Anthony Reimer’s Blog
this website contains:
Blog Posts
Links for all articles posted appear at the bottom of all blog pages (and on this page)
- Articles related to my work with University Mac computer labs serving the visual and performing arts;
- Articles related to the Mac Admins community in general;
- Blog-like articles previously posted on the IAML website (dated by when they were originally posted there);
- Personal stories and updates as of 2025.
Presentations and Other Resources
maclabs.jazzace.ca/resources/. List entries sorted in reverse chronological order:
- Presentations (mostly at Mac Admin conferences);
- Articles posted to external web sites (notably AFP548);
- Podcast appearances (notably the Mac Admins Podcast).
- Long-term projects not set to a particular time, normally stored on GitHub (previously called “Ongoing”).
Mac Hardware/Software Obsolescence Chart
This chart stopped being maintained shortly after the release of macOS 26. You may view the final release or, if you prefer, download or fork the source from GitHub (with all my internal documentation) and update it yourself, as it has been dedicated to the Public Domain as much as possible.
Other Personal
For other personally-created content, go to my personal web site (Established 1996), also linked at the top of each page.
Posts:
2025
- Personal Update 1
- Lore, Picking a Workplace, and Leadership
- I Hit a Wall
- Blog Post or Wiki Edit? (📦)
2024
- Paste Escaped Text
- Copy as Pathname in Sequoia
- 📦 Advanced URLTextSearcher
- 📦 When AppPkgCreator Isn’t Enough
- 📦 AutoPkg and Trust
- 📦 Next Level AutoPkg Workshop at X World
- Packaging Choices — munkipkg, AutoPkg, and GUI-based Tools (📦)
2023
- 📦 My AutoPkg Authoring Enviroment
- 📦 AutoPkg In Depth Workshop
- Automatically Renaming Computers using a Package in Jamf Pro (📦)
- 📦 Feeding Outset 2：Override Boogaloo
2022
- 📦 Feeding Outset with Packages using AutoPkg
- 📦 Deploying Adobe Software with JamfUploader
- 📦 Text Searching in AutoPkg
- You Have Expertise to Share!
- 📦 Demystifying JamfUploader at MacAdmins
- Printing 16-bit Colour in Photoshop
2021
- Updating Big Sur on Shared Macs
- Recognition, Retirement, and Remembrance
- An AirTag Adventure, Part 1—AirTag Across the Atlantic
- 📦 AutoPkg, Variable Persistence, and Empty Strings
2020
- 📦 Integrating AutoPkg into Jamf Pro
- 📦 EveryWorld AutoPkg Workshop
- Uninstalling Adobe Apps Using a Shell Command and Jamf Pro
- 📦 MacAdmins Campfire Sessions Slides and Resources
- 📦 .ds recipes are dead; long live .ds recipes
- The Mac Obsolescence Chart — Now With Specs!
- The Joys of Colour Calibration
- Now with One Stop Shopping
2019
- 📦 AutoPkg Input Variables
- MacTech Presentation Learnings (📦)
- 📦 Core or Custom AutoPkg Processors?
- 📦 Multiple AutoPkg Recipes or Just Override?
- 📦 Office AutoPkg Recipes — Update
- The Mac Admins Podcast
- MDM, MDS, OSS, and DEV at MDC in YYC
- Changing Listed Printers When Deployed by Profile
- Wisdom from Tycho
2018
- Colour—Deep and Wide
- 📦 Generic App-Packaging Recipes for AutoPkg
- 📦 Running an AutoPkg Recipe with the --pkg Option
- The Mac Desktop Dilemma
- 📦 Putting the Pkg in AutoPkg
- 📦 The AutoPkg Series
- 📦 New and Updated AppleSupportArticle Recipes
- 📦 Office AutoPkg Recipes — Which Do What
- 📦 AutoPkgr Repo List Limits
- 📦 UNIX Aliases and AutoPkg
- Mac Admins at Penn State Wrap-Up (📦)
- 📦 Checking Web Pages with AutoPkg
- Imaging is More Dead
- Video of MacAD.UK Presentation Now Online
- MacAD.UK Slides and Updates
2017
- Guest Blog Post at Amsys.uk
- Conference Representation
- “Imaging is Dead…” Presentation
- Firmware Updates Changed in 2015
- More Firmware Fun
- Imaging Is Dead… for Upgrades
- Firmware Follow-up
- macOS and Security Updates
- Adobe CC for Labs
- Sharing What We Presented
- Resources for Blogging with GitHub Pages
- Upgrading a 2012 Mac mini — From RAID to Fusion
- Slides for Blogging with GitHub Pages
- An Excursion Into Blogging
2016
2015
2014
- 📦 Feeding AutoDMG and DeployStudio with AutoPkg
- Mac Admin Fundamentals
- Modular Image Creation presentation