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Thomas Tempelmann
Coder by passion.
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Been programming since the early 80s. Started with BASIC, Pascal and assembler on 8 bit computers, later C, Modula-2, Java, C++, Xojo.

Long-time Mac user and developer.

I'm experienced in all kinds of low level computing areas, including hardware access, performance optimization, file systems, disk drives, OS kernels and much more.

I write tools (e.g. data conversion, file analysis) for a living.

I am good at understanding and optimizing processes.

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How to find all serial devices (ttyS, ttyUSB, ..) on Linux without opening them?
Mar 27, 2010
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How to display a stack trace when an exception is thrown
Nov 12, 2014
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NSArray of weak references (__unsafe_unretained) to objects under ARC
Nov 12, 2012
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How can I find out what version of Log4J I am using?
Dec 12, 2021
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How to unit test asynchronous APIs?
Apr 11, 2010
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Reverse engineering war stories
Dec 17, 2008
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Reverse engineering war stories
Dec 17, 2008
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How do I add values to nested arrays or dicts using the "defaults write" command?
Apr 23, 2014
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Get latitude/longitude from address
Jun 9, 2010
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Extract URL's directory from path, without file name such as "index.html"
Jun 16, 2015

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How can I remove Applications from Privacy & Security?
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VMWare tools install failure. Unable to find "depmod" progam
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Where is the log file generated by a verbose start-up in OS X Lion?
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I want to power off multiple Macs everyday at 23:30 (11:30 pm)?
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How do I ensure good color reproduction when photographing paintings with a mid-level DSLR?