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Medium and Message: Oil on paper

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Artists who sketched in front of the motif using oil paints to gather image libraries often kept those on paper, rather than wood panel or stretched canvas.

December 9, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Create a bootable external disk for Apple silicon Macs in Tahoe

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Apple silicon Macs were designed to boot almost as securely from external disks as from their internal SSD. That makes macOS installation a little more complicated. Here’s how to do that.

December 9, 2025 Macs, Technology

Painted stories of the Decameron: The pot of basil

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Three brothers discover their unmarried sister’s secret lover. They take him to the country, kill him and bury his body. She exhumes him, and takes his head away to hide in a pot of basil.

December 8, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 337

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 337. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Passing […]

December 8, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Who decides to quarantine files?

By default, quarantine xattrs aren’t attached to new files created by an app. That behaviour is controlled by a setting in their Info.plist, and can be overridden in an Exceptions property list.

December 8, 2025 Macs, Technology

Fog on the Thames 1900-1926

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Some of Claude Monet’s series from 1903-04, Le Sidaner, Γ‰mile Claus, and ending with Lesser Ury from 1926. But there was a more sinister side to the fog and smog.

December 7, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Making better use of security extended attributes

In a typical ~/Documents folder, 14% of all files have a provenance xattr attached to them, that could enable the app that last modified them to be identified. Could we make use of that?

December 7, 2025 Macs, Technology

Fog on the Thames 1844-1899

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Paintings starting with JMW Turner in 1844, through Monet in 1871, Winslow Homer, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Tom Roberts, Pissarro, and Childe Hassam.

December 6, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 337

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

December 6, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Numbers

Integers of different sizes and endianness, floating point numbers with a radix of 2 that can result in rounding and cancellation errors and NaNs, and bfloat16 for AI.

December 6, 2025 Macs, Technology

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