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We talk to the humans in the MacDevOps community and we interview past, present and future speakers of the annual MDO:YVR conference.

MacDevOpsYVR


    • May 30, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 40m AVG DURATION
    • 114 EPISODES


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    Alan Siu - English teacher to Munki tamer

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 43:12 Transcription Available


    In this episode, we speak with Alan Siu, a key figure in the Mac admin community, about the evolution of technology and open source software. Alan reflects on how devices like the iPod changed music consumption from ownership to streaming and shares his personal journey from high school English teacher to IT expert with tools like Munki. We discuss the importance of diverse resources for Mac administrators, the impact of Apple's security features on workflows, and the strong community support within the Mac admin space. The episode wraps up with a preview of the Mac DevOps YVR conference, highlighting the significance of in-person networking and idea exchange for the community.

    Researching vulnerabilities with Csaba Fitzl

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 36:43 Transcription Available


    In this episode, we delve into security and development within the Apple ecosystem with cybersecurity expert Csaba Fitzl. He discusses the vulnerabilities of Electron apps, using Discord as an example, and shares his transition from network management to ethical hacking. Csaba evaluates Apple's security entitlements and the measures taken to enhance user protection while addressing developer access challenges. He also highlights the impact of iOS security advancements on device theft and the importance of threat models. Furthermore, Csaba reflects on AI tools that have improved his workflow, advocates for community engagement through conferences, and emphasizes the need for a balance between professional growth and personal well-being. With a wealth of experience in vulnerability research, Csaba shares his journey from network management to ethical hacking. He recounts how a week-long training transformed his perception of security, igniting his passion for discovering system vulnerabilities. This background plays a pivotal role in his approach to security, where understanding infrastructure aids significantly in identifying flaws and weaknesses in applications. The conversation then pivots to a critical topic: Apple's security entitlements. Csaba evaluates the balance Apple strikes between protecting users and providing developers with the access needed to build secure applications. He elaborates on the systemic measures Apple has implemented to mitigate vulnerabilities, which often complicate the developer experience but ultimately result in a more secure ecosystem. We also touch on the personal impact of physical device security. Csaba emphasizes how advancements in iOS security protocols have significantly deterred casual theft, making stolen devices virtually unusable. This leads to a broader discussion about threat models, illustrating how different levels of targeted attacks require varying defensive measures, especially in a world where both sophisticated and untrained actors exist. Csaba draws attention to his recent experiences with AI tools, which he initially approached with skepticism. He explains how these technologies have revolutionized his workflow, particularly in automation and reverse engineering tasks. By leveraging AI, he has been able to improve the quality of his code analysis and enhance his vulnerability discovery process, albeit while recognizing the limitations and risks associated with AI-generated outputs. As the episode progresses, we delve into the importance of community in the security landscape. Csaba passionately advocates for attending conferences like Mac DevOps YVR, highlighting the invaluable networking opportunities and the familial atmosphere within the Mac-centric community. He insists that while recorded talks provide great content, the personal connections and discussions that happen in the hallways are what truly enrich the conference experience. In closing, Csaba shares his enthusiasm for continuing to navigate the evolving field of cybersecurity, expressing a firm belief in the value of collaborative learning and sharing knowledge. His passion for his work and outdoor pursuits in the mountains showcase a well-rounded approach to life that encourages us all to find a balance between professional growth and personal well-being.

    Continuous Improvements to CI/CD with Rod Christiansen

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 36:28 Transcription Available


    Mat X, JD, and special guest Rod Christensen from Emily Carr University invite you to the next exciting chapter of the MacDevOps YVR podcast. In this episode, the conversation spans across the adoption of DevOps practices in managing Macs, ongoing experiences with various software tools, and the shared thrill of transforming workflows into more efficient systems. It's an engaging mix of personal anecdotes, technical insights, and lively banter that showcases how fostering collaboration within the tech community can lead to innovation and success.

    Giving back to the community with Mike Meyer

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2025 34:54 Transcription Available


    MatX, JD, and guest Mike Meyer discuss preparations for Mac DevOps 2025 in Vancouver, focusing on organizing the conference, fostering community collaboration, and Mike's upcoming talk on AI and workflows. A great chance for networking and learning!

    MDOYVR 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2024 20:16


    Mat, Nick and JD turn it up to eleven for MDOYVR 2025. Join us in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia June 11-13, 2025 for the eleventh annual MDOYVR! Call for Attendees, Speakers and Sponsors. Quicktalks always welcome.

    MDOYVR 2024 recap

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2024 37:04


    Mat X, Nick Z and JD recount MDOYVR 2024 and encourage your feedback as we begin planning MDOYVR 2025. Quicktalks always welcome.

    OpenCore Legacy Patcher with Mykola Grymalyuk

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2024 26:49


    MatX and JD are joined by Mykola Grymalyuk to discuss how he got into creating Open Core Legacy Patcher, getting into security and trying to unravel Apple Silicon VMs.

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    SwiftDialog with Bart Reardon

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2024 30:16


    MacDevOps:YVR 2024 conference is June 19-21, 2024. MatX and JD are joined by Bart Reardon to chat about his open source project Swift Dialog, using SwiftUI and running an opensource project.

    Aftermath with Stuart Ashenbrenner

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2024 24:23


    MatX and JD are joined by Stuart Ashenbrenner, macOS Security Researcher at HuntressLabs, to discuss Aftermath, a Swift-based, open-source incident response framework, and being a Millenial Girl Dad.

    10th Anniversary conference

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2023 20:36


    Planning the 10th annual MDO conference has begun. Special guest Nick Zolotko.

    Declarative MDO with Joel Rennich

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2023 24:53


    MacDevOps:YVR 2023 is a week away. MatX and JD are joined by Joel Rennich one of our speakers to chat about the upcoming ninth annual MDOYVR Conference, Hack Night, and some of what was seen at WWDC.

    Hey let's get ready for MacDevOps!

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2023 26:57


    Mat X and JD are joined by Stuart, one of our speakers, and Arnold, an attendee, discussing their journey to attending the ninth annual MDOYVR Conference.

    MacDevOps:YVR 2023 Back in Person

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2023 26:19


    MacDevOps:YVR 2023 is weeks away. Join MatX and JD as they discuss some of the highlights to the ninth annual MDOYVR Conference back in person in beautiful downtown Vancouver, B.C.

    Remote distributed workflows for video editing with Seth Goldin

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2022 85:20


    Mat X and Seth discuss various remote distributed workflows for video editing with recipes for Adobe Premiere Pro, Resolve and Final Cut Pro proxy workflow with help from LucidLink, Postlab, and the cloud.

    Sharvil and Zach talk about MDOYVR 2022

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2022 44:16


    Sharvil and Zach talk about MDOYVR 2022

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    MDOYVR 2022 Speaker series - Arek Dreyer

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2022 42:45


    Arek Dreyer, Keynote speaker at MacDevOps:YVR 2022, joins MatX and JD for the 100th episode to pour one out for Server.app, speaker advice, helping the community, and putting a long-running con(ference) together.

    MDOYVR 2022 Speaker series - Armin Briegel

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2022 30:20


    Armin, speaker at MacDevOps:YVR 2022, joins MatX and JD to chat about Swift, Installomator, and more.

    MDOYVR 2022 Speaker series - Bart Reardon

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2022 43:09


    Bart Reardon, speaker at MacDevOps:YVR 2022, joins MatX and JD to chat about SwiftUI, managing open-source software, and Bart's Dialog command-line app.

    MDOYVR 2022 Speaker series - Joel Rennich

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2022 44:37


    Joel Rennich, speaker at MacDevOps:YVR 2022, joins MatX and JD to talk auth, hiring, and 90s alt-rock references.

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    MDOYVR 2022 Speaker series - Alex Narvey

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2022 27:17


    Alex Narvey, speaker at MacDevOps:YVR 2022, joins MatX to recount the many and various quick talks Alex has given over the years at MDOYVR.

    We love what we do - Chris Chapman, MacStadium

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2022 41:29


    Mat X and JD chat to Chris Chapman from MacStadium and talk about the business of Mac hosting and how it has evolved over the years from bespoke servers to CI/CD pipelines.

    MDO:YVR the Lifestyle Brand

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2022 20:41


    Mat X and JD discuss MacDevOps:YVR progress, Munki Report PHP via Docker, and the ever-changing world of Apple.

    Make Things Grow - MacDevOps:YVR 2022 planning continues

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2022 22:25


    Mat X and JD continue planning the MacDevOps:YVR 2022 conference.

    Ed Marczak - Santa is not corporate malware

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2022 41:06


    Ed Marczak joins Mat X and JD to explore why Santa is not corporate malware and how IT and Security teams can help by documenting their processes and educating their users.

    Catching Up with Shania

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2022 23:47


    Mat X and JD catch up with Shania about being on call, new laptop purchasing, dongles, lost devices, and more.

    Baez Cloud

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2022 51:45


    Felipe Baez joins MatX and JD to talk about setting up his own cloud and email server, thoughts on the new Mac Studio, and forecasting what might be in the new Mac Pro.

    So Many Talks

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2022 17:15


    Join Mat and JD in a planning session for the 2022 MacDevOps YVR Conference, where they discuss perks for speakers, calls for volunteers, and a movie night.

    Log All The Data with Tom and Dan from Snowflake

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2022 47:08


    Co-hosts JD and Mat X talk with Tom and Dan from Snowflake about logging all the data. Everything! Osquery, FleetDM, and what do you do with 400TB of logs.

    Per Oloffson MunkiReport Quick Fix

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2022 29:42


    Co-hosts JD and Mat X meet with MacAdmins legend Per Olofsson, aka Mager Valp, to discuss the recent MunkiReport quick fix and how open source is fun.

    Hackindockertosh

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2022 23:48


    Mat X and JD discuss the call for sponsors, speakers, ticket sales, and more for the upcoming MacDevOps YVR Conference.

    Prima Virani - Marie Kondo of Code

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2022 49:50


    Co-hosts JD and Mat X meet with past MDO speaker Prima Virani to discuss AWS, Kubernetes, Go vs. Python, and surprise: osquery and fleetDM.

    Embracing Risk - SRE Book Club Part 4

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2022 25:58


    Jonathan, Balmas, and Brian join Mat and JD to discuss Chapter 3 for this fourth meeting of the SRE Book Club on troubleshooting a process and not just a problem.

    Mike McNeil FleetDM

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2022 37:47


    Co-hosts JD and Shania join Mat X to discuss Osquery and Security with guest Mike McNeil, FleetDM's CEO.

    Terrible But Necessary - SRE Book Club Part 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2022 36:45


    How to apply DevOps and SRE concepts to your entire org. How do you troubleshoot a process and not just a problem? Don't forget about User experience. Bonus points if we avoid Single Points of Failure or create more tech debt.

    One service level at a time - SRE Book Club Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2022 51:41


    Brandon, Jennifer, Balmas, and Brian join Mat and JD to discuss Chapter 1 in-depth for this second part of the SRE Book Club.

    Garbage In, Garbage Out

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2022 32:31


    Mat X is joined by co-hosts JD and Shania to discuss MDO 2022 planning, and garbage management as we kick off the new year by cleaning out tech debt.

    logs4ever

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2021 30:35


    Mat and JD close out the year with a few conference announcements and discussion of log4j, security vulnerabilities, patching, bounties, projects and predictions.

    Back to conference planning finally

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2021 29:15


    Mat X is joined by co-hosts JD and Shania to discuss MDO 2022 planning, tickets, call for speakers along with documentation in Notion, the AWS outage, and security issues stemming from tech debt.

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    BK's Bot Army aka SRE BookClub Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2021 50:07


    Mat X is joined by friends to talk about Chapter 1 in Google's Site Reliability Engineering book. We talk about Error Budgets, Automation vs. Autonomous systems, and BK's Bot Army, our newest MDO fan club.

    Afraid to commit

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2021 18:39


    Mat X, and JD talk about the upcoming SRE Bookclub, too many tabs, scripting slack bots, Teleport project, and the Final Cut Summit conference.

    SRE Book Club Planning

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2021 24:43


    Mat X, Shania, and JD talk about the upcoming SRE Bookclub, MacDevOps call for Sponsors, new laptops and more.

    Life Work Balance of an SRE with Sophie Smithsburg

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2021 39:14


    Mat X and JD chat with reformed SRE, Sophie Smithsburg about the differences of DevOps and SRE, finding a life work balance from pager duty, and cooperative software development.

    All the Apple Updates and Shiny Predictions

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2021 25:35


    Mat X and JD talk Apple security updates, MDM, and our upcoming SRE (site reliability engineering) book club.

    Wearing Multiple Hats: Security And IT

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2021 23:35


    Mat X. Shania, and JD talk security, IT, wearing multiple hats, and doing all the jobs.

    In the Garden With Ashton Rodenhiser

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2021 35:02


    Mat X and JD talk gardening with Ashton Rodenhiser of Minds Eye Creative, as we dig for metaphors, and plant ideas around devops.

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    New Jobs, New Roles, New Tech, New Tools

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2021 33:40


    Mat X, Shania and JD talk new jobs, new roles, new tech, new tools and a little gardening for good measure.

    2021 Conference Behind The Scenes with Felipe Baez

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2021 52:28


    Mat X and JD are joined by Felipe Baez to post mortem production on the MacDevOpsYVR 2021 Conference, along with camera and microphone tips to make your Zoom calls better.

    2021 Conference Post-Mortem

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2021 55:50


    Mat X and JD are joined by Henry and Ashton for a post mortem on the MacDevOpsYVR 2021 virtual conference. Henry presented at MDOYVR and helped with organizing. Ashton is our graphic recording superstar creating amazing graphic recordings of the speakers' presentation.

    Mac, Dev and Ops: The calm before the storm

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2021 36:11


    Mat X and JD are joined by Piero Mamberti and Ben Toms, speakers at MacDevOps:YVR, to chat all things Mac Dev and Ops.

    Security vs the Cloud with Aspen and Ben

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2021 54:21


    Mat X, JD and Shania are joined by Aspen Lindblom and Ben Greisler, speakers at MacDevOps:YVR, to chat all things backups, security and the cloud.

    Apple Dreams of Data driven MDM

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2021 52:55


    Mat X, JD and Shania are joined by Lucas Hall and James Smith, speakers at MacDevOps:YVR, to chat all things Apple, MDM and what could be at WWDC and MDOYVR 2021.

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