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Define Your Business Relationship With Clients I always looked at my relationship with my clients as more of a partnership than a technical service. I prided myself on never using a one-size-fits-...

PowerShell for the Mac Admin - Part 4: Blue Canary in the Outlet By the Light Switch

Before I get to today’s topic, a bit of follow-up from the last installment: In part 3, in order to determine the latest release of the target installer package from Github’s API, I used this line of ...

PowerShell for the Mac Admin - Part 5: Pivot!

When last we met, dear Reader, I made an offhand remark about spreadsheets and pivot tables, a throwaway joke about something a lot of people don’t understand. But it got me thinking. You’ve probably ...

PowerShell for Mac Admins

Part 1 Yes, you read that right. This is the first in what will be an ongoing series on the topic of PowerShell on macOS. Stick around and follow along if you are already a Mac admin, looking to expan...

PowerShell for the Mac Admin - Part 2: Grand Tour

Before we dive into writing and debugging our own scripts with PowerShell and VSCode, I thought it might be helpful to examine a few of the ways in which PowerShell and bash differ, and where your pre...

PowerShell for the Mac Admin - Part 3: Do You Want To Build A Snowman?

If you’re reading this series, I expect you have some experience with writing scripts already. As such, I think we can dispense with the typical “Hello world” examples and jump right into building som...