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Month: May 2024

How to find what you want in the log

A strategy for diagnosing problems using the log. How to limit the number of entries shown using appropriate periods and predicates, and more.

May 15, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 131 Reed pipes

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Pan pipes, in paintings by Mikhail Vrubel, Poussin, JW Waterhouse, Franz von Stuck, Titian, and others.

May 14, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Lost in Translocation

Gatekeeper may decide to run a new app from a random location, in translocation. The rules for this are explained, and how to ensure that doesn’t affect your apps.

May 14, 2024 Macs, Technology

What has changed in macOS Sonoma 14.5?

A relatively small update, with two new private frameworks named Cosmo and Tabi!

May 13, 2024 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released Sonoma 14.5, and security updates 13.6.7 and 12.7.5

Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Sonoma to version 14.5, and security updates to Ventura […]

May 13, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Changing Paintings: 19 Perseus rescues Andromeda

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First Perseus turns Atlas to stone for his failure to offer him hospitality. He then flies on to rescue the beautiful Andromeda, who’s going to be the next meal for a sea-monster.

May 13, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 255

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 255. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Workshop […]

May 13, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

APFS: Extended attributes revisited

How the resource forks of Classic Mac OS became extended attributes in Mac OS X 10.4, then flourished. How clone files handle xattrs, and which are used by APFS itself.

May 13, 2024 Macs, Technology

Woman in Trouble: Paulus Bor’s mythical portraits

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Ariadne, Mary Magdalene, a woman with a snake wound around her wrist, Medea after she had been abandoned by Jason, and the unusual story of Cydippe.

May 12, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Why SwiftUI?

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Why is SwiftUI so important that the Swift language was changed to make it more feasible to implement? Is it just for ease of multi-platform support? Or is it just greener grass?

May 12, 2024 Macs, Technology

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