Have you ever wished you could browse your logs in a spreadsheet, or analyse them using a statistics package? Now you can.
Category Archive: Macs
Making progress with Consolation version 2: working out how to export useful data from JSON log excerpts. A punch-up in the Swift Playground.
Getting parallel text working using Tinderbox 7’s new Composite notes, to open access to Ovid’s story of myths.
Using preference files comes with remarkably little effort when writing them in Swift and Xcode.
You can now save almost all your control settings as defaults. New windows then open with those settings ready for you. A great improvement.
How to interpret the code numbers written into your Mac’s log to indicate the reason for shutting down, restarting, or going to sleep.
A deep dive into the log to examine what happens when waking from system sleep. And where you can read a cache of old internet connections…
JSON is a popular standard for data obtained from internet sources. How well is it supported by spreadsheets? And two major upgrades: Tinderbox 7 and Dash 4.
This bug disrupts Time Machine backups and all the dozens of activities which macOS manages. It may make Sierra unsuitable for use in servers.
How to import complete log extracts into Excel or Numbers, using R as a conversion platform. It’s a bit convoluted, but it works.
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