Painting onto dry plaster using ‘secco’ isn’t durable, so ‘buon fresco’ was devised to apply paint to wet plaster instead. The technique is complex, painstaking, and resulted in the death of some of its exponents.
Author: hoakley
An introduction to the Unified log used on Macs and Apple’s devices. Its goals, how logs are stored and maintained, their content, privacy protection, and tools available to access them.
On a barren, sandy plain, naked spirits suffer under showers of flakes of fire. Blasphemers lie flat on their backs, sodomites keep moving, and usurers crouch with purses strung from their necks.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 326. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Melody […]
Listing for all compatible Intel Macs with T2 chips, and all Apple silicon Macs.
A quick oil sketch portrait of the young Renoir, his Summer Scene on the bank of the River Lez, his studio with a meaningful choice of paintings hanging, then sudden death in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.
At 18:00 on 16 September, XProtect 5315 was released for all Macs. Sequoia systems were unable to update for 24 hours, and Tahoe silently updated when it felt like it. How come?
The early career and success at the Salon of the figurative Impressionist whose figures in a landscape were promising so much.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Melody containing […]
From Switcher and MultiFinder, with Process Manager and Thread Manager in Classic Mac OS, to Pthreads, NSThreads, and Grand Central Dispatch.
The Eclectic Light Company 