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Month: July 2024

Managing Classic Mac OS resources in ResEdit

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Classic Mac OS stored a great deal of structured data in the resource forks of its files. Those were edited using ResEdit, an essential tool for every advanced user.

July 20, 2024 Macs, Technology

A to Z of Landscapes: Wind

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In seascapes with waves, and on land with the foliage of trees. Paintings by Turner, Courbet, Gainsborough, Monet, Winslow Homer and more.

July 19, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Writing a third-generation log browser using SwiftUI: 3 Lost memory

Equipping LogUI with controls to get log extracts from arbitrary periods in the past reveals two shortcomings: high memory use, and failure to release that.

July 19, 2024 Macs, Technology

Sea of Mists: Influenced, Arkhyp Kuindzhi

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Taught in Ivan Aivazovsky’s studio in Crimea and the Imperial Academy in St Petersburg, he painted unusual nocturnes, including the River Dnipro.

July 18, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Securing virtual machines on Apple silicon

How secure and private can you make a macOS VM on Apple silicon? Follow these steps to create your own private Mac within macOS.

July 18, 2024 Macs, Technology

Sequoia VMs can cause kernel panics

If you are beta-testing macOS 15 Sequoia in a lightweight virtual machine on an Apple silicon Mac, beware […]

July 17, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 141 Swan

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The incredible myth of Leda and the swan, the transformation of Phaëthon’s brother Cycnus, King Arthur, Hesiod, Swan Pie and more.

July 17, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Which apps for which macOS, from El Capitan to Sequoia?

A thorough run-down on which versions of my most popular free apps are compatible with which macOS, including Sequoia. From Skint to Vimy.

July 17, 2024 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 28 Philomela’s revenge

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The King of Thrace who raped his sister-in-law, cut out her tongue, and imprisoned her in a remote cabin. Her revenge is brutal and unforgiving.

July 16, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Writing a third-generation log browser using SwiftUI: 2 Displaying log entries

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Displaying log entries using semantic colour seemed most appropriate using AttributedString, but performs very poorly. The solution is a SwiftUI List view.

July 16, 2024 Macs, Technology

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