Macos

So here’s a fun macOS weirdness I ran into this weekend where I couldn’t connect to a port on another machine from a shell session inside of iTerm, even though I was able to ssh to other hosts. ...

Released version 1.5.0 of https://github.com/unixorn/lima-xbar-plugin lima-xbar-plugin works with both xbar and SwiftBar to add a macos menubar item to control your lima VMs and containers. Thanks to new contributors pythoninthegrass and deepjia.

I signed up for the free personal edition of Autodesk Fusion 360 to get started with 3d printing, and the first time I tried to launch it on macOS, it wouldn’t let me in because it refused to create a new team for me to join. The solution ended up being to quit Fusion 360, open the Fusion Team Signup page in a browser, create a team there, then restart Fusion 360. ...

I had a bunch of cruft in start scripts that would determine the IP of my laptop and set it as an environment variable to pass to docker-compose and it turns out that with Docker for Mac you don’t have to do all that work - just use docker.for.mac.localhost as a hostname.

I’m not sure if this is just macOS Mojave being flaky or some interaction with the security malware installed on my work laptop, but it refuses to connect to some captive portals. ...