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orta/You-Can-Do-It
Is learning a new language getting you down? Worry not, this Xcode plugin will keep you motivated.
A 2016 Xcode plugin that plays Shia LaBeouf motivational clips after three consecutive build failures. It's a joke project from orta, not a serious tool. The target audience is anyone who finds compiler errors demoralizing and has a sense of humor about it.
The concept is executed cleanly — hooking into Xcode's build failure count and triggering a fading NSWindow overlay is a reasonable approach for a plugin. It ships multiple video variants so you don't see the same clip repeatedly. Orta is a credible iOS/macOS open source contributor, so the code quality is likely fine for what it is.
Xcode's plugin system changed dramatically with Xcode 8 in 2016 — unsigned plugins were blocked, and this repo hasn't been touched since September 2016, so it almost certainly doesn't work on any modern Xcode. Alcatraz, the package manager it recommends for installation, is also effectively dead. There's no way to actually install this today without significant reverse-engineering. This is an artifact, not a usable tool.