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Author: hoakley

The bicentenary of James Collinson, least-known Pre-Raphaelite painter

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One of the four painters in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who has almost vanished. Works on emigration, literacy and a couple of open narratives.

May 9, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What is Quality of Service, and how does it matter?

How apps and processes set their priority, and on Apple silicon that determines which type of core they can be run on. What you can do to alter that.

May 9, 2025 Macs, Technology

Urban Revolutionaries: 13 Holidays

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No public holidays, and no paid leave either. Despite that, mill workers travelled by train to the seaside in Wakes Weeks.

May 8, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reducing noise by searching LogUI’s views

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Open multiple windows in LogUI, set them up to obtain the same log extract, then apply different searches to each. A powerful way to read long and complex log extracts.

May 8, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 208 Friezes B

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More painted friezes from Gustav Klimt, Ferdinand Hodler, Evelyn De Morgan, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and others.

May 7, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Choosing an Apple silicon Mac

Why is an M2 Pro or Max preferable to an M1 Pro or Max? Is 8 GB of memory sufficient? Can I extend the internal SSD with an external drive? Can I buy and upgrade?

May 7, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 207 Friezes A

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Paintings mimicking an architectural frieze, with figures flattened into a plane parallel to the picture plane. Used deliberately by Ferdinand Hodler and others.

May 6, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Search your log extracts with LogUI build 42

Search your log extract instantly to show only entries containing the chosen text in their message, process name, sender name, or subsystem.

May 6, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Changing Paintings: 69 Vertumnus and Pomona

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The god of the seasons and gardens falls in love with a devoted gardener, but can’t woo her successfully when posing as someone else.

May 5, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 306

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 306. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Where […]

May 5, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

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