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kernel_task and summer heat

Open Activity Monitor. If kernel_task is the top of the CPU % list and hogging its cores, what should you do? Can Energy Modes help?

July 22, 2025 Macs, Technology

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Léon Augustin Lhermitte 1

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A precocious artist whose Naturalist paintings showed the harsh realities of rural poverty and hard labour. A friend of Zola, he also painted leading figures in science.

July 21, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 317

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 317. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Total […]

July 21, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

What does RunningBoard do? 3 XPC services, chronod and widget timelines

Detailed exploration of how RunningBoard manages the service updating data for a widget, and how that update is scheduled and run by chronod.

July 21, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings of English Downs 2

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More views of rolling chalk hills in the south-east of England, here from Edward Stott, Spencer Gore, Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious, and others.

July 20, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: A strategy for data integrity

How can you assure yourself that important files retain their data intact? Here’s a simple strategy for doing that, which works better on a file system that doesn’t check integrity.

July 20, 2025 Macs, Technology

Paintings of English Downs 1

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Views of and from rolling chalk hills in the south-east of England, including Samuel Palmer, Richard Burchett, Barbara Bodichon, and the Pre-Raphaelite John Brett.

July 19, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 317

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

July 19, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of primary coding languages

From Lisa Clascal, used until the Mac got its own development environment in MPW and Object Pascal, to Swift, Apple has changed direction every decade.

July 19, 2025 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Poverty

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From dice shooters in a rough tavern, through Bastien-Lepage’s Little Chimneysweep, to poverty in Catania, and destitution in Paris.

July 18, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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