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I’ve been living in Apple’s container tool for the last few days. A handful of commands come up a lot, and other team members have asked how, so I’m writing them down. Here are the three I reach for …

After getting Apple’s container running, the thing I actually wanted was a normal Ubuntu box to poke around in. That took one more step than I expected: systemd. A container runs whatever its CMD is as PID 1. The …

Apple has a CLI for running Linux containers on macOS now. It’s called container, and the part I care about is that it doesn’t need Docker Desktop. The design choice that makes it interesting: there’s …

I read the release notes. I just opened a Finder window and it feels better, and it took me a second to figure out why. It’s two things. There’s now a single vertical border between the sidebar and the …

There’s a question I ask engineers when they hand me an AI generated PR: “walk me through what this does.” If they can, the PR is usually fine. If they can’t, the PR is almost always broken. Not …