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Mat X, Nick Z and JD recount MDOYVR 2024 and encourage your feedback as we begin planning MDOYVR 2025. Quick Talks always welcome.
Super secret MDOYVR 2024 shirt
https://www.customink.com/fundraising/secret-mdo-t-shirt
Thank you to all our great MacDevOps:YVR 2024 sponsors! MacStadium, Fleet, SimpleMDM, Workbrew and DBQ Technology
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Mat X and JD are joined by Mykola Grymalyuk to discuss how he got into creating Open Core Legacy Patcher, getting into security and trying to unravel Apple Silicon VMs. Check out his security talk at MacDevOps:YVR 2024
https://github.com/khronokernel
https://khronokernel.com/
- Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit
Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Custom Serials, DEP Enrolment and the Secure Enclave
Csaba Fitzl: “Secure coding XPC services” blog series
Google’s Project Zero
Jamf’s Compliance Editor
SecondSon Consulting’s Baseline project
SwiftDialog project
Thank you to all our great MacDevOps:YVR 2024 sponsors! MacStadium, Fleet, SimpleMDM, Workbrew and DBQ Technology
Sponsors
MDO SocialsPlease follow our accounts on Mastodon, Twitter or Facebook for news and updates:
https://mastodon.social/@mdoyvr
https://twitter.com/MacDevOpsYVR
https://www.facebook.com/MacDevOpsYVR
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MacDevOps:YVR 2024 conference is June 19-21, 2024. Mat X and JD are joined by Bart Reardon to chat about his open source project Swift Dialog, using SwiftUI and running an open source project.
swiftDialog
Swift Dialog documentation
Projects that use swift Dialog
Thank you to all our great MacDevOps:YVR 2024 sponsors! Fleet, SimpleMDM and Workbrew
Sponsors
MDO SocialsPlease follow our accounts on Mastodon, Twitter or Facebook for news and updates:
https://mastodon.social/@mdoyvr
https://twitter.com/MacDevOpsYVR
https://www.facebook.com/MacDevOpsYVR
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Mat X and JD are joined by Stuart Ashenbrenner, macOS Security Researcher at HuntressLabs, to discuss Aftermath, a Swift-based, open-source incident response framework, and being a Millennial Girl Dad.
MacDevOps:YVR 2024 conference is June 19-21, 2024.
- Aftermath on Github: https://github.com/jamf/aftermath
- https://millennialgirldad.substack.com/
Acronym expansion:
EDR – Endpoint detection and response
Video:
MDO YVR 2023 – (dm)XProtect: Stop, Drop, Shut malware down before it opens up shop
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Our tenth anniversary edition of MacDevOps:YVR is next June 2024. Planning and preparations have already begun. Mat X and JD are joined by Nick Zolotko, one of our amazing behind the scenes organizers for the tenth annual MDOYVR Conference.
MDOYVR 2023 call for speakers
MacDevOps:YVR 2023 is a week away. Mat X and JD are joined by Joel Rennich one of our speakers to chat about the upcoming ninth annual MDOYVR Conference, Hack Night, and some of what was seen at WWDC.
June 20 – Workshops and pre-conference social
June 21-22 – Two full days of talks and panels and the famous hallway track including a fun hack night on June 21st!
MDOYVR 2023 conference schedule
Links:
DataIntell – storage analytics
Archiware P5 – software for archiving all the things (LTO, cloud, everything)
WWDC 2023 – What’s new in managing Apple devices
Explore advances in Declarative Device Management (WWDC 2023 Video)
KMFDDM is an Apple Declarative Device Management (DDM) server. It works together with NanoMDM. (See also MicroMDM)
What’s new in Swift (WWDC 2023 Videos)
Login window apps: Joel Rennich’s NoMAD and Tim Perfitt’s XCreds
Photogrammetry
WebAuthN
Device Attestation currently
Osquery
Fleet device management
Munki
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Thank you to the MDO YVR 2023 Sponsors:Gold + Graphics Recording Sponsor
HP Anyware
Silver Sponsor
Fleet DM
Live Stream sponsor
SimpleMDM (PDQ)
Workshop helper sponsor
MacStadium
Mat X and JD are joined by Stuart, one of our speakers, and Arnold, an attendee, discussing their journey to attending the ninth annual MDOYVR Conference.
June 20 – Workshops and pre-conference social
June 21-22 – Two full days of talks and panels and the famous hallway track
Links:
MDOYVR 2023 conference schedule
Aftermath – Swift based open-source incident response framework
Beyond the good ol’ launch agents (Csba Fitzl)
Sarah Edwards – Laughing Apollo (MDOYVR 2019) |
Sarah Edward’s mac4n6 blog
MDO SocialsPlease follow our accounts on Mastodon, Twitter or Facebook for news and updates:
https://mastodon.social/@mdoyvr
https://twitter.com/MacDevOpsYVR
https://www.facebook.com/MacDevOpsYVR
Thank you to the MDO YVR 2023 Sponsors:Gold + Graphics Recording Sponsor
HP Anyware
Silver Sponsor
Fleet DM
Live Stream sponsor
SimpleMDM (PDQ)
MacDevOps:YVR 2023 is weeks away. Join Mat X and JD as they discuss some of the highlights to the ninth annual MDOYVR Conference back in person in beautiful downtown Vancouver, B.C.
June 20 – Workshops and pre-conference social
June 21-22 – Two full days of talks and panels and the famous hallway track
MDOYVR 2023 conference schedule
As if it were a swarm of bees, you should stay away from the SyncServices folder in Mac OS X 10.4.
Apple knowledge article on SyncServices (Archive.org)
The polyglot software un-conference
MDO SocialsPlease follow our accounts on Mastodon, Twitter or Facebook for news and updates:
https://mastodon.social/@mdoyvr
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Thank you to the MDO YVR 2023 Sponsors:Gold + Graphics Recording Sponsor
HP Anyware
Silver Sponsor
Fleet DM
Live Stream sponsor
SimpleMDM (PDQ)
Mat X and Seth discuss various remote distributed workflows for video editing with recipes for Adobe Premiere Pro, Resolve and Final Cut Pro proxy workflow with help from LucidLink, Postlab, and the cloud.
Arek Dreyer, Keynote speaker at MacDevOps:YVR 2022, joins MatX and JD for the 100th episode to pour one out for Server.app, speaker advice, helping the community, and putting a long-running con(ference) together.
Armin, speaker at MacDevOps:YVR 2022, joins MatX and JD to chat about Swift, Installomator, and more.
Bart Reardon, speaker at MacDevOps:YVR 2022, joins MatX and JD to chat about SwiftUI, managing open-source software, and Bart's Dialog command-line app.
Joel Rennich, speaker at MacDevOps:YVR 2022, joins MatX and JD to talk auth, hiring, and 90s alt-rock references.
Alex Narvey, speaker at MacDevOps:YVR 2022, joins MatX to recount the many and various quick talks Alex has given over the years at MDOYVR.
Mat X and JD chat to Chris Chapman from MacStadium and talk about the business of Mac hosting and how it has evolved over the years from bespoke servers to CI/CD pipelines.
Mat X and JD discuss MacDevOps:YVR progress, Munki Report PHP via Docker, and the ever-changing world of Apple.
Ed Marczak joins Mat X and JD to explore why Santa is not corporate malware and how IT and Security teams can help by documenting their processes and educating their users.
Mat X and JD catch up with Shania about being on call, new laptop purchasing, dongles, lost devices, and more.
Felipe Baez joins MatX and JD to talk about setting up his own cloud and email server, thoughts on the new Mac Studio, and forecasting what might be in the new Mac Pro.
Join Mat and JD in a planning session for the 2022 MacDevOps YVR Conference, where they discuss perks for speakers, calls for volunteers, and a movie night.
Co-hosts JD and Mat X talk with Tom and Dan from Snowflake about logging all the data. Everything! Osquery, FleetDM, and what do you do with 400TB of logs.
Co-hosts JD and Mat X meet with MacAdmins legend Per Olofsson, aka Mager Valp, to discuss the recent MunkiReport quick fix and how open source is fun.
Mat X and JD discuss the call for sponsors, speakers, ticket sales, and more for the upcoming MacDevOps YVR Conference.
Co-hosts JD and Mat X meet with past MDO speaker Prima Virani to discuss AWS, Kubernetes, Go vs. Python, and surprise: osquery and fleetDM.
Jonathan, Balmas, and Brian join Mat and JD to discuss Chapter 3 for this fourth meeting of the SRE Book Club on troubleshooting a process and not just a problem.
Co-hosts JD and Shania join Mat X to discuss Osquery and Security with guest Mike McNeil, FleetDM's CEO.
How to apply DevOps and SRE concepts to your entire org. How do you troubleshoot a process and not just a problem? Don’t forget about User experience. Bonus points if we avoid Single Points of Failure or create more tech debt.
Brandon, Jennifer, Balmas, and Brian join Mat and JD to discuss Chapter 1 in-depth for this second part of the SRE Book Club.
Mat X is joined by co-hosts JD and Shania to discuss MDO 2022 planning, and garbage management as we kick off the new year by cleaning out tech debt.
Mat and JD close out the year with a few conference announcements and discussion of log4j, security vulnerabilities, patching, bounties, projects and predictions.
Mat X is joined by co-hosts JD and Shania to discuss MDO 2022 planning, tickets, call for speakers along with documentation in Notion, the AWS outage, and security issues stemming from tech debt.
Mat X is joined by friends to talk about Chapter 1 in Google's Site Reliability Engineering book. We talk about Error Budgets, Automation vs. Autonomous systems, and BK's Bot Army, our newest MDO fan club.
Mat X, and JD talk about the upcoming SRE Bookclub, too many tabs, scripting slack bots, Teleport project, and the Final Cut Summit conference.
Mat X, Shania, and JD talk about the upcoming SRE Bookclub, MacDevOps call for Sponsors, new laptops and more.
Mat X and JD chat with reformed SRE, Sophie Smithsburg about the differences of DevOps and SRE, finding a life work balance from pager duty, and cooperative software development.
Mat X and JD talk Apple security updates, MDM, and our upcoming SRE (site reliability engineering) book club.
Mat X. Shania, and JD talk security, IT, wearing multiple hats, and doing all the jobs.
Mat X and JD talk gardening with Ashton Rodenhiser of Minds Eye Creative, as we dig for metaphors, and plant ideas around devops.
Mat X, Shania and JD talk new jobs, new roles, new tech, new tools and a little gardening for good measure.
Mat X and JD are joined by Felipe Baez to post mortem production on the MacDevOpsYVR 2021 Conference, along with camera and microphone tips to make your Zoom calls better.
Mat X and JD are joined by Henry and Ashton for a post mortem on the MacDevOpsYVR 2021 virtual conference. Henry presented at MDOYVR and helped with organizing. Ashton is our graphic recording superstar creating amazing graphic recordings of the speakers' presentation.
Mat X and JD are joined by Piero Mamberti and Ben Toms, speakers at MacDevOps:YVR, to chat all things Mac Dev and Ops.
Mat X, JD and Shania are joined by Aspen Lindblom and Ben Greisler, speakers at MacDevOps:YVR, to chat all things backups, security and the cloud.
Mat X, JD and Shania are joined by Lucas Hall and James Smith, speakers at MacDevOps:YVR, to chat all things Apple, MDM and what could be at WWDC and MDOYVR 2021.
Mat X, and JD are joined by Csaba Fitzl and Armin Briegel, speakers at MDOYVR 2021, to chat all things Mac and security.
Mat X, Shania, and JD are joined by Estela Baca and Chad Calease, speakers at MDOYVR 2021, to chat Dev Sec Ops, mentors and the ever changing security landscape.
Mat X and JD are joined by Henry Stamerjohann to discuss the upcoming conference and more.
Mat X and JD are joined by Emily Handa to discuss moving to Stockholm, plants parenthood, weekends at IKEA, and working as a client platform engineer.
Mat X and JD talk about the upcoming conference, incorporating CI/CD into a small operation, revisiting backups and more.
Mat X and JD talk with Alison Gianotto, creator of Snipe IT about running a company during the pandemic and how to make a business around open source asset management.
Mat X and JD talk with Alison Gianotto, creator of Snipe IT about running a company during the pandemic and how to make a business around open source asset management.
Mat X and JD talk about new privacy incidents using tracking pixels, Apple releases deploying Big Sur tech video, CI/CD workflows and more.
Mat X and JD talk to Zach Wasserman, a MDOYVR 2018 Speaker, about OSquery, and FleetDM, an Open Source Software project for device management with security at its core.
Mat X and JD talk to Jonathan Haenche, a MDOYVR 2019 Speaker, about Salt stacks, Chef, and working for a company that embraces Open Source Software.
Mat X and JD talk about the call for speakers for MDOYVR 2021, burned out employees, and better acceptance within the MacAdmins community.
Mat X and JD are joined by Brian Wilkins to discuss SaaS integration, CPE and the ways WFH has changed meeting and team collaboration.
Mat X and JD discuss DNS and Name Registrars, Backup strategies, VPN & file sharing strategies, and more this week.
Mat X and JD talk with Martin, Ofir & Nick for the 50th episode. From Icicles to iMac G3 towers, this episode covers the gamut.
Mat X and JD talk with Patrick Wardle about his newly Open Source Objective-See Mac Security tools, Objective by the Sea 4.0 conference, and The Art of Mac Malware Analysis.
Programming chat bots in Tensorflow on a GCP dev instance. And a new M1 laptop for Chris.
Mat X and JD are joined by Derek Fulmer talking social media, and his journey from Mac nerd to Linux containerization nerd.
Mat X and JD are joined by Seth Goldin to talk munki via Teraform and the limits of big data in the cloud.
Mat X and JD regale the tale of Podcast 44 that ended 2020 by not being published, JD reviews his M1 Mac mini adventures & Mat encourages fast backups if not working in the cloud.
Mat X and JD talk about Dev and Ops not playing together with failing 11.1 updates, Solarwinds attack, and more while Mat live updates his Big Sur Mac.
Mat X and JD discuss this week's announcement of MDOYVR 2021, python questions, docker and other exciting events.
Mat X and JD talk about Mac Minis in the Clouds. More than one Mac mini in the more than one cloud. Raspberry Pi, fun with recovery/restoring operating systems on MacOS 11, and security researchers exploring new attack vectors.
Mat X and JD talk about EveryWorld Virtual Conference in Australia, Outages, backups, Rube Goldberg restoration scenarios and Apple's new M1 hardware.
Mat X and JD discuss the new Apple Silicon Macs, the EveryWorld conference, and other world events.
Mat X and JD talk to Jon Manning and Marcus Ransom about the EveryWorld Virtual Conference in Australia
Mat X and JD are joined by developer and podcaster, Malin Sundberg. Malin is a iOS/Mac developer building Orbit and podcaster on Cup of Tech. Malin will be speaking at EveryWorld Virtual Conference in Australia.
Mat X and JD talk to Taylor Boyko from SimpleMDM about the process of integrating Munki and Autopkg
Mat X and JD are joined on the podcast by David and Piero to discuss Chapter 10 in Emily Freeman’s DevOps for Dummies - “Automating tests”. We discuss how it relates to us IT (Ops) and whether we should be testing in production.
Mat X and JD discuss DevOps for Dummies, the new iPhone 12, T2 Vulnerabilities, Workflows, Backups for big data, and muffins.
Mat X and JD discussing the DevOps for Dummies bookclub, zsh, ansible, the recent MacSysAdmin conference and data analysis with JupyterLab.
Mat X and JD discuss Siri coming to the rescue, pumpkin muffins, MDM and platform changes, new music and more.
Mat, JD are joined by David Kaneva and Pierro for the book club to discuss chapter 5 of DevOps for Dummies by Emily Freeman.
Mat X, Shania & JD are joined by David Kaneva to discuss adulting, documentation & continued learning.
Mat X & JD talk about getting off the grid in the middle of the pandemic, back to school, better WiFi and the bookclub.
Paul Matthijs & Jasper Siegers from Hedge join Mat X & JD to talk about working from home, new workflows with Postlab & Postlab Drive.
Mat & JD discuss the New FinalCut and new workflows in these times of a distributed workforce.
Humorist, Aaron Reynolds of @EffinBirds and @Swear_Trek twitter accounts joins Mat, Shania & JD to discuss taking the leap to doing your own thing, process and the hard work of being creative.
Mat, JD are joined by Allison & Pierro for a sample of the discussion in the MacDevOps Book Club, discussing Emily Freeman's book, DevOps for Dummies.
Mat and JD catch up with Shania, after she successfully moved 4 offices to working remotely.
Howard Oakley joins JD and Mat X to discuss testing betas, APFS snapshots and exploring log files. Part 2 of 2.
Howard Oakley joins JD and Mat X to discuss recent changes in Apple macOS, writing apps in Swift, and the dangers of learning to program with a laser cutter.
Piero and Joaquin join Mat and JD to kick off the Summer Book Club with DevOps for Dummies.
Gord Breckenridge joins Mat and JD to discuss supporting art schools, visual effects studios, and automating his way out of a job in the early days with Radmind.
Alan Siu joins Mat and JD to discuss MacAdmin blogging, and attending MDOYVR not only for the first time, but virtually.
Mat and JD are joined by Felipe Baez to discuss producing MacDevOpsYVR 2020 Virtually. A blameless post mortem and behind the scenes look at MDOYVR.
Mat and JD discuss this week's MacDevOps YVR Conference this week. Learn about the single stream for the event, discussion in Discord, and our event line up.
Mat X, JD and Shania chat with Tim Perfitt from Two Canoes software about the new version of the MDS app for deploying Macs.
Join Mat X, JD and Shania with on the pod with special guests Nitrane, Ptitufuté, SirThomas and Bahhhh members of the MacAdmins Slack Montreal channel. Bienvenue à Montréal! Find out what anime they are watching and food they eat while managing Macs.
Ashley Smith, Mac Justice, and Chris Dawe for the Seattle Apple Admins and the Cascadia Happy Hour join Mat, Shania, and JD. We discuss the changing landscape of meet ups.
This week, Mat and JD are joined by the Munki Report dev team of Arjen van Bochoven, Jon Crain, and John Eberle (Tuxudo) to talk about Munki Report, making modules and the MacDevOps:YVR pre-conference workshop
Mike Lynn joins Mat, Shania & JD on the podcast to discuss scripting in python and swift, setting up Minecraft servers, and the Nintendo Switch.
Ashton Rodenhiser of Mind's Eye Creative Consulting joins Mat and JD to talk Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking, and Graphic Facilitation.
On this episode, Mat and JD chat with Harry Seeber, a Client Platform Engineer from Gusto.
Tim Sutton joins Mat, Shania, and JD to talk about giving back to the community, getting involved in projects, and watching them grow into a life of their own.
This week, Alex Narvey, from Precursor joins Mat and JD to talk about Munki, and Munki report.
Joel Rennich joins Mat, Shania & JD to talk Linda Tripp, being an AP reporter, and how that brings us to virtual Hack-a-thon-ing at MacDevOps.
This week Mat and JD chat with Thomas Reed of Malwarebytes about conferencing app security, malware, and generally making your Mac more secure.
Bruce Robinson from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center joins Mat, Shania and JD on this weeks podcast.
Lisa Davies and Kevin Friel join MatX, Shania, & JD to discuss supporting a remote, distributed work force, and the trials of working from home.
Mat, Chris, Shania and JD join us as we learn more about the conspirators who put on the MacDevOps conference.
Our first podcast for MacDevOps:YVR! Mat, Chris, and Nellie discuss the origin story of the MacDevOps conference.