ctags option for global (on the state of April 2018) The reason is that universal-ctags is not officially released yet.

Install universal ctags

Run brew install --HEAD universal-ctags/universal-ctags/universal-ctags (See https://github.com/universal-ctags/homebrew-universal-ctags repo)

If you're on macOS, you might have an old ctags installed with command line tools for XCode. To fix this, simply run alias ctags="`brew --prefix`/bin/ctags"

With this wiki2html.sh bash script and pandoc program, you can convert markdown to html.

Usage: In the vim list section of the .vimrcfile, include options:

let g:vimwiki_list = [{'path': ‘your_wiki_place',
  \ 'path_html': ‘wiki_html_location’,
  \ 'syntax': 'markdown',
 \ 'ext': '.md',

	(function (turntable) {
	const modal = `
	<div class='playlistFeatures'>
	<p>Deep-Cut to Queup exporter</p>
	<button type="button" class='exportPlaylist'>Export Playlist: <span id="exporting-playlist"></span></button>
	<hr />
	<p>Experimental: Export all playlists at once</p>
	<p>Warning: this can be slow and will lock up the UI while processing, do not do this if you are DJ-ing</p>
	<button type="button" class='exportPlaylistAll'>Export All Playlists</button>
	<div id="pluginTT-loading">

	# from https://codeburst.io/how-i-hacked-my-terminal-so-a-happy-whale-would-spout-software-quotes-at-me-6791e6c74fc6

	%
	Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.
	The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web, Bo Leuf, Ward
	Cunningham
	%
	Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.
	Austin Freeman
	%

	#!/bin/bash
	# Installs the XCode command line tools if you don't have them
	xcode-select --install
	# Installs brew if you don't have it
	/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
	# Makes your account the owner of /usr/local, which is preferred on single user Macs
	sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local
	# Installs all the dependencies for building libtorrent and rtorrent
	brew install automake libtool boost curl lzlib libsigc++ openssl pkg-config xmlrpc-c
	# Uninstall libtorrent-rasterbar if you already have it

	None of the steps that were here are required any more. The kernel has had support for this
	(now otherwise end of support) device since 2020thanks to the following commit:
	https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/470757f5b3a46bd85741bb0d8c1fd3f21048a2af

	If you want, you can still see the old notes if you view the gist history,
	but please do not act on them, they are outdated and will break the functioning system.