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Xcode Swift playgrounds 3: shell scripts, droplets, and actions

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Running shell scripts from Swift playgrounds is easy, but there’s more work needed to support droplets and folder actions.

November 25, 2016 Macs, Technology

Tyger’s eye: the paintings of William Blake, 4 – Pity, painting Shakespeare’s similes

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Take a couple of similes from Macbeth, and depict them word for word in a painting to express a tough abstract concept. And doesn’t it work well.

November 24, 2016 General, Language, Painting

Xcode Swift playgrounds 2: Scripting files

A success at last: scripting file operations works now. But don’t trust much of the documentation; it just frustrates.

November 24, 2016 Macs, Technology

Into the Light: Helen Allingham’s eternal countryside

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She started out as a successful illustrator, but for most of her working life painted rural cottages across southern England.

November 23, 2016 General, Painting

Time Machine problems in macOS Sierra

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Some users are having problems getting Time Machine to work in Sierra. Here are some suggestions to get that first backup completed.

November 23, 2016 Macs, Technology

Tyger’s eye: the paintings of William Blake, 3 – biography

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A life spent largely in poverty, working intensely, and creating some of the most innovative and visionary paintings of any artist before or since.

November 22, 2016 General, Painting

Xcode Swift playgrounds 1: freezing and failing

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A frustrating first day trying to get Xcode’s Swift playgrounds to display simple dialogs and alerts.

November 22, 2016 Macs, Technology

Into the Light: Annie Swynnerton

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Elected the first woman Associate of the Royal Academy since it was founded, she had a very individual style, with a unique visual richness.

November 21, 2016 General, Painting

Scriptarian: Swift scripting for macOS?

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Can this app really offer a “modern alternative to AppleScript”? Probably not yet, but it is young, and still an excellent Swift playground.

November 21, 2016 Macs, Technology

Tyger’s eye: the paintings of William Blake, 2 – The Ancient of Days

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Just because his paintings appear so original and different, that doesn’t mean that they don’t borrow from and refer to other visual art.

November 20, 2016 General, Painting

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