// latest
Finding It Isn't Fixing It
posted: Thursday, August 20, 2026
GitHub spent more of the August 17 outage recovering than diagnosing. Their remediation list says the same thing: getting back up is its own problem.
engineering log / distributed systems / distributed teams
Field notes on the systems I build and what keeps them running.
// latest
Finding It Isn't Fixing It
posted: Thursday, August 20, 2026
GitHub spent more of the August 17 outage recovering than diagnosing. Their remediation list says the same thing: getting back up is its own problem.
reliabilityincidentsscalegithub
Davit: A Native UI for Apple's Container Tool
posted: Monday, June 15, 2026
I’ve spent the last week living in Apple’s container tool from the terminal. It’s good. But some days I want a window, a list of what’s running, and a button. Davit is that window. Davit's …
Helpful macOS Container Tool Commands
posted: Saturday, June 13, 2026
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 …
Running Ubuntu on Apple's Container
posted: Friday, June 12, 2026
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's Container Tool
posted: Friday, June 12, 2026
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 …