Rod Christiansen
@rodchristiansen.net
https://about.me/rodc 🇨🇦 Vancouver 👨🏻💻 Git & DevOps 🔭 Staunch Atheist ⚛️ Nuclear energy
Reading 'Dune: Messiah' book with Hans Zimmer's soundtrack is a vibe
Upgrading to Apple Studio Display XDRs this week — beyond excited
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.
GPT5-Codex agent seems to be far better than Claude Sonnet 4.5 for coding Swift
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...
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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The Apple Store app doesn't have a Live Activity for courier deliveries! Disappointing. In other news, new iPhone Air is en route!
“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.
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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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 couldn't have hit the purchase button faster for AirPods Pro 3
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.
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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ChatGPT really needs to tone it down with the emoji usage
Hoping for public beta this week for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS 26
🇨🇦 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
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.
Tomorrow, on Canada Day, your middle-class tax cut takes effect — saving you money so you can keep more of what you earn.
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?…
Manage AutoFill Credit Cards in Wallet app. Finally promoted out from Safari settings.