Mastodawn

@marcoarment (2/2)
You also mentioned you're using Apple Remote Desktop - you can do bulk CLI commands and do OS updates via softwareupdate commands. You could make groups and schedule too - half on demand, half a day later. You get the idea.

https://support.apple.com/en-by/guide/remote-desktop/apd65c7627e/mac

To be honest, assuming your management is mostly for OS updates and brew/npm, if I were in your shoes, I'd keep going with just ARD. Most MDMs (e.g. Jamf) are a really big job in and of themselves.

Schedule tasks in Remote Desktop

Learn how to use a Remote Desktop to schedule tasks.

Apple Support

Travis Gingrich 7h ago

@marcoarment I'm an episode or so behind on @atpfm but if you're still looking for some ideas on managing that fleet of mac minis, I have thoughts.

Super (https://github.com/Macjutsu/super) is great for OS updates, but DIY and a little fiddly. Iru, the artist formerly known as Kandji, is a really nice lightweight MDM solution for around $8/device/month.

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Travis Gingrich Mar 5

Eric A. Meyer Feb 13

I saw yet another “CSS is a massively bloated mess” whine and I’m like. My dude. My brother in Chromium. It is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity and a few other things in a human-readable text format. It’s not bloated, it’s fantastically ambitious. Its reach is greater than most of us can hope to grasp. Put some *respect* on its *name*.

Travis Gingrich Oct 19

https://mastodon.social/@christianselig/115396804417662820

Travis Gingrich Oct 17

Really digging this article from @viticci - Now this is a use case for AI that I can get on board with. https://www.macstories.net/notes/llms-for-data-portability/

LLMs As Conduits for Data Portability Between Apps

One of the unsung benefits of modern LLMs – especially those with MCP support or proprietary app integrations – is their inherent ability to facilitate data transfer between apps and services that use different data formats. This is something I’ve been pondering for the past few months, and the latest episode of Cortex – where

Travis Gingrich Oct 5

Shout out to my fellow sysadmins. https://mas.to/@hedders/115304324019079553

Hedders (@[email protected])

X is where you find the people who think they run the Internet. Bluesky is where you find the people who think they ought to run the Internet. Mastodon is where you find the people who actually do run the Internet, and kind of wish they didn't. (WIth apologies to Yes, Minister)

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Travis Gingrich Oct 5

Hedders Oct 2

X is where you find the people who think they run the Internet.

Bluesky is where you find the people who think they ought to run the Internet.

Mastodon is where you find the people who actually do run the Internet, and kind of wish they didn't.

(WIth apologies to Yes, Minister)

Travis Gingrich Oct 4

Daring Fireball Oct 3

‘Fuck You, Make Me’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/03/fuck-you-make-me

‘Fuck You, Make Me’

Link to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohPToBog_-g

Daring Fireball

Travis Gingrich Oct 4

https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/115310458456088019

Travis Gingrich Oct 2

@caseyliss and @marcoarment - what’s that pen that you both love and have talked about on @atpfm a few times? Crawling through show notes and can’t find it…