rands2d ago

Updated the Apple Charging Guide with March hardware roll-out: https://randsinrepose.com/guides/apple-charging-guide.html

- Added iPhone 17e, MacBook Neo, and all the March 2026 hardware
- MacBook Air now ships with 40W (up from 30-35W) -- better, still not fast
- MacBook Neo ships with 20W on a 30W device -- new worst gap
- macOS Tahoe 26.4 adds an orange "Slow Charger" warning -- Apple finally admits it

The Apple Charging Situation — Built by Grumbles

Show threadandrewsleigh1d ago
@rands I enjoyed this and found it useful. It says ‘built by grumbles’. I can guess what that involves roughly, but have you documented this system anywhere? I suspect I might be able to use something similar…
Show threadrands

@andrewsleigh I did a bunch of charging research and could’ve been a blog post, but it was a lot of data, notes, and tables, so I first designed a clean “guide” style that I liked. Good typography. Bite-sized information bits. Color inspired by Rands.

Took the raw notes and had Grumbles™ apply the data to the format. I also gave Grumbles a little voice to make him less scary.

Mar 27 at 8:04pmWeb
Show threadandrewsleigh39m ago

@rands thank you. And is grumbles just a prompt (“take this bucket of data and notes , make it make sense and apply this style”) or is it something more than that?

For context, I’m interested in this because it seems like a good application of AI to write/process web content, in contrast to the kind of slop Medium and LinkedIn posts we’re used to.