Much busier this week. Some interesting releases and news. I have also gathered all the links to notes and slides from PSU presentations. If I missed any, let me know and I will include the link next week.
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#! On Scripting OS X
📰News and Opinion
- Ways to work together with your employees to help keep their skills sharp – Charles Edge
- Who Would Apple’s Tim Cook Pick to Succeed Him? – John Montellaro, Mac Obeserver
- 5K Versions of Every Default macOS Wallpaper – 512 Pixels
- The iPhone killed my inner nerd – Tom Warren, The Verge
- The Cost of Hard Drives Over Time – Andy Klein, Backblaze
- *OS Internal, Volume 1, 2nd Edition Status Update – Jonathan Levin
- Apple’s Third Co-Founder Has Never Used an iPhone and Has No Regrets – Madeline Moitozo, Motherboard
- Pondering the conversion from HFS+ to APFS – Mike Bombich
- The Mac Mini Turns 1,000 Days Old Today – Andrew Orr, Mac Observer
- Jason Snell on Twitter: “The fastest Mac mini ever made was released October 23, 2012. So that’s 1723 days. Coming up on 2000!”
🔨Support and HowTos
- Enabling least-privilege screensharing using Apple’s Remote Desktop Client and Screen Sharing.app – Rich Trouton
- Using Brisk to file bug reports with Apple – Rich Trouton
- Open sourcing macOS cookbooks – Erik Gomez
- Steve T-S on Twitter: “By the way, if your High Sierra build to build upgrade does fail at the bless stage, you can trivially fix it like so”
- Configuration Profiles In-depth, Part I – Marriot Library, University of Utah
PSU Mac Admin Conference Presentation Slides
- PSU Mac Shoutouts – Patrick Fergus
- Fighting With Physics: A Wi-Fi Workshop – Tom Bridge
- Munki Mistakes Made Right – Tom Bridge
- Storing our digital lives: Mac filesystems from MFS to APFS – Rich Trouton
- Mac Smart Cards – Richard Purves
♻️Updates and Releases
- “BinDiff 4.3 for Linux, Windows and, finally, macOS” – Christian Blichmann (Download)
- Munki 3.0.3
- macos-icon-generator
- Fantastical 2.4 for Mac: Midsummer edition (Mac AppStore, iPad, iPhone)
- OmniGraffle 3 for iOS (AppStore, OmniGraffle 7 on the Mac AppStore)
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