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Spotlight’s blind spot: JSON documents

One JSON text file consistently found a search term that another contained, but could never find. How do some documents get fully indexed, but others don’t, and can’t be searched?

July 15, 2026 Macs, Technology

Portraits of trees: Thomas Gainsborough

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Co-founder of the British school of landscape painting, he specialised in trees and woodland, and was greatly admired by John Constable. A selection of some of his finest paintings.

July 14, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Mints 1.22 now provides Locale information

This adds extensive information about the current locale and language settings, and is fully compatible with macOS 27.

July 14, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Hero or hooligan: Achilles’ final victory

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Achilles returns in vengeance, his Myrmidons slaughtering many of the Trojans. He then kills Hector, the lead warrior of the Trojans, and finally succumbs to Paris’s arrow.

July 13, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 368

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 368. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Its actions […]

July 13, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

How does Spotlight rank search results?

Spotlight’s search window provides ‘AsYouTypeTopHit’ ranked search, including a measure of recency, 3 opaque scores, related search, and hits across multiple search domains. Here’s how it does that.

July 13, 2026 Macs, Technology

Ohioan woman painter in Paris: Elizabeth Nourse, 2

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Paintings of real, often poor, people in the Netherlands, the extreme west cost of Brittany, and foothills of the mountains. She also remained in Paris to help there during the First World War.

July 12, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Spotlight’s eternal quest

From the outset, Spotlight has included websites and other items in ranked search, and local files listed exhaustively using filters. As we work with ever more data, ranking is becoming more important in our search methods.

July 12, 2026 Macs, Technology

Ohioan woman painter in Paris: Elizabeth Nourse, 1

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After training and a promising start to her career in Cincinnati, she moved to Paris, where she painted social realist portraits through northern Europe.

July 11, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 368

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Its actions […]

July 11, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

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