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Introducing LogUI: an experimental log browser

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This first experimental version gets log extracts direct, rather than using the log command tool, and has a SwiftUI front end, but requires macOS 14.6 or later.

February 26, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 193 Altars, early

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Classical Greek and Roman altars, a witches’ altar from a sabbath, the altar to Bel or Baal, a mysterious sacred grove, and a Greek mathematician kidnapped and killed by a Christian mob.

February 25, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Speed or security? Speculative execution in Apple silicon

How Apple’s new CPU cores can guess which code to run, and which data to load from memory. How those speculative techniques can be exploited, and should we be worried?

February 25, 2025 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 59 The death of Achilles

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Neptune hates Achilles, so gets Apollo to help Paris mortally wound Achilles with an arrow in the tendon of his ankle. And how that came to be his vulnerable point.

February 24, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 296

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 296. Here are my solutions to them. 1: No […]

February 24, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Gaining access to privacy-protected folders

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The difference between consent and intent, why an app adds itself to Settings, and when you should add it to Full Disk Access.

February 24, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings from Ukraine 2

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Paintings from the end of the 19th century into the 20th, by Pymonenko, Murashko, Malevich, Bohomazov, Boichuk, Ekster and others.

February 23, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: The sinkhole under macOS

Permissions, privacy and security protections can conspire to prevent us from accessing our own files. They aren’t integrated, consistent or documented, and badly need improvement.

February 23, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings from Ukraine 1

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A sketchy history from Soshenko and Shevchenko in the early 19th century, to Kuznetsov and Pokhitonov at the end, with 3 famous expatriates.

February 22, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 296

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: No amateur […]

February 22, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

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