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2026 11

  1. MacAdmins.news: Boldly Gone
  2. MacAdmins.news: Party for Two
  3. Apple 27 Platform Updates — September 2026
  4. Apple 26.6 Platform Updates — August 2026
  5. Apple 26.5 Platform Updates — May 2026
  6. Apple 26.4 Platform Updates — March 2026
  7. macOS 26.4 brings more default app confirmation prompts
  8. Swift re-write for QuickPkg and some thoughts on LLM aided coding
  9. Apple 26.3 Platform Updates – February 2026
  10. Managing iWork in 2026, the Creator Studio update
  11. Swift Argument Parser: Exiting and Errors

2025 15

  1. Apple Platform Updates: 26.2
  2. Fifteen years of Scripting OS X
  3. Apple Platform updates for September 2025
  4. Another Simple Package: Policy Banner
  5. Books Update — 2025
  6. Building Simple Component Packages
  7. Installing Packages
  8. Apple Platform updates for July 2025
  9. Inspecting Packages
  10. Updates: Setup Manager and utiluti
  11. New tool updated: utiluti v1.1
  12. Installomator v10.8
  13. New tool: utiluti sets default apps
  14. Installomator v10.7
  15. Run a script when Setup Manager is finished

2024 8

  1. Installomator v10.6
  2. Swift Command Line Tools and Argument Parser — Part 1
  3. Building a LaunchD Installer pkg for desktoppr (and other tools)
  4. desktoppr 0.5 — Managed by profile
  5. Goodbye, Charles Edge
  6. Prefs CLI Tools for Mac Admins
  7. zsh scripts and Root Escalations
  8. Using desktoppr in a managed environment

2023 42

  1. Installomator v10.5
  2. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-10-13
  3. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-10-06
  4. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-09-29
  5. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-09-22
  6. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-09-15
  7. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023–09–08
  8. Build a notarized package with a Swift Package Manager executable
  9. Build a macOS Application to Run a Shell Command with Xcode and SwiftUI – Part 2
  10. Managed Xcode Deployment
  11. macOS Ventura 13.5 and iOS 16.6
  12. RAID and macOS
  13. Weekly News Summary for Admins – 2023-07-07
  14. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-06-30
  15. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-06-23
  16. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-06-16
  17. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-06-09
  18. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-06-02
  19. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-05-26
  20. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-05-19
  21. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-05-12
  22. MacAdmins Slack: a highly opinionated guide (2023)
  23. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-05-05
  24. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-04-28
  25. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-04-21
  26. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-04-14
  27. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-04-07
  28. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-03-31
  29. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-03-24
  30. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-03-17
  31. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-03-10
  32. Swift Jamf API Tutorial, Part 5
  33. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-03-03
  34. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-02-24
  35. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-02-17
  36. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-02-10
  37. Installomator v10.3 and v11.0beta1
  38. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-02-03
  39. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-01-27
  40. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-01-20
  41. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2023-01-13
  42. Installomator v10.2

2022 68

  1. The Year 2022 for MacAdmins
  2. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-12-16
  3. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-12-09
  4. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-12-02
  5. Update: Installomator v10.1
  6. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-11-25
  7. Swift UI Tutorial – Part 3
  8. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-11-18
  9. Installomator v10.0
  10. On viewing man pages (Ventura update)
  11. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-11-11
  12. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-11-04
  13. Some Swift Updates
  14. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-10-28
  15. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-10-21
  16. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-10-14
  17. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-10-07
  18. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-09-30
  19. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-09-22
  20. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-09-16
  21. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-09-09
  22. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-09-02
  23. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-08-26
  24. macOS 12.5 and iOS 15.6
  25. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-07-15
  26. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-07-08
  27. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-07-01
  28. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-06-24
  29. MDOYVR 22 Talk: The Encyclopedia of macOS Automation
  30. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-06-17
  31. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-06-10
  32. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-06-03
  33. 2022 Conference Season Speaking Schedule
  34. macOS 12.4 and iOS 15.5
  35. Update Installomator: v9.2
  36. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-05-13
  37. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-05-06
  38. Launching Scripts #4: AppleScript from Shell Script
  39. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-04-29
  40. Launching Scripts #3: Shell scripts from AppleScript
  41. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-04-22
  42. Launching Scripts #2: Launching Scripts from Finder
  43. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-04-15
  44. On env Shebangs
  45. Launching Scripts #1: From Terminal
  46. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-04-08
  47. Use shellcheck with BBEdit
  48. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-04-01
  49. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-03-25
  50. Some CLI updates in macOS Monterey
  51. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-03-18
  52. Update: Installomator 9.1
  53. macOS Monterey 12.3 removes Python 2 – Link collection
  54. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-03-11
  55. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-03-04
  56. Jamf After Dark Podcast Appearance
  57. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-02-25
  58. Update: Installomator 9.0.1
  59. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-02-18
  60. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-02-11
  61. Update: Installomator v9.0
  62. Python 2 is dead – Long live Python!
  63. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-02-04
  64. Update: quickpkg 1.0beta
  65. Update: pkgcheck
  66. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-01-28
  67. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-01-21
  68. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2022-01-14

2021 78

  1. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-12-17
  2. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-12-10
  3. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-12-03
  4. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-11-26
  5. Installomator v8.0
  6. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-11-19
  7. The unexpected return of JavaScript for Automation
  8. Scripting OS X — Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-11-12
  9. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-11-05
  10. Monterey, python, and free disk space
  11. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-10-29
  12. Download Full Installer update
  13. Save up to 25% pkg file size with this weird Monterey trick!
  14. News Summary for Admins — 2021-10-22
  15. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-10-15
  16. Installomator update: v0.7
  17. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-10-08
  18. MacSysAdmin Online 2021 is live!
  19. News Summary for Admins — 2021-10-01
  20. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-09-24
  21. Working at Jamf…
  22. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-09-17
  23. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-09-10
  24. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-09-03
  25. Scripting macOS, part 7: Download and Install Firefox
  26. Suspicious Package 4.0 Update
  27. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-08-27
  28. Scripting macOS, part 6: Turn it off and on again
  29. Installomator v0.7b1 – Prerelease
  30. Scripting macOS, part 5: Lists of Commands
  31. Scripting macOS, part 4: Running the Script
  32. Scripting macOS, part 3: The Code
  33. Scripting macOS, part 2: The Script File
  34. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-07-23
  35. Scripting macOS, part 1: First Script
  36. Suspicious Package Power User Features
  37. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-07-16
  38. Installomator v0.6
  39. An AirTag Adventure, Part 2—Receiving an AirTag
  40. Scripting OS X — Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-07-09
  41. Notarize a Command Line Tool with notarytool
  42. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021–07–02
  43. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-06-25
  44. Download Full Installer
  45. MacDeployment and MacDevOps YVR Presentations
  46. Scripting OS X — Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-06-18
  47. Scripting OS X — Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-06-11
  48. WWDC 2021 – What to watch for MacAdmins
  49. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-06-04
  50. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-05-28
  51. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-05-21
  52. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021–05–14
  53. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-05-07
  54. MacAdmin Support Pages
  55. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-04-30
  56. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-04-23
  57. Installomator Updated: v0.5
  58. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-04-16
  59. Scripting OS X — Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-04-09
  60. Get Password from Keychain in Shell Scripts
  61. Scripting OS X — Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-04-02
  62. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-03-26
  63. Twenty Years of Mac OS X
  64. Script Identity Crisis – get the Path to the Current Script
  65. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-03-19
  66. EraseInstall application retired
  67. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-03-12
  68. Scripting OS X on the MacAdmins Podcast
  69. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-03-05
  70. Book Update for Big Sur – Moving to zsh v5
  71. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-02-26
  72. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-02-19
  73. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-02-12
  74. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-02-05
  75. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-01-29
  76. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-01-22
  77. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-01-15
  78. Scripting OS X — Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2021-01-08

2020 78

  1. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-12-18
  2. Scripting OS X — Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-12-11
  3. Update: desktoppr v0.4
  4. Platform Support in macOS Installer Packages (pkg)
  5. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-12-04
  6. Scripting OS X — Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-11-27
  7. Ten Years of Scripting OS X
  8. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-11-20
  9. Deploying the Big Sur Installer Application
  10. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-11-13
  11. Book Update for Big Sur – Moving to zsh v4
  12. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-11-06
  13. Scripting OS X — Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-10-30
  14. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-10-23
  15. Dealing with xpath changes in Big Sur
  16. Installomator Updated: v0.4
  17. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-10-16
  18. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-10-09
  19. MacSysAdmin Online 2020
  20. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-10-02
  21. Virtual JNUC 2020 Session: Scripting Jamf Pro – Best Practices
  22. Avoiding AppleScript Security and Privacy Requests
  23. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-09-25
  24. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-09-18
  25. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-09-11
  26. macOS Version Big Sur Update
  27. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-09-04
  28. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-08-28
  29. Running a Command as another User
  30. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-08-21
  31. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-07-24
  32. Installomator Updated: v0.3
  33. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-07-17
  34. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-07-10
  35. Use scout to read Property Lists
  36. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-07-03
  37. macOS 11
  38. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-06-26
  39. About bash, zsh, sh, and dash in macOS Catalina and beyond
  40. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-06-19
  41. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-06-12
  42. Installomator updated: v0.2
  43. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-08-05
  44. Using Installomator with Jamf Pro
  45. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-05-29
  46. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-05-22
  47. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-05-15
  48. Introducing Installomator
  49. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-05-08
  50. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-05-01
  51. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-04-24
  52. Use Swift Package Manager and Swift’s ArgumentParser to build a Command Line Tool
  53. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-04-17
  54. Random Desktop Background Color with desktoppr
  55. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-04-10
  56. Advanced Quoting in Shell Scripts
  57. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-04-03
  58. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-03-27
  59. Update: desktoppr v0.3
  60. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-03-20
  61. Strategies to using desktoppr
  62. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-03-13
  63. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-03-06
  64. macOS shell command to create a new Terminal Window
  65. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-02-28
  66. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-02-21
  67. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-02-14
  68. Wrangling Pythons
  69. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-02-07
  70. Getting the current user in macOS – Update
  71. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-01-31
  72. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-01-24
  73. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-01-17
  74. Scripting OS X Books FAQ
  75. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-01-10
  76. Command-Control-Power Podcast featuring Scripting OS X!
  77. Book Update – Moving to zsh v3
  78. Downgrading a Mac that shipped with Catalina to Mojave

2019 100

  1. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-12-20
  2. Random Terminal Background Colors
  3. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-12-13
  4. Upper- or lower-casing strings in bash and zsh
  5. Build a macOS Application to Run a Shell Command with Xcode and SwiftUI
  6. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-12-06
  7. Book Update – Moving to zsh v2
  8. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-11-29
  9. Comparing Version strings in zsh
  10. Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale
  11. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-11-22
  12. Install shellcheck binary on macOS (updated)
  13. New Book Release Day: Moving to zsh
  14. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-11-15
  15. Associative arrays in zsh
  16. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-11-08
  17. desktoppr v0.2 – Notarized
  18. Book update: macOS Installation v5
  19. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-11-01
  20. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-10-18
  21. New Book: Moving to zsh
  22. Packaging Book Update: v1.10
  23. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-10-11
  24. Notarization for MacAdmins
  25. EraseInstall Update 1.2.1
  26. Download a full ‘Install macOS’ app with softwareupdate in Catalina
  27. MacSysAdmin Session Videos
  28. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-10-04
  29. MacSysAdmin 2019 – Slides, Links and Notes
  30. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-09-27
  31. Show the git status in the Terminal Window Title
  32. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-09-20
  33. Make zsh show working directory in Terminal window title in macOS
  34. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-09-13
  35. Notarize a Command Line Tool
  36. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-09-06
  37. Get Current User in Shell Scripts on macOS
  38. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-08 -30
  39. Check Installer Pkgs for deprecated scripts
  40. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-08-23
  41. Shellcheck and zsh
  42. Moving to zsh, part 8 – Scripting zsh
  43. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-08-16
  44. Autumn 2019 Schedule
  45. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-07-26
  46. Moving to zsh – part 7: Miscellanea
  47. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-07-19
  48. Moving to zsh, part 6 – Customizing the zsh Prompt
  49. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-07-12
  50. Build a shellcheck installer for macOS
  51. Moving to zsh, part 5: Completions
  52. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-07-05
  53. Install Bash 5 on macOS with Patches
  54. Moving to zsh, part 4: Aliases and Functions
  55. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-06-28
  56. Moving to zsh, part 3: Shell Options
  57. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-06-21
  58. Moving to zsh, part 2: Configuration Files
  59. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-06-14
  60. Imaging is still Dead
  61. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-06-07
  62. Moving to zsh
  63. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-05-31
  64. Show Exit Code in your bash Prompt
  65. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-05-24
  66. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-05-17
  67. Open Apps with custom Shortcuts in macOS
  68. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-05-10
  69. Learn Scripting at Pro Warehouse!
  70. On Smart Quotes and Terminal
  71. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-05-03
  72. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-04-26
  73. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-04-19
  74. MacADUK 2019 Presentation Video online
  75. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-04-12
  76. EraseInstall Update: Version 1.2
  77. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-04-05
  78. Swift 5 for MacAdmins
  79. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-03-29
  80. macOS Mojave Spring Update
  81. MacAD.UK Presentation Notes
  82. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-03-22
  83. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-03-15
  84. Pi-Day: Let’s talk about dates, baby!
  85. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-03-08
  86. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-03-01
  87. Install Bash 5 on macOS
  88. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-02-22
  89. Apple Two-Factor Authentication for a Secondary Apple ID
  90. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-02-15
  91. Book Update: macOS Installation v4
  92. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-02-08
  93. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-02-01
  94. Build Simple Packages with Scripts
  95. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-01-25
  96. The Year 2018 for Mac Admins
  97. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-01-18
  98. PLIST Editor can Open Signed Mobileconfigs
  99. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-01-11
  100. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2019-01-04

2018 96

  1. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-12-21
  2. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-12-14
  3. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-12-07
  4. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-12-01
  5. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-11-23
  6. Books Sale for Black Friday and Cyber Monday
  7. On macOS User Groups
  8. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-11-16
  9. MacAdmins Podcast, Episode 102: Erase All the Things
  10. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-11-10
  11. Mojave Quick Action to Package Apps
  12. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-11-02
  13. Include Assets in External macOS Installer Drives
  14. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-10-27
  15. Changing a User’s Login Picture
  16. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-10-19
  17. EraseInstall Application
  18. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-10-12
  19. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-10-06
  20. MacSysAdmin 2018 Presentation – Slides and Links
  21. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-09-28
  22. Mojave Links
  23. Mojave Book Updates
  24. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-09-21
  25. iOS 12 Links
  26. Managing the Desktop Picture on macOS
  27. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-09-14
  28. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-09-07
  29. Apple Remote Desktop, Screen Sharing and Mojave
  30. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-08-31
  31. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-08-24
  32. User Interaction from bash Scripts
  33. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-08-17
  34. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-08-10
  35. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-08-03
  36. macOS Installation Book – Update!
  37. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-07-13
  38. Hasta la Vista, Imaging…
  39. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-07-06
  40. Parsing dscl Output in Scripts
  41. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-06-29
  42. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-06-22
  43. Prefs Tool
  44. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-06-15
  45. MacAdmins Slack – a highly opinionated guide
  46. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-06-08
  47. Books Update
  48. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-06-01
  49. New Book: macOS Installation for Apple Administrators
  50. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-05-25
  51. The Next Age of the Mac
  52. BBEdit at 25 and why I still use it
  53. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-05-18
  54. macOS Installation: Strange New World
  55. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-05-11
  56. PLIST Editor
  57. Dutch MacAdmins Meeting: 8 June
  58. Demystifying `root` on macOS, Part 4 —The Authorization Database
  59. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-05-04
  60. Demystifying `root` on macOS, Part 3 — `root` and Scripting
  61. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-04-27
  62. Demystifying `root` on macOS, Part 2 — The `sudo` Command
  63. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-04-20
  64. Converting Composer dmg ‘installers’ to pkg
  65. Demystifying `root` on macOS, Part 1
  66. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-04-13
  67. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-04-06
  68. macOS 10.13.4 Spring Update for Mac Admins
  69. Installing and Using Command Line Tools
  70. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-03-30
  71. Thoughts on Books
  72. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-03-23
  73. Update 1.7 for ‘Packaging for Apple Administrators’
  74. MacAD.UK Terminal Witchcraft and Wizardry Session
  75. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-03-16
  76. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-03-09
  77. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-03-02
  78. Single Brackets vs Double Brackets
  79. defaults – the Plist Killer
  80. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-02-23
  81. MacAD.UK “Witchcraft” Presentation Page
  82. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-02-16
  83. Setting the PATH in Scripts
  84. All the Articles
  85. Dutch MacAdmins Meeting
  86. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-02-09
  87. Show the Installer Log During High Sierra Installation
  88. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-02-02
  89. Scripting OS X on micro.blog
  90. And now Server.app, too!
  91. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-01-26
  92. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-01-19
  93. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-01-12
  94. Get an Icon for your Mac
  95. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2018-01-05
  96. MacAD.UK Interview on self-publishing Books

2017 129

  1. NetInstall is Dead, too
  2. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-12-22
  3. iMac Pro Implications for Mac Admins
  4. Interesting Software on Sale in the AppStores
  5. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-12-15
  6. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-12-08
  7. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-12-01
  8. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-11-24
  9. Another Update for Packaging Book
  10. On the macOS Version
  11. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-11-17
  12. MacAdmins Podcast Listener Survey
  13. One year of “Packaging for Apple Administrators”
  14. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-11-10
  15. Get the “Marketing Name” for a Mac
  16. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-11-03
  17. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-10-27
  18. Imaging is Dead… Long Live the Installer!
  19. On the Shebang
  20. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-10-13
  21. High Sierra Update for ‘Property Lists, Preferences and Profiles’
  22. Whitebox Packages 1.2
  23. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-10-06
  24. MacSysAdmin 2017 Session Video(s)
  25. MacSysAdmin 2017 Presentation
  26. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-09-29
  27. High Sierra News Summary
  28. Book Updates for High Sierra
  29. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-09-22
  30. On Distribution Packages
  31. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-09-15
  32. So Long, Cassini, and Thanks for all the Pics!
  33. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-09-08
  34. Terminal Primer – Part 6 – Symbolic Links
  35. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-09-01
  36. Parse Binary Property Lists in Finder Metadata
  37. Terminal Primer – Part 5 – Managing Files
  38. August News Summary for Admins — 2017-08-25
  39. New Support Articles for High Sierra
  40. Terminal Primer – Part 4 – Commands
  41. Terminal Primer – Part 3 – Special Characters
  42. Terminal Primer – Part 2 – Navigating the File System
  43. Terminal Primer – Part 1 – First Steps in Terminal
  44. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-07-28
  45. Thoughts on the iPod (2001–2017)
  46. Vacation Time, Travel Time, Sneak Preview Time
  47. Terminal and SSH Apps for macOS and iOS
  48. SSH Tunnels
  49. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-07-21
  50. Transmit 5 for Mac released
  51. Transferring Files with SSH
  52. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-07-14
  53. Minimal Terminal Prompt
  54. SSH Keys, Part 2: Client Verification
  55. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-07-07
  56. SSH Keys, Part 1: Host Verification
  57. Quick Introduction to SSH for Mac Admins
  58. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-06-30
  59. Check all AutoPkg Recipes
  60. RoaringApps for High Sierra
  61. Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2017-06-23
  62. Post WWDC Summary
  63. Weekly News Summary for Admins – 2017-06-16
  64. Traveling
  65. Weekly News Summary for Admins – 2017-06-09
  66. Update 1.4 for ‘Packaging for Apple Adminstrators’
  67. Weekly News Summary for Admins – 2017-06-02
  68. Weekly News Summary for Admins – 2017-05-26
  69. Relocatable Package Installers and quickpkg Update
  70. Weekly News Summary for Admins – 2017-05-20
  71. Things 3 is out!
  72. Bash Completion For Munki
  73. Mac Automation Conference Announced
  74. Tab Completion for autopkg
  75. Weekly News Summary for Admins – 2017-05-12
  76. Where PATHs come from
  77. Typefaces for Coding and Terminal
  78. Weekly News Summary for Admins – 2017-05-06
  79. MacSysAdmin 2017 Conference Open for Registration
  80. Configuring bash with aliases and functions
  81. Listen to me on the MacAdmins Podcast
  82. Weekly News Summary for Admins – 2017-04-29
  83. On bash Environment Variables
  84. Weekly News Summary for Admins – 2017-04-21
  85. Shell Scripts Matter
  86. Some Useful AutoPkg Processors
  87. Weekly News Summary for Admins – 2017-04-14
  88. About bash_profile and bashrc on macOS
  89. Terminal Keys and Commands Reference
  90. Weekly News Summary for Admins – 2017-04-07
  91. On Viewing man Pages
  92. Weekly News Summary for Admins – 2017-04-03
  93. Creating macOS installer disk images for VMware Fusion
  94. Navigating the Terminal Prompt
  95. AppleScript and Keynote: Playing Documents
  96. MacADUK 2017 Session Videos
  97. Third-party installer packages may not be installable by the macOS 10.12.4 OS installer
  98. New options for macOS Recovery
  99. News Summary: Week of 2017-03-24
  100. Magnet – manage windows on your desktop
  101. Terminal: The ‘[‘ Marks the Spot
  102. Apple acquires Workflow app
  103. Sierra update 10.12.4: Disable iCloud Desktop and Documents Sync
  104. Conferences for Mac and iOS Professionals in 2017
  105. PR3 Book Launch Gift! — Command Line Reference
  106. Update to ‘Packaging for Apple Administrators’
  107. Terminal and the Clipboard
  108. New Book — Property Lists, Preferences and Profiles
  109. Omni Group Automation: App-to-App Scripting
  110. On Bash History Substitution
  111. Is Packaging Dead?
  112. Omni Group Automation
  113. The macOS open Command
  114. Chrome first run messages revisited
  115. Autopkg recipes for Creative Cloud Packager workflows
  116. Terminal–Finder Interaction
  117. Update for ‘Packaging for Apple Administrators’
  118. Mac Manager Meeting – Video Online
  119. Mac Manager Meeting – Packaging Presentation – Notes and Links
  120. Mac Managers Meeting Presentation
  121. Imaging will be dead (soon-ish)
  122. Local-Only Manifests in Munki
  123. BBEdit on Sale
  124. Twelvetide, Day 13 (Bonus): Conference
  125. Twelvetide, Day 12: Join the Community
  126. Twelvetide, Day 11: Share and Blog
  127. Twelvetide, Day 10: Write Documentation
  128. Twelvetide, Day 9: File Bugs
  129. Twelvetide, Day 8: Check the Competition

2016 49

  1. Twelvetide, Day 7: Open Source
  2. Twelvetide, Day 6: Automate
  3. Twelvetide, Day 5: Replace a Legacy Practice
  4. Twelvetide, Day 4: Version Control
  5. Twelvetide, Day 3: Test
  6. Twelvetide, Day 2: Learn to Code (again)
  7. Twelvetide, Day 1: Read a Book
  8. Twelvetide: 12 Resolutions for Mac Administrators
  9. Holiday Deals for Mac Admins
  10. Duet Display adds Touch Bar
  11. MacAdmin Meetup Schiedam
  12. Book Presentation at Dutch MacAdmin Meetup
  13. System Integrity Protection (SIP) changes in macOS Sierra 10.12.2
  14. On hidden Files, especially Library
  15. Packaging Book on Sale and other Deals for Apple Admins
  16. Edovia Screens is on Sale
  17. Thanksgiving-Black-Friday-Cybermonday Sale!
  18. Editing Property Lists with plutil
  19. Prepare for autopkg Recipe auditing
  20. New Book on Apple Design
  21. Repackaging Endnote 8 with autopkg
  22. Visual Studio on the Mac
  23. Introducing: Packaging for Apple Administrators
  24. Soon
  25. SSH-installer
  26. Preparing for an MDM future
  27. Wish List: More HomeKit automation granularity
  28. AutoCasperNBI and AutoImagrNBI update
  29. DropBox plays loose with security
  30. Disabling Bonjour advertisement on OS X El Capitan and later
  31. Clean up Your Filthy Repo: Part 1
  32. Philips Hue bulb on sale
  33. VMware Fusion 8.5
  34. Stupid Tricks with createOSXinstallPkg and VMware Fusion
  35. Build an Application to Run a Shell Command in Xcode and Swift – Part 2
  36. Build an Application to Run a Shell Command in Xcode and Swift – Part 1
  37. Scripting The OS X Caching Server To Cache Updates
  38. Randomize Window Backgrounds in Terminal
  39. AutoPkg Recipe definition for PlistEdit Pro
  40. Launchctl 2.0 Syntax | Babo D’s Corner
  41. Make tab-completion in bash case-insensitive
  42. New Adventures in Automating OS X Installs with startosinstall
  43. Getting started as a Mac admin
  44. quickpkg update
  45. Managed installs of Office 2016 for Mac
  46. Control Apple Remote Desktop Access with Munki
  47. Introducing `quickpkg`
  48. Creating a Droplet for munkiimport
  49. Copy all Safari tabs to Notes.app

2015 20

  1. MacID adds Scripting Support
  2. Typefaces for Terminal and text editing
  3. Mount a dmg off a web server
  4. Introducing munkipkg
  5. Using ShellCheck with BBEdit
  6. Dock Master – A Superior Profile Maker for Managing the Dock
  7. Mac-Scripts by MacMiniVault
  8. Signing .mobileconfig Profiles With Keychain Certificates
  9. Check Python Syntax in BBEdit with flake8
  10. Mac Printing Scripts Mashup
  11. Mac keyboard shortcuts
  12. On Internet Shortcut Files
  13. Fun with find and git
  14. Useful AutoPkg bash functions
  15. Free/Cheap Mac Sysadmin Tools You Might Like
  16. Free tools for the budget-minded Mac admin
  17. Munki 2.2 Official Release
  18. Connect to Active Directory with a Profile
  19. Building a Cocoa-AppleScript (AppleScriptObjC) Automator Action
  20. Push Settings with Munki’s new Profile support

2014 8

  1. Control ssh access with munki nopkg scripts
  2. Workflow Review: Integrated Automation for iOS 8
  3. Create a NetInstall image to Bootstrap Munki
  4. JavaScript for Automation on Yosemite
  5. ‘OK, Mac’: Using Automator’s Dictation Commands, new in Yosemite
  6. New Automation Features in OS X Yosemite
  7. Things Command Line Tool
  8. How to batch rename files for free

2013 11

  1. New Automation Features in OS X Mavericks
  2. Service to “Make Protected Zip” files
  3. AppleScript XML-RPC
  4. Alerts to Notification Center in Mountain Lion
  5. Enhancing Reminders with AppleScript and Macros
  6. Opening Finder windows from the Terminal
  7. Use Automator to extract text from PDFs
  8. Exporting Images With Usuable Names From Evernote
  9. Running remote commands via SSH
  10. Build Link List from Safari Window
  11. Paste Safari Link In MarsEdit

2012 11

  1. Expand flat pkgs from the finder
  2. Where Automator Actions and Workflows Live
  3. JSON Helper for AppleScript
  4. V2 Sneak Peek: Workflows | Alfred App
  5. John Gruber: The unlikely persistence of AppleScript
  6. Control the Finder with the Terminal
  7. Automatic screen shot sharing with Dropbox and Automator
  8. Assign keyboard shortcuts to Mail outgoing accounts
  9. Anvil for Mac
  10. Add URLs to Reading List automatically from e-mails
  11. Notifications Scripting Lets AppleScript Display User

2011 3

  1. How to build Mac OS X services with Automator and shell scripting
  2. Speak Instapaper Posts — Part 2
  3. Start Screen Sharing or Apple Remote Desktop Sessions with Spotlight

2010 14

  1. Syncing iTunes Libraries
  2. Speak Instapaper Posts — Part 1
  3. 5 OmniFocus Applescripts
  4. Dropbox Now Syncs Extended Attributes
  5. Script to Delete ‘Where From’ Metadata
  6. Ten Simple Automator Workflows
  7. Shell Loop Interaction with SSH
  8. Automatically connect to Airfoil Speakers
  9. The timeless utility of sed and awk
  10. Some ssh Tricks
  11. Convert Numbers Files to Excel, Word and PDF
  12. Enable Some Extra Services
  13. iChat Notification with Growl
  14. On man Pages