JNUC 2026 — One Committed Secret and the GitOps Framework That Saved Me

How a single committed secret inspired a complete rethinking of Jamf Pro script management — and the open-source framework that came out of it. Presented at JNUC 2026, Kansas City, MO.

September 25, 2026 · 1 min · Matt Parker

MacAdmins 2026 — Session: Security Called

Security Called: How I Turned a Scripting Disaster into a GitOps Pipeline, presented at the Mac Admins Conference at Penn State.

July 10, 2026 · 1 min · Matt Parker

MacAdmins 2026 — Workshop: macOS GitOps with Shikomi

A 3.5-hour hands-on build-along workshop on macOS GitOps with Shikomi, presented at the Mac Admins Conference at Penn State.

July 7, 2026 · 1 min · Matt Parker

Introducing Hikae: Notes Kept for Later

Why I built a cross-platform bookmark manager backed by GitHub, and what it means to have a single capture-to-recall system that works everywhere without iCloud.

June 16, 2026 · 2 min · Matt Parker

MDMenuBar Is Now Beacon

What happened when a Markdown file previewer became my daily ops dashboard, and everything that changed along the way: a new name, a proper app bundle, URL source mode, alert integrations, and a bridge into a local web dashboard.

June 10, 2026 · 5 min · Matt Parker

LutzTalk Podcast: Episode 7

A conversation covering macOS GitOps, the creative side of IT engineering, Shikomi, AI, and staying relevant in a changing industry.

May 5, 2026 · 1 min · Matt Parker

LutzTalk Podcast: macOS GitOps, Shikomi, and Staying Relevant in IT

I joined Austin Lutz on the LutzTalk Podcast to talk about the shift to macOS GitOps, the creative side of IT engineering, Shikomi, AI, and what it takes to stay relevant in a changing industry.

May 5, 2026 · 1 min · Matt Parker

Detecting Shadow AI on Managed Macs

As AI tools proliferate faster than security reviews can keep up, IT teams need fleet-wide visibility into what’s actually running. Three Jamf Extension Attributes for detecting LiteLLM, compromised npm packages, and AI gateway tools across your managed endpoints.

April 21, 2026 · 4 min · Matt Parker

MDMenuBar: A Native macOS Markdown Previewer That Lives in Your Menu Bar

Why I built a lightweight native Swift app to preview Markdown and HTML files from the menu bar, and what I learned writing a custom Markdown renderer without any dependencies.

April 7, 2026 · 2 min · Matt Parker

Managing TestFlight with Bash and 1Password

How I built a TestFlight beta tester management tool that stores everything (including the private key) in 1Password, implements JWT authentication from scratch in bash, and grew from a simple CLI into a native SwiftDialog GUI app.

March 17, 2026 · 7 min · Matt Parker