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Month: June 2024

Making Apple silicon faster: 1 Threads and tasks

Understanding terms, including process, thread and task. How the assigned Quality of Service, or QoS, is used to determine how threads are allocated to cores.

June 18, 2024 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 24 Arachne’s fate

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How Arachne came to a weaving contest against Minerva, but told the truth about gods and goddess, so was turned into a spider.

June 17, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 260

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 260. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Apple’s […]

June 17, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

How Sequoia changes virtualisation on Apple silicon

Sequoia’s macOS VMs and Apple ID, USB storage and other devices, number of concurrent VMs, nested virtualisation, and how to run Sequoia beta in a VM on Sonoma.

June 17, 2024 Macs, Technology

A painted weekend in Morocco: 1867-1914

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Paintings of Morocco by Marià Fortuny, Théo van Rysselberghe, Enrique Simonet, and Henry Ossawa Tanner.

June 16, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Excitement and despair

It’s over 10 years since Apple stopped providing documentation such as programming guides. Some of the consequences on concurrency, virtualisation, AI and SwiftUI are considered here.

June 16, 2024 Macs, Technology

A painted weekend in Morocco: 1832-65

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Delacroix as a pioneer of Orientalism with his paintings of Morocco, based on his visit in 1832. Then Marià Fortuny, war artist there in 1860.

June 15, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 260

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Apple’s reinvention […]

June 15, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of Mac enclaves and exclaves

T1 and T2 chips in Intel Macs, integral in M-series chips, used in Sequoia’s virtual machines at last, and an essential feature in Private Cloud Compute.

June 15, 2024 Macs, Technology

In Memoriam Emile Claus: Into the light 2

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His Impressionism changed into a dazzling Luminism. He painted a series of famous views of the River Thames when in exile in London.

June 14, 2024 General, Life, Painting

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