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Reading Visual Art: 214 Problem pictures B

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By the end of the 19th century, problem pictures were popular features in the press. Most successful of British painters was John Collier, but they soon died out in the early 20th century.

May 28, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Save space on the internal SSD by adding another volume

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If you’ve got large files like Virtual Machines or media libraries on the Data volume on your Mac’s internal SSD, use this method to keep the size of its snapshots smaller.

May 28, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 213 Problem pictures A

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In the 19th century, literary stories changed with the coming of detective and mystery novels. In the latter half of the century, painters gained fame in problem pictures.

May 27, 2025 General, Life, Painting

LogUI build 52 handles time zones and microseconds better

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By default, the log show command and Ulbow display log entries using the time zone set when they were written to the log. Bringing consistency in a new build of LogUI.

May 27, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Changing Paintings: 72 Plague and Aesculapius

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A strange dream offers hope when plague strikes the citizens of Rome in 293 BCE. They bring a snake back, the god Aesculapius, who saves the city and has a temple on Tiber Island.

May 26, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 309

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 309. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Glazed […]

May 26, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Never work with children, animals or time: nailing the nanosecond

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Getting the date and time stamp of log entries to use rounded microseconds, and how to ensure a log extract uses the current time zone throughout.

May 26, 2025 Macs, Technology

Spring meadows 2

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Flax for linseed oil, walnut too, Parsifal’s romp with Flowermaidens, a Spring Fairytale from Hans Thoma, the Malibu coast, and one of the last Divisionist landscapes.

May 25, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Ever alert

The aspect ratio of my iPhone’s display is under half, and it’s pressed to display more than 5 words in each line of text. Yet Macs now use similar vertical alerts as those in iOS.

May 25, 2025 Macs, Technology

Spring meadows 1

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From Botticelli’s Primavera to floral meadows of the Spring, with Millais, Millet, Böcklin, Walter Crane, Dennis Miller Bunker, and an unknown Italian Impressionist.

May 24, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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