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This week's MacAdmins.news covers Background Security Updates and how to manage them, an Enterprise-y look at the MacBook Neo, and the usual collection of updates, automations, articles, and tools!
⚙ Tim Cook’s ‘I’m Not Political’ Is Worse
Michael Strahan interviewed Tim Cook for Good Morning America. It’s a short, 5-minute segment (and heavily edited—I wish we could see the whole thing). Two headlines from the media coverage jumped out. One, from CNBC, misleadingly claims that “Tim Cook squashes retirement rumors,” with an equally fatuous story
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/1
10 years today.
The announcement out of AwesomeCon has come.
Nathan Fillion and Crew Reunite for ‘Firefly’ Animated Series
https://www.thetvcave.com/post/firefly-animated-series-what-we-know
"Grab your brown coats and a very expensive bottle of Mudder’s Milk, because the impossible just happened. After two decades of "maybe next year" and enough fan petitions to paper the entire Verse, Nathan Fillion has finally stopped teasing us on Instagram and dropped the big one: a Firefly animated series is officially in advanced development."
The series takes place between the original TV series and Serenity, the film.
#IAimToMisbehave #Firefly #Serenity #AwesomeCon #nathanfillion #animation #animatedseries #entertainment #entertainmentnews #hollywood #SciFi #nostalgia #actors #spacemovies #ScienceFiction
Grab your brown coats and a very expensive bottle of Mudder’s Milk, because the impossible just happened. After two decades of "maybe next year" and enough fan petitions to paper the entire Verse, Nathan Fillion has finally stopped teasing us on Instagram and dropped the big one: a Firefly animated series is officially in advanced development.Announced during a high-octane reunion at Awesome Con, the project isn't some low-budget cash grab or a "spiritual successor" with none of the charm. We’re
This week's MacAdmins.news has (more) thoughts on the MacBook Neo, 50 years of Apple, my experiences with LLM assisted coding, many great articles from Mac admins, and lots of updates.
Swift re-write for QuickPkg and some thoughts on LLM aided coding
I have created a new version of quickpkg, you can get it here. If all you care about is the new version of quickpkg, go follow the link. There are also a few new features. Hope you like them. Full disclosure: I used Claude Code to create this new version. I recently got access to Claude Code through work and I chose quickpkg as an experiment to understand where modern “agentic” coding tools are and how…
https://scriptingosx.com/2026/03/swift-re-write-for-quickpkg-and-some-thoughts-on-llm-aided-coding/
RE: https://mastodon.art/@MicroSFF/114149050576447349
** Reposting this story I wrote last year
#GnuTerryPratchett
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This release also includes a bunch of bug fixes that I've been sitting on, and figured I should make available before the state of the world, of Apple software, of Apple leadership and of software engineering entirely sap my will to develop. 😳
https://www.mothersruin.com/software/Apparency/relnotes.html
JAG’s Workshop
Timothy Perfitt
Eugen Rochko
Blake Patterson
Micro SF/F by O. Westin
Apparency