Beth – A Little of Both

Blind

It has been a while since I’ve worked on in-person conferences, but with events starting back up, conference planning has started up again as well. I recently chatted with someone about improving diversity in speaker lineups. This is a very difficult topic with no easy answers, but it is one that I love talking about. I’m serious. I want you all to know that if any of you are interested in improving the diversity of your speaker lineup, I’m happy to talk through your process and offer suggestions.

Can’t Drag Files in Finder (Mac)

I just got a new laptop, a Macbook Pro. It is my first new computer in over ten years, so it has been a long time since I’ve had to set up a new system for myself. Maybe this is something that other Mac users solved a long time ago, but it was my first time encountering it. In Finder, I could click on a file, but when I tried to drag it into another folder to organize the files, nothing happened. I didn’t get the outline of the file name, folders didn’t highlight as I hovered over them, and when I let go, the file was not moved.

finally{}: Pulled From All Angles

Everywhere I look, there are articles targeting programmers with suggestions and plans for how to be “better.” Some articles promise to make you a better co-worker, while others extol the virtues of being a better manager. Some will make you better at communicating while others will make you better at coding. In all cases, though, the message is the same: you programmers need to be “better.”

“vagrant” will damage your computer

I tried to run a simple “vagrant up” command today, and got this overly-scary error message:

“vagrant” will damage your computer. This file was downloaded on an unknown date.”

This is not my first time using vagrant on this machine. In fact, I use it all the time, so what happened? Did something get corrupted? Was I infected with malware?

Luckily, all my doomsday thinking was unnecessary. What happened was relatively innocuous and easy to fix. Hashicorp revoked the vagrant certificate (https://support.hashicorp.com/hc/en-us/articles/13177506317203) because of a CircleCI Security issue first announced on January 4th, 2023 (https://circleci.com/blog/january-4-2023-security-alert/).

To fix this, you just need to remove and reinstall vagrant. I used the following commands to do this on my Mac. This removes vagrant only and none of my user data.

Remove vagrant:

sudo rm -rf /opt/vagrant /usr/local/bin/vagrant
sudo pkgutil --forget com.vagrant.vagrant

Reinstall vagrant:

brew install hashicorp/tap/hashicorp-vagrant

If you are using something other than Mac, you can get instructions for your specific setup as well on the vagrant site:

Uninstalling vagrant: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/installation/uninstallation

Reinstalling vagrant: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/downloads