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Coast: Visiting the beach

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The birthplace of Impressionism, and its spread around the world, it also reflected the huge changes in society, leisure, and dress. Let’s soak up the sun.

August 9, 2017 General, Life, Painting

When Recent Items vanish: a possible bug in Sierra 10.12.6?

It’s a System Prefs problem. No, a preferences file problem. No, it’s something else, but Apple once again won’t tell us how Recent Items works, or doesn’t.

August 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

Adobe has updated Flash Player

Adobe has updated its Flash Player to version 26.0.0.151, which is now available from here. This update fixes […]

August 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

Apple updates Gatekeeper data

Apple has today pushed another silent update to the security data files for macOS Sierra and OS X […]

August 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

Degas’ Circle: Mary Cassatt, 1 Early days

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In the years to 1879, she became skilled in different media, including pastels, and her style transformed to Impressionism.

August 8, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Sleep, Wake, and Startup: Hardware and ACPI

Shutdown cause codes, wake reasons, ACPI, and sleep states – diagnosing problems from hardware events.

August 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 36 Medea and Theseus

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A link between the downfall of Medea and a series of stories about the hero Theseus, this was a subject for the Prix de Rome. Includes a little-known Poussin.

August 7, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Preferences with and without UserDefaults

How much more difficult is it to write your own code to handle user preferences, rather than letting UserDefaults handle them?

August 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

When in Rome: 2 Agostino Tassi, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Claude Lorrain

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His family name wasn’t Tassi, he planned to steal paintings, intended to murder his wife, had an adulterous affair with his sister-in-law, and raped Artemisia Gentileschi. But he has one redeeming feature.

August 6, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Personas, flavours and settings

Developers should consider letting users export and import suites of settings, to determine an app’s persona, or flavours of working environment.

August 6, 2017 Macs, Technology

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