Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser

A port conflict pushed me to abolish container port forwarding once and for all, making my Firefox talk to Podman's whole network. Also: containerizing dev environments for command-line addicts. Containers. Containers containers containers. Even if you were reluctant before, it’s likely that you use them at least for running various supporting infrastructure when working on projects that involve that kind of thing. Having a whole-system install of Postgres on a laptop shared between various different projects never actually felt right. Running podman run --rm -it -p 5432:5432 postgres:17 to pop up a temporary instance with no persistent state does. These days, it’s very typical for any web backend or other kind of networked service project to include something like a docker-compose.yml file that makes it possible to just run all the service dependencies with one single command. And so I was running a Compose setup for one project, a serious business client consulting job thing, and I ... Read full article.