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Month: April 2018

Inside iCloud Drive: Downloading

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When does macOS decide to download new and changed items in iCloud Drive? This steps through the process from decision to completion.

April 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Naturalism of Gustave Caillebotte 1

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A prolific artist over a decade, his paintings remain as enigmatic today as they were then. Was he an Impressionist, or one of the major Naturalists? Works from the 1870s.

April 3, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Mixing Terminal with GUI apps

Using files and the macOS clipboard to move content between commands in Terminal and GUI apps.

April 3, 2018 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 82 – The death of Numa, and a nymph turned into a spring

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Paintings by Poussin and Claude give different accounts of the meeting and separation by death of King Numa and the nymph Egeria. Did she dictate to him the laws of Rome?

April 2, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Inside iCloud Drive: Pushed updates, that syncing feeling

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How does macOS learn of changes which have taken place in iCloud Drive, such as the uploading of files from another system? Here the process is taken apart, and points of failure highlighted.

April 2, 2018 Macs, Technology

Post-Impressionist Paintings of Olga Boznańska 2

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Her later paintings are marked by their dissolution of form, as if the brushstrokes of paint are gradually coalescing into the image.

April 1, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Insights through a vulnerability

High Sierra 10.13.4 may have stopped leakage of APFS encryption passphrases, but that is only a small part of an accident chain going back many years.

April 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

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