This week our podcast hosts Mat X, JD and Shania chat with Tim Perfitt from Two Canoes software. They discuss the new version of the MDS app for deploying Macs. This app combines open source tools: Munki, MunkiReport, Installr and MicroMDM to make deploying Macs easy and fun.

TwoCanoes

MDS

WinClone

Zoom Deployment Version

Join Mat X, JD and Shania with on the pod with special guests Nitrane, Ptitpifuté, 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.

Montréal MacAdmins channel

Anime and TV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Time_I_Got_Reincarnated_as_a_Slime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar:_The_Last_Airbender

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Z

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Promised_Neverland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promare

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himouto!_Umaru-chan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Cities_of_Gold

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Ghibli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki

https://ici.tou.tv

https://www.crunchyroll.com

https://www.cbc.ca/heartland/

https://ici.tou.tv/mehdi-et-val

https://ici.tou.tv/district-31

https://ici.tou.tv/l-effet-secondaire

Ashley Smith, Mac Justice, and Chris Dawe for the Seattle Apple Admins and the Cascadia Happy Hour join Mat X, Shania, and JD. We discuss the changing landscape of meet ups. And books. What are we reading these days.

Seattle Apple Admins

Cascadia MacAdmins channel

Books We Are Reading:

Severance (Ling Ma)

The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (Meg Elison) 

Stories of Your Life and Others / Exhalation: Stories (Ted Chiang)

The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)

The Silk Roads ( Peter Frankopan)

The Goblin Emperor (Sarah Monette)

DevOps for Dummies (Emily Freeman)

Apple Device Management (Charles Edge and Rich Trouton)

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.

MunkiReport

Jon Crain’s Blog

Curling

MacAdmins.org

MDS – Mac Deploy Stick

Mike Lynn joins Mat, Shania & JD on the podcast to discuss scripting in python and swift, setting up Minecraft servers, and the Nintendo Switch.

Java Minecraft Server

Swift Playgrounds for macOS

Lynne is teaching Tiki tricks pic.twitter.com/PjZxQf85WY

— mikeymikey (@mikeymikey) April 18, 2020

One of our walking leafs shed his skin. So crazy. pic.twitter.com/ShpupL0osK

— mikeymikey (@mikeymikey) April 1, 2020

Following up on @macvfx's request:https://t.co/AAXUr0NjRX

My summary of how to get Minecraft Bedrock (read: iPad/iPhone app store) and Java (Mac) playing on the same server ?

Hope this helps a few other parents/spouses/people keep the peace https://t.co/NJeX4fHb0l

— mikeymikey (@mikeymikey) March 29, 2020

Ashton Rodenhiser of Mind’s Eye Creative Consulting joins Mat X and JD to talk Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking, and Graphic Facilitation.

Visual Thinking workshop at MDOYVR 2020

Graphic recording MDOYVR 2019

On this episode, Mat and JD chat with Harry Seeber, a Client Platform Engineer from Gusto.

Terminal Shortcuts (that also work in most cocoa/swift apps)

CPE Open Source https://github.com/Gusto/it-cpe-opensource/

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.

macops.ca

Autopkg

Munki

Relocatable Python

WWDC 2019 – Advances in macOS Security

This week, Alex Narvey, from Precursor joins Mat and JD to talk about Munki, and Munki report.

Precursor.ca

Munki self service

18 year no pants streak

Mac mini DevOps

Redundant Array of Independent Servers

Getting Started with Munki

Tom Bridge – Munki in a Box & Munki in a Cloud

MunkiReport PHP

Please note that we recorded this episode prior to the decision to take MDOYVR on-line for 2020.

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.

MDS – Mac Deploy Stick

Signing Manager

MacEnterprise

SD Notary

Xsan

MacAdmins Slack – Stats Page