Absolutely no shade to Tim Robbins, but reading Wool has me convinced that Michael Emerson would make a terrifying Bernard in Silo

Amaze amaze amaze

I'm back into Minecraft again, which means a Minecraft-related blog post! https://jc0b.computer/posts/minecraft-systemd-shenanigans?utm_source=mastodon #minecraft #selfhosted

Unicode normalization.

October in photos:

messing around with a little proof-of-concept server binary that can listen for FleetDM pubsub messages or webhooks. Mostly just trying to figure out the PubSub listening and messing around https://github.com/jc0b/fleetdm-listener-go

Voted 🗳️ 🤞

The Honda e is my new obsession https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_e Saw one outside the office the other week and I love the look of the thing

I have a bit more capacity to host things at my house again so wrote a small binary for proxying mastodon media (so I can switch from using S3 without breaking links to the old media in S3 while it's still there) https://github.com/jc0b/mastodon-media-proxy

I think I had an actual nightmare where we introduced Windows laptops into our environment at work

It’s almost the “stop longboarding” season bc all the standing water from the rain gets kicked up by the wheels onto the deck/my shoes 😰

i am just finding out about `.mode line` in the osquery shell and wow. no more ⌘- for me!

In The Netherlands (or nearby)? Come join us on the canals of Amsterdam next week (13/10), at the next edition of the Benelux Apple Admins meetup! You can register for the meetup here: https://luma.com/qubq21ud Immediately preceding the meetup, we'll also be hosting a @Fleet GitOps workshop […]

Swedish goodbye vs Dutch welcome. Had an absolute blast at #macsysadmin once again. Great to see everyone again!

Next week I’ll have the pleasure of (once again) attending #macsysadmin in Göteborg, for the 20th anniversary of the conference. Last year, I wrote about what it was like to attend MSA for the first time, so figured I would re-share if there were any new first-time attendees. If you’re going […]

Next week I’ll have the pleasure of (once again) attending #macsysadmin in Göteborg, for the 20th anniversary of the conference. Last year, I wrote about what it was like to attend MSA for the first time, so figured I would re-share if there were any new first-time attendees. If you’re going […]

only took a hot minute to figure out how to use the OIDC private key with Terraform Cloud, figured it out tho (use Terraform variables as they support multi-line strings, and envvars don't)

At PSU I had the absolutely unhinged idea to redo all of our Mac onboarding in golang (it’s currently dependent on munki-python). It’s been a pretty intense learning curve, but it’s almost done! Managed to get localisations working today, and hopefully will be able to round it out next week and […]

Migrated datboi.network back home - another Hetzner instance I no longer have to pay for 🎉

Discovered the other night that, if testing a Santa sync server on your laptop, you _probably_ should be careful about what test rules you’ve made beforehand 🙃 _this message bought to you by “I can’t open any apps not signed by Apple”_

I’m in this one! https://mastodon.social/@macadminspodcast/114936924999517350

Just realised that the ABM API is _just_ the thing I need for Munki manifest generation: - manifests generated at least 24 hours before device issuance ✅ - no more worrying about data entry errors in ITAM ✅ This will be v useful

v1.3 of nudge-auto-updater is out! @plantvibes added functionality that lets you specify days you _don't_ want Nudge enforcement deadlines to fall on, and nudge-auto-updater will plan around them. Useful for change windows, weekends, and public holidays. Inspired by macOS 15.2, the two-week […]

v1.3 of nudge-auto-updater is out! @plantvibes added functionality that lets you specify days you _don't_ want Nudge enforcement deadlines to fall on, and nudge-auto-updater will plan around them. Useful for change windows, weekends, and public holidays. Inspired by macOS 15.2, the two-week […]

SCE has to be the most chill airport

First talk! Thank you to everyone who came, it’s been a wonderful week at @macadminsconf and it’s been amazing to meet even more people than before. Links and slides are here: https://jc0b.computer/posts/automate-all-the-things-psu-2025/ Thank you to the […] [Original post on datboi.network]

Wrote about generating Munki items from mSCP baselines: https://jc0b.computer/posts/munki-mscp-generator The GitHub repository for the munki-mscp-generator tool that this post is about is here: https://github.com/jc0b/munki-mscp-generator #macadmins #munki

Wrote about generating Munki items from mSCP baselines: https://jc0b.computer/posts/munki-mscp-generator The GitHub repository for the munki-mscp-generator tool that this post is about is here: https://github.com/jc0b/munki-mscp-generator #macadmins #munki

Successfully leveraged BigQuery to identify a Munki install loop today. Fun!

Incorporated SSO configuration in FleetDM (@Fleet) GitOps today, and wrote about it. https://jc0b.computer/posts/sso-in-gitops-fleetdm/ Sort of #macadmins i guess? #fleetdm

Incorporated SSO configuration in FleetDM (@Fleet) GitOps today, and wrote about it. https://jc0b.computer/posts/sso-in-gitops-fleetdm/ Sort of #macadmins i guess? #fleetdm

The iOS 26 camera icon has very strong iPhone OS 1 to iOS 6 vibes

need something to remind myself

Posted a short post i've been meaning to write up for a while about getting the pSSO linked identity on a Mac. This could be useful if you're trying to enforce pSSO! The examples given are for Okta Device Access, but (presumably) work in a similar fashion for Entra ID too […]

Finally. Got really into journalling at the start of the year, but sometimes I just wanna write a bit more than is comfortable on an iPhone keyboard https://mastodon.social/@verge/114658876193893952

jc0b.computer is down for a bit thanks to Github Pages migration 😅

sometimes when i am unfamiliar with an HTTP response code, i just go to http.cat/<the code> to figure out what it is

Finally plumbed the fridge! Turns out all it needed was some hemp and paste on the connectors 🎉

beginning to suspect that my repeated flashing of Ubuntu ISOs to this USB stick has killed it

Bought a little USB switch for my desk mic and webcam and it’s soooo convenient. No more rewiring when I want to use the mic for discord after work 🎉

Why does DHL have like a billion departments that don’t talk to each other

The thing with this is, you can’t toggle noise modes with the shortcut. I had this idea to use the action button on my phone to toggle NC on my AirPods, but because it’s also seemingly impossible to _get_ the current NC state, you can’t even then make conditionals to set it :L […]

Having fun at the Benelux Apple Admins meet-up #macadmins

Fun weekend away to the Veluwe for Kai’s birthday 🎉 lots of exploring done and the weather was pretty favourable :)

[Netherlands talk] I left Leiden (a city newly serviced by this bus company under their new contract) in the weeks before they started service. When I was going back to the flat to grab bits and pieces, they were offering bus rides _for free_ to “make up” for a potentially rough start. The […]

Terraform for your personal DNS is all fun and games until you break the state 🙃

i'm sure there is a perfectly good reason that the google cloud sdk docker image is over a gigabyte

replaced the fans in the network switch in the rack under the stairs and now there is no longer a hum audible through the whole house 🥰

`git status | grep modified | awk '{print $2}' | xargs autopkg update-trust-info` ripping postprocessors out of recipes necessitates _some_ automation

Bumping munki-promoter to v2.1 this evening 🎉 This release adds a new top-level configuration key (selection) that allows you to include/exclude Munki items from being promoted. Thanks to Elliot Jordan for the feature request! Release is here […]