Lucas J. Hall

A consideration on a code based, scalable, event driven client management framework…

pyThings is a Python library used to create and call x-callback-urls with the assistance of xcall.

TimingPy is a Python library to wrap the web API for Timing.app.

The Elgato Stream Deck is a nifty device aimed for customizable interface for streamers and broadcasters, and I didn’t use it for any of that… one word: macros.

No more scroll back? I am working on determining what, if anything, will be brought to this site from my original blog on wordpress.com.

tl;dr: A Raspberry Pi with a cellular HAT to act as a private internet access point and portable local network.

Open source mesh networking- cool!

Last year I picked up and left Bellingham to take a CPE role at Slack. I worked out of the Denver office and bit- and now I am back in Bellingham. Slack allowed me to go full time remote (rad) and my wife and I moved back to be close to friends during our next phase of life.

I am excited to announce that I have accepted a Client Platform Engineer position at Slack{.profileLink} . My family will be relocating to Denver CO at the end of January. We are deeply saddened to leave the Pacific Northwest, Bellingham, and the incredible community here, the #Cascadia Macadmins community, and the Apple Admins of Seattle and the Great Northwest.{.groupHomeHeader-groupNameLink} On the flip side we are so excited to see what awaits us in Denver and Colorful Colorado holds...

This post will take a high level view of using and MDM (SimpleMDM), JAMF Connect and InstallApplications for "touchless" deployment of macOS.  This deployment method uses Munki as the primary tool for package management, and has been in place since the "NoMAD Days."

Aside from a few technical difficulties, it was always a pleasure to present March of this year at LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham. If you are around, or can make it to Bellingham for a weekend this conference is worth your time! My talk is available here.

There's a lot of bias here, but again I wanted it to be similar to what I am already doing, and as much as possible fit into infrastructure I have already running.

NOTE: This is not a HOW TO, more of a rant, the how to that may or may not come later. This is written from the perspective of someone who manages (for the most part) their infrastructure from end to end, vm config, service management, monitoring and patching. When it comes to scale, and complexity your milage may very.

NEMS or Nagios Enterprise Monitoring Server developed by Robbie Ferguson is a modernized version of NagiosPi.

I am super excited to announce be presenting at LinuxFest Northwest May 6th on "Managing macOS, without macOS(almost)" you can read more about the session here. LinuxFest Northwest is an annual OpenSource event held at Bellingham Technical College.