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How modern macOS apps register bundled background helpers with SMAppService, interpret approval status, migrate older installs, and avoid persistence traps.
Auditing and controlling what actually starts at login - covering both the modern Login Items UI and the launchd agents it doesn't show.
How launchd unified boot-time initialization, service supervision, and scheduled tasks into a single declarative system on macOS.
A practical guide to writing, installing, and debugging your own scheduled or persistent launchd jobs, from a first plist through production-grade patterns.