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Beyond Scripting in Swift: Sets, Lies, and Videotape

A simple and elegant way to eliminate duplicates from an array of strings comes and goes as Swift 3.1 takes charge.

May 26, 2017 Macs, Technology

Edvard Munch: The Frieze of Life 6, Conclusions and indexes

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An overview, comments on its narrative nature, and indexes to the previous articles about the Frieze.

May 25, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Advanced Time Machine backups: multiple sources, multiple destinations

You can back up multiple volumes to multiple backups. Here’s how and why you might do these things.

May 25, 2017 Macs, Technology

T2M2 now analyses multiple and manual backups in 0.3b1

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And the most important fix: the colours of the traffic light indicator are better.

May 25, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 21 – Perseus and Medusa

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Not just superb paintings, but one of the great visual tropes of Western art, and one of the best wedding speeches ever.

May 24, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Using T2M2 to diagnose and treat Time Machine problems

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A full explanation of everything that T2M2 analyses and reports, with practical tips on how to interpret and fix.

May 24, 2017 Macs, Technology

Chinese Narrative Painting: Conclusions

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Bringing together some characteristics and features of three narrative Chinese handscroll paintings.

May 23, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

How macOS runs background activities: 4 Using XPC Activity

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How scheduling concurrent and background tasks using XPC Activity works, and compares with alternatives such as NSBackgroundActivityScheduler.

May 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Dates, Steppers, and parsing log entries

How T2M2 analyses Sierra’s log to assess how backups have been working. With insights into using NSDate, NSStepper, and more.

May 23, 2017 Macs, Technology

Figures in a Landscape: introduction to a new series

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A landscape without human or animal figures often looks eery or unnatural. This new series looks at how figures are used in landscape paintings, with copious examples.

May 22, 2017 General, Painting

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