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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 29/09/2026

Does this mean that the lower tiers will get ads now?

Screenshot of the ChatGPT Pro plan with a red arrow pointing to “No ads”.

Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 16/09/2026

Even though I usually try to keep as much as possible in separate modules, this seems like a great improvement. developer.apple.com/documentatio...

Xcode now supports a JSON-based project format (.xcproj) that's more readable, merge-friendly, and easier for coding agents to edit. Enable it in the file inspector. Projects using xcproj also open in earlier versions of Xcode 27.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 10/09/2026

Big fan of the new Siri Modular watch face.

An Apple Watch Ultra with the Siri Modular watch face, worn on a wrist, with a coffee mug on a white desk in the background.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 03/09/2026

Nice, it's much more visible when you're connected through Ethernet in macOS 27.

macOS menu bar with the Wi-Fi menu open, showing an active Ethernet connection through a Belkin USB-C LAN adapter.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 11/07/2026

I don’t always get the opportunity, but I really appreciate when I’m able to start the day slow with some coffee and a book.

A mug of black coffee sits on a wooden outdoor table.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 12/05/2026

Curious why they capitalize ”watchOS” on this screen. Probably just a miss, I guess.

Screenshot of the Apple Watch app’s Software Update screen, showing WatchOS 26.5 currently verifying before installation.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 11/05/2026

Also, this is nice, it was pretty janky before.

Screenshot of a "What’s New" release notes screen, with the line "Video player resizing to fit the window" highlighted.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 09/05/2026

A bit torn between these two. Right now I use the top one, but considering if it's worth aligning with Apple and going with something like the one in the bottom. I think I'm leaning towards keeping the current one, since Apple's style feels more destructive and less positive.

Two pill-shaped workout action buttons. The top button is bright orange with a white checkmark icon and the text “Finish Workout”. The bottom button is semi-transparent red with an X icon and the text “End Workout”.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 02/05/2026

Someone is enjoying the start of deck season.

White dog lying curled up, half asleep, on a sunlit wooden deck.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 04/03/2026

Yeah, with 120Hz I would at least be tempted to upgrade, but it looks like none of my Macs can drive the XDR at 120Hz, so it would require more upgrades 😃

Mac models with M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max,
M1 Ultra, M2, and M3 support Studio Display XDR at up to 60Hz. All other Studio Display XDR features are supported.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 05/02/2026

Pretty happy with the progress on my side projects this year so far. I’ve intentionally tried to get something done each day, no matter how small, which seems to work better for me, instead of trying to bite off large chunks whenever I feel like I have the time.

GitHub contributions heatmap with 204 contributions in 2026, concentrated in January and early February.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 13/01/2026

Spent some time during the weekend working on a simple admin app to manage shared data in the public CloudKit database.

macOS admin app showing an Exercises list on the left and a detail editor on the right for “Bench Press,” with body part, measurement, and multiple equipment variants.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 07/01/2026

The photos don’t fully capture it, but we had some amazing hazy light outside yesterday.

Foggy winter sunrise over snow-covered park and bare trees.

Hazy sun glowing through fog above bare trees.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 29/12/2025

I initially had some issues getting Codex to run the tests for my SPM targets. Adding this to the config fixed it.

[sandbox_workspace_write]
network_access = true
writable_roots = [
"/Users/kristoffer/Library/org.swift.swiftpm",
"/Users/kristoffer/Library/Caches/org.swift.swiftpm",
]

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 24/12/2025

Visiting family on the Swedish west coast for the holidays. Merry Christmas, everyone!

A calm stretch of water between rocky shores, with the still surface reflecting a pale, cloudy sky.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 30/11/2025

Late to this one, but `TimelineView` comes in really handy when building timer views.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 29/11/2025

Enabled a few of these upcoming Swift features in @strengthy.app lately.

Swift Package manifest showing a loop that appends several upcoming Swift features to each target's swiftSettings.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 14/11/2025

Cory Doctorow describes why I’m personally not interested in AI-generated art very well in his interview on Decoder. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

”I don't like Al art, and the reason I don't like Al art is because I think art is the...
It starts with someone who has a big, irreducible, numinous, complex emotion, and they try to infuse it into some intermediary medium, like a sculpture, a dance,
or a book, or a song, or an image, in the hopes that it causes a facsimile of that emotion to materialize in someone else's mind when they experience it.
And AI doesn't have any of those things…”

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 20/10/2025

Finally received my 17 Pro. First impressions: it feels like a toy phone after coming from a 15 Pro Max. I’m still not completely sold on the new back design, but it does feel great in the hand.

A hand holding a silver iPhone 17 Pro in sunlight, showing the back with its new camera design and matte finish.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 25/09/2025

Got inspired by one of @avanderlee.com's posts a while back and started labeling my issues based on effort and impact. I also set up a project that automatically pulls in low-effort tasks from my various repos. I’ve found this really useful for surfacing tasks I can pick up when I have limited time.

Screenshot of a GitHub project view titled "Low-effort tasks", showing issues from multiple repos filtered by labels "high-impact" and "low-effort".

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 08/08/2025

At least there are fewer options now.

Screenshot of the model selection menu in the ChatGPT iOS app, showing GPT-5 and GPT-5 Thinking options.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 26/07/2025

After having used it for a few days on my main phone, I quite like the new minimal design of Safari on iOS 26, but there has to be a better way to make things legible than the automatic switching between light and dark mode.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 12/07/2025

I don’t know if I’m completely sold on the confirmation dialogs in iOS 26. The morphing animation looks pretty nice, but the light gray button inside the white capsule does look a bit out of place.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 03/07/2025

Every editor should have as delightful a bracket highlighting animation as Nova.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 01/07/2025

It was 25℃ at 18:30 on our evening walk today, and it’s supposed to be even warmer tomorrow. I feel bad for everyone down in southern Europe 🥵

A white Staffordshire Bull Terrier standing on a dirt path next to a field under a clear blue sky.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 27/06/2025

If you’re like me and don’t like the new behavior around pinning tabs in Xcode 26, there’s a setting to revert it to how it works in Xcode 16 and VS Code.

Xcode 26 settings window showing the “Navigation” section, with “Pin Tabs” set to “When Document Is Edited”.

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Kristoffer Johansson @kristofferjohansson.com · 09/06/2025

We’ll at least have Apple Intelligence force-enabled later this year.

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