Author Archives: Graham

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I make it faster and easier for you to create high-quality code.

GNUstep development on LIVEstep

Posted on 2021-01-20 by Graham

LIVEstep is a GNUstep desktop on a FreeBSD live CD, and it comes with the GNUstep developer tools including ProjectCenter. This video is a “Hello, World” walkthrough using ProjectCenter on LIVEstep. PC is much more influenced by the NeXT Project … Continue reading →

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Data curation during a pandemic

Posted on 2021-01-14 by Graham

Here’s what I’ve been working on (with others, of course) since February.

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Novel bean incoming

Posted on 2021-01-02 by Graham

You may remember in July I updated the open source Bean word processor to work with then-latest Xcode and macOS. Over the last couple of days I’ve added iCloud Drive support (obviously only if the app is associated with an … Continue reading →

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The Silent Network

Posted on 2020-11-17 by Graham

People say that the internet, or maybe specifically the web, holds the world’s information and makes it accessible. Maybe there was a time when that was true. But currently it’s not: probably not because the information is missing, but because … Continue reading →

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Apple Silicon, Xeon Phi, and Amigas

Posted on 2020-11-13 by Graham

The new M1 chip in the new Macs has 8-16GB of DRAM on the package, just like many mobile phones or single-board computers. But unlike many desktop, laptop or workstation computers (there are exceptions). In the first tranche of Macs … Continue reading →

Posted in Amiga, arm, HPC, Mac | 7 Comments

Recovering from deleting your login shell on a Mac

Posted on 2020-11-03 by Graham

In case you ever need it. If you’re searching for something like “deleted login shell Mac can’t open terminal”, this is the post for you. I just deleted my login shell (because it was installed with homebrew, and I removed … Continue reading →

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Lambda: the ultimate polymath

Posted on 2020-11-02 by Graham

Thinking back over the last couple of years, I’ve had to know quite a bit about a few different topics to be able to write good software. Those topics: Epidemiology Architecture Plant Sciences Histology Education Not much knowledge in each … Continue reading →

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Discipline doesn’t scale

Posted on 2020-10-19 by Graham

If programmers were just more disciplined, more professional, they’d write better software. All they need is a code of conduct telling them how to work like those of us who’ve worked it out. The above statement is true, which is … Continue reading →

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Reflections on an iBook G4

Posted on 2020-10-13 by Graham

I had an item in OmniFocus to “write on why I wish I was still using my 2006 iBook”, and then Tim Sneath’s tweet on unboxing a G4 iMac sealed the deal. I wish I was still using my 2006 … Continue reading →

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Running Linux GUI apps under MacOS using Docker

Posted on 2020-10-12 by Graham

I had need to test an application built for Linux, and didn’t want to run a whole desktop in a window using Virtualbox. I found the bits I needed online in various forums, but nowhere was it all in one … Continue reading →

Posted in cross-platform, Mac | 2 Comments