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Author: hoakley

Permissions in the Finder and command line

Setting permissions in Terminal is simple. This basic introduction explains how to understand the notation used, and save yourself time fiddling in the Finder.

March 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Sappho and the perpetuation of legend

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Ovid’s fictional letter made it clear how the legend of Phaon was absurd. Yet it has been painted repeatedly ever since.

March 16, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Accessing Finder aliases in your own code: a walk through alisma’s source

Creating and resolving Finder aliases is straightforward in Swift: here’s how alisma does it.

March 16, 2018 Macs, Technology

Pigment: Arsenic, Orpiment and Realgar

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Arsenic sulphides, they were both used in alchemy, and used commonly in paintings from Ancient Egypt through to the late 29th century. Tintoretto loved them.

March 15, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Compound emoji can confuse

If you’re not sure what a ZWJ is, then now’s the time to catch up. How Unicode emoji have made it impossible to count characters.

March 15, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Strikes, Politics, and Zola’s ‘Germinal’: Paintings of Alfred Roll

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Miners on strike in the Nord-Pas de Calais coalfield in 1880, a painting which may well have inspired Γ‰mile Zola to write his most popular novel, ‘Germinal’.

March 14, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Accessing Finder aliases from the command line: alisma

Create a Finder alias from the command line, and resolve them to full paths – a new free command tool, with source.

March 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has also pushed an update to MRT (updated)

Following yesterday’s pushed update to XProtect, Apple has overnight pushed an update to its malware removal tool MRT, […]

March 14, 2018 Macs, Technology

Apple has just pushed an update to XProtect’s security data

Apple has just pushed an update to the configuration data for its XProtect tool, which detects malware on […]

March 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Organ Rehearsal: The paintings, friends, and collection of Henry Lerolle

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His masterpiece is a prime example of Naturalism, but he was a close friend of Degas and Renoir, and a major patron and collector of Impressionism.

March 13, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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