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How to build an APFS bootable clone in Terminal

I’m sure this used to be much easier in HFS+, but here’s a detailed set of instructions for making a bootable clone in High Sierra or Mojave, for an APFS disk.

December 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

AMFI: checking file integrity on your Mac

Apple Mobile File Integrity is a combination of a KEXT and a LaunchDaemon which check app signatures, entitlements, and provisioning profiles.

December 29, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Decameron: The wrong way to a man’s heart

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The story of Ghismonda and her lover Guiscardo is not well-known in paintings, but has been well covered, most recently by Hogarth.

December 28, 2018 General, Life, Painting

DelightEd now opens and saves plain text and HTML as well as Rich Text

Version 1.1 supports three file formats, but working with HTML is not easy, as it cannot (yet) support bimodal text.

December 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Painting Reality: 4 Art and the State

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Naturalist painting both supported the State, and attacked it – sometimes so much that works had to be suppressed. The real history of art at the end of the 19th century.

December 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Setting up a new (or repurposed) Mac: 6 Fitting a quart into a pint pot

With Apple’s SSD prices so high, you may for the first time have less internal storage in your new Mac than your old one. Tips to help you cope.

December 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

Fjords and Munch: In memory of Adelsteen Normann 2

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With Edvard Munch launched in his career, Normann returned to painting the fjords of his native Norway.

December 26, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Setting up a new (or repurposed) Mac: 5 Examples

Three workthroughs considering options and issues in migrating to a new Mac, with info on late migration, macOS upgrading, and Thunderbolt adaptors.

December 26, 2018 Macs, Technology

The Modern Christmas, paintings 1867-1921

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From Dante Gabriel Rossetti, through Lovis Corinth, to Alphonse Mucha and Christian Krohg – modern masterpieces.

December 25, 2018 General, Life, Painting

How can Mojave let you open an app with signature errors?

The differences between a full Gatekeeper check, an AMFI check for integrity, and a normal app open, and why signature errors can be tolerated.

December 25, 2018 Macs, Technology

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