Hesiod’s Brush, the paintings of Gustave Moreau: 8 Into the sky

He had 11 paintings shown at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, in 1878, following which he was commissioned to paint over 60 watercolours.

Controlling privacy in macOS Sierra

How to get the best out of the Privacy tab in the Security & Privacy pane, and why Apple’s apps don’t bother to ask.

Tracing Blake’s influence through his friends John Linnell and Samuel Palmer to the likes of Graham Sutherland and Eric Ravilious.

You may think that you type URLs into your browser. In fact they’re IRIs, and the internet still can’t cope with Unicode. Why not?

Blake did not exercise his genius and vision in isolation. Here are some paintings by those who influenced him most.

You paste a link containing Unicode characters such as accents, and it doesn’t work as you expect. Here’s how to fix it.

From the 1870s, Salome became the central figure in the story, and increasingly became the femme fatale: beautiful, sexy, and dangerous to know.

Clarifying different types of web link, making custom badges, and using the Timeline to explore the origin of a new version of a story.

Some paintings which may not show the traditional story from the gospels, but which don’t contradict it.

Getting basic, everyday things like text selection right isn’t as sexy as AI or VR, but it’d make our work and lives easier.