First week post-WWDC and people are slowly catching up with the firehose of information. Lot’s of opinion pieces and podcasts to catch up with.
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#! On Scripting OS X
News and Opinion
- The iPad Operating System – Horace Dedieu
- The NeXT Era Ends, the Swift Era Begins – Brent Simmons
- Apple is Listening – Marco Arment
- WWDC 2019: The Things You May Have Missed – Patrick Balestra
- Apple is making corporate ‘BYOD’ programs less invasive to user privacy – Sarah Perez, TechCrunch
- Apple Flexes Its Privacy Muscles – Rich Mogull, Securosis
MacAdmins on Twitter
- macshome: “With so many people running macOS in a VM right now here is a ProTip for Fusion on a TouchID Mac. Set:
board-id.reflectHost = "FALSE"Now your auth dialog spins are gone!” - Craig Hockenberry: “I know a lot of developers who have been working with Apple’s products for decades. The overwhelming consensus is that we’re seeing something that will change our lives for decades to come. 1976 -> 1984 -> 1996 -> 2008 -> 2019”
- Daniel Jalkut: “Apple has been doing hardware penance lately. I hope they realize that exiting the personal networking market (Airport) was as as misguided as exiting pro Mac, pro displays, etc. We’re ready for the big comeback.”
- Derek Fulmer: “With the impending changes to macOS in 10.15, I’m giving zsh a go. Really digging its customizability. Feels way more modern. But, I’m still sentimental about bash.”
Bugs and Security
- Shlayer Adware Analysis: Infection Mechanism & Evasion Techniques – Uriel Kosayev, AiroAV
- Your Linux Can Get Hacked Just by Opening a File in Vim or Neovim Editor – Mohit Kumar, The Hacker News
Support and HowTos
- Apple Configurator cfgutil Verbs – Charles Edge
- Finding 32-bit applications on Macs – Alan Siu
- How to use external storage on iPad and iPhone with iOS 13 – Andrew O’Hara, Apple Insider
- Differences Between zsh and bash – Charles Edge
- Adding Apple-supported options not yet present in Jamf to MDM configuration profiles – SoundSNW
- Time Machine: past, present and future – Howard Oakley
- Create a local record with information from Jamf, for later use in scripting – SoundSNW
- Mitigating issues with Microsoft OneDrive on Mac – SoundSNW
- Standard users in macOS enterprise settings – SoundSNW
- What is Apple’s “User Enrollment”? – SimpleMDM
Scripting and Automation
Updates and Releases
- TextWrangler Customers: Get Ready! macOS Catalina is Coming (More of an anti-update really…)
- Apple’s all-new iCloud for Windows app, now available in the Microsoft Store – Giorgio Sardo, Windows Experience Blog
- Suspicious Package 3.5
- Logic Pro X update taps the tremendous power of the new Mac Pro – Apple
- What’s New in MDS 1.8
To Watch
- Erik Schwiebert: “Microsoft Office, macOS 10.15 Catalina, and You: @mrexchange explains our support plans for the beta and final OS release.”
To Listen
- Episode 125: All The Connections, with Frederick Abeloos – Mac Admins Podcast
- WWDC and Interview with the Mac Pro Product Manager – Mac Power Users
- WWDC Podcasts: A Roundup of Episodes with Apple Special Guests – Ryan Christoffel, MacStories
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