A blog about archives, storage and everything

Tales of migrating an archive system Over the years I’ve trusted Archiware P5 to protect large storage systems by copying to tape archives.

This week I built a sort of munki-pkg replacement app called PKGBuilder.

While all my post production and media colleagues from around the world gather for NAB to discuss cool new storage hardware, and awesome backup and archive software (shout out to Archiware !!)

Why I stopped worrying and built my own MHL verification apps If you work in post-production long enough, you learn a simple truth: Copying files is easy.

Make apps, solve problems A future blog post about using AI tools in production is coming up soon, but in the meantime building apps to solve everyday problems continues in my post-production video creation creative world.

DiskEncrypter – a shared shell script helps the world A Community Code Evolution Story: From Simple Utility to Security Tool Introduction What started as a straightforward 515-line bash script in October 2022 has evolved into a, uh, slightly more complica…

SetDefaultAppsX – A Community-Driven Evolution From Enterprise Lock-In to Universal macOS Tool When Scott Kendall released his SetDefaultApps script in December 2025, it solved a real problem: giving users a friendly GUI with swiftDialog to set their defa…

Why build an app to check macOS updates?

Using a REST API to code a bunch of useful apps Background: I released some scripts to help users manage Archiware P5 servers on code.matx.ca with a first blog post as a background to the scripting approaches of cli vs REST API and then I discussed my cute

This is a blog post about an app, there are many of them but this is mine.