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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Somehow it totally passed me by, but as of 1st of August, you can use Express Travel Cards on Dutch public transport 🎉 super useful

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

@matdevdug head in the sand “if it was really wrong, the US would do something about it” mentality has been around now for some time, I unfollowed bc of it a while back

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

RE: mathstodon.xyz/@juandesant/11711775… Reposting if not just to teach folks about `pbpaste` and `pbcopy`

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

@g “easily” It’s taken me a hot minute to get a handful of hosts to work via Traefik, and then I realise I also have a Kubernetes cluster to do 😭

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

@arroz I was there a few weeks ago (right by this roundabout) and i was stunned at how insane vehicle traffic is

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

Last month, I got to speak a little about GitOps (and why MacAdmins should be using GitOps!) at the University of Utah MacAdmins Meeting. The slides, session recording, and links can be found here. Thanks to Richard Glaser for having me! […]

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

@0xabad1dea I moved from Leiden to Amsterdam about a year after you did iirc, and I also miss the weirdness of living in the inner city. There’s nothing like seeing a car turned into a boat “driving” down the canal outside your apartment with no explanation 😅

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

Absolutely no shade to Tim Robbins, but reading Wool has me convinced that Michael Emerson would make a terrifying Bernard in Silo

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Unicode normalization.

A screenshot of a shell (on Mac) executing the program ßh. Due to normalization this gets translated to ssh, and indeed the shell calls the ssh binary.

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025

@arroz cleaning out the USB-C port is much, much harder. Last time I needed to, I used the tip of a penknife blade to move it all around, but it wasn’t ideal. Just pushed it all into the corners and hoped I could get it out 🙃

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025

@0xabad1dea cash registers (at AH at least) don’t open with a physical key and need to be opened by the register itself iirc

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025

October was insanely busy. Also I should take more photos but I spent the last week of October sick and indoors so 🤷

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025

Use-case for this is potentially replacing a cloud function with something hosted in GKE, preferably without getting messy with eventarc triggers

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025

messing around with a little proof-of-concept server binary that can listen for FleetDM pubsub messages or webhooks. Mostly just trying to figure out the PubSub listening and messing around github.com/jc0b/fleetdm-listener-go

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

@pbloem hopefully not - I’d like it to reach some conclusion 😅

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025

@pbloem still holding my breath a little but my goal was PVV not being the biggest. What we got was better than that, at the very least

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025

The Honda e is my new obsession en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_e Saw one outside the office the other week and I love the look of the thing

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025

I think I had an actual nightmare where we introduced Windows laptops into our environment at work

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

Or! I get another board that isn’t a drop-down one and see if that helps with the splash 👀

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

It’s almost the “stop longboarding” season bc all the standing water from the rain gets kicked up by the wheels onto the deck/my shoes 😰

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

i am just finding out about `.mode line` in the osquery shell and wow. no more ⌘- for me!

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

@erynofwales it’s gotta be the best track on the album

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025

In The Netherlands (or nearby)? Come join us on the canals of Amsterdam next week (13/10), at the next edition of the Benelux Apple Admins meetup! You can register for the meetup here: luma.com/qubq21ud Immediately preceding the meetup, we'll also be hosting a @Fleet GitOps workshop […]

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

Swedish goodbye vs Dutch welcome. Had an absolute blast at #macsysadmin once again. Great to see everyone again!

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

Next week I’ll have the pleasure of (once again) attending #macsysadmin in Göteborg, for the 20th anniversary of the conference. Last year, I wrote about what it was like to attend MSA for the first time, so figured I would re-share if there were any new first-time attendees. If you’re going […]

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

@doekman yeah I think it’s something specific in Terraform Cloud - adding the new lines didn’t seem to get parsed properly in almost any situation. But TF variables work just as well in this case!

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

only took a hot minute to figure out how to use the OIDC private key with Terraform Cloud, figured it out tho (use Terraform variables as they support multi-line strings, and envvars don't)

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025

At PSU I had the absolutely unhinged idea to redo all of our Mac onboarding in golang (it’s currently dependent on munki-python). It’s been a pretty intense learning curve, but it’s almost done! Managed to get localisations working today, and hopefully will be able to round it out next week and […]

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Next up is to move the object storage somewhere else - either home as well (with smth like minio) or another smaller cloud

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

Migrated datboi.network back home - another Hetzner instance I no longer have to pay for 🎉

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2025

Discovered the other night that, if testing a Santa sync server on your laptop, you _probably_ should be careful about what test rules you’ve made beforehand 🙃 _this message bought to you by “I can’t open any apps not signed by Apple”_

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

I had a blast doing this (despite being fairly terrified initially). Thank you so much to @tbridge for inviting me on!

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025

Just realised that the ABM API is _just_ the thing I need for Munki manifest generation: - manifests generated at least 24 hours before device issuance ✅ - no more worrying about data entry errors in ITAM ✅ This will be v useful

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2025

v1.3 of nudge-auto-updater is out! @plantvibes added functionality that lets you specify days you _don't_ want Nudge enforcement deadlines to fall on, and nudge-auto-updater will plan around them. Useful for change windows, weekends, and public holidays. Inspired by macOS 15.2, the two-week […]

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2025

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

@mikeymikey the snake and the parrot are my favourites. Absolutely stunning

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2025

SCE has to be the most chill airport

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Jacob Burley @jc0b.datboi.network.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

First talk! Thank you to everyone who came, it’s been a wonderful week at @macadminsconf and it’s been amazing to meet even more people than before. Links and slides are here: jc0b.computer/posts/automate-all-th… Thank you to the […] [Original post on datboi.network]

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