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Author: hoakley

Are external boot disks a thing of the past?

Before Apple added T2 chips to Intel Macs, external boot disks were valuable for many users. How has that fared since?

April 13, 2021 Macs, Technology

In Memoriam William Strang: Painter of the times

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After considerable success with prints, he turned to painting highly contemporary works. Despite critical success, he’s now been forgotten.

April 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 94

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 94. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]

April 12, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Should you back up to APFS or HFS+?

A summary of the known benefits and current limitations of Time Machine backups to APFS, with links to more detailed accounts.

April 12, 2021 Macs, Technology

Barefoot painting 2

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Bare feet as a sign of rural poverty, among irregular peasant volunteer soldiers, and striking miners. But what about the kissing of feet?

April 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Big Sur’s broken clock

When a “fixed” formatting string proves anything but fixed, then breaks without warning or even mention in a release note.

April 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

Barefoot painting 1

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Unlike the face and hands, feet are usually covered in paintings. There are plenty of exceptions, but even the naked Phryné wore a pair of sandals.

April 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 94

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: The emergency […]

April 10, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainers: Sparse things

Sparse bundles, sparse files, and sparse matrices explained in a nutshell, and how a sparse bundle could have a band which is a sparse file containing a sparse matrix.

April 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

Celebrating the bicentenary of Ford Madox Brown: 1 An uncertain start

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After training in Belgium, he painted a series of narrative works, then a finely detailed landscape of a view over London. Success eluded him.

April 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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