Off the Grid with Mat X & JD

Published: 2020-09-15

Mat X & JD talk about getting off the grid in the middle of the pandemic, back to school, better WiFi and the bookclub.

Hiawatha Scenic Bike Trail

Dutch Blitz card game

Sign in with Apple

Apple vs Epic Games (Wikipedia)

Apple events

iPad in the classroom

Apple Silicon (WWDC 2020 video)

Final Cut Pro video editing software

Proxy Workflow with FCP X

Hedge Postlab video collaboration

Accusys Thunderbolt storage for Xsan

Fleetsmith User Guide (Apple MDM)

FileMaker (now Claris still Apple)

Wi-Fi 6 aka 802.11ax

DevOps for Dummies Cheat sheet (Book by Emily Freeman)

MunkiReport (Github)

SEXT vs KEXT

 

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Postlab, Drive & New Workflows Hedge’s Paul & Jasper

Published: 2020-09-08

Paul Matthijs & Jasper Siegers from Hedge join Mat X & JD to talk about working from home, new workflows with Postlab & Postlab Drive.

Hedge – Smart software for filmmakers

Postlab Remote collaboration and version control for video editors

Miro – Virtual Whiteboard

FCPX– Apple’s vidéo editing software

Whereby – Video Meetings, Video Conferencing, and Screen Sharing – Whereby (formerly appear.in)

Jitsi.org – develop and deploy full-featured video conferencing

Bitbucket – The Git solution for professional teams

Gitlab – The first single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle – GitLab | GitLab

GitHub

 

 

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New Remote Workflows for Distributed Teams

Published: 2020-09-01

Mat X & JD discuss the new Final Cut Pro and remote workflows in these times of a distributed workforce.

Final Cut Pro 10.4.9 release notes

Felipe’s video overview of FCP 10.4.9

Jasper Siegers – The Post Lab Story  (MDOYVR 2019)

Postlab (Hedge)

Jeff Geerling: “what if I deleted your production cluster?”

Ansible for DevOps (Jeff Geerling)

Nathaniel strauss: Overheated Macs that won’t enroll

SimpleMDM and Munki integration beta 

 

 

 

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Effin process with Aaron Reynolds of EffinBirds & SwearTrek

Published: 2020-08-25

Humorist, Aaron Reynolds of @EffinBirds and @Swear_Trek twitter accounts joins Mat X, Shania & JD to discuss taking the leap to doing your own thing, process and the hard work of being creative.

Greetings from EffinBirdsA book of 100 tear-out postcards Greetings From Effin’ Birds:  eatf.art

https://bookshop.org/lists/effin-birds-books

EffinBirds mugs, shirts and prints.

StarTrek: Wolf in the Fold  (related @swear_trek tumblr image).

Douglas Trumble, special effects

Jonathan Kay, serious adult

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Pixelmator Pro
History of British Birds by Thomas Bewick.
Bewick Society

https://tomchalky.com – https://tomchalky.com/brixton-font-family-bonus-decorative-ornaments/
Artimasa – Fairy Tales – https://creativemarket.com/artimasa/159205-Fairy-Tales-Bonus

EffinBirds ⭐  Reviews

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MDOYVR Bookclub Preview

Published: 2020-08-18

Mat X and JD are joined by Allison & Piero for a sample of the discussion in the MacDevOps Book Club, discussing Emily Freeman’s book, DevOps for Dummies.

Join us on the MacDevOps Discord, Wednesdays at Noon Pacific (UTC-7)

DevOps for Dummies by Emily Freeman

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Greatest Agent of Change: CIO, CEO or COVID-19

Published: 2020-08-11

Mat X and JD catch up with Shania, after she successfully moved 4 offices to working remotely.

During Coronavirus Lockdowns, Some Doctors Wondered: Where Are the Preemies?

Jira software and service desk tickets 

Zendesk  help desk tickets and customer service desk software 

Confluence project collaboration

Tweet –  jira devs using sticky notes

What is Scrumm master?

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Testing Betas, Snapshots & Log Files with Howard Oakley

Published: 2020-08-04

Howard Oakley joins JD and Mat X to discuss testing betas, APFS snapshots and exploring log files.

Note: Our interview with Howard ran well over 1.5 hours. Howard is a wealth of information, and we did not want to abridge the interview. This is part 2 of 2. We suggest listening to Part 1 first.

APL programming language

Swift programming language

Leveraging APFS with APFS snapshots (Mike Bombich)

Managing snapshots (Rich Trouton)

Volume recovery with APFS (Howard Oakley)

SilentKnight (security app)

ArchiChect (universal app checker)

lipo cli tool (Universal app detection)

Apple’s transition to Intel

 

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Laser Cutters and Documentation with Howard Oakley (Part 1)

Published: 2020-07-28

Howard Oakley joins JD and Mat X to discuss recent changes in Apple macOS, writing apps in Swift, and the dangers of learning to program with a laser cutter.

Note: Our interview with Howard ran well over 1.5 hours. Howard is a wealth of information, and we did not want to abridge the interview. This is part 1 of 2.

APL programming language

Swift programming language

Leveraging APFS with APFS snapshots (Mike Bombich)

Managing snapshots (Rich Trouton)

Volume recovery with APFS (Howard Oakley)

SilentKnight (security app)

ArchiChect (universal app checker)

lipo cli tool (Universal app detection)

Apple’s transition to Intel

 

 

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DevOps For Dummies with Piero and Joaquin

Published: 2020-07-21

Piero and Joaquin join Mat X and JD to kick off the Summer Book Club with DevOps for Dummies.

DevOps for Dummies (Cheat sheet)

DevOps Days

Agile Manifesto

What is Scrum?

MacAdmins Python

Re-locatable Python

Joaquin’s GitHub

Piero’s GitHub

Nudge (prompts users to install updates via an approved method)

How to make a pull request

William Theaker – (Quick Talk) Running Autopkg with GitHub Actions

Learn GitLab CI

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Gord Breckenridge Automates Himself Out of a Job

Published: 2020-07-14

Gord Breckenridge joins Mat X and JD to discuss supporting art schools, visual effects studios, and automating his way out of a job in the early days with Radmind.

Radmind cli to manage Unix systems

DB Browser for SQL Lite

Operators Band

Wade’s S3 Auth Middleware for Munki

Screens App for iPad

PHP Laravel

Teradici desktop virtual ecosystem

Parsec gaming interactive streaming

Shake compositing software

Munki and MunkiReport 

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