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Jules Breton’s Eternal Harvest: 5 1890-1906

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His last great painting of crowds at a religious ceremony, and his first significant self-portrait. The final years of the eternally golden harvest.

April 12, 2017 General, Painting

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: huge popups, and strings too smart

Progress with Rosettavert to convert text encoding, including popup menus with 144 entries. But stumbling still on an issue of string encoding.

April 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

Where is that app? – a brief index to bundled tools in Sierra

A listing of the locations of all those apps and utilities which you can never seem to find when you want them. Also covers command tools.

April 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

Adobe updates Flash Player to 25.0.0.148

Adobe has just released an update to bring its Flash Player to version 25.0.0.148, which is available from […]

April 11, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 15 – Pyramus and Thisbe

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Not a Greek myth, this tragic love story is the ultimate ancestor to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and other major works. Here are the best paintings.

April 11, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: opening docs and converting text

Scripting a friendly front-end for the iconv tool to convert text between 144 different types of encoding. Also how to open as well as save documents.

April 11, 2017 Macs, Technology

Franz von Stuck’s Thoroughly Modern Histories: 4 1910-1913

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Dancers, fauns, and the inevitable femmes fatales dominated his paintings before the outbreak of war.

April 10, 2017 General, Painting

How to normalise strings, and a new command tool to help

How can you get the Unicode normalised form from within an app, or when you’re writing your own tools and scripts? unorml may be just the job.

April 10, 2017 Macs, Technology

Spouse-swapping, matricide, and Harry Potter

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Betrothed to Orestes, Hermione was forcibly removed and given to Pyrrhus. Later, Orestes murdered his mother. So why does Hermione appear in Harry Potter?

April 9, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Summer’s coming, mostly

Apple spills some of its beans to a select group of the press, and we start to explore the new features expected in macOS 10.13.

April 9, 2017 Macs, Technology

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