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A to Z of Landscapes: Quais

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Paintings of the quais of Paris from Bonington in 1819, through Impressionism to the Divisionism of Signac and Maximilien Luce.

June 6, 2024 General, Life, Painting

The biggest change coming isn’t in macOS 15

Swift 6 is the first major version for 5 years, and features structured concurrency that will change software for macOS over the coming years.

June 6, 2024 Macs, Technology

Sea of Mists: Other common themes

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More common themes: mist and mountains, castles and ruins, and the Dresden skyline.

June 5, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Catch-22: Why SilentKnight 2.8 and Skint 1.06 can’t auto-update

Auto-update in SilentKnight 2.7 and 2.8, and in Skint 1.05 and 10.6, is broken. This is because of not one but two Catch-22s.

June 5, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 136 Elephant

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From Hannibal crossing the Alps with his war elephants, through the temptation of St Anthony, to the circus and an imaginary India.

June 4, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Time Machine backing up different file systems

Classic TM backed up HFS+ to HFS+; current TM backs up APFS to APFS. But what if you want to back up a mixture of APFS and HFS+ volumes?

June 4, 2024 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 22 Proserpine’s fate

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Cupid makes Pluto fall in love with Ceres’ young daughter Proserpine. When the king of Hades carries her off with him, there are consequences for the whole world.

June 3, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 258

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 258. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Sneak […]

June 3, 2024 General, Macs, Technology

Why you shouldn’t try cloning your Apple silicon Mac’s startup disk

For 18 years, cloning a boot disk was popular and effective. It was even used as a way of defragmenting free space in housekeeping. Why doesn’t it work with Apple’s new Macs?

June 3, 2024 Macs, Technology

Lovis Corinth and Charlotte Berend: 2 Recovering from disaster

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Thanks to the work and support of his wife, he made an excellent recovery and returned to painting. But this had taken its toll, and he died in 1925.

June 2, 2024 General, Life, Painting

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