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One of the annoying things about updating to the latest version of macOS is that a lot of the command-line tools I use tend to break or need tweaking slightly from how I have been using them. One of the annoyances in the move to Big Sur is that Python is a back to being a massive pain, and more so than normal. At the time of writing pyenv↗ is not running all that well, and while there are fixes available they slow down my shell — for more information on the problem see this GitHub issue↗ and for information on why pyenv see my previous post on updating Python on macOS↗ . ...

The latest major version of Python 2 was originally release on 03/07/2010 and on 01/01/2020 Python 2 will be no more; We have decided that January 1, 2020, will be the day that we sunset Python 2. That means that we will not improve it anymore after that day, even if someone finds a security problem in it. You should upgrade to Python 3 as soon as you can. Interestingly the latest version of macOS still ships with Python 2.7 as its default Python interpreter, however that won’t be for much longer as Apple are removing all Scripting Language Runtimes from future releases of macOS; ...

After the announcement a few weeks back↗ that Apple would be defaulting to zsh↗ in macOS Catalina I decided to take the plunge and make the switch on my current machines. I have tried making the switch once before, but for one reason or another I ended up reverting back to Bash. This time I decided to do a little more reading up and also add the .zshrc file to my dotfiles repo↗ and move as much as my .bash_profile over as possible. ...

This morning, like a lot of the Docker community, I receieved an email I had been waiting for since November, confirmation that Kubernetes on Docker for Mac had made its way through to a public edge release. The version of Docker I was running was on the stable channel; The first thing I did was open up the preferences; ...

Earlier this week I wanted to show someone a copy of Rancher↗ running but I realized that I didn’t have a local lab configured. I managed to quickly launch a few machines in Digital Ocean↗ meaning I could do the demo. Rancher is described as being … From the ground up, Rancher was designed to solve all of the critical challenges necessary to run all of your applications in containers. Rancher provides a full set of infrastructure services for containers, including networking, storage services, host management, load balancing and more. All of these services work across any infrastructure, and make it simple to reliably deploy and manage applications. ...

I finally have a beta invite for the native OSX version of Docker, well sort of native OSX version, as you can see from the quote below there is still a virtual machine running … Faster and more reliable — No more VirtualBox! On Mac, the Docker Engine runs in an xhyve Virtual Machine (VM) on top of an Alpine Linux distribution. The VM is managed by the native Docker application. On Windows, the Docker Engine is running in a Hyper-V VM. You do not need Docker Machine (docker-machine) to run Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows. ...

Every six months or so I like to do clean installs of all of my Macs. I try and time this for late September which is normally when Apple releases its latest updates. This year its OS X 10.11 El Capitan; First thing to do is build a USB install disk so that , to do this I use DiskMaker X↗ . Once the drive has been created I boot from it, erase “Macintosh HD” and then do the installation. ...

It has just dawned on me, I have been using the “Aqua Blue” variation of wallpapers which stated shiping with MacOS X since I got my first iMac G3 in 2001. There have been a few variations of it, however the one I have settled on is the one with came with MacOS X 10.4 Tiger. It has been the first thing I have installed on every Mac, Linux and even Windows machine I have run since 2005. ...