Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co

@howardnoakley

Chief illuminator at the Eclectic Light Company, writing about macOS, paintings; author of over 40 free utilities for macOS.

Isle of Wight, UK

Joined January 2015

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Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co@howardnoakley · 9 h

15 > 10 by bar chart, courtesy of the BBC.

howardnoakley's tweet image. 15 &gt; 10 by bar chart, courtesy of the BBC.

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Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co@howardnoakley · 18 h

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Léon Augustin Lhermitte 2 eclecticlight.co/2025/07/28/com… via @howardnoakley

howardnoakley's tweet card. In his later career he returned to rural themes, although his last major work showed Les Halles, the main market in Paris at the time.

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Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co@howardnoakley · 21 h

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 318 eclecticlight.co/2025/07/28/sol… via @howardnoakley

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Sam Rowlands@Sam_Ohanaware · 21 h

Adopting Liquid Glass with a Xojo made application. ohanaware.com/blog/2025/07/A…

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Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co@howardnoakley · 23 h

Links and aliases: which are best? eclecticlight.co/2025/07/28/lin… via @howardnoakley

howardnoakley's tweet card. Three different ways to link to files, and two for folders. Which should you use, and how well do they cope with changes in that volume?

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Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co@howardnoakley · Jul 27

Dressed for a Dip: paintings of beach dress 1900-1920 eclecticlight.co/2025/07/27/dre… via @howardnoakley Co

howardnoakley's tweet card. In the 20th century, those visiting the south of France claimed nude bathing was traditional, while the rest of Europe and the USA were still developing bathing costumes.

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Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co@howardnoakley · Jul 27

Last Week on My Mac: 🦉 No AI content eclecticlight.co/2025/07/27/las… via @howardnoakley

howardnoakley's tweet card. Dire warnings of the consequences of Google’s answer engine resulting in over-exploitation of the web and its exhaustion. It’s time to stand up and declare what’s written by a hum…

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Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co@howardnoakley · Jul 26

Dressed for a Dip: paintings of beach dress to 1885 eclecticlight.co/2025/07/26/dre… via @howardnoakley

howardnoakley's tweet card. Our ancestors went to the beach and swam there for health. They soon wrapped themselves up in clothing, though, and only in late 19th century dared to dress for the beach.

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Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co@howardnoakley · Jul 26

Saturday Mac riddles 318 eclecticlight.co/2025/07/26/sat… via @howardnoakley

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Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co@howardnoakley · Jul 26

A brief history of time synchronisation eclecticlight.co/2025/07/26/a-b… via @howardnoakley

howardnoakley's tweet card. Early Macs normally had their clocks synced manually, until System 8.5 introduced support for NTP. That later switched to a proprietary service, timed, in macOS 10.13 High Sierra.

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Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co@howardnoakley · Jul 25

Introduction to Dante's Inferno eclecticlight.co/2025/07/25/int… via @howardnoakley

howardnoakley's tweet card. If there’s one book every head of state and leader should read, it’s Dante’s Inferno. Introduction to a new series showing paintings of this first part of his Divine Comedy.

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Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co@howardnoakley · Jul 25

Check MD5 and SHA-256 hashes with DropSum, a new app eclecticlight.co/2025/07/25/che… via @howardnoakley

howardnoakley's tweet card. Paste in the MD5 or SHA-256 hash for a download, drop the file onto its window, and DropSum will tell you if they match and the download is good.

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Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co@howardnoakley · Jul 24

Interiors by Design: Conclusions and contents eclecticlight.co/2025/07/24/int… via @howardnoakley

howardnoakley's tweet card. Overview and table of contents of the new genre of interiors. History, artists, rooms, furniture and decor.

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Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co@howardnoakley · Jul 24

Beware the full startup disk eclecticlight.co/2025/07/24/bew… via @howardnoakley

howardnoakley's tweet card. What do you do when you discover your Mac’s Data volume has run out of free space? A guide to working with snapshots, iCloud Drive, and other tricks to salvage your Mac. And how to prevent th…

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Mishal Shah@mishaldshah · Jul 23

My team at Apple is currently hiring for a role that focuses on compiler tools and infrastructure. If you’re interested in this opportunity, please take a look at the job posting here: jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/… #llvm #swiftlang

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Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co@howardnoakley · Jul 23

Book Review: Clouds, Edward Graham eclecticlight.co/2025/07/23/boo… via @howardnoakley

howardnoakley's tweet card. A unique systematic and accessible account of clouds, their naming and classification, illustrated not with photos but an excellent selection of paintings.

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Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co@howardnoakley · Jul 23

Intel Macs can be much slower computing SHA-256 hashes eclecticlight.co/2025/07/23/int… via @howardnoakley

howardnoakley's tweet card. Computing SHA-256 digests is a common and demanding task, particularly in security. A late Intel Mac is shown to be much slower at doing that than M-series Macs, and this considers why that might b…

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Nikolaj Schlej@NikolajSchlej · Jul 23

Will be presenting my Hydroph0bia (CVE-2025-4275) research at OFFZONE (offzone.moscow) 2025 on Aug 21st. It will be 1 hr long main track talk about UEFI SecureBoot, the hole Insyde left in the H2O platform for a decade, and the things we all can do to prevent such holes.

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St. Clair Software@stclairsoft · Jul 23

A new beta version of Default Folder X 6.2 is available, bringing it into sync with macOS Tahoe 26 beta 4 which was released by Apple yesterday. You can download Default Folder X 6.2b3 at stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX…

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Howard Oakley, Eclectic Light Co@howardnoakley · Jul 22

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all macOS eclecticlight.co/2025/07/22/app… via @howardnoakley

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