A unique systematic and accessible account of clouds, their naming and classification, illustrated not with photos but an excellent selection of paintings.
Month: July 2025
Computing SHA-256 digests is a common and demanding task, particularly in security. A late Intel Mac is shown to be much slower at doing that than M-series Macs, and this considers why that might be.
Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]
Overview and full contents of all 74 articles in this series, from creation out of chaos and the flood, to the death of Julius Caesar and Emperor Augustus.
Open Activity Monitor. If kernel_task is the top of the CPU % list and hogging its cores, what should you do? Can Energy Modes help?
A precocious artist whose Naturalist paintings showed the harsh realities of rural poverty and hard labour. A friend of Zola, he also painted leading figures in science.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 317. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Total […]
Detailed exploration of how RunningBoard manages the service updating data for a widget, and how that update is scheduled and run by chronod.
More views of rolling chalk hills in the south-east of England, here from Edward Stott, Spencer Gore, Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious, and others.
How can you assure yourself that important files retain their data intact? Here’s a simple strategy for doing that, which works better on a file system that doesn’t check integrity.
The Eclectic Light Company 