Like many people, I would like my podcasts delivered to my iPhone before I go to work. While there are many ways of doing it, Apple seems to screw things up every time they release a new MacOS X version.
With me, that version was Yosemite. They essentially broke cron.
So? Lets throw some hardware at it. While I use a Cubietruck, a Raspberry Pi will do just as good! Just make sure it's connected to the network and has ntpd keeping it's clock up to date (Rasbian does this for you).
On the Mac:
- Go into your System Preferences (read: Control Panel), hit the Sharing panel, and turn on "Remote Login". This starts the Mac's SSH server and gives you the command to use to access the Mac. You need the "[email protected]" part.
- Save the two Applescripts below into your ~/Library/Scripts folder using the Script Editor (located in Applications >> Utilities).