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Never work with children, animals or time: nailing the nanosecond

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Getting the date and time stamp of log entries to use rounded microseconds, and how to ensure a log extract uses the current time zone throughout.

May 26, 2025 Macs, Technology

Spring meadows 2

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Flax for linseed oil, walnut too, Parsifal’s romp with Flowermaidens, a Spring Fairytale from Hans Thoma, the Malibu coast, and one of the last Divisionist landscapes.

May 25, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Ever alert

The aspect ratio of my iPhone’s display is under half, and it’s pressed to display more than 5 words in each line of text. Yet Macs now use similar vertical alerts as those in iOS.

May 25, 2025 Macs, Technology

Spring meadows 1

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From Botticelli’s Primavera to floral meadows of the Spring, with Millais, Millet, BΓΆcklin, Walter Crane, Dennis Miller Bunker, and an unknown Italian Impressionist.

May 24, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 309

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

May 24, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of alerts

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Originally alert boxes, these have brought us information, warnings and errors in different formats. Although they should be rare, macOS has used them increasingly, sometimes uninformatively.

May 24, 2025 Macs, Technology

Urban Revolutionaries: 15 Angst

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The endless other world of chimneys and snow-covered roofs in Paris and other cities. Munch’s growing anxiety culminating in The Scream of angst.

May 23, 2025 General, Life, Painting

What to expect of XProtects?

Classic XProtect, XProtect Remediator, and XProtect behavioural with Bastion rules – a rundown on developments over the last year and where they’re going next.

May 23, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Workshops

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An artist’s workshop with his assistant, several sculptors working with their models, watchmakers in Madrid, an assistant in a print shop, artisans, tinker and repairer.

May 22, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Is high resolution time available in the log?

It turns out that ‘nanosecond’ times introduced in LogUI are largely artefact. Is higher resolution timing really needed, and how can it be obtained?

May 22, 2025 Macs, Technology

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