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Month: December 2018

macOS coding beyond the books: basic menu control

Simple: when running on older macOS, remove some items from the app menu. The solution is also straightforward, just very hard to locate.

December 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

Ossian: The painting of a literary hoax?

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Between 1778 and 1815, many narrative painters painted stories from Ossian, based on myths claimed to have been discovered and collected by a Scottish poet, which could well be a hoax. Does it matter?

December 3, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Last big batch of notarized apps for Mojave

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Notarized versions of DeepTools for working with versions, Rosettavert for converting text encodings, SearchKey and SearchKeyLite for editing extended attributes for Spotlight searches.

December 3, 2018 Macs, Technology

Scrub bug fixed, and notarized for Mojave

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Scrub can now clean individual files properly, stripping extended attributes, saved versions, resetting their creation date, and more.

December 3, 2018 Macs, Technology

Panics, Pegasus, and Recovery

I was replying to a tweet when the display suddenly went black. Was my iMac Pro dead, or just auto-rebooting after a kernel panic, and why?

December 3, 2018 Macs, Technology

Painting and the Unconscious: Carl Gustav Carus 2

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In which he establishes separate style and themes from Friedrich, paints some wonderful landscapes in Italy, and explores the nocturne.

December 2, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Where will all those coders go?

Swift Playgrounds are attracting a lot of young people to learn to code. But what do they do when they’re ready to write ‘proper’ apps? Where are Apple’s guides and example code?

December 2, 2018 Macs, Technology

Painting and the Unconscious: Carl Gustav Carus 1

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What is a professor of obstetrics doing learning to paint with Caspar David Friedrich? Also an important precursor to Darwin, and a friend of Goethe – and wonderful paintings as well.

December 1, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Second release candidate of DelightEd

Now lets you set your own default font and size applied to all new windows, and offers better reduced contrast appearance in both Dark and Light modes.

December 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

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