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As December 1, 2025, approaches, reflection on the past year reveals both achievements and challenges. After starting a new job, I seek meaningful insights through a tailored list of reflective questions, focusing on skill development, successes, influential individuals, and personal growth, while encouraging feedback and further personal exploration.
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I’ve been spending a lot of time with LLMs lately — primarily Claude Code, and Gemini — to try to bring organization to a couple of projects that I’ve been working on. The first is an inventory report internally to compare three different sets of data; the second is a file permissions report for Google […]
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Managed Apple Accounts — that is to say, Apple accounts that are provisioned by your workplace or school — are different from Personal Apple Accounts in the services that they support. As organizations work to adopt Managed Apple Accounts, they’ve been stopped by some of those missing stairs in the process, one of which has […]
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It was a great pleasure to be back at MacSysAdmin for its 20th year! The last two years, I gave highly technical talks on Apple technology in beautiful Göteborg, Sweden. This year’s talk is a little different. When I started looking for a technical subject, I didn’t find one that fit the last year of […]
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Dear Charlie, This Spring, we visited the site of the surrender at Yorktown, where the British Army were defeated by the Continental forces lead by Generals Washington and Rochambeau in 1781. It was the sixth year of the Revolutionary War which gave the United States its birth. We walked through the museum at Yorktown to […]
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WWDC starts in about 90 minutes, and we’re going to get a sneak peek this week of what device management can do. Here’s a quick reminder at how tricky it can be to develop in this environment.