The Curious Engineer

The Eclectic Light Company

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October 2026

  1. Saturday Mac riddles 384
  2. New products for new species, revisited
  3. Painting with impaired vision: Vincent van Gogh
  4. From click to action: how macOS does what you want
  5. Painting a good story: Peter Paul Rubens
  6. Do you ever use curl? How recent vulnerabilities could affect you
  7. Commemorating the death of Albin Egger-Lienz: early realism
  8. Solve macOS update problems
  9. Portraits of trees: Forest of Fontainebleau
  10. Daylight saving time, hieroglyphics, and LogUI 1.3
  11. Apple has just released updates to Golden Gate 27.2, 26.7.2. and 15.8.2
  12. Hero or hooligan: Orestes murders his mother
  13. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 383
  14. How free space has been changing, with an update to DeltaFree
  15. American expatriates: James Abbott McNeill Whistler
  16. Last Week on My Mac: The Wit and Wisdom of the Log
  17. American expatriates: Benjamin West
  18. Saturday Mac riddles 383
  19. Reviewing the Desktop metaphor
  20. Briefly better than Turner: Thomas Girtin
  21. Why Golden Gate may not change focus correctly
  22. Painting with impaired vision: Camille Pissarro
  23. Local network privacy is getting better
  24. Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator
  25. Painting a good story: References and timing
  26. Testing iCloud Drive with Cirrus 1.17
  27. LogUI 1.2 fixes selection and focus in macOS 27
  28. Portraits of trees: Palm
  29. How Spotlight indexes in Golden Gate
  30. Hero or hooligan: Death of Orpheus
  31. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 382
  32. Can I browse log entries from 2 weeks ago?
  33. Paintings of gales 2
  34. Last Week on My Mac: Selection and focus in Golden Gate
  35. Paintings of gales 1
  36. Saturday Mac riddles 382
  37. How Ask Siri constructs and uses context
  38. Masaccio’s six years
  39. Changing developer certificates might affect installers next year
  40. Painting with impaired vision: Edgar Degas
  41. Cirrus 1.17: an update for this unique iCloud Drive utility
  42. Painting a good story: Polymythic
  43. Where to look for Mac help: Tips or AI?
  44. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  45. Portraits of trees: Klimt’s forests
  46. Pin files in iCloud Drive
  47. Hero or hooligan: Orpheus in the underworld
  48. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 381
  49. When to expect updates to macOS 27 Golden Gate
  50. The artist who died alongside Scott
  51. Last Week on My Mac: When is it safe to upgrade macOS?
  52. The artist who died crossing Australia
  53. Saturday Mac riddles 381
  54. Try on-device AI with fm
  55. Thomas Fearnley the brief Wanderer
  56. How the macOS System has changed over 7 years
  57. Painting with impaired vision: Introduction
  58. What controls access to files?
  59. Painting a good story: Multi-frame
  60. Explainer: Keychains
  61. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  62. Portraits of trees: Birch
  63. Privacy, Full Disk Access and AI agents
  64. Hero or hooligan: Heracles killed by the hydra’s blood
  65. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 380
  66. When and how to migrate to your Mac
  67. Leaf peeping: painting autumn 1900-1945
  68. Last Week on My Mac: The AI on the AIRer is drying
  69. Leaf peeping: painting autumn 1650-1899
  70. Saturday Mac riddles 380
  71. What changed in macOS Tahoe 26.4? (Take 2)
  72. Giorgione’s few brilliant years of painting
  73. How to copy login keychains that can be unlocked
  74. Painting a good story: Multiplex returns
  75. Browse Apple Intelligence Reports with AIRer, a new app

September 2026

  1. Portraits of trees: Pine
  2. How does APFS handle encryption keys?
  3. Apple has released another update to XProtect for all macOS
  4. Hero or hooligan: Heracles wrestles for a wife
  5. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  6. Create an external boot disk in Golden Gate
  7. Apple has just released updates to Golden Gate 27.0.1, 26.7.1 and 15.8.1
  8. In memoriam Helen Allingham and her paintings of a lost England
  9. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 379
  10. Silently updated security data files in Golden Gate
  11. Critics against art: How John Singer Sargent was erased
  12. Last Week on My Mac: Spinning plates
  13. Critics against art: How British landscape painting was killed
  14. Saturday Mac riddles 379
  15. AI at work: Privacy, PCC and prompts
  16. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for macOS Sequoia and later
  17. American in Paris, the brief paintings of Susan Watkins
  18. XProtect Remediator 163 doesn’t run
  19. Painting a good story: Multiplex peak and decline
  20. Deep-reading an Apple Intelligence Report with pccvre
  21. Brushstrokes: a summary history
  22. LogUI 1.1 build 90 fixes a menu glitch in macOS 27
  23. Checking an SSD trims in Golden Gate
  24. Portraits of trees: Willow
  25. Read an Apple Intelligence Report
  26. Hero or hooligan: Heracles in drag
  27. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 378
  28. When to use a new container, volume or folder
  29. Painting la Manche: le Havre to Ouessant
  30. Last Week on My Mac: Is AI worth 30 GB?
  31. Painting la Manche: Calais to Étretat
  32. Saturday Mac riddles 378
  33. macOS Tahoe 26.4 changed boot volume structure
  34. Apple has released an update to XProtect Remediator
  35. Henri Regnault’s too brief history paintings
  36. How did Golden Gate affect free disk space?
  37. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  38. Painting a good story: Multiplex to 1600
  39. Spotlight indexing bug fixed in Golden Gate
  40. Brushstrokes: Avant-garde and the psychology of perception
  41. What has happened with XProtect
  42. Portraits of trees: The Fallen
  43. Finding your feet in Golden Gate
  44. Apple has released macOS Golden Gate, and security updates to Tahoe 26.7, Sequoia 15.8
  45. Hero or hooligan: Heracles’ labours 9-12
  46. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 377
  47. How can you copy or restore keychains?
  48. Anarchy in paint: the politics of Neo-Impressionism 2
  49. Last Week on My Mac: Still a surprise
  50. Anarchy in paint: the politics of Neo-Impressionism 1
  51. Saturday Mac riddles 377
  52. Which of my apps for macOS Golden Gate?
  53. Dennis Miller Bunker, American Impressionist
  54. Keychain copying, migration and upgrading VMs
  55. Painting a good story: Series after 1800
  56. Prepare to update or upgrade macOS
  57. Brushstrokes: Lovis Corinth’s narratives
  58. Take control of snapshots
  59. Portraits of trees: Monet’s poplars
  60. What does Safe mode do, and when to use it?
  61. Logistician version 1.5 fixes a crashing bug
  62. Hero or hooligan: Heracles’ labours 4-8
  63. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 376
  64. What happens when a Mac’s boot volumes run out of space?
  65. Paintings of caves: beauty and reality
  66. Last Week on My Mac: Storage crisis management
  67. Paintings of caves: myth and religion
  68. Saturday Mac riddles 376
  69. When the Finder’s size ‘on disk’ is misleading
  70. Painting a good story: Series to 1800
  71. Logistician 1.4 has improved charts and plots
  72. Orient: the bicentenary of Alberto Pasini 2
  73. Version, snapshot or backup: which is best for reverting edits?
  74. Brushstrokes: Henri-Edmond Cross
  75. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  76. Caches and purging in macOS Tahoe
  77. Portraits of trees: Sisley’s poplars of Moret
  78. DeltaFree version 1.1 greatly improves its charting

August 2026

  1. Hero or hooligan: Heracles’ labours 1-3
  2. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 375
  3. How security updates to Sequoia and Sonoma were changed silently
  4. An unnatural history of footwear in paintings 2
  5. Last Week on My Mac: The cost of the blue from over the sea
  6. An unnatural history of footwear in paintings 1
  7. Saturday Mac riddles 375
  8. Visual shocks in past macOS upgrades
  9. Painting a good story: Origins
  10. Golden Gate and forthcoming updates
  11. Orient: the bicentenary of Alberto Pasini 1
  12. Why can purging snapshots fail?
  13. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  14. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for macOS Sequoia and later
  15. Brushstrokes: Swirls of Vincent van Gogh
  16. Test iCloud Drive using Cirrus
  17. Portraits of trees: Camille Pissarro
  18. An iCloud primer
  19. Hero or hooligan: Birth of Heracles
  20. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 374
  21. Aren’t snapshots purgeable?
  22. Paintings of the English Channel coast 2
  23. Last Week on My Mac: Macs that go bump in the night
  24. Paintings of the English Channel coast 1
  25. Saturday Mac riddles 374
  26. Can DeltaFree help size your backup storage?
  27. A cold countryside: James Ward 3
  28. The arithmetic of free space
  29. Brushstrokes: Paul Signac
  30. How XProtect is updated
  31. In the shadow: Overview and contents
  32. Find what you want in the log
  33. Apple has released an update to Safari 26.6.1 for Sequoia and Sonoma
  34. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  35. Portraits of trees: Camille Corot
  36. Recover Recovery
  37. Apple has released a security update to macOS Tahoe 26.6.2
  38. Hero or hooligan: Odysseus restored
  39. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 373
  40. How long until my backup storage is full? DeltaFree can inform you
  41. A volcanic weekend of paintings 2 Vesuvius
  42. Last Week on My Mac: Due cause
  43. A volcanic weekend of paintings 1 Fuji to Hekla
  44. Saturday Mac riddles 373
  45. Identify files in APFS using inode numbers
  46. A cold countryside: James Ward 2
  47. What to do when a macOS update goes wrong
  48. Brushstrokes: Divisionism
  49. Why and how to check your SSDs Trim correctly
  50. In the shadow: Not quite
  51. Why do macOS update sizes vary so much?
  52. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  53. Portraits of trees: Apple
  54. How can you run code that hasn’t been notarised?
  55. Hero or hooligan: Odysseus on Phaeacia
  56. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 372
  57. How much backup storage does your Mac need?
  58. Painting legendary self-sacrifice: Did the Horatii save Rome?
  59. Last Week on My Mac: Climate change
  60. Painting legendary self-sacrifice: Did Horatius Cocles save Rome?
  61. Saturday Mac riddles 372
  62. Who has been using my filename extension?
  63. A cold countryside: James Ward 1
  64. What just changed in XProtect?
  65. Apple has just released security updates for 26.6.1, 15.7.9 and 14.8.9
  66. Brushstrokes: Constructive strokes
  67. Can you disable Gatekeeper and XProtect?
  68. Apple has released a major update to XProtect for all macOS
  69. In the shadow: Colour controversy
  70. How can you back up your backups?
  71. Portraits of trees: Walnut and Almond
  72. Fix LaunchServices problems with command tools
  73. Hero or hooligan: Odysseus escapes the Sirens
  74. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 371
  75. Find an expected macOS or security data update
  76. On the beach in paint 2
  77. Last Week on My Mac: Onward and update
  78. On the beach in paint 1
  79. Saturday Mac riddles 371
  80. Reading floating point numbers with Mints

July 2026

  1. A cold countryside: The genius of George Morland
  2. Virtualising Golden Gate betas
  3. Brushstrokes: Early Impressionism
  4. Take control of updates using softwareupdate
  5. In the shadow: Play
  6. Matching files to apps: how UTIs work
  7. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  8. Portraits of trees: Chestnuts
  9. What is happening to encrypted HFS+?
  10. What has changed in macOS Tahoe 26.6?
  11. Apple has released updates to Tahoe 26.6, Sequoia 15.7.8 and Sonoma 14.8.8
  12. Hero or hooligan: Odysseus with Circe
  13. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 370
  14. How does an app launch? An exploration with LogUI
  15. Herald of Impressionism: Charles Daubigny 2
  16. Last Week on My Mac: Annotate your log for fun and profit
  17. Herald of Impressionism: Charles Daubigny 1
  18. Saturday Mac riddles 370
  19. What determines a file’s type?
  20. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  21. Brushstrokes: Pre-Impressionism
  22. Open a file with the right app
  23. In memoriam Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov: 2, 1887-1926
  24. Stand by for macOS updates
  25. In the shadow: The Enlightenment of Joseph Wright
  26. Understand APFS version numbers
  27. Portraits of trees: John Constable
  28. SilentKnight version 3.02 fixes menus and auto-updates
  29. Hero or hooligan: The cunning of Odysseus
  30. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 369
  31. How DAS starts up and loads 700 background activities
  32. William Merritt Chase and the independence of American painting 2
  33. Last Week on My Mac: The problems of structured data
  34. William Merritt Chase and the independence of American painting 1
  35. Saturday Mac riddles 369
  36. What makes a volume bootable?
  37. In memoriam Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov: 1, 1874-82
  38. SpotTest 1.3 identifies file types using file(1)
  39. Brushstrokes: Eugène Delacroix
  40. Fix background activities that don’t run
  41. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  42. In the shadow: In front of the motif
  43. Spotlight’s blind spot: JSON documents
  44. Portraits of trees: Thomas Gainsborough
  45. Mints 1.22 now provides Locale information
  46. Hero or hooligan: Achilles’ final victory
  47. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 368
  48. How does Spotlight rank search results?
  49. Ohioan woman painter in Paris: Elizabeth Nourse, 2
  50. Last Week on My Mac: Spotlight’s eternal quest
  51. Ohioan woman painter in Paris: Elizabeth Nourse, 1
  52. Saturday Mac riddles 368
  53. Explainer: Language and locale
  54. Great Ladies of Impressionism: Eva Gonzalès
  55. Is malware protection changing?
  56. Brushstrokes: Constable and Turner
  57. How does the Spotlight window search?
  58. In the shadow: The problem of landscapes
  59. Core Spotlight in action: Notes and Contacts
  60. Portraits of trees: Cypress
  61. Should you try Golden Gate beta?
  62. Hero or hooligan: Achilles re-enters the war
  63. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 367
  64. Extend log analysis with Logistician 1.3
  65. Happy 250th birthday America 2
  66. Last Week on My Mac: Freshen up your documents
  67. Happy 250th birthday America 1
  68. Saturday Mac riddles 367
  69. Spotlight and Core Spotlight are different
  70. Great Ladies of Impressionism: Marie Bracquemond
  71. Sort order, collation and the Finder
  72. Brushstrokes: Portraits 1760-1877
  73. Keep your Mac cool using physics
  74. In the shadow: Diego Velázquez
  75. Get more from your Mac’s log by extending its duration

June 2026

  1. Portraits of trees: Coppices and pollards
  2. Logistician 1.2 fixes a couple of bugs
  3. Firmware has become complicated again
  4. Apple has just released macOS 26.5.2 Tahoe
  5. Hero or hooligan: The Anger of Achilles
  6. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 366
  7. What does Activity Monitor measure?
  8. An American in Paris: paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner 1902-1930
  9. Last Week on My Mac: Spotlight on semantics
  10. An American in Paris: paintings of Henry Ossawa Tanner 1880-1902
  11. Saturday Mac riddles 366
  12. Explainer: sysdiagnose and logarchives
  13. Great Ladies of Impressionism: Berthe Morisot 1874-1891
  14. What to do with a hot Mac
  15. Brushstrokes: From El Greco to Rembrandt
  16. Deprecations and removals from Golden Gate
  17. In the shadow: The Dutch Golden Age
  18. How to get the most from SilentKnight 3
  19. Portraits of trees: Dutch Golden Age
  20. Choose and use in-document metadata
  21. Hero or hooligan: Achilles becomes the warrior
  22. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 365
  23. SilentKnight 3.0 for Apple silicon Macs running Sequoia and later (full release)
  24. Colin Campbell Cooper painting America: 1912-1923
  25. Last Week on My Mac: Uncompressed compressed files
  26. Colin Campbell Cooper painting America: 1896-1910
  27. Saturday Mac riddles 365
  28. Explainer: Memory
  29. Great Ladies of Impressionism: Berthe Morisot 1864-73
  30. What can you do when an app uses too much memory?
  31. Brushstrokes: 16th century
  32. SilentKnight 3 second beta adds text and JSON reporting
  33. In the shadow: Caravaggism
  34. What to do with your encrypted HFS+ disks
  35. Portraits of trees: Nicolas Poussin
  36. First beta-test version of SilentKnight 3 for Apple silicon Macs
  37. Hero or hooligan: Jason and Medea
  38. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 364
  39. Fix documents that won’t open as expected using Quarant2
  40. In memoriam Mary Cassatt: 3 1887-1902
  41. Last Week on My Mac: Why is it so hard to open a document?
  42. The Great Ladies of Impressionism
  43. Saturday Mac riddles 364
  44. Explainer: Disk encryption
  45. Brushstrokes: innovators of the first century
  46. macOS virtualisation is leaping forward in Golden Gate
  47. In the shadow: Caravaggio
  48. Why can’t Preview open that PDF?
  49. Portraits of trees: Peter Paul Rubens
  50. Crossing the Golden Gate, Intel support, and an update to SystHist
  51. Hero or hooligan: Jason and the Golden Fleece
  52. Reading the Finder’s Get Info dialog
  53. In memoriam Mary Cassatt: 2, 1880-81
  54. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 363
  55. How does Lockdown Mode affect location data?
  56. Elihu Vedder’s symbolism and stories: 1885-1913
  57. Last Week on My Mac: What’s in a name?
  58. Elihu Vedder’s symbolism and stories: 1863-1884
  59. Saturday Mac riddles 363
  60. Explainer: Getting a location
  61. In the shadow: Introduction
  62. Get more from Get Info and the Finder’s contextual menu
  63. Portraits of trees: history to 1630
  64. Stop your photos revealing your location
  65. Medium and message: Contents
  66. Have you saved thousands of versions? Versatility 1.2 might be what you need
  67. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  68. Hero or hooligan: Theseus’ later years
  69. BSD flags are incompatible with iCloud Drive
  70. Apple has released macOS Tahoe 26.5.1
  71. In memoriam Mary Cassatt: 1, 1868-1880
  72. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 362
  73. What Location Services do in macOS

May 2026

  1. Eclectic paintings of Joseph Stella: 2 European myths
  2. Last Week on My Mac: Razzle and dazzle
  3. Eclectic paintings of Joseph Stella: 1 American landscapes
  4. Saturday Mac riddles 362
  5. Protect files with the Locked or Immutable flag
  6. Reading Visual Art: 252 Dragonfly
  7. What happens in the log when an app crashes as it starts up?
  8. Portraits of trees: Introduction
  9. How to fix an app that crashes as it starts up
  10. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  11. On Reflection: Conclusions and contents
  12. Which tasks require mains power?
  13. Medium and message: Vast canvases
  14. Online reference to external displays for Apple silicon Macs
  15. What’s in that phishing email?
  16. Hero or hooligan: Theseus and Ariadne
  17. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 361
  18. How to search document versions
  19. Rubens’ Consequences of War
  20. Last Week on My Mac: Intel Macs will be stuck with bugs
  21. Rubens’ Peace and War
  22. Saturday Mac riddles 361
  23. Fun with UTIs, QuickLook and Spotlight
  24. Reading Visual Art: 251 Snakes and staff, caduceus
  25. How to search Time Machine backups?
  26. Naturalists: Contents and artists
  27. Unmount a volume or eject a disk
  28. On Reflection: Extending the image
  29. Tackle QuickLook problems
  30. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  31. Medium and message: Pottery
  32. Settings, preferences and defaults
  33. Hero or hooligan: Theseus and the sandals
  34. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 360
  35. How QuickLook provides thumbnails and previews
  36. Paintings of visits to India 1878-1944
  37. Last Week on My Mac: Syncing metadata in iCloud Drive
  38. Paintings of visits to India 1778-1877
  39. Saturday Mac riddles 360
  40. Explainer: QuickLook
  41. Naturalists: Sorolla and Zorn
  42. Chinese whispers in PDF metadata
  43. On Reflection: Pierre Bonnard 1909-1946
  44. SpotTest 1.2 can display Spotlight metadata directly
  45. On Reflection: Pierre Bonnard 1899-1908
  46. How to preserve versions, and how to create versioned PDFs
  47. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  48. Medium and message: Sculpture
  49. What gets synced in iCloud Drive?
  50. What has changed in macOS Tahoe 26.5?
  51. Apple has released macOS Tahoe 26.5, and security updates 15.7.7 and 14.8.7
  52. Hero or hooligan: Perseus 2
  53. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 359
  54. Does iCloud Drive now lose almost all metadata?
  55. Paintings of Beatrice Portinari: after 1862
  56. Last Week on My Mac: snapshots, the elephant in APFS
  57. Paintings of Beatrice Portinari: to 1862
  58. Saturday Mac riddles 359
  59. Explainer: File Provider and cloud services
  60. Naturalists: Into the 20th century
  61. How to check whether Spotlight is getting the right metadata
  62. On Reflection: Mirror play
  63. How to make and roll back to a snapshot
  64. Medium and message: miniature
  65. How macOS can ignore and hide metadata
  66. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  67. Hero or hooligan: Perseus 1
  68. How to store and manage metadata in macOS
  69. The bicentenary of Frederic Edwin Church: 1857-77
  70. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 358
  71. macOS virtual machines and audio-video syncing
  72. A walk in the parks of Rome, Vienna, Manhattan and Brooklyn
  73. Last Week on My Mac: Where’s the fire escape?
  74. A walk in the parks of London and Paris
  75. Saturday Mac riddles 358
  76. How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?
  77. Naturalists: Photography
  78. Use Finder tags for categories

April 2026

  1. On Reflection: The Venus Effect
  2. Control what gets written to the log
  3. Medium and message: Tapestry
  4. Virtualisation on Apple silicon Macs is different
  5. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  6. Jerusalem Delivered: Overview and contents
  7. Finder comments, steganography and malware
  8. The bicentenary of Frederic Edwin Church: 1849-57
  9. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 357
  10. The Minimise Easter Egg lives on
  11. Painting Pandora and her box: 1883-1919
  12. Last Week on My Mac: Didn’t macOS have a GUI?
  13. Painting Pandora and her box: 1550-1882
  14. Saturday Mac riddles 357
  15. Explainer: Network file systems
  16. Reading Visual Art: 250 Winged sandals
  17. The secret life of the xattr
  18. Naturalists: Education
  19. Networking changes coming in macOS 27
  20. On Reflection: Hodler and Klimt
  21. The macOS Natural Language framework and Nalaprop
  22. Medium and Message: Stained glass
  23. The MACL extended attribute
  24. Jerusalem Delivered: 13 Leading characters
  25. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 356
  26. Privacy: How locations are protected
  27. Painting Spring blossom 2
  28. Last Week on My Mac: Don’t be a victim of fraud
  29. Painting Spring blossom 1
  30. Saturday Mac riddles 356
  31. Explainer: Recovery
  32. Reading Visual Art: 249 Mask
  33. Five months later and the Clock app still has an obvious bug
  34. Naturalists: Urban poverty
  35. DFU mode
  36. On Reflection: Cézanne
  37. Privacy: Which folders are protected in Tahoe?
  38. Medium and Message: Mosaic
  39. Dual-boot an Apple silicon Mac in Sequoia or Tahoe
  40. Jerusalem Delivered: 12 Delivery
  41. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 355
  42. CPU core frequencies updated for all current Apple silicon Macs
  43. Centaurs 2: Revenge
  44. Last Week on My Mac: Root cause analysis and ClickFix
  45. Centaurs 1: Fights
  46. Saturday Mac riddles 355
  47. Explainer: sandboxes
  48. Naturalists: The modern meal
  49. Why you can’t trust Privacy & Security
  50. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  51. Apple has just released an update to macOS Tahoe, to version 26.4.1
  52. On Reflection: Divisionism
  53. Please help update CPU frequencies for Apple silicon Macs
  54. Commemorating the centenary of the death of John Ferguson Weir
  55. Privacy: Files & Folders or Full Disk Access?
  56. Jerusalem Delivered: 11 Into Jerusalem
  57. Privacy: protected folders
  58. The bicentenary of Gustave Moreau: 1879-98
  59. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 354
  60. Understanding and testing iCloud
  61. Paintings for Easter Sunday: Don’t touch me
  62. Last Week on My Mac: Consent, intent and privacy
  63. Virginie Demont-Breton painting the Opal Coast
  64. Saturday Mac riddles 354
  65. Explainer: AppKit and SwiftUI
  66. Apple has released an update to XProtect for macOS prior to Sequoia
  67. Hans Memling’s unique Passion
  68. Apple has released an update to XProtect for Sequoia & Tahoe only
  69. Mac Easter eggs
  70. The bicentenary of Gustave Moreau: 1872-78
  71. Buying a used Mac
  72. Commemorating the centenary of the death of Charles Angrand
  73. Planning for macOS this summer

March 2026

  1. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  2. Medium and Message: Paint to print
  3. Even richer text editing with DelightEd version 2.5
  4. Jerusalem Delivered: 10 Rinaldo retrieved
  5. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 353
  6. Why the macOS 26.4 update appears to freeze
  7. Paintings of Lake Geneva: Ferdinand Hodler
  8. Last Week on My Mac: Update progress
  9. Paintings of Lake Geneva: Turner to Courbet
  10. Saturday Mac riddles 353
  11. Explainer: I/O throttling
  12. The bicentenary of Gustave Moreau: 1852-1871
  13. Does disk storage speed limit macOS virtual machines?
  14. Naturalists: Science and medicine
  15. Read the macOS update progress bar
  16. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  17. On Reflection: Impressionism
  18. Access and repair a broken disk image
  19. What has changed in macOS Tahoe 26.4?
  20. Apple has released macOS Tahoe 26.4, and security updates 15.7.5 and 14.8.5
  21. Medium and Message: Pentimenti
  22. How can I now have two apps named Pages?
  23. Jerusalem Delivered: 9 Armida’s Garden
  24. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 352
  25. Disk image performance: the cost of encryption rises
  26. Natural history paintings of Bruno Liljefors 2
  27. Last Week on My Mac: Brilliant engineering in a flawed interface
  28. Natural history paintings of Bruno Liljefors 1
  29. Saturday Mac riddles 352
  30. Explainer: Disk images
  31. Naturalists: Spread
  32. What to do with APFS warnings and errors
  33. On Reflection: Realism in the late 19th century
  34. What is a Background Security Improvement, and how does it work?
  35. In memoriam Jean-Eugène Buland, painter of the Third Republic
  36. How macOS 26 Tahoe updates: 4 Download, preparation and installation
  37. Apple has just released the first Background Security Improvement for macOS Tahoe
  38. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  39. Medium and Message: Oil studies
  40. Who called git, and how Claude was caught red-handed
  41. Jerusalem Delivered: 8 Rinaldo abducted by Armida
  42. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 351
  43. How localisation confused SilentKnight 2.13
  44. A weekend with Misia: 2
  45. Last Week on My Mac: Dependency and skill fade
  46. A weekend with Misia: 1
  47. Saturday Mac riddles 351
  48. How to survive the loss of Rosetta
  49. Reading Visual Art: 248 Hood
  50. SilentKnight 2.14 is ready for new firmware versions
  51. Naturalists: Marie Bashkirtseff
  52. How long does the log keep entries?
  53. On Reflection: Constable and Turner
  54. Why does AI tell you to use Terminal so much?
  55. Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  56. Medium and Message: Secrets of the Masters
  57. Recover files from a sick Mac
  58. Jerusalem Delivered: 7 The death of Clorinda
  59. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 350
  60. How macOS 26 Tahoe updates: 3 Catalogues and preparing to download
  61. Painting the streets with Lesser Ury 2
  62. Last Week on My Mac: New and super
  63. Painting the streets with Lesser Ury 1
  64. Saturday Mac riddles 350
  65. Explainer: Mac firmware version numbering
  66. Naturalists: Jules Bastien-Lepage 1882-84
  67. Behind the scenes: SilentKnight and updates
  68. Has Apple suffered a premature release?
  69. Naturalists: Jules Bastien-Lepage 1875-81
  70. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  71. What can you do when Software Update can’t?
  72. Apple has released macOS Tahoe 26.3.1
  73. New build of SilentKnight 2.12 for Tahoe 26.4 beta testers
  74. On Reflection: Northern landscapes
  75. How macOS 26 Tahoe updates: 2 Finite state machines
  76. Medium and Message: Gilding
  77. Does Safe mode check the startup disk?
  78. Jerusalem Delivered: 6 Erminia flees
  79. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 349
  80. How macOS 26 Tahoe updates 1
  81. The Other Half: Painters and their models 2
  82. Last Week on My Mac: Bugs of wonder

February 2026

  1. The Other Half: Painters and their models 1
  2. Saturday Mac riddles 349
  3. Explainer: macOS updates
  4. Reading Visual Art: 247 Woodpecker
  5. Lost in the log? Here’s Logistician 1.1
  6. Naturalists: Origins
  7. How long will my Mac’s SSD last?
  8. On Reflection: Optics
  9. Investigate a past event in the log
  10. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  11. Medium and Message: Edgar Degas’ mixed media
  12. Use Fallback Recovery on Apple silicon Macs
  13. Jerusalem Delivered: 5 First skirmish and a sorceress
  14. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 348
  15. How does macOS keep its log?
  16. Paintings of British Cathedrals and Abbeys: Constable and others
  17. Last Week on My Mac: A log statistician
  18. Paintings of British Cathedrals and Abbeys: Thomas Girtin
  19. Saturday Mac riddles 348
  20. Explainer: JSON
  21. Reading Visual Art: 246 Apron
  22. In the background: Identification
  23. Naturalists: Naturalism and Impressionism
  24. How to erase your Apple silicon Mac
  25. On Reflection: Selfies
  26. Firmware updates for macOS Tahoe, Sequoia and Sonoma
  27. Apple has just released updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator
  28. Medium and Message: Panorama
  29. In the background: Putting threads to work
  30. Jerusalem Delivered: 4 Advance to Emmaus
  31. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 347
  32. An illustrated guide to Recovery on Apple silicon Macs 2.0
  33. Paintings of Capri: 1884-1928
  34. Last Week on My Mac: Repair Assistant has replaced Diagnostics
  35. Paintings of Capri: 1828-1879
  36. Saturday Mac riddles 347
  37. Explainer: % CPU in Activity Monitor
  38. Reading Visual Art: 245 Scissors
  39. Friday Magic: See real log entries
  40. On Reflection: Introduction
  41. In the background: software update, backup & XProtect Remediator
  42. What has changed in macOS Tahoe 26.3?
  43. Apple has released macOS Tahoe 26.3, and security updates in Sequoia 15.7.4 & Sonoma 14.8.4
  44. The Dutch Golden Age: Conclusions and contents
  45. macOS Tahoe no longer fully supports Time Capsules
  46. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  47. Medium and Message: William Blake’s fresco and tempera
  48. In the background: Spotlight indexing
  49. Jerusalem Delivered: 3 Capture of Jerusalem
  50. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 346
  51. External storage: OWC Express 4M2 could be a perfect compromise
  52. Japonisme in painting: 1889-1918
  53. Last Week on My Mac: Why E cores make Apple silicon fast
  54. Japonisme in painting: 1863-1888
  55. Saturday Mac riddles 346
  56. Explainer: XPC
  57. Reading Visual Art: 244 Axe
  58. Apple silicon Macs have 2 types of Thunderbolt ports
  59. Reading Visual Art: 243 Dryads and Hamadryads
  60. How XProtect is hunting scripts
  61. The Dutch Golden Age: How did it happen?
  62. Is your Mac dead, in DFU mode, or alive?
  63. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  64. Medium and Message: Goya’s experiments
  65. What happens in early kernel boot on Apple silicon?
  66. Apple has just released security updates for Catalina and Big Sur
  67. Jerusalem Delivered: 2 Mounting the First Crusade
  68. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 345
  69. Which snapshots could you delete?
  70. A Painted Weekend in Amsterdam: 1871-1923
  71. Last Week on My Mac: Seconds out

January 2026

  1. A Painted Weekend in Amsterdam: 1645-1867
  2. Saturday Mac riddles 345
  3. Explainer: snapshots
  4. Reading Visual Art: 242 Apelles
  5. More malware from Google search
  6. The Dutch Golden Age: Historical context 1644-1674
  7. How does an Apple silicon Mac tell the time?
  8. The Dutch Golden Age: Historical context 1565-1643
  9. Clean install macOS
  10. Medium and Message: Monotypes
  11. Should you restart or cold boot?
  12. Jerusalem Delivered: 1 A forgotten epic
  13. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 344
  14. What was that, a crash, freeze or panic?
  15. Painting the spirits of water: Ondines and their curse
  16. Last Week on My Mac: Signs of distress
  17. Painting the spirits of water: gods and Naiads
  18. Saturday Mac riddles 344
  19. How could logging out help?
  20. Reading Visual Art: 241 Sculptor
  21. How to tell where a file or folder is
  22. Apple has released an update to XProtect for all macOS
  23. In memoriam Carlos Schwabe: 2 1898-1908
  24. Can you still run old App Store apps?
  25. The Dutch Golden Age: Decline and legacy
  26. Can you slim macOS down?
  27. Medium and Message: Tondo
  28. Is that signing certificate still valid?
  29. Painted stories of the Decameron: Overview and contents
  30. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 343
  31. Which cryptexes does macOS Tahoe load?
  32. A painted weekend in the Alhambra 1886-1914
  33. Last Week on My Mac: Local network privacy revealed
  34. A painted weekend in the Alhambra 1767-1883
  35. Saturday Mac riddles 343
  36. What’s happening with code signing and future macOS?
  37. In memoriam Carlos Schwabe: 1 1890-96
  38. Can you disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
  39. The Dutch Golden Age: Mills
  40. How Time Machine backups can fail silently
  41. Medium and Message: Oil on copper 1620-1926
  42. How local network privacy could affect you
  43. Medium and Message: Oil on copper 1575-1610
  44. Providable 1.2 works on non-English systems, and why it didn’t previously
  45. Painted stories of the Decameron: Brother Philippe’s Geese
  46. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 342
  47. How to open a suspicious document or app
  48. Paintings of human flight 2: Blériot to the Battle of Britain
  49. Last Week on My Mac: Does your laptop Mac get scanned for malware?
  50. Paintings of human flight 1: before Blériot
  51. Saturday Mac riddles 342
  52. Explainer: Copy and paste, drag and drop
  53. Reading Visual Art: 240 Gallows
  54. Hiding text in PDFs
  55. The Dutch Golden Age: Unique imagery of Domenicus van Wijnen
  56. Check Time Machine backups in macOS Sequoia and Tahoe
  57. Medium and Message: Fans from Europe
  58. Archive webpages using textClippings
  59. Medium and Message: Fans from Japan
  60. Exclude or include items in backup, search, iCloud Drive and QuickLook preview
  61. Painted stories of the Decameron: Griselda’s suffering
  62. Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 341
  63. Open up Finder clippings with Disclipper, and a Providable update
  64. Paintings of Le Cannet: 1928-45
  65. Last Week on My Mac: Drag, drop, clipping
  66. Paintings of Le Cannet: 1901-27
  67. Saturday Mac riddles 341
  68. Text, strings and Unicode
  69. Painting the first month of the New Year
  70. How macOS has grown 2019-2025
  71. This Year in Paintings: Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, Frederick Edwin Church and others
  72. ICYMI: a selection of the best Mac articles of 2025 – 2

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