You can finally delete Docker Desktop

Podman Desktop is here and it works great. When Docker changed their license to the following, it was widely understood that its time as the default local developer tool was coming to an end. Docker Desktop remains free for small businesses (fewer than 250 employees AND less than $10 million…

Passkeys as a tool for user retention

With the release of iOS 16 and MacOS Ventura, we are now in the age of passkeys. This is happening through WebAuthn, a specification written by the W3C and FIDO with the involvement of all of the major vendors such as Google, Mozilla, etc. The basic premise is familiar to…

Stop Optimizing for Tutorials

It always starts the same way. A demo is shown where a previously complex problem set is reduced down to running one Magic Tool. It is often endorsed by one of the Big Tech Companies or maintained by them. Some members of the organization start calling for the immediate adoption…

The Book of CP-System

New book called "The Book of CP-System" is an amazing trip down the technical memory road of the legendary CPS-1 board that powered classics like "Street Fighter II".…

Battle of the Text Editors

I have always liked text editors. There is something promising about them, a blank canvas that you can quickly mess up with your random commented out lines. I went from BBEdit, my favorite Mac app of all time (seriously I love this app so much I bought a tshirt with…

Grief and Programming

Once again I asked, “Father, I want to know what a dying person feels when no one will speak with him, nor be open enough to permit him to speak, about his dying.” The old man was quiet, and we sat without speaking for nearly an hour. Since he did…

Consider using Kubernetes ephemeral debug container

I'll admit I am late to learning these exist. About once a month, maybe more, I need to spin up some sort of debug container inside of Kubernetes. It's usually for something trivial like checking networking or making sure DNS isn't being weird and…