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Shortcuts are coming to macOS

First AppleScript, then shell scripts, and in 2005 Automator: now Apple is bringing iOS Shortcuts to macOS 12. Will it make a difference, though?

June 25, 2021 Macs, Technology

Francisco Goya: 1 Zaragoza and Rome

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After a 4-year apprenticeship, Goya struggled to get further training. He spent two years in Rome, but on his return won his first major commission, for a huge fresco.

June 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Will changes to notarization make any difference?

WWDC this year again featured a session on notarization. Here’s a summary of its status in Big Sur, and details of what’s next.

June 24, 2021 Macs, Technology

Still Life History: 7 Paul Cézanne

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A small selection showing how still life painting was an essential part of his art, even more fascinating and enigmatic than his landscapes.

June 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Code in ARM Assembly: Controlling flow

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Forget about structured code, branching in assembly is based on GOTO with labels. Here’s how to get started, with an idiom for the switch statement in Swift.

June 23, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painting Within Tent: How Titian Ramsay Peale has been overlooked

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Between 1817 and 1842, he went on a succession of expeditions in the US, Colombia, and the Pacific islands, as artist and naturalist. Yet he was even buried in an unmarked grave. Does modesty pay?

June 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rethinking recovery and re-installing macOS

How useful is the traditional panacea of re-installing macOS in Big Sur? And is it worth maintaining an external recovery disk to deal with problems?

June 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 15: Slaying the giant

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The Priest continues reading The Tale of Inappropriate Curiosity. Towards the end, he’s interrupted when Don Quixote dreams he kills a giant. The story is completed once order returns to the inn.

June 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 104

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 104. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Leave, […]

June 21, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Code in ARM Assembly: Working with pointers

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Using different addressing modes and offset specifications to load and store in memory. Includes a summary of ARM64 Operand Architecture.

June 21, 2021 Macs, Technology

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