• Managing Non-App Packages in Mosyle MDM

    This question seems to come up quite a bit in the #Mosyle Mac Admins Slack channel, so I thought I would take a stab at describing the issue and providing my solution.

  • Only rm something that exists

    If you’re writing scripts for macOS management, it is inevitable that you’ll need to delete something. Maybe you generated a temp folder or maybe deletion is the entire purpose of the script. Here is a trick to avoid nasty accidents with your rm commands. This should work in bash or zsh: This simple function tests…

  • The Easiest Web Server You’ll Ever Stand Up

    When it comes to getting files from one computer to another there are tons of options, but the trick I want to share today is one of the easiest to spin up on the fly. Type this string to immediately share your current working directory as a web server, and download files on another machine…

  • The Best Menu in macOS

    The Best Menu in macOS

    Apple has some winners and a few losers when it comes to interface design, but the absolute best designed menu on the system hasn’t changed in 15+ years. This glorious menu may look plain and unassuming, but it hides a functionality lacking in early all other checklists in all other platforms I’ve ever interacted with.…

  • An Introduction…

    My name is Trevor, I am a jack of all trades IT admin with a primary focus on macOS, MDM, managing cloud services, and I know enough networking in firewall stuff to be dangerous. I didn’t start this blog to talk about myself, but here we are and we have to start somewhere. I have…

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