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Robert Hammen

WWDC 2023 Wish List

Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference is fast approaching (the keynote will be streamed on apple.com at 10 a.m. PDT on Monday, June 5…

9 min readJun 1, 2023

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WWDC 2023 Wish List

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Robert Hammen

macOS 13.2.x and Recovery, A Sad Tale

TL:DR; Apple’s latest updates to macOS Ventura can lead to your FileVault-encrypted Mac booting into Recovery, and, potentially, prompts to…

4 min readFeb 16, 2023

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macOS 13.2.x and Recovery, A Sad Tale

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Robert Hammen

Holding Back the OS Upgrades

(with apologies to Simply Red)

2 min readDec 15, 2022

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Managing “Login Items” for macOS Ventura

macOS 13 Ventura includes new functionality in the new System Settings app to control services like LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons — Apple…

4 min readOct 20, 2022

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WWDC 2022 Wish List

It’s Christmas in June for Mac (and iOS/iPadOS) admins. Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference 2022 is just a day away. It’s expected that…

8 min readJun 5, 2022

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WWDC 2022 Wish List

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Robert Hammen

WWDC 2021 Wish List

Apple Geek Christmas is just a few hours away, and it’s not just developers that are both anxious and excited. Folks who manage large…

8 min readJun 7, 2021

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Robert Hammen

WWDC 2020 Wish List

Today is Apple geek Christmas. In just a few hours, Apple will announce the next versions of iOS and macOS. As someone who’s made a living…

6 min readJun 22, 2020

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Robert Hammen

The Apple Packagepocalypse, 2019 edition…

Apple uses certificates to digitally sign their installer packages (which are embedded inside their OS installers).

4 min readOct 24, 2019

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Robert Hammen

Significant Changes in macOS 10.15 Catalina of Interest to Mac Admins

macOS is now on a separate partition that is read-only. This is similar to how iOS works. In the beta, you’ll see “Macintosh HD” and…

6 min readJun 3, 2019

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Apple Update Information — March 27, 2017

Today, Apple released updates for macOS Sierra (10.12.4), Mac OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan (Security Update 2017–001 and Safari 10.1), Mac OS X…

2 min readMar 27, 2017

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Robert Hammen

Robert Hammen

IT Systems Engineer (macOS and iOS) at a reusable rocket company. @duranduran & Green Bay @packers fan. Spouse of @Skaared4Life. Opinions expressed are mine.

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