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Author: hoakley

Sea of Mists: Influenced, Arnold Böcklin 1

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Swiss painter who trained in Düsseldorf then became influenced by paintings of the German Romantics. Part 1 of 2.

July 3, 2024 General, Life, Painting

How to hide files and folders

How to prefix a file or folder name with a . to hide it, how to use chflags, and how they differ. And what are all those .DS_Store and ._ files doing?

July 3, 2024 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 140 Goose

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The origin of Helen, perhaps, ready to be served to Mercury and Jupiter, caged in Rome’s Capitol, or cared for young girls.

July 2, 2024 General, Life, Painting

How to discover what Apple silicon CPU cores are doing

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How could you study how Apple silicon CPU cores are used to run code? Comparisons between Activity Monitor, Xcode Instruments, and powermetrics.

July 2, 2024 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 26 Latona and the Lycian peasants

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Goddess Latona gives birth to twins Apollo and Diana, but local peasants refuse to let her drink from their lake, so they’re turned into frogs.

July 1, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 262

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 262. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Roll […]

July 1, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Should you try the public beta-release of Sequoia?

What you need, what the risks are, and how to ensure you don’t have problems if things go wrong. Includes coverage of VMs and more.

July 1, 2024 Macs, Technology

Painting the gardener 2 1800-1941

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Paintings of gardeners by Bazille, Sisley, Caillebotte, Pissarro, Grant Wood and others.

June 30, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Performance by design

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Swift 6 claims built-in support for writing asynchronous and parallel code. But these are very different, and that for multithreading appears elusive.

June 30, 2024 Macs, Technology

Painting the gardener 1 to 1700

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Before 1700, the myth of Vertumnus and Pomona was popular, as was Mary Magdalene’s mistaking of the resurrected Christ as a gardener.

June 29, 2024 General, Life, Painting

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