Installomator v10.3 and v11.0beta1
We have released a new minor version of Installomator. Version 10.3 contains several new labels and some very important fixes to existing labels. You can see the details in the v10.3 release notes. We...
View ArticleRAID and macOS
RAIDs are a strange edge case that are rarely useful outside of servers, but when they are useful, they are very important. RAID is an acronym for ‘Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks.’...
View ArticleBuild a notarized package with a Swift Package Manager executable
One of the most popular articles on this blog is “Notarize a Command Line Tool with notarytool.” In that post I introduced a workflow for Xcode to build and notarize a custom installer package for a...
View ArticleInstallomator v10.5
We have released an update for installomator which brings it to v10.5. You can can see the details in its release notes page. With an astounding 78 new labels and updates to 42 existing labels, this...
View ArticleUsing desktoppr in a managed environment
A few years back, I built and released a small tool to simplify the deployment of macOS desktop pictures (also known as “wallpapers” since macOS Ventura and on other platforms) without actually...
View ArticlePrefs CLI Tools for Mac Admins
Recently I have been working on some… well… “stuff” that uses custom configuration profiles. Very custom, and since I am testing things, they need to be updated a lot. The issue with defaults When you...
View Articledesktoppr 0.5 — Managed by profile
Earlier this year, I released a beta version of desktoppr 0.5 which added an option to control the tool using a configuration profile. You can read all the details of how I built out this workflow in...
View ArticleBuilding a LaunchD Installer pkg for desktoppr (and other tools)
In my last post introducing desktoppr 0.5, I said that a Mac admin could build a customized pkg with a customized LaunchAgent property list, that would run desktoppr manage at login and every few...
View ArticleSwift Command Line Tools and Argument Parser — Part 1
When building tools in Swift, I usually start with a command line tool. This allows me to ignore the complexity of creating a user interface while figuring out the underlying APIs and data models....
View ArticleInstallomator v10.6
It is that time again, we have released a new version of Installomator! Many thanks to all the maintainers and contributors! It has been quite a while since we published a release and there was quite...
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