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Month: November 2016

Brief Candles: Charles Laval was not Paul Gauguin

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First shown in the Salon at the age of only 18, Vincent van Gogh spotted his talent. Not only was it cut short, but his paintings are vanishing.

November 30, 2016 General, Painting

Losing control of your blog: changes to WordPress.com administration

On Monday, bloggers on WordPress.com sites got a surprise: the old WP Admin interface had vanished. Almost.

November 30, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Into the Light: Odilon Redon’s unique eye, 1 – to 1894

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His early career, drawing extraordinary ‘noirs’ in charcoal, making lithographs, and starting to paint in oils.

November 29, 2016 General, Painting

Building a better console replacement: an exercise in Xcode 1

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How easy is it to build a real ‘scripted’-type app in Xcode? Here I start to re-implement an AppleScript app using Swift.

November 29, 2016 Macs, Technology

Tyger’s eye: the paintings of William Blake, 6 – Tempera paintings, 1799-1800

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Fifty paintings of scenes from the Bible: they could easily have been so bland. Not for Blake, though, whose genius shines through.

November 28, 2016 General, Painting

Sierra’s Bluetooth drivers are still fairly broken

Not back to the Bluetooth purgatory of El Capitan, but still some worrying moments when your trackpad goes missing.

November 28, 2016 Macs, Technology

John Singer Sargent’s ‘Gassed’: more allusion than fact?

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There’s a lot more to this painting than first meets the eye: a bit of Brueghel, some Leighton, and even some Signorelli.

November 27, 2016 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on my Mac: the devil in the detail

Time to pause for breath, I think, for macOS and Xcode. Apple needs to bring the docs up to date, and attend to the detail.

November 27, 2016 Macs, Technology

Tyger’s eye: the paintings of William Blake, 5 – The large prints, 1795

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A dozen major works, created as monoprints and then hand-painted to finish, show some of Blake’s most powerful and unique images.

November 26, 2016 General, Painting

Xcode Swift playgrounds 4: running scripts without Xcode

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There’s no point trying to script in Swift if you can’t deploy it to a user’s Mac. Here are two solutions available now.

November 26, 2016 Macs, Technology

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