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Claude

Who called git, and how Claude was caught red-handed

Two users confronted by a dialog to install command line developer tools so they can use git. Neither wanted to use git, but wondered which app could have triggered it. Despite its protestations, Claude knows only too well.

March 17, 2026 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Dependency and skill fade

It’s an animal trait that learned skills fade when unused over time. This is a problem that needs to addressed by those handing skill-based tasks over to AI.

March 15, 2026 Macs, Technology

On Reflection: Northern landscapes

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An overview of reflections in landscape paintings by van Eyck, Dürer, Cuyp, Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Canaletto, and Claude-Joseph Vernet in 1771.

March 4, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Inside the Unified Log 7: Claude diagnoses the log

What happens when you can’t solve a problem, so you get a log extract and ask Claude to diagnose it for you? Here’s a full worked example.

November 7, 2025 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 71 Pythagoras and Numa

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Pythagoras links the myths in Ovid’s book in the constant changes seen in nature, and advocates vegetarianism. Then King Numa’s wife dictates to him the laws of Rome.

May 19, 2025 General, Life, Painting

A French landscape painter in Rome: Claude

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Initially a servant and cook to an Italian painter, he developed his distinctive style from a Flemish artist who had moved to Rome in 1582. A great influence on JMW Turner.

May 18, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 65 The Cumaean Sibyl

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Aeneas’ ill-fated and brief affair with Queen Dido of Carthage, past the Cercopes who had been turned into monkeys, and on to the Sibyl to take him to visit his father in the underworld.

April 7, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: 63 The tragedy of Galatea

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Galatea falls in love with Acis, son of a river-god, but the Cyclops Polyphemus is in love with Galatea and is murderously jealous of Acis.

March 24, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Roman Landscapes: 1 Dawn

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Remarkable oil sketches made in the countryside around Rome that laid the foundation for training in landscape painting, and ultimately Impressionism.

March 22, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Heroines 5: Paris’s jilted lover

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First wife of Paris, Prince of Troy, abandoned so he could seduce Helen. When Paris needed her to heal him, she refused then was filled with remorse.

June 22, 2024 General, Life, Painting

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