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In Memoriam Sofonisba Anguissola, who died 400 years ago

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Completed her training in about 1553, met Michelangelo in Rome in 1554, where she became an established portraitist, invited to the court of King Philip II of Spain, advised the young van Dyck, and died in her early 90s.

November 16, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Five Tahoe bugs

Normally, the x.1 update fixes many of the bugs from the first release. But in Tahoe, a crop of fresh bugs have been included. Here are some of them, and how they have arisen.

November 16, 2025 Macs, Technology

Four great women painters after Sofonisba Anguissola

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Four women painters who achieved greatness against the odds, between 1580 and 1665: Lavinia Fontana, Clara Peeters, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Elisabetta Sirani.

November 15, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 334

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

November 15, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: .DS_Store files

They’re invisible in the Finder, even when it’s showing hidden files. They’re present in many of the folders in your Home folder. And they can do bad things like break your backups.

November 15, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 235 Fish B

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Tuna fishing in Spain, goldfish sold as pets or in a Berlin flat, underwater with a diver, and in many still lifes, including those of William Merritt Chase, the master of fish.

November 14, 2025 General, Life, Painting

How the Clock hoards timers until it breaks

If you use Timers in the Clock app a lot, after a while the app may stop working and show a blank view. This is the result of a service hoarding old timers to its property list.

November 14, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading Visual Art: 234 Fish A

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Venus born surrounded by colourful fish, in the element water, in a feeding frenzy by Turner’s Slave Ship, with mermaids, and brought ashore ready to eat.

November 13, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Does that SSD Trim, and why is it important?

Trim enables an SSD to erase pages of unused memory so they’re ready for reuse. It saves time, and greatly improves write performance. How to the best out of Trim.

November 13, 2025 Macs, Technology

The Dutch Golden Age: Chiaroscuro in Utrecht

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How Dutch painters studying in Italy came to be influenced by Caravaggio, and took his style back to Utrecht, where they became known as Utrecht Caravaggists.

November 12, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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