Resizing windows in macOS Tahoe is easy

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Jason Snell refers to a post by Norbert Heger about how hard it can be to resize a window.

I keep seeing such articles about some daunting problem and can only assume that the writer is using some specific configuration and/or software that is causing their difficulties thus most of us never see such. I guess most readers just shrug and move on never having experienced such a problem.

It is not difficult to resize a window in macOS Tahoe. Move the mouse pointer over the edge of the window and it changes to a double headed pointer. Over a side edge this will indicate that you can resize it by dragging left or right. Over the top or bottom edge it indicates an up or down movement is required and over a corner a diagonal movement will result in the window resizing as expected. In his article Norbert Heger suggests he has to click outside the window. Such a click will move the focus to the Finder or whichever app is lurking behind.

Mac mini M2 Pro. macOS Tahoe 26.2. Studio Display 2560 x 1440.

Political poets

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Writing about the shortcomings of Keir Starmer (of which there are many), Ian Dunt observed that

…the prime minister themselves needs a broader, managerial, storytelling approach. They are the poetry, not the prose

This is my concern about the Green party’s leader Zack Polanski. He is certainly a splendid storyteller and can paint a vivid political poem but beyond that are there the people prepared to roll their sleeves up and get down to crossing the i’s and dotting the t’s to make things actually happen?

Update 22nd December 2025: Today Megan Kenyon writing for The New Statesman explains “How the Green Party is professionalising”.

Name? Age? Who knows?

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The Buckinghamshire Archives said…

We’ve had a few enquiries come in after chatbots told researchers that we hold documents we don’t actually look after

…in response to a warning from the ICRC about AI nonsense-bots generating fabricated references because they are designed to spew out something that looks like an answer even if there is no answer available.

Having fallen down a family history rabbit hole recently it seems that such erroneous content is not limited to AI bots.

    Birth dates before 1st July 1837, when a national register started, are endlessly variable and a person may have five or more different years recorded as their birth year during their lifetime.
    As old records are handwritten details such as surnames may not be deciphered correctly.
    Just because somebody ticked the box confirming that all the information provided on a census form is true and accurate does not mean that all the information provided on the form is true and/or accurate.
    The transcribers of census forms can miss people from a listing because they were ‘hidden’ on the next page.
    Even if somebody is included in another family tree it does not mean that person actually existed.

Developers are great – an ongoing series

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Most of my school reports concluded that I ‘could do better’/’must try harder’. As we watch the web disintegrate around us daily those are the words that usually come to mind. It is not just the Enshittification but the careless amateurism of much of what appears on, supposedly, professionally developed sites. I assume that these are managed and overseen by someone competent but…

Duncan, lower your monthly payments by £0 Est.

This is basic stuff. In lesson one you learn about Bubble sorts. Lesson two check for negative and zero values so you do not spew out nonsense like this.