Imagine my surprise when writing a simple Python script on my Mac, I suddenly got SSL errors on every urllib request over HTTPS. I checked the site certificate, looked good. I even confirmed on the Apple help documentation that they included the CAs for this certificate (in this case the…
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…
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…
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…
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".…
Link to comparison table of internal Google tools to external publicly available tools.…
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…
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…