After updating my app to Ember 1.12.0, I notice lots of warnings like this:
lookup
was called on a Registry. Theinitializer
Turns out a browser plugin of all things was blocking the information I needed on the original blog post. I'll leave this here in case it's useful to anyone, but in the CLI regular initializers go inside
app/initializers/__my__initializer.js
while Instance Initializers are defined like
app/instance-initializers/__my__initializer.js