Weird sensation has set in after 6 months where the iPhone Air doesn't feel thin anymore, it just feels normal/baseline, but picking up other phones feels like a prop phone

Any products that you all recommend that are like SPAN smart smart electrical panels but without all the cloud dependency bs and can be ran locally? (I don't love the idea of something so important being reliant on a server somewhere existing forever.)

With all the hype Rivian R2 news, I thought I'd detail my hopes and dreams as a current R1 owner christianselig.com/2026/02/rivi...

Curious, any Canadian folks have experience with getting larger home batteries installed? It seems like per the electrical code, going beyond 80 kWh can be tricky (not much if you have 2 EVs), so interested if folks have navigated this

could apple poke the download server I want the new xcode

I won the reverse lottery today. Mistyped my account number and deposited a check into a random bank account that actually existed 🙃

Am I just doomed to keep rebuying this toothbrush every 10 years

Discovery: If you have Hue lights and want a single Hue dimmer switch button to *toggle* lights on/off, this is really slow in Apple Home (you need to run an actual Shortcut). In Home Assistant there's just a toggle command that is literally 10x faster. 2.5 seconds -> ~200ms 🥳

Anyone have a “smart lights” flow they really like? Currently have Hue and don’t love the lag/occasional bugs/weird switches so probably moving to Lutron, but I *do* love how Hue changes color temperature over the course of the day. Anyone pair both smart bulbs and switch?

Docker noob here. Anyone seeing Docker on Mac getting IPs completely mixed up, where destination IPs are getting assigned as the source IP? Isn't that like… a security issue? Or am I being a noob? (New Mac mini, new Docker install, no iCloud Private Relay, no VPN)

Every year I wonder what architecture at Figma makes it so tricky to add support for the new iPhone sizes

Ow, now the RAMpocalypse prices are coming for SSDs, paid $214 for this last year

I've spent weeks working on this big release of Please Don't Rain and it's finally out today. I made a thread that shows the most significant changes.

Finally played through Expedition 33

This should be a crime in 2026.

Got a new Waterpik per WireCutter recommendation It's a proprietary connector on one end with USB-A on the other

I had a lot of fun playing with CKSyncEngine over the last little bit, but had quite a few questions, so I thought I'd detail some answers plus insights I encountered to save other folks some time christianselig.com/2026/01/cks...

████░░░░░░░░░░░░ 25% there 🎉 My New Year's resolution is to manage to upload two videos this year, and I have ideas! 🙂

Hot take: Apple CarKey is pretty great, but it’s still not as reliable as Tesla’s proprietary Bluetooth solution

Well that’s a first. Got tipped on facebook marketplace

Has anyone ever successfully cleaned those stainless steel air fryer baskets? Mine has developed a slight polymerized layer that despite my best efforts (boiling water + baking soda, Bar Keeper's Friend, etc.) I cannot put a dent in

Baby's first snow

Man I want an R2 even more now. Rivian is cooking 🔥

Heard about the RAM price increases. Can't believe I paid $138 for this months ago holy crap

Partly considering moving from Safari to a Chromium browser because I had no idea how much faster the full screen video transition was

Quite a few have asked which robo vac I landed on, and (not sponsored!) I landed on the Dreame L40 Ultra. Under $500 on BF sale right now and has pretty much every modern feature you'd want. Only gripe is I wish it was shorter Amazon ref link: amzn.to/4r5edwh

I was trying to figure out what kind of plant was growing next to my ginkgo and I finally dug it up. My neighbor feeds blue jays peanuts, and one must have dropped a peanut into my plant bed. Nature is wild

TIL that M4 Macs (but not M5?) support HDMI CEC, could be cool for a home theater PC (I don't think any PCs support this?) support.apple.com/en-ca/108928

Picked up a new robot vacuum and it's remarkable the progress these make every few years. Some of my favorite tech, period

This month is my 10 year anniversary of graduating with a Computer Science degree and I've still never had to manually write a linked list :)

If today's USB-A Defender Squad existed 25 years ago we'd still have floppy disks

Anyone who mains the AirPods Max try out the new Sennheiser HDB 630s? Considering making the jump and curious to hear thoughts

Saw a bunch of posts wondering how the App Store logo works (is it just sticks??), so I made a little 3D printed visualization of the 3 tilted app icons that come together to make it, it's really quite clever! Makes for a fun desk ornament too ☺️

Curious for folks who have gone from an M1 series Mac to an M… higher: does Xcode's AI autocomplete load any quicker on the newer chips? I yearn for Cursor level speed but I assume Xcode is trying to do it all locally?

My spooky Halloween surprise was… after a half decade it looks like one of the mini LEDs in my XDR finally gave up the ghost. 575 to go 😢

Nothing nerve-wracking at all about getting an unprompted email from App Review late on a Friday with no details 🙃

I haven't had time to watch it yet, but @dimillian.app just had a talk posted. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7TN...

Anyone ever do a good writeup on using VS Code or Cursor in lieu of Xcode? Seems capable but curious how folks improve the base autocomplete (ideally to match Xcode's) plus warnings/compiling

Okay I give up: how does Codex permission model work? I want it to ALWAYS ask for approval like this. Normally it does great, sometimes it just claims it can't do this anymore despite /status being identical Claude is so much dumber than Codex but the tooling is so much better

If I win the lottery I wouldn’t tell anyone, but there would be signs

God help me I want a second monitor and those Aliexpress knock off 6K monitors look pretty tempting

Don't let people tell you that telephoto on the iPhone Air isn't great

With the Vision Pro getting the dual headband now I just wish they'd fully commit and make a Vision Pro Hat

Designing a new app and it's taking every ounce of my strength to not spend the entire development budget on app icons

Will the new Claude model see the end of the "You're absolutely right!" era?

The year is 2045, robots walk among us, but connecting a new device to Xcode still prevents you from being able to do any work until it's finished

Blog post: The one software tweak the iPhone Air needs christianselig.com/2025/09/iph...

A week in, I think the iPhone Air is my favourite iPhone since the iPhone X

You know what I really want? An automatic iOS clipboard manager, especially now that macOS has one built-in

I love the Air 🥹 (wish it came in that iPhone 17 green though dang)