Published: 2021-02-09
Mat X and JD talk with Patrick Wardle about his newly Open Source Objective-See Mac Security tools, Objective by the Sea 4.0 conference, and The Art of Mac Malware Analysis.
Hosts:
Mat X and JD
Guest:
Patrick Wardle (@objective_see / @patrickwardle)
Links:
Objective-See Mac Security Tools
Objective by the Sea 4.0 Conference
The Art of Mac Malware Analysis (Book)
Objective-See (blog)
Objective-See (GitHub)
Objective See (Patreon)
Kids in the Hall – The Beard
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Published: 2021-02-02
Mat X and JD chat with Chris J. who says he’s not a chat bot. We talk about the new M1 MacBookPro laptop and why it’s better than a Core2Duo from 2010. We also discuss Tensor Flow and setting up a dev environment in GCP.
Hosts:
Mat X and JD
Guest:
Chris J
Links:
Mat’s blog post: Do You Know Where Your Files Are?
Mystery Science Theatre 3000
Scapple
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Unifi Design Center
Miro Endless Whiteboard
Rasa
Seiko watch

Cartem’s Donuts
Cycliq Bike Cameras
Team America
Pigeon IP
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Published: 2021-01-26
Mat X and JD are joined by Derek Fulmer talking social media, and his journey from Mac nerd to Linux and Docker containerization nerd.
Hosts:
Mat X and JD
Guest:
Derek Fulmer
Links:
Hate5six – live stream. Building a freeNAS server for hardcore punk history
Derek Fulmer (Twitter)
iOS calculator app. (Pro tip : turn it sideways)
docker
Julia Evans. Wizard zines.
CentOS Linux
Rocky Linux (CentOS repkacement?)
MacPorts (package management for Mac)
Site survivability and disaster recovery (US gov)
Google Beyond Corp (Zero trust networks)
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Published: 2021-01-19
Mat X and JD are joined by Seth Goldin to talk munki via Teraform and the limits of big data in the cloud.
Hosts:
Mat X and JD
Guest:
Seth Goldin
Links:
@sethgoldin on Twitter
Terraform
CDNs
Edge Server
Wade’s Munki AWS Middleware
Graham’s MDO Teraform Preso
Google Drive Data Transfer Limits
Aysiu’s Munki Serial Number Manifests
The XY Problem
Resolve (what is)
History of Resolve preso
History of Robertson drive
Nikola Tesla’s AC vs Thomas Edison’s DC
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Published: 2021-01-12
Mat X and JD regale the tale of Podcast 44 that ended 2020 by not being published, JD reviews his M1 Mac mini adventures & Mat encourages fast backups if not working in the cloud. New year, same problems!
Hosts:
Mat X and JD
Links:
Samsung T5 and T7 SSD external drives.
PostLab
MDO Discord
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Published: 2020-12-22
Mat X and JD talk about Dev and Ops not playing together with failing 11.1 updates, Solarwinds attack, and more while Mat live updates his Big Sur Mac.
Hosts:
Mat X and JD
Links:
macOS Big Sur 11.1 update threads
Solarwinds supply chain attack
Deployment Reference for Mac (Apple)
The Expanse (TV Show)
Game Pigeon (iOS iMessage games for 2-players)
ffmpeg (open source cross platform video engine)
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Published: 2020-12-01
Mat X and JD talk about EveryWorld Virtual Conference in Australia, Outages, backups, Rube Goldberg restoration scenarios and Apple’s new M1 hardware.
Hosts:
Mat X and JD
Links:
EveryWorld conference
Scan documents in iOS
Fine Scanner iOS app.
Amazon status page
Down detector: outage monitoring
Anandtech: M1 Mac Mini
Videos:
iJustine: M1 Mac review
M1 Mac mini vs Mac Pro
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