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Writer of leadership things. Keynote enthusiast. I don’t talk about my current gig. The fourth edition of Managing Humans is out: amzn.to/3yR6Ttt
Writinghttp://randsinrepose.com
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@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.

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

@niclake Not silly — `print_row` is a helper function I defined at the top of the script, not a built-in command. It just wraps `printf` for consistent formatting:

```
print_row() {
local component="$1"
local status="$2"
local notes="$3"
if [ -n "$notes" ]; then
printf " %s: %b (%s)\n" "$component" "$status" "$notes"
else
printf " %s: %b\n" "$component" "$status"
fi
}
```

In related news, SFO contracts with a private firm and isn't impacted by the TSA funding fight. ICE is being sent to 14 airports with the highest TSA call-out rates — neither SFO nor Oakland is on the list. The ICE video you've seen is real and is a deportation arrest, unrelated to the deployment.
How odd that ICE isn't wearing masks to conceal their identity at airports. Nothing says "we're the good guys" like suddenly discovering transparency now.
So are eggs cheap yet?
Untrained humans will be making screening decisions at airports. That makes a lot of sense: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/22/trump-ice-agents-airports-tsa-dhs-shutdown
Trump to deploy ICE agents to airports Monday

ICE agents aren't trained for security screenings.

Axios
@stevenringo Game changer!
All my favorite Claude Code hacks in one spot: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/better-faster-and-even-more/
Better, Faster, and (Even) More

I've never built more interesting, random, and useless scripts, tools, and services than I have in the last six months. The cost to go from "Random Thought" to

Rands in Repose