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DCIntrospect
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domesticcatsoftware / DCIntrospect

DCIntrospect

Small library of visual debugging tools for iOS.

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What it is

Small library of visual debugging tools for iOS.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-08-30 16:41:41 UTC to 2013-07-13 11:52:01 UTC.

01232012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 20122012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 commentsJan 20132013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 2013

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Aug 20122012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20122012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20122012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20122012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20122012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC312
Feb 20132013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20132013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 20132013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20132013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20132013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jul 20132013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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koko775·Apr 17, 2013
Hey, long-time iOS dev here. Interface Builder is emphatically a beginner's friend. For "major league" stuff it is wholeheartedly the enemy. Avoid Storyboards like the plague. It's merge nightmare city when in teams, and a big enough app will suffer under the complexity required. It's simply not worth the pain. With DCIntrospect (https://github.com/domesticcatsoftware/DCIntrospect), positioning in code actually becomes easier than nibs. You can print out the view properties, tweak positioning, then once it looks right you can get the values you need to tweak your code. Additionally, getting to know UIAppearance and adding categories to UIColor and UIFont that return your app's standard fonts let you create a styleable application with consistent typography and color palette.
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jkubicek·Jan 16, 2013
I would highly recommend downloading and installing DCIntrospect[0]. It's designed to let you tweak layout in the simulator, but what it's really useful for is probing the UI in large, complex apps. Need to tweak the font size on a specific element, but you have no idea what that view class is? Enable DCIntrospect, click on the element, log its class name and properties. This has saved me, literally, hundreds of hours of debugging time over the years. [0] https://github.com/domesticcatsoftware/DCIntrospect
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