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Month: May 2020

The Sight of Music: Concerts in paintings 2

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Children playing, amateurs rehearsing, music outdoors, and Schubert himself at the piano: paintings by Manet, Degas, Thomas Eakins, Édouard Vuillard and others.

May 24, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Nobbled and hobbled by notarization

Who’s been ghost notarizing other people’s apps, and is Catalina wasting time to check whether shell scripts are notarized?

May 24, 2020 Uncategorized

The Sight of Music: Concerts in paintings 1

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If composers and performers can evoke visual images in music, why can’t painters return the complement? Lavinia Fontana, Vermeer, Menzel, Corot and others try.

May 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 48

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re still allowed to do. 1: Born in […]

May 23, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Test results aren’t necessarily as meaningful as you think

So your swab test is negative. That could mean that it was just a false negative, or you might not have the infection at all. How can you tell the chances?

May 23, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Knight of Symbols: paintings of Jacek Malczewski 2

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His portraits aren’t simple likenesses, but personal narratives which can be difficult to read now because loss of their context.

May 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

How come someone notarized my app?

When you open a four year-old app and discover that someone notarized it in August last year. What’s behind that surprise?

May 22, 2020 Macs, Technology

Knight of Symbols: paintings of Jacek Malczewski 1

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Brilliant paintings of Poles exiled to Siberia, Thanatos as a woman, Medusa, and the story of Tobias and the angel.

May 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Bookmarks, a type of Alias: their access and use

They’re Base-64 encoded data which is related to the Finder Alias. Here’s how to resolve them in an app, at the command line, and in code.

May 21, 2020 Macs, Technology

The Prime Minister’s Music Room, Perseus and Andromeda

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The story behind the commissioning of Edward Burne-Jones to paint his monumental series telling the story of Perseus and Andromeda.

May 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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