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Author: hoakley

Pigment: What used to be Naples Yellow

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Lead antimonate yellow was the original Naple Yellow, but had first been used long before in glassware. Paintings by Claude Lorrain, Böcklin, Renoir, and others.

July 6, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Is this the longest-running bug in macOS?

For around 5 years, if not longer, the Finder has suffered from an obvious bug which disrupts the workflow. Will Mojave fix it?

July 6, 2018 Macs, Technology

Too Real: the narrative paintings of Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1

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Vociferous opponent of Impressionism, hugely successful and popular, he taught more than 2,000 pupils. The start of a systematic account of his narrative paintings.

July 5, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Identifying file types: UTIs, filename extensions, and another free app

What to do when you need to use Uniform Type Identifiers, only to discover that Apple’s reference manual hasn’t been updated for nearly 9 years: write an app!

July 5, 2018 Macs, Technology

Berthold Woltze and his problem pictures

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A bloke leans over the back of a seat in a railway carriage, trying to chat up a young woman who is just returning from a funeral. Is this an early Prussian problem picture?

July 4, 2018 General, Life, Painting

When you can’t get macOS to forget

The greatest skill in memory is not the remembering, but knowing what to forget – something that macOS is useless at. Why doesn’t it clear out its old crud?

July 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to Gatekeeper’s data

Apple has just pushed an update to the data used by Gatekeeper, bringing its version number to 146, […]

July 3, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pierre Bonnard: Tea, coffee, and models, 1915-1917

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Marthe starts painting, but Bonnard falls in love and has an affair. More superb paintings, here mainly in northern France.

July 3, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Scrub goes into its first beta: improved privacy for sensitive documents

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Now surveys and warns of items like apps which could become impaired with over-enthusiastic stripping of xattrs, etc. Great in Dark Mode too.

July 3, 2018 Macs, Technology

Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: 4b Camillus

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The story of the Roman general who was made sole ruler of Rome for five terms, and saw the occupying Gauls off twice.

July 2, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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