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Author: hoakley

Last Week on My Mac: Things that go bump in the night

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?

September 21, 2025 Macs, Technology

How Prussian soldiers changed art history: Frédéric Bazille’s early paintings

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The early career and success at the Salon of the figurative Impressionist whose figures in a landscape were promising so much.

September 20, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 326

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

September 20, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of threads and threading

From Switcher and MultiFinder, with Process Manager and Thread Manager in Classic Mac OS, to Pthreads, NSThreads, and Grand Central Dispatch.

September 20, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 227 Chicken

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In Gérôme’s early success The Cock Fight, Rembrandt’s Night Watch, Murillo’s Adoration of the Shepherds, and many farmyard paintings.

September 19, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Silently updated security data files in Tahoe

XProtect, XProtect Remediator, XProtect Behaviour Service, kernel extension excludes, incompatible apps, and some historical remnants, including a database that’s downloaded then vanishes.

September 19, 2025 Macs, Technology

Christian Krohg painting social reality 1: to 1883

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To commemorate the centenary of his death. Early work with the Nordic Impressionists in Skagen, a sick girl that influenced Munch, sailors and self-portraits.

September 18, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Customising folders in Tahoe

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How custom folders are easy to set up and to use. How they work in iCloud Drive, and can even be seen on your iPhone. And what makes them work.

September 18, 2025 Macs, Technology

macOS 26.0 Tahoe build 25A354 is incompatible with Mac Studio M3 Ultra

If you have a Mac Studio M3 Ultra and want to upgrade it to run macOS 26.0 Tahoe, […]

September 17, 2025 Macs, Technology

The Dutch Golden Age: Cloudscapes

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How the first cloudscapes were painted of the flat lands of the Dutch Republic, and their supports were turned to devote even more space for the sky.

September 17, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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