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Reading Visual Art: 229 Celestial events

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The star of Bethlehem from Giotto to Blake, a solar eclipse seen in Spain in 1905, Donati’s comet, and two impossible events with the sun and moon together in the sky.

October 3, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Welcome to Tahoe’s Launch Angels

New to Tahoe is a folder containing three property lists for Launch Angels. What are they, how do the work, and where does RunningBoard come in?

October 3, 2025 Macs, Technology

Christian Krohg painting social reality 3: 1888-95

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Portraits of his young wife, struggling for survival in the Norwegian winter, bathing a newborn baby, the discovery of America, nationhood and open narrative.

October 2, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Why did that macOS upgrade take so much space?

Why upgrading to Tahoe shouldn’t consume the last free space on your Mac’s SSD, and once it has settled should use little more than currently. How to clear out old snapshots and reduce System Data.

October 2, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS

Apple has released its weekly update to XProtect, bringing it to version 5317. As usual, it doesn’t release […]

October 1, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

The Dutch Golden Age: Everyday life of Gerard ter Borch

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The arrival and writing of letters, a milkmaid at work, a mother removing nits from her daughter’s hair, spinning, drinking lemonade, and learning to play the lute.

October 1, 2025 General, Life, Painting

LogUI 1.0 build 74 adds a Diagnostics Tool for your logs

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Build 74 adds a Diagnostics Tool to analyse and catalogue diagnostics folders that are or have been a live log store, including those saved in backups.

October 1, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Medium and Message: Painting with egg yolk

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The yolk of fresh hens’ eggs used as a binder for fine and thin brushstrokes, from about 1250-1500, and revived in 19th and 20th centuries.

September 30, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Do apps launch faster in macOS Tahoe?

Some apps have become very slow to launch in recent versions of macOS. It has been suggested that this might be improved in Tahoe. Is that confirmed by evidence?

September 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has just released macOS 26.0.1 Tahoe, 15.7.1 and 14.8.1

Apple has just released macOS 26.0.1 Tahoe, which fixes the problem upgrading to 26.0 on Mac Studio M3 […]

September 29, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

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