Published: 2024-12-12

Mat X, Nick and JD turn it up to eleven for MDOYVR 2025. Join us in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia June 11-13, 2025 for the 11th annual MDOYVR! Call for Attendees, Speakers and Sponsors. Quicktalks always welcome.

2025 MDO conference website

Howard Oakley’s Eclectic Light blog

MDO 2024 Quick Talks:

• Nindi Gill – Planes, Trains and Swift
• Greg Neagle – Bundle Packages Blowout
• Martin Leger – Future Proofing MunkiWebAdmin2
• Nate Walck – Fake It Until You Make It
• Kelly Guimont – How to prevent WWDC from ruining your summer
• Bart Reardon – Outset 4 – The New Stuff
• Alex Narvey – 30 years in 5 minutes

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Published: 2024-07-08

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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Published: 2024-06-09

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

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Published: 2024-05-29

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

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Published: 2024-05-14

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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Published: 2023-12-13

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

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Published: 2023-06-14

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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Gold + Graphics Recording Sponsor

HP Anyware

Silver Sponsor

Fleet DM

Live Stream sponsor

SimpleMDM (PDQ)

Workshop helper sponsor

MacStadium

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Published: 2023-06-07

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

 

 

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HP Anyware

Silver Sponsor

Fleet DM

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Published: 2023-05-31

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

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HP Anyware

Silver Sponsor

Fleet DM

Live Stream sponsor

SimpleMDM (PDQ)

 

 

 

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Published: 2022-09-15

Seth Goldin,  IT engineer in Media and Entertainment, joins Mat X and to talk about building remote distributed workflows for video editing.

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Host: Mat X

Guest: Seth Goldin

• Twitter – https://www.twitter.com/sethgoldin
• Website – https://www.sethgoldin.com

Links:

• Lucid Link https://www.lucidlink.com
• Adobe video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqGnlywXoaw
• Free think https://www.freethink.com
• Premiere https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/campaign/pricing.html
• DI – digital intermediate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_intermediate
• Apple ProRes Proxy format – https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT202410
• AVID DNxHR LB – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNxHR_codec
• Proxy with FCP – https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/final-cut-pro/verb8e5f6fd/mac
• FindrCat – https://intelligentassistance.com/findrcat.html
• Post Haste – https://www.digitalrebellion.com/posthaste/
• Postlab – https://hedge.video/postlab
• Frame IO workflow – https://workflow.frame.io
• IntraFrame compression – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intra-frame_coding
• David Fincher Adobe workflow – https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2021/03/09/netflix-feature-film-mank-takes-editorial-workflows-to-a-new-level
• Quarter proxy issue Seth tweet: https://twitter.com/sethgoldin/status/1534306871749885953
• Lucidlink cache – Adjust Local Cache Settings – LucidLink
• MacFUSE – https://osxfuse.github.io
• Teradek – https://teradek.com/pages/serv
• What is Debayering? – https://www.apertus.org/what-is-debayering-article-october-2015
• Davinci Resolve – https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
• Kyno – https://lesspain.software/kyno/
• Excalibur – PPro plugin – https://knightsoftheeditingtable.com
• LTO (tape) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open
• Creator’s Best Friend – https://intelligentassistance.com/creator-s-best-friend.html
• RED camera – https://www.red.com
• LucidLink Slack – https://lucidlink-community.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-e2idnbc3-2mEDVCOQF_J_NcEm0QP9wA#/shared-invite/email
• StudioSysAdmins Slack – 
• Munki – https://github.com/munki/munki
• Autopkg – https://github.com/autopkg/autopkg
• Autopkgr – https://github.com/lindegroup/autopkgr
• Recipe Robot – https://github.com/homebysix/recipe-robot
• Munki + SimpleMDM – https://macvfx.blog/2021/12/17/munki-makes-mdm-manageable/
• Munki supported architecture – https://github.com/munki/munki/wiki/Pkginfo-Files#supported_architectures
• Netflix IMF tech blog – http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/03/imf-prescription-for-versionitis.html
• NeoFinder – https://cdfinder.de
• FoxTrot Search Pro – https://foxtrot-search.com/download.php
• YoYotta – https://yoyotta.com
• Archiware P5 – https://www.archiware.com
• FileMaker Pro – https://www.claris.com/filemaker/

MacDevOps:YVR Videos:

MDOYVR19 – Jasper Siegers – The Post Lab Story

SPONSORS for MDOYVR 2022 conference:

Kandji.io (Platinum Sponsor)

SimpleMDM (Gold Sponsor)

Addigy (Silver Sponsor)

MacStadium (Live Stream Sponsor)

FleetDM (Graphic Recording Sponsor)

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