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How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?(eclecticlight.co)

259 points by moosia 5 months ago | 96 comments

Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different(eclecticlight.co)

83 points by zdw 6 months ago | 24 comments

Networking changes coming in macOS 27(eclecticlight.co)

250 points by pvtmert 6 months ago | 221 comments

You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings(eclecticlight.co)

449 points by zdw 6 months ago | 152 comments

Eclectic Light Company blog post by Howard Oakley explaining why macOS Privacy & Security settings cannot be relied upon to reflect actual app permissions.

Why does AI tell you to use Terminal so much?(eclecticlight.co)

21 points by ingve 7 months ago | 26 comments

More Mac malware from Google search(eclecticlight.co)

245 points by kristianp 8 months ago | 167 comments

Why E cores make Apple silicon fast(eclecticlight.co)

231 points by ingve 8 months ago | 221 comments

Can you slim macOS down?(eclecticlight.co)

236 points by ingve 9 months ago | 299 comments

Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?(eclecticlight.co)

78 points by chmaynard 9 months ago | 64 comments

Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief(eclecticlight.co)

381 points by vitosartori 10 months ago | 280 comments

An Eclectic Light Company blog post by Howard Oakley looking back at the past year of Mac and macOS developments with disbelief.

The Anatomy of a macOS App(eclecticlight.co)

257 points by elashri 10 months ago | 77 comments

Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence(eclecticlight.co)

376 points by frizlab 10 months ago | 200 comments

A weekly column on The Eclectic Light Company blog by Howard Oakley reflecting on losing confidence in Apple and macOS.

A brief history of Time Machine (2024)(eclecticlight.co)

33 points by firloop 11 months ago | 23 comments

Tahoe's Elephant(eclecticlight.co)

68 points by GavinAnderegg 1 year ago | 38 comments

Explainer: Inodes and Inode Numbers(eclecticlight.co)

44 points by ingve 1 year ago | 0 comments

Disk Utility still can't check and repair APFS volumes and containers (2021)(eclecticlight.co)

98 points by rahimnathwani 1 year ago | 53 comments

A brief history of threads and threading(eclecticlight.co)

78 points by emschwartz 1 year ago | 20 comments

macOS Tahoe Incompatible with Mac Studio M3 Ultra(eclecticlight.co)

20 points by lawgimenez 1 year ago | 4 comments

How much power does Visual Look Up use?(eclecticlight.co)

5 points by zdw 1 year ago | 1 comments

What happens during startup?(eclecticlight.co)

45 points by colinprince 1 year ago | 4 comments

How to check if your Apple Silicon Mac is booting securely(eclecticlight.co)

74 points by shorden 1 year ago | 14 comments

No AI Content(eclecticlight.co)

61 points by frizlab 1 year ago | 39 comments

A brief history of primary coding languages(eclecticlight.co)

25 points by ingve 1 year ago | 14 comments

A brief history of hardware epidemics(eclecticlight.co)

40 points by ingve 1 year ago | 18 comments

macOS Tahoe brings a new disk image format(eclecticlight.co)

341 points by zdw 1 year ago | 123 comments

Eclectic Light Company blog post describing the new disk image format introduced in macOS Tahoe.

A brief history of Mac architecture transitions(eclecticlight.co)

6 points by ingve 1 year ago | 0 comments

The Myth of Liquid Detection(eclecticlight.co)

42 points by frizlab 1 year ago | 22 comments

Speed or security? Speculative execution in Apple Silicon(eclecticlight.co)

11 points by ingve 1 year ago | 1 comments

Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?(eclecticlight.co)

80 points by zdw 1 year ago | 76 comments

M4 chips: E and P cores(eclecticlight.co)

58 points by ingve 1 year ago | 7 comments

A brief history of Mac ports: low speed(eclecticlight.co)

3 points by ingve 1 year ago | 0 comments

M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS(eclecticlight.co)

141 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 100 comments

Inside M4 chips: P cores(eclecticlight.co)

21 points by ingve 1 year ago | 3 comments

A brief history of privacy protection on Macs(eclecticlight.co)

12 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 0 comments

The number given as % CPU in Activity Monitor(eclecticlight.co)

140 points by Brajeshwar 1 year ago | 30 comments

A brief history of Mac firmware(eclecticlight.co)

34 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 6 comments

A Brief History of Defragging(eclecticlight.co)

12 points by zdw 2 years ago | 0 comments

A Brief History of QuickTime(eclecticlight.co)

13 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 1 comments

What performance should you get from different types of storage?(eclecticlight.co)

15 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 3 comments

How long does Apple support Mac firmware?(eclecticlight.co)

79 points by zdw 2 years ago | 42 comments

Managing Classic Mac OS Resources in ResEdit(eclecticlight.co)

86 points by zdw 2 years ago | 43 comments

A brief history of Mac enclaves and exclaves(eclecticlight.co)

28 points by ingve 2 years ago | 2 comments

Multitasking, parallel processing, and concurrency in Swift(eclecticlight.co)

65 points by ingve 2 years ago | 28 comments

Swift 6 and deep concurrency(eclecticlight.co)

25 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 0 comments

Happy birthday APFS, 7 years old today(eclecticlight.co)

83 points by ingve 2 years ago | 30 comments

Ovid's myths of macOS: password entry dialogs and the death of Semele(eclecticlight.co)

43 points by ingve 2 years ago | 36 comments

Apple Silicon: A little help from friends and co-processors(eclecticlight.co)

33 points by ingve 2 years ago | 3 comments

A layered approach to preserving documents(eclecticlight.co)

6 points by ingve 2 years ago | 0 comments

The revenge of Unicode(eclecticlight.co)

11 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 12 comments

What changed CPU performance from the Macintosh 128K to the M3?(eclecticlight.co)

11 points by zdw 2 years ago | 4 comments

The M2 is more advanced that it seemed(eclecticlight.co)

151 points by ingve 2 years ago | 145 comments

M1 Macs may lag behind(eclecticlight.co)

52 points by ingve 2 years ago | 39 comments

How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs(eclecticlight.co)

242 points by ingve 2 years ago | 94 comments

M3 CPU cores have become more versatile(eclecticlight.co)

91 points by ingve 2 years ago | 111 comments

What should we know about APFS special files?(eclecticlight.co)

59 points by ingve 2 years ago | 17 comments

Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?(eclecticlight.co)

271 points by ingve 2 years ago | 220 comments

Where Are the Sanity Checks?(eclecticlight.co)

32 points by ingve 2 years ago | 39 comments

macOS Sonoma is setting records for update size(eclecticlight.co)

52 points by ingve 2 years ago | 58 comments

Evaluating M3 Pro CPU Cores: General Performance(eclecticlight.co)

110 points by ingve 2 years ago | 47 comments

What has changed in CPU cores in M3 chips?(eclecticlight.co)

181 points by zdw 2 years ago | 254 comments

Scary Hasty(eclecticlight.co)

70 points by GavinAnderegg 2 years ago | 27 comments

M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores(eclecticlight.co)

174 points by ingve 3 years ago | 313 comments

Where is my file's metadata?(eclecticlight.co)

24 points by ingve 3 years ago | 8 comments

How does macOS manage virtual cores on Apple Silicon?(eclecticlight.co)

216 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 144 comments

Sonoma's log gets briefer and more secretive(eclecticlight.co)

195 points by ingve 3 years ago | 91 comments

PostScript’s sudden death in Sonoma(eclecticlight.co)

256 points by homarp 3 years ago | 137 comments

How the Mac didn’t bring programming to the people(eclecticlight.co)

171 points by mpweiher 3 years ago | 218 comments

Is macOS’s new XProtect behavioural security preparing to go live?(eclecticlight.co)

82 points by GavinAnderegg 3 years ago | 72 comments

Run a macOS VM on Apple Silicon from a double-click with Vimy(eclecticlight.co)

138 points by akyuu 3 years ago | 73 comments

macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than reported(eclecticlight.co)

205 points by ingve 3 years ago | 128 comments

Why macOS anti-malware scans can behave oddly(eclecticlight.co)

64 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 32 comments

From Cyberdog to dataless files: a brief history of iCloud(eclecticlight.co)

55 points by ingve 3 years ago | 19 comments

System settings that aren’t in System Settings(eclecticlight.co)

133 points by goranmoomin 3 years ago | 91 comments

How does iCloud work? Plus a new version of Cirrus(eclecticlight.co)

146 points by janandonly 3 years ago | 51 comments

Making the most of Apple Silicon power: 2 Core capabilities (2022)(eclecticlight.co)

91 points by nateb2022 3 years ago | 20 comments

Why can’t you just roll back from a bad macOS update?(eclecticlight.co)

100 points by ingve 3 years ago | 83 comments

Apple’s big test of data integrity(eclecticlight.co)

61 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 36 comments

Has Apple sounded the last POST?(eclecticlight.co)

94 points by ingve 3 years ago | 55 comments

Apple has just released the first Rapid Security Response for Ventura(eclecticlight.co)

127 points by Amorymeltzer 3 years ago | 87 comments

Should you remove duplicate files?(eclecticlight.co)

54 points by ingve 3 years ago | 47 comments