No big news this week, which is a nice change.
The first iPhone SDK dropped ten years ago this week. Craig Hockenberry wrote a wonderful retrospective which is worth reading.
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📰News and Opinion
🐞Bugs and Security
- Stuck in the past? Your time may get warped, too – Allister Banks
- Malicious Installer Plugins — Xor’d
- Tearing Apart the Undetected (OSX)Coldroot RAT – Objective-See
- Pepijn Bruienne: “Apple just updated the supplemental update for the iMac Pro, build number 17D2104.”
🔨Support and HowTos
- Get The Title Of An App From Apple App Store URLs – Charles Edge
- Recommendations for Optimizing Wifi for Apple Devices – EdTechChris
- Take Out the Trash: How to Clear Pending and Failed Commands in Jamf Pro 10 – EdTechChris
- Replace macOS Server Web Services with MAMP – Charles Edge
- Cable FengShui – Robin Laurén
- Some iTerm2 hacking – Tony Williams
🤖Scripting and Automation
- marczak/pkgdiff
- Bash: if, then, else, and expressions – Charles Edge
- Wrangling Unity in a lab environment – Neil Martin
♻️Updates and Releases
- Late Night Software: Script Debugger 7
- AutoPkg 1.0.4
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