Plutil on nonpunctual

No Free Space For Complexity

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It is amazing how systems can be connected today compared to 10-15 years ago.

Enterprise chat platforms were nascent, but ascendant then. Now, all sorts of fancy stuff probably happens in your chat app. Maybe you:

get notifications about computers & servers being configured
make tickets in a help desk system
do AI searches with bots in Salesforce data
get AI-generated sentiment summaries from customer calls

The sky is the limit! (Well, the sky, the amount of 💰 you have to spend on integrations, the complexity of your tools & the patience your IT person has to configure all of it…)

Migration "Assistant"

Wed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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These posts are being re-created from old Jamf Nation posts not because they are the best but because they may have useful things that were mangled in the Jamf Nation transition to its most recent hosting platform.

That, & they were always supposed to be blog posts anyway… I didn’t have a blog then.

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UPDATE 1: 20260305

When I wrote this script, it was intentionally for blocking Migration Assistant.app - I re-wrote it so any app can be blocked this way just by setting the variables at the top.

JSON & the Arg-nauts

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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NOTE: These posts are being re-created from old Jamf Nation posts not because they are the best but because they may have useful things that were mangled in the Jamf Nation transition to its most recent hosting platform.

That, & they were always supposed to be blog posts anyway… I didn’t have a blog then.

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UPDATE: Something I thought would never happen has happened. Since the beta features are under NDA, I guess I can’t really say what it is, but, IYKYK, &, it makes everything in this post mostly obsolete. :) Cheers.

Yule Logging

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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That, & they were always supposed to be blog posts anyway… I didn’t have a blog then.

As it is the holiday season, I wanted to offer up a little gratitude in the form of 🎁 boilerplate code 🎁 related to topics that come up in the Mac admins #scripting & #bash channels again & again. I hope people find it here & find it useful.

Apple CIDR

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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That, & they were always supposed to be blog posts anyway… I didn’t have a blog then.

It’s been a while so here is something that you may never need, or, you have something clever that you already use for this & I am too dumb to know about it, or, maybe, someone will find it useful.

Dynamic Token Of Static Appreciation

Mon, 08 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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That, & they were always supposed to be blog posts anyway… I didn’t have a blog then.

It’s been a while since I posted anything, so, for (future) me & for you I am posting this script that dynamically updates Static Group membership.