Episode 454: Ten Year Podiversary
Mac Admins Podcast
It was March 2016 when the first episode of the Mac Admins Podcast dropped, lead by the theme song that Adam Codega composed the first time he opened garage band. Hard to believe it! What’s changed since 2016? What’s the same? What do we think will be the same in 2036 if we’re still doing this? Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Selina Ali - James Smith - Links: Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're ! The Mac Admins...
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Episode 453: Mac Admins Europe
Mac Admins Podcast
This April 30th, Mac Admins Europe launches for the first time in Leiden, Netherlands. Mischa van der Bent is here to tell us all about why this event exists, what to expect at the very first instance, and how the world is changing for Mac Admins. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Selina Ali - Guests: Mischa van der Bent - Armin Briegel - Links: Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're ! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a !...
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Episode 452: ICEout.tech
Mac Admins Podcast
JR Rasberry and Adam Solove on ICEOut.tech Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Selina Ali - Guests: JR Rasberry - Adam Solove - Links: Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (https://www.ilcm.org/) and Unidos MN (). Both orgs are providing critical support to low-income immigrants in MN Minnesota Mutual Aid directory - local gofundmes and mutual aid Stand by Me x The People United Singing Resistance : Cameron McCloud (Artist): Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email for more information. Get the latest about the...
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Episode 451: MacAD.UK 2026
Mac Admins Podcast
Liam Donnelly from Jigsaw24 joins us to talk about MacAD 2026! Hosts: Tom Bridge - Selina Ali - Guests: Liam Donnelly - Links: Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're ! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a ! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley...
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Episode 450: Device Attestation and CAs in 2026
Mac Admins Podcast
PKI can be a real adventure, from dealing with minting certificates, to their whole lifecycle, all the way down to who trusts what and why. We’re here this week with Smallstep’s CEO Mike Malone to talk about device attestation, their latest projects, and everything about how we learn to better trust each other when we can, and what to do when we can’t. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Guests: Mike Malone - Links: Apple JNUC 2025 Presentation on Apple Platform Security Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email ...
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Episode 449: Just Us: Ai Ai Ai...
Mac Admins Podcast
It’s just us this week, and we’re talking about AI - Apple Intelligence, “Apple” Intelligence, and Apple “Intelligence” - as we dive into a few key developments. The 26.3 group of releases is upon us, along with new Gemini models coming to Siri, and the hopes of new hardware! Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Selina Ali - Links: Restricting the upgrade dialog: Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're ! The...
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Episode 448: Ben Greiner on smplify
Mac Admins Podcast
Everyone wants to manage devices these days, and not just Macs. Being able to embed device management into the platform you’re already building can provide a seamless experience for your users. Open source projects like NanoMDM are free, but the resources required to set them up and maintain them are not. Smplify is a new player on the market who provides the infrastructure to manage devices so you can build MDM directly into your own solution. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Selina Ali - Guests: Ben Greiner - Links: Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac...
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Episode 447: pseudo and super in 2026
Mac Admins Podcast
Kevin White is here with a bucket of spackle and some know how to make Platform Single Sign On a better experience. Plus, he's got updates for us on Super. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Selina Ali - Guests: Kevin White - Links: Apple BSI (née RSR) Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email for more information. Get the latest about the Mac Admins Podcast, follow us on Twitter! We're ! The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a ! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout,...
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Episode 446: Creating an App for Admins
Mac Admins Podcast
MDM, DDM, VPP, ABM, even MSCP - all the acronyms that help us to manage devices the way that we need to, providing the amazing end-user experiences that the macadmin community is so conscious of. But what do we do when the tools provided by Apple or our device management service don’t provide the capabilities we need? That’s right, we build it ourselves! Michael Page is going to talk us through Dock Composer, one of these very tools that he has built to solve his own problem and help others solve the same problems in their environments Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Selina Ali - ...
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Episode 445: Observability and the Mac Admin
Mac Admins Podcast
As managing Macs evolves, it’s no longer enough to just configure the devices we are responsible for. What happened after we configured them, are they still configured that way, has the user managed to get around the controls we put in place. Eric Metzger joins us to discuss the different tools that we as Mac Admins can use to keep an eye on our fleet without making them slow and stop the users from doing their jobs. Hosts: Tom Bridge - Marcus Ransom - Guests: Eric Metzger - Links: Sponsors: If you're interested in sponsoring the Mac Admins Podcast, please email for...
info_outlineAlex Confer from Risotto joins the pod this week to discuss IT career development and what it’s like to move to the world of startups. The conversation also touches on how to evaluate what AI is good for in 2025 including what’s practical, what’s not, and how to put things together.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge - @tbridge@theinternet.social
- Marcus Ransom - @marcusransom
- Selina Ali - LinkedIn
Guests:
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Alex Confer - LinkedIn
Links:
- The Katering Show - Hot Wet Rice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yr_etbfZtQ
- Form follows function - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_follows_function
- Alex on the Mac Admins slack - @aconfer
- https://tryrisotto.com/
- Avoiding brainrot and keeping mental friction: https://pauljun.substack.com/p/anti-slop-and-anti-brainrot
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The Mac Admins Podcast has launched a Patreon Campaign! Our named patrons this month include Weldon Dodd, Damien Barrett, Justin Holt, Chad Swarthout, William Smith, Stephen Weinstein, Seb Nash, Dan McLaughlin, Joe Sfarra, Nate Cinal, Jon Brown, Dan Barker, Tim Perfitt, Ashley MacKinlay, Tobias Linder Philippe Daoust, AJ Potrebka, Adam Burg, & Hamlin Krewson