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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....

After the announcement a few weeks back external link that Apple would be defaulting to zsh external link 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 external link and move as much as my ....

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; and used the switch to edge link external link in there to go straight to the Docker for Mac download page;...

Earlier this week I wanted to show someone a copy of Rancher external link running but I realized that I didn’t have a local lab configured. I managed to quickly launch a few machines in Digital Ocean external link 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....

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....

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 external link . 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....

I am currently using most of these tools day to day … Desktop Apps SublimeText external link — Still the best text editor around Dashline external link — Cross device password manager Desk external link — Great editor for writting blog posts Photoshop external link — For ermmmmm Photos OmniGraffle external link — For diagrams and stuff Reeder 2 external link — For reading all the feeds GitHub Mac Client external link — The Mac GitHub client Commandline Apps Home Brew external link — Install “missing” stuff on macs Cask external link — Install Mac Apps using the command line using Brew StormSSH external link — Key & hosts management known_hosts external link — A simple cli known hosts manager Packer external link — Build machine images Z external link — Jump around the CLI Vagrant external link — Run machines built with Packer Services Digital Ocean external link — Server Hosting AWS external link — Server Hosting CloudFlare external link — CDN & Stuff Github external link — Code Hosting Pinboard external link — Bookmarks Evernote external link — Note taking RememberTheMilk external link — Task management Feedly external link — For managing all the newsfeeds Pocket external link — For reading articles later Toggl external link — Time tracking Authy external link — A nice Two Factor Authentication tool Plex external link — An impressive cross device media centre … so not much in the way of changes since I last wrote external link about the tools I use....