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Month: January 2021

How Rosetta complicates call chains on M1 Macs

Two basic rules: M1 Macs run Arm-native code when it’s available, but won’t mix ARM-native and Intel code in the same process. Here are the details.

January 27, 2021 Macs, Technology

A History of Rome in Paintings: 24 The Senate

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Rome’s central and most enduring institution, it was the setting for the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE. What did it really look like though?

January 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

When you don’t have permission to run an app on an M1 Mac

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You try to open an app on your M1 Mac, only to see an alert telling your that you don’t have permission to open it. Only that isn’t the reason.

January 26, 2021 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to XProtect

Apple has just pushed an update to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]

January 25, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

Goddess of the Week: Bellona (Enyo), War

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Little-known now, she was painted by Rubens (twice), Rembrandt (possibly), Lagrenée, and Jacek Malczewski.

January 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 83

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 83. Here are my solutions to them. 1: In […]

January 25, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Publishing code in WordPress articles

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Customising WordPress to lay out source code turned into HTML by Codye.

January 25, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Late Great Masters: 2 Courbet, Cézanne, Hodler, Signac

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Courbet’s late coastal views and waves, CĂ©zanne’s Post-Impressionism and radical watercolours, Hodler’s sublime view over Lake Geneva, and Signac’s mixed media.

January 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Obsolescent preferences

UserDefaults and cfprefsd manage the preference system, an amorphous database spread across hundreds of files which can only be controlled in Terminal. It’s time for a change.

January 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

Late Great Masters: 1 Rembrandt and Turner

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They painted many of their finest works late in their careers: Rembrandt became more painterly and gestural, using surface texture of paint, and Turner anticipated much of Impressionism.

January 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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