Rod Christiansen

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.

The new Urgent Reminders feature on 26.2 is genuinely helpful. Really nice touch with the live activity!

'The Last Frontier' on Apple TV was really friggin good. All 10 episodes bangers.

[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]

Every ad now

Apple Music AutoMix is so good

GPT5-Codex agent seems to be far better than Claude Sonnet 4.5 for coding Swift

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

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...

Apple why can't we buy these MagSafe stands??

The Apple Store app doesn't have a Live Activity for courier deliveries! Disappointing.

In other news, new iPhone Air is en route!

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.

“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.

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

> “I am continually trying to do more with Munki, and less with MDM, as Munki usually offers a lot more in terms of customisability.”

*This is the way!*

I couldn't have hit the purchase button faster for AirPods Pro 3

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.

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.

ChatGPT really needs to tone it down with the emoji usage

Thursday nights now are double feature nights with #Foundation and #Smoke

Hoping for public beta this week for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS 26

Report mate Reportmate is a modular, cross-platform endpoint reporting system powered by osquery. - Report mate

Haha funny because mine thinks is all done and “we’re ready for production!”

And I have to keep reiterating “oh no there’s so much work still to do”

Here’s what I’ve been working on past couple weeks: github.com/reportmate

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Only 1300 days until Jan 21st 2029 🫩

🇨🇦 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

Keep calm and @mark-carney.bsky.social on

GitHub Copilot in VS Code with Claude Sonnet 4 in Agent mode is rocking my world right now. It's wild.

While Temu President is selling cologne, we up in the sanity land 🍁 are getting a tax cut.

iPad has a full on Mac menu bar. This is not a drill.

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.

Notes app can export to Markdown. But still doesn't support it natively?…

Stage Manager was an abominable failure

Manage AutoFill Credit Cards in Wallet app. Finally promoted out from Safari settings.

ChatGPT directly built into Xcode is pretty exciting

I'm immediately installing iPadOS 26 beta