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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.

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Helpful macOS Container Tool Commands

posted: Saturday, June 13, 2026

A few container tool commands I keep reaching for, written down for the next teammate who asks how.

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Running Ubuntu on Apple's Container

posted: Friday, June 12, 2026

Getting a real Ubuntu box running under Apple's container means putting systemd back as PID 1. Here's the Dockerfile I used and what the build/run flags actually do.

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Apple's Container Tool

posted: Friday, June 12, 2026

Apple's container runs Linux containers as per-container lightweight VMs on Apple silicon, no Docker Desktop needed. Plus the startup error everyone hits first.

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A Single Border and a Better Radius

posted: Wednesday, June 10, 2026

macOS 27 added a single vertical border in Finder and softened the window corners. Two tiny changes, and the whole window suddenly reads right.

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You're the Typist

posted: Wednesday, May 27, 2026

AI multiplies whatever you bring to it. If you can't explain what your generated code does and how it does it, you're not faster. You're just dragging your gaps along at higher speed.

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KQL Reads Like a Sentence

posted: Saturday, May 23, 2026

Why KQL is the first query language I'd put in front of a non-engineer. Pipe syntax, English verbs, and the join cliff pushed five chapters back.

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Inverse AI Consulting

posted: Friday, May 15, 2026

Reacting to Mitchell Hashimoto's post on AI psychosis. I love AI, but I expect Inverse AI Consulting to become a real high-value specialty as purely AI-built systems decay past human comprehension.

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