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Author: hoakley

The first and only extended attribute editor: xattred 0.7a1

Can now edit the content of existing xattrs, and create completely new ones, with arbitrary content.

January 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 68 – The death of Memnon and flight of Aeneas

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With Troy ablaze, Aeneas prepares to flee the city. He and his wife persuade Aeneas’ father to be carried on his son’s back.

January 3, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

xattred 0.6a2 sees hidden files and folders, and more

Tweaked to see and open any file or folder, even inside bundles, and to fix a display glitch with binary property lists.

January 3, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

The ‘app’ you can’t trash: how SIP is broken in High Sierra

When you can’t remove an app which you installed just a few minutes ago, you know there’s something wrong. Here’s the solution, and why this is bad security.

January 2, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

Loving Beauty: Gustav Klimt, 1, decorator and painter

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He started as a decorative painter of murals, and in 1897 led the Secession against the artist who had initially inspired him.

January 2, 2018 General, Life, Painting

You can now really edit extended attributes with xattred

Now supports cut, copy and paste of any xattr between files or folders. Also adds quarantine flags, and reveals full content of most xattrs.

January 2, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

Next year in paintings: Tintoretto, Klimt, and more

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In the year ahead, Gustav Klimt, Ferdinand Hodler, Tintoretto, Egon Schiele, and several others: anniversaries which I will celebrate here.

January 1, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Scripting in Swift: Casting, Any, and implicit mutability

When to use as, as!, or as?, how to handle Any, and when you need to use var instead of let even though you don’t change the value.

January 1, 2018 Macs, Technology

The best of this year’s paintings and articles

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A look back at some of my favourite articles on painters and painting, from Moreau and Salome, to Merson’s tame wolf.

December 31, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Last Year on My Mac: Accident-prone

2017 was never going to be easy, and Apple had a lot of accidents over its closing months. It delivered a lot of new products, and with them a lot of new problems.

December 31, 2017 Macs, Technology

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