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Author: hoakley

Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Girodet

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A brilliant pupil of David who won the Prix de Rome, he survived the Revolution unscathed, and even won a battle with one of his models when she refused to pay him.

December 9, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 285

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 285. Here are my solutions to them. 1: This […]

December 9, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

How Thunderbolt 5 can be faster or not

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What TB5 actually provides in its Symmetric and Asymmetric modes, why those are most important to connect Mac to dock or hub, and how that can go wrong.

December 9, 2024 Macs, Technology

Paintings of the Coast of California 2

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From Anna Hills’ unspoilt coast near Laguna Beach in 1915, to Paul Dougherty’s California Cliffs of 1935, with others by Guy Rose, Granville Redmond, and more.

December 8, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Tuning for performance

Tuning your Mac for performance can be a good investment of time. Beware of general benchmarks, though, and develop your own objective measurements. Then identify the rate-limiting step methodically, so you can address that.

December 8, 2024 Macs, Technology

Paintings of the Coast of California 1

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From Albert Bierstadt’s visit to the Farallon Islands in 1872, to George Bellows in 1917, with paintings from Mannheim, Granville Redmond and others in between.

December 7, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 285

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

December 7, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of Mac servers

A/UX was released for the Mac II in 1988, then in 1993 Apple changed course with a series of servers, before Mac OS X Server in 1999 and its first Xserves in 2002.

December 7, 2024 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Félix Vallotton’s disturbing domestics

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In each of his interiors from the late 1870s to the early 20th century, there’s something not quite right, starting with a painting hanging at an odd angle.

December 6, 2024 General, Life, Painting

The Finder column width bug is over 11 years old

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I first recall being caught by it in Mavericks 11 years ago. It has even changed the way I use Finder windows. It survived Covid and Apple silicon, and lives on in macOS Sequoia.

December 6, 2024 Macs, Technology

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