// engineering log
Field notes on the systems I build and what keeps them running.
// latest
Davit: A Native UI for Apple's Container Tool
posted: Monday, June 15, 2026
Davit is a native SwiftUI front end for Apple's container platform. It talks to the platform over XPC instead of shelling out to the CLI, and it also runs headless.
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 …
A Single Border and a Better Radius
posted: Wednesday, June 10, 2026
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 …