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Re:Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @11:21AM (#48833140)
Shipped in 0.1.8; Images -> Build Image (context dir, tag, build args). It drives Apple's buildkit shim directly over vsock, no docker needed. brew upgrade davit or the in-app updater will get it.
Re:Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @11:20AM (#48833128)
Doable and done; added in 0.1.9. Settings -> General lets you pick Terminal/iTerm2/Ghostty/WezTerm/kitty/Alacritty/Warp (whatever's installed).
Re:Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @11:20AM (#48833122)
Good catch, that was a bug; the value fields were trailing-aligned which makes SwiftUI insert like RTL. Fixed in 0.1.9.
Re:Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @11:05PM (#48826991)
Working on this..
Re:Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @11:04PM (#48826988)
Added this in the latest release.
Re:Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @06:36PM (#48824970)
Great suggestion. Coming up.
Re:Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @06:32PM (#48824924)
Docker Desktop/Obstack start a single VM that runs all your containers. This means that you'll have to scale it accordingly. Davit uses Apple Containers that runs a very thin VM for each container you spin up. Depending on your use case it's more, less or equivalently effcient.
Re:Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @06:30PM (#48824902)
Great suggestion! I'll add this!
Re:Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @06:29PM (#48824886)
With nothing running, the platform's background services idle at roughly 25 MB. Docker desktop starts a single VM to host all containers and will reserve memory to do so. Davit itself is about 25mb and then each container will use the memory up to what you allocate for it.
Re:Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:37PM (#48824218)
It does, doesn't it?
Re:A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @11:21PM (#17455086)
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