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Month: March 2023

How connecting your SSD to a Thunderbolt hub can slow it to a crawl

In the worst case, an expensive TB3 SSD with a regular write speed of 2.2 GB/s could only write at 400 MB/s when connected via a hub and contending with faster SSDs.

March 20, 2023 Macs, Technology

A Weekend in the Eternal City: Paintings of the Tiber and Villa Borghese

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In Rome, in search of the temple of Aesculapius, and in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, with Corot, Velázquez, Valenciennes, and others.

March 19, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Providence and provenance

Is provenance tracking intended to make app launch times shorter despite new Gatekeeper checks, or is it trying to make it harder to cheat?

March 19, 2023 Macs, Technology

A Weekend in the Eternal City: Paintings of the Palatine and Capitoline

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A visit to Rome, in the paintings of Valenciennes, Turner, Paul Bril, Gérôme, and others, and a little history of landscape painting.

March 18, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 195

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Don’t let your […]

March 18, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

loginwindow does more than log you in

Not only is loginwindow there in its full glory at the start of the user phase of startup, but it’s there until the bitter end.

March 18, 2023 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 44 What’s wrong in that painting? 2

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More paintings with strange incongruities, this time from Arnold Böcklin’s Sirens to the Surrealism of Paul Nash.

March 17, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Log Literacy: Hunting bugs with Ulbow’s Chart View

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I was having problems in the Twitter app, with it stealing 100% CPU and upsetting WindowServer. Here’s how I discovered what the problem was.

March 17, 2023 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator

Apple has just released an update to XProtect Remediator security software for Macs running Catalina or later, bringing […]

March 16, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 43 What’s wrong in that painting? 1

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A collection of paintings with strange incongruities that can make them impossible to read, from Masaccio to Gérôme.

March 16, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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