Charles Edge, RIP
News started to spread this morning on the MacAdmins Slack, Rich Trouton’s Der Flounder blog, and Tom Bridge’s site about how our friend and Take Control author Charles Edge died suddenly and unexpectedly on 19 April 2024. He was in his late 40s, and yes, his standard bio picture below gives you a feel for his sense of humor and irreverence.
I met Charles at a MacTech event in New York in 2012, but I already knew that he had written a bunch of tech books and thousands of Krypted blog posts on sysadmin topics. We exchanged some email about the possibility of him writing a Take Control book then, but it wasn’t until early 2014 that we came up with the idea that turned into Take Control of OS X Server.
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He left Jamf in 2020 and was most recently working on Secret Chest, a password manager aimed at quantum-proofing Apple’s Keychain.
Previously:
- iMessage With PQ3
- Free Space Required for Modern macOS Upgrades
- Apple Discontinues macOS Server
- When macOS High Sierra’s Content Caching Isn’t Working
- Restoring the Default Set of Mac Fonts
- Build and Reverse MD5 Hashes Programatically
Update (2024-04-24): See also:
Yep, he was a legend. Never met him but really enjoyed his blog and other writings. A real devotee of both Mac and UNIX, in that regard very much after my own heart. RIP, man.