TLM: It's a Trap (And I'm Still in It) It’s been nearly two years since I moved from being an Individual Contributor (IC) to a Tech Lead Manager (TLM) - a hybrid role that combines the responsibilities of a manager...

The Path to Staff Engineer and Beyond: Staying on the IC Train This morning I spoke at MacDevOps:YVR on the topic of Staff Engineering. Than you to everyone who came, and a huge thank you to Mat, JD, and the rest of the MDO team for...

Zero Trust for Mac Admins at MacAD.UK This afternoon I had the pleasure of presenting at MacAD.UK in Brighton on the topic of Zero Trust for Mac admins. Here are the slides and the resources I shared during the...

Investigating unpatched CVEs with osquery and SOFA This week, Mac Admins Open Source released a new tool called SOFA. SOFA is a machine readable feed of macOS and iOS update data - including CVEs. Of course, my mind...

Zero Trust is not Zero Effort: Planning your Zero Trust strategy at MacSysAdmin 2023 This week, I travelled to beautiful Gothenburg to speak at MacSysAdmin. Thank you to Patrik and the rest of the team for being such great hosts, and to all my friends, new and...

The risks of relying on Generative AI when writing scripts This morning I saw a major MDM vendor advertising an upcoming feature that will write scripts to manage your macOS devices for you using generative AI - sounds like the end of...

Gone Phishing: Airbnb's Journey to phishing resistant MFA at MacAD.UK 2023 Last week, I gave my first conference talk in over three years - and it was about what took up most of my 2022 - deploying phishing resistant MFA. Thank you to the organizers...