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Painting the Impossible: Music

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Music and musicians have been very popular themes for paintings since before the Renaissance. How successful are they in evoking our auditory imaginations?

April 8, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

How to make your own APFS volume

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Some detailed guidance to help you make a test volume in Apple’s new APFS format, in either case-insensitive or -sensitive variant.

April 8, 2017 Macs, Technology

APFS and macOS 10.13: many apps and tools will need to be revised

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Case-insensitive APFS is not at chaotic as the case-sensitive variant. But there are still plenty of problems which developers and users need to prepare for.

April 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

Children and the sea: the paintings of Virginie Demont-Breton

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Specialised in painting mothers and their children, and fisherfolk of the Channel coast, she was highly successful and advanced career prospects for women painters.

April 7, 2017 General, Painting

Normalising strings in Swift: scripting Apfelstrudel and beyond

A quick tour through String normalisation, mapping closures, and a small burst of colour.

April 7, 2017 Macs, Technology

APFS is currently unusable with most non-English languages

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APFS is not currently safe to use with names which might have Unicode normalisation issues – which means it is only safe with a limited ASCII character set.

April 6, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

Jules Breton’s Eternal Harvest: 4 1877-1889

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Under pressure from his dealers, Breton concentrated on single figures in the countryside, typically at dawn or dusk. These have become some of his most popular paintings.

April 6, 2017 General, Painting

Untangling file names and normalisation with Apfelstrudel

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Practical demonstrations, a new free tool to explore the problem, and examples to illustrate the issues which could arise with APFS.

April 6, 2017 Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 14 – Pentheus and Bacchus

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How you mustn’t look at what shouldn’t be seen: how Pentheus was torn limb from limb by his mother and aunts.

April 5, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

File problems in iOS 10.3 and macOS 10.13: What’s in a name?

The switch to Apple’s new file system seems to be going very well. Except that an old problem is now becoming apparent: how to name files and folders.

April 5, 2017 Macs, Technology

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