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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

Save your M-series Mac’s energy and battery

How your Mac can use less energy and power, run its battery down less, generate less heat, and keep its P cores for the work you want it to do for you.

July 18, 2025 Macs, Technology

Modern Stories of Lovis Corinth: In memoriam

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His finest narrative paintings from Susanna and the Elders in 1890, through Salome and Homeric Laughter, to Ariadne on Naxos and the Trojan Horse in 1924.

July 17, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Encryption and checking hashes slows faster SSDs

Does software encryption (APFS Encrypted) result in significant overhead when using faster SSDs with a faster Apple silicon Mac? What about computing SHA256 digests?

July 17, 2025 Macs, Technology

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