Rod Christiansen
@rodchristiansen.net
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https://about.me/rodc
🇨🇦 Vancouver 👨🏻💻 Git & DevOps 🔭 Staunch Atheist ⚛️ Nuclear energy
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.
2 months ago
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The new Urgent Reminders feature on 26.2 is genuinely helpful. Really nice touch with the live activity!
2 months ago
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'The Last Frontier' on Apple TV was really friggin good. All 10 episodes bangers.
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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Apple Music AutoMix is so good
4 months ago
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GPT5-Codex agent seems to be far better than Claude Sonnet 4.5 for coding Swift
4 months ago
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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...
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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
https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/2025/10/05/tim-cook-turns-65-and-apples-next-ceo-is-already-in-sight/
5 months ago
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Apple why can't we buy these MagSafe stands??
5 months ago
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The Apple Store app doesn't have a Live Activity for courier deliveries! Disappointing. In other news, new iPhone Air is en route!
5 months ago
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5 months ago
“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.
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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.
https://thebetter.news/housing-first-finland-homelessness/
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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
5 months ago
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I couldn't have hit the purchase button faster for AirPods Pro 3
6 months ago
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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.
https://youtu.be/ayQqGT9S_cM?si=12UbYGrhFtYm26dW
7 months ago
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ChatGPT really needs to tone it down with the emoji usage
8 months ago
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Thursday nights now are double feature nights with
#Foundation
and
#Smoke
8 months ago
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Hoping for public beta this week for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS 26
8 months ago
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Only 1300 days until Jan 21st 2029
8 months ago
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🇨🇦 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
8 months ago
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Keep calm and
@mark-carney.bsky.social
on
8 months ago
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GitHub Copilot in VS Code with Claude Sonnet 4 in Agent mode is rocking my world right now. It's wild.
8 months ago
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While Temu President is selling cologne, we up in the sanity land 🍁 are getting a tax cut.
add a skeleton here at some point
8 months ago
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iPad has a full on Mac menu bar. This is not a drill.
9 months ago
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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.
9 months ago
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Notes app can export to Markdown. But still doesn't support it natively?…
9 months ago
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Stage Manager was an abominable failure
9 months ago
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Manage AutoFill Credit Cards in Wallet app. Finally promoted out from Safari settings.
9 months ago
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ChatGPT directly built into Xcode is pretty exciting
9 months ago
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I'm immediately installing iPadOS 26 beta
9 months ago
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Folders in the Dock is literally the Mac's
9 months ago
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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.
9 months ago
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visionOS is super exciting … for a hardware that doesn't exist. A pair of regular AR glasses.
9 months ago
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Journal app is coming to Mac and iPad. F'ing finally.
9 months ago
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macOS Tahoe has genuine useful features
9 months ago
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Shortcuts on the Mac finally have automations
9 months ago
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Live activities on Mac! Yes!
9 months ago
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Mac Control Centre is finally useful with 3rd party controls!
9 months ago
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Excited for
#AppleWatch
Wrist Flick
9 months ago
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Okay Workout Buddy is cool. *Finally* they're doing something with all the workout data I've been collecting for 10 years with
#AppleWatch
9 months ago
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Apple Wallet orders is a joke
9 months ago
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So far 27 min in this
#WWDC
has been so light minor quality of life updates…
9 months ago
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I already hate iMessage backgrounds.
9 months ago
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Apple starting keynote talking about with Apple Intelligence is choice….
9 months ago
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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
https://youtu.be/jQ7c9CFaHjw?si=xC0OLE4VHaWE8VVR
9 months ago
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'Your Friends and Neighbours' on Apple TV+ was good from start to finish. Really good show.
9 months ago
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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
https://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…
https://apps.apple.com/app/id1548577496
9 months ago
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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...
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/azure-devops-with-github-repositories-your-path-to-agentic-ai/
9 months ago
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I really like this! They get updated every year anyway!
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/28/apple-ios-26/
Going forward, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS will be identified by year, rather than by version number. We're not going to be getting iOS 19, we're getting iOS 26.
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No iOS 19: Apple Going Straight to iOS 26
With the design overhaul that's coming this year, Apple plans to rename all of its operating systems, reports Bloomberg. Going forward, iOS,...
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/28/apple-ios-26/
9 months ago
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Gotta say I think this is a pretty big deal. Two people who care extremely about user experience and the positive side of technology
https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/?asset=video
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Watch the film | Sam and Jony introduce io
Building a family of AI products for everyone.
https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/?asset=video
9 months ago
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MCP is looking like it will be the protocol for the AI driven web:
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/
Think HTTP for the early web
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Introduction - Model Context Protocol
Get started with the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/
9 months ago
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Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. I mean duh. But great to see hard data.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/11/upshot/congestion-pricing.html
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Here Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New York
Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. And some questions we still can’t answer.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/11/upshot/congestion-pricing.html
10 months ago
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