Jon Brown Mentor and Coach

At JNUC 2026, I attended “Phish This! Securing Access with Jamf Using Device Trust and Network Relay.” Jamf gave us a managed Mac that could open a protected resource. We downloaded EICAR, the harmless file used to test malware defenses. Jamf Protect caught it, and the Mac lost access. I wanted to know what had to be configured for that sequence to work: a Relay connection, a Pr...

Adobe Firefly now puts two of the most talked-about AI video makers in the same place you already edit. Runway is an American company whose tools have reached film and television productions; Gen-4.5 is its video-generating model. Kling is a family of video models from Kuaishou, the Chinese company behind a huge short-video and livestreaming service. A model takes a written desc...

Codex was using too many tokens on work my Mac could do locally. I want the cloud model for code changes and the decisions that need judgment. But an issue also means searching the repository, checking alerts, running tests, and sorting through their output. I already had Qwen running through Ollama. I wanted Codex to hand off some of that work and return to the same chat when t...

I had been a 1Password customer for years. My family and I used it to share passwords, and I kept separate vaults for different parts of my life. Those vaults held much more than logins: Secure Notes, Documents, files attached to accounts, and passwords with active verification codes. I knew where everything lived and trusted that setup. Then the renewal came around. 1Password ...

I use the map in Apple Photos to find pictures from trips. That only works when the pictures have useful GPS data. Some of my older photos have no location; others have a pin far from where I took them. Fixing a whole album one picture at a time takes ages. Then there is the pile of pictures outside albums. In my Apple Photos MCP post, I used Codex to review a batch of 100 of t...