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about.me/rodc 🇨🇦 Vancouver 👨🏻‍💻 Git & DevOps 🔭 Staunch Atheist ⚛️ Nuclear energy

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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 4h
Hello #AppleWatch Series 12
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 01/06/2026
Reading 'Dune: Messiah' book with Hans Zimmer's soundtrack is a vibe
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 20/05/2026
Best notification of the week! #WidowsBay
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 27/04/2026
Upgrading to Apple Studio Display XDRs this week — beyond excited
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 24/12/2025
Every shopify store with “50%” to “70%” off “sale” can pretty much be found on Amazon for at least half the cost if not less without spinning the wheel or all the hacks to get your email.
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 19/12/2025
The new Urgent Reminders feature on 26.2 is genuinely helpful. Really nice touch with the live activity!
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 06/12/2025
'The Last Frontier' on Apple TV was really friggin good. All 10 episodes bangers.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Every ad now
[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]

JANET:
Ugh...

LIZ:
What's up?

JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!

LIZ:
Have you tried...

AI peas?

JANET:
AI peas?

LIZ:
They're peas with AI!

[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].

LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas

JANET:
What

LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]

Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?

[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]

LIZ:

Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine

[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]

LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!

JANET:
What

LIZ:
Shut up

LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow

From opening the bag of peas

to boiling the peas

to eating the peas

To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.

JANET:
Is it really necessary to-

LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET

[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:

AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.

[Ends]
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 13/10/2025
Apple Music AutoMix is so good
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 13/10/2025
GPT5-Codex agent seems to be far better than Claude Sonnet 4.5 for coding Swift
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 05/10/2025
I'm so on board #TeamJohnTernus Apple's hardware is stellar across the board Hopefully when he's CEO, he will TERNUS around services and App Store shenanigans www.iphoneincanada.ca/2025/10...
iphoneincanada.ca
Tim Cook Turns 65—and Apple’s Next CEO Is Already in Sight | iPhone in Canada
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is doubling down on his prediction of who will take over Apple when Tim Cook eventually steps down — and this time, it sounds almost certain. The report comes on the 14th anniversary of the passing of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In his latest Sunday Power On newsletter, Gurman reports that
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 29/09/2025
Apple why can't we buy these MagSafe stands??
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 28/09/2025
The Apple Store app doesn't have a Live Activity for courier deliveries! Disappointing. In other news, new iPhone Air is en route!
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.
thebetter.news
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 16/09/2025
Geek fest week! Best week of the year! iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26 are out today! + new iPhone 17, Air, 17 Pro, Watch Series 11, and AirPods Pro 3 out Friday
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 10/09/2025
I couldn't have hit the purchase button faster for AirPods Pro 3
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 29/07/2025
About the talk I gave at at #MacDevOpsYVR 2025 I walked through how we migrated our #Munki workflows to full #Git based CI/CD using #DevOps — with automation, caching servers, git hooks, cloud CDNs and everything in between.
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MDOYVR25 - Rod Christiansen – “Munki DevOps with Git and CI/CD Pipelines”
MacDevOpsYVR 2025 Conference Rod Christiansen Fully Running Your Munki Repo Operations in DevOps with Git and CI/CD Pipelines Take your Munki repository operations fully into DevOps mode using continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). This session shares our journey of migration from traditional local Mac mini in the closet Munki management into a fully automated, cloud-native Git-based version control using Azure DevOps Pipelines and Artifacts, Azure Cloud Storage and FrontDoor, and Azure Service Bus. Learn how embracing CI/CD automates and streamlines repository updates, ensures scalability, reliability, and simplifies maintenance.
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 11/07/2025
ChatGPT really needs to tone it down with the emoji usage
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 11/07/2025
Thursday nights now are double feature nights with #Foundation and #Smoke
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 07/07/2025
Hoping for public beta this week for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS 26
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 02/07/2025
Only 1300 days until Jan 21st 2029 🫩
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 01/07/2025
🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day! Celebrating the country I chose to migrate to 14 years ago. Coastlines, beautiful mountains, good people, and quiet strength. Here's to the little things that make Canada feel like home. Stay kind, stay proud Canada 🍁 #CanadaDay2025 #TrueNorth
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 01/07/2025
Keep calm and @mark-carney.bsky.social on
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 01/07/2025
GitHub Copilot in VS Code with Claude Sonnet 4 in Agent mode is rocking my world right now. It's wild.
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 01/07/2025
While Temu President is selling cologne, we up in the sanity land 🍁 are getting a tax cut.
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 10/06/2025
iPad has a full on Mac menu bar. This is not a drill.
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
I have for years enabled the Reduce Translucency accessibility feature on macOS. Might have to be on for all devices now…. It should never be behind text. That you know, you read.
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
Notes app can export to Markdown. But still doesn't support it natively?…
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
Stage Manager was an abominable failure
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
Manage AutoFill Credit Cards in Wallet app. Finally promoted out from Safari settings.
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
ChatGPT directly built into Xcode is pretty exciting
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
I'm immediately installing iPadOS 26 beta
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
Folders in the Dock is literally the Mac's
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
Apple finally realize the Mac had windowing right and they just needed to bring it to iPad and the menu bar. Took them 10 years since iPad Pro in 2015.
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
visionOS is super exciting … for a hardware that doesn't exist. A pair of regular AR glasses.
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
Journal app is coming to Mac and iPad. F'ing finally.
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
macOS Tahoe has genuine useful features
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
Shortcuts on the Mac finally have automations
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
Live activities on Mac! Yes!
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
Mac Control Centre is finally useful with 3rd party controls!
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
Excited for #AppleWatch Wrist Flick
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
Okay Workout Buddy is cool. *Finally* they're doing something with all the workout data I've been collecting for 10 years with #AppleWatch
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
Apple Wallet orders is a joke
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
So far 27 min in this #WWDC has been so light minor quality of life updates…
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
I already hate iMessage backgrounds.
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 09/06/2025
Apple starting keynote talking about with Apple Intelligence is choice….
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 07/06/2025
Re-watched the low key 2008 keynote when Apple introduced the unibody laptop enclosure — still the process by which all MacBooks are built to this day. I miss this pre-AppStore-services-revenue-obsessed Apple that was proud to geek out on hardware design for 30 mins in a keynote
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Apple Special Event, October 2008
YouTube video by Jacob Koppang
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 02/06/2025
'Your Friends and Neighbours' on Apple TV+ was good from start to finish. Really good show.
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 02/06/2025
It has been a long time I have been as impressed by an app as I have by Train The developers did not miss a beat on the watch app. It's a full blown app on your wrist. Really enjoying using it Made in Canada 🍁😎 @trainfitness.ai apps.apple.com/app/id1548577496
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‎Train Fitness Workout Tracker
‎Train Fitness is the first app to offer automatic exercise tracking, using only the motion of your Apple Watch. Trusted by 100,000+ weight lifters, Train Fitness is the future of AI + gym workouts. Our application monitors the motion of your Apple Watch, tracking reps for over 470 unique exercise t…
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Rod Christiansen @rodchristiansen.net · 29/05/2025
Mmmm a bit of odd mixed messaging from Microsoft regarding #AzureDevOps They might be deprecating Azure Repos at one point?… Or this could simply be a short term workaround way to offer Agentic AI by using GitHub instead. Really hope they keep it as is… devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/azure...
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Azure DevOps with GitHub Repositories - Your path to Agentic AI - Azure DevOps Blog
GitHub Copilot has evolved beyond a coding assistant in the IDE into an agentic teammate – providing actionable feedback on pull requests, fixing bugs and implementing new features, creating pull requ...
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