macos

I just wanted to compress one image, but went to far… or “How to add TinyPNG image compression to your macOS Finder contextual menu.” What is it and how it works You select needed files or folders, then right-click on them, click on the Services menu item and choose TinyPNG. After a moment, the new optimized versions of images will appear near to original files. If you selected a folder along with the files, the script would process all png and jpeg files in it....

I guess macOS was designed for a user, not for the ops or engineers, so this is why its customization and usage for CI/CD are not trivial (compared to something Linux-based). A smart guess, huh? Configuration Management Native Apple’s Mobile device management (a.k.a MDM) and Jamf is probably the most potent combination for macOS configuration. But as much as it’s mighty, it is a cumbersome combination, and Jamf is not free....

Amazon EC2 Mac Instances Something cool and powerful with inevitable trade-offs. As everything in this world. AWS announced EC2 macOS-based instances on the 30th of November 2020, and after more than a month of tests, I would like to share some findings and impressions about it. First of all, the things you can easily find, but it’s still worth to say: The new instance family is called mac1.metal. Guess we should expect mac2 or mac3; otherwise, why did they put a number in the name?...