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Which snapshots could you delete?

As Time Machine has changed, first to back up APFS volumes, then to create backups as snapshots, its needs have changed. This makes it complicated to decide which local snapshots you can delete without affecting its backups.

February 2, 2026 Macs, Technology

A Painted Weekend in Amsterdam: 1871-1923

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Views from Monet’s two visits, in 1871 and 1874, and the common people and places seen by George Breitner, to Max Liebermann’s view of the Jewish quarter.

February 1, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Seconds out

The older AppKit API supports seconds in its Date Picker, but they’ve been dropped from its SwiftUI successor. There are many other signs our Macs are moving to less precise time. Is this intentional, to reverse our slavery to time?

February 1, 2026 Macs, Technology

A Painted Weekend in Amsterdam: 1645-1867

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From major fires lighting the night sky, a vegetable market, the elegant houses of the Golden Bend, City Hall with Atlas above, to the most picturesque synagogue in Europe.

January 31, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 345

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

January 31, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: snapshots

Fundamentally simple: a preserved copy of a volume at a moment in time. How its size can only increase with time, how they’re managed, what they’re used for, and the tools for using them.

January 31, 2026 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 242 Apelles

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Greatest master in Ancient Greece, but all his works are lost. Several views of him painting Alexander the Great’s former mistress Campaspe, and an elaborate allegory of Calumny by Botticelli.

January 30, 2026 General, Life, Painting

More malware from Google search

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Follow a sponsored result in Google to a page in Medium that provides a Terminal command that you will live to regret. And what is Marek’s disease?

January 30, 2026 General, Life, Macs, Technology

The Dutch Golden Age: Historical context 1644-1674

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From the end of the Thirty Years’ War, settlement of Cape Colony, the United East India Company as the largest in the world with a private army of 10,000, Vermeer’s Milkmaid, to invasion by France and decline in 1672.

January 29, 2026 General, Life, Painting

How does an Apple silicon Mac tell the time?

Apple silicon Macs may not obtain an external reference time for many seconds after starting up. Do they adjust their local clock over that period, and if so, against what reference?

January 29, 2026 Macs, Technology

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