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Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 39 Scylla and Minos, and the Minotaur

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An important painting in its social context by Watts, tackling the evils of Victorian Britain, 2 from Moreau, and one of only 3 surviving paintings by a French history painter.

August 21, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

More Fun Scripting with Swift in Xcode: extended attributes

Working with extended attributes in Swift. They’re straightforward using shell commands, but that is not the best way ahead.

August 21, 2017 Macs, Technology, xattr

A Woman’s Work 2: Portrait of a Laundress

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The majority of portraits and genre paintings of women washing clothes are thoroughly demur, without the slightest innuendo.

August 20, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Forks and other system cutlery

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One of the great hidden features in macOS, xattrs are rarely used by anyone outside Apple, largely because they are so poorly supported by functions calls and tools.

August 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

A Woman’s Work 1: Laundry in a Landscape

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Looking at paintings of women doing their laundry in a landscape view in historical context.

August 19, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Extended Attributes: a draft example documentation page

A simple and concise example of a page from the documentation which we, as a community, could readily produce for macOS. Fancy giving us a hand?

August 19, 2017 Macs, Technology

The Nearly-Impressionist Jean-François Raffaëlli

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His involvement in the Impressionist Exhibitions almost broke the movement apart, and brought Degas into direct opposition with Monet. Here are his paintings.

August 18, 2017 General, Painting

Thoughts on documenting macOS: do we have a project?

We have two options: we can carry on watching the decline in docs, and struggle more trying to solve problems, or we can organise and produce our own docs. No one else is going to do it for us. Want to help?

August 18, 2017 Macs, Technology

Coast: Storms, 2 Bierstadt to Bellows

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Rough weather seen on the canvases of Bierstadt, Monet, Winslow Homer, George Bellows, and other fine artists.

August 17, 2017 General, Life, Painting

xattred: a tool for setting the quarantine xattr

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This tool for Sierra now inspects and displays extended attributes, and will write a quarantine xattr to force a full Gatekeeper check on an app, as if downloaded.

August 17, 2017 Macs, Technology

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