2024-01-06: Apple Advanced Data Protection, iCloud and FileVault I started off the year making a joke that I hoped I would remember the password to my work Mac. I …

2023-03-21: Space Penny I recently received a wonderful gift. An erasable pen from Legami, I can’t believe it actually …

2023-02-23: Super Mario 64 When I was young I remember getting a Nintendo 64 for my birthday together with Mario Kart and Super …

2023-02-22: Castle Lighting Update I should have made more pictures while adding the lights to the Castle. Since I didn’t I’ll be …

2023-02-21: The Botanical Collection One year ago I received the Lego Flower Bouquet 10280 as a gift. Ever since then they’ve been on …

2023-02-20: Fun With Chandeliers The other day I mentioned the chandelier was a bit of a pain in the backside. I thought I’d give a …

2023-02-19: A Years Supply of Creme Eggs… and They’re Gone. If you know me, it probably comes as no surprise that I absolutely adore Cadbury Creme Eggs. A …

2023-02-18: More Castle Lights The hardest part of the lighting set is the wiring. For instance the chandelier has 8 separate LEDs …

2023-02-17: Night Time Lighting on the Castle The Disney castle Lego set is beautiful. Not just the exterior details, but the interior and hidden …

2023-02-16: Ray the Castaway New day, new Lego set, 40566. We put this one together back in October 2022.

2023-02-15: Oh Hello Again! I’ve got so many things I want to write about. Things I’ve been working on, trips I’ve been on, Lego …

2022-09-30: Life of a D-Nitro Engineer - Operations Edition D-Nitro is a developer productivity and enablement team within KPN’s Technology Solutions TechBase …

2021-07-16: Appearance: KPN Technium: Outsights-In S01E07 -> I was recently invited as a guest on the KPN …

2021-03-14: Bye Bye HomePod I’ve been a HomePod users since the first day they were available in the UK so I could import …

2020-12-31: Happy Holidays! I started blogging again about a year ago, here on 418teapot. Don’t get me wrong, I would have …

2020-11-19: Running any legally owned iOS app on your new Mac with M1 Chip Update 29/11/2020: Looks like the newest version of Apple Configurator adds a quarantine attribute. …

2020-10-18: It’s been a while… … since my last post, and since then a lot has happened in …

2020-08-16: Desktop Means Web - Inessential -> What Brent is saying is absolutely correct. I’m trying …

2020-08-16: Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store - The Verge -> 🍿

2020-07-28: Eufy Indoor Camera - Thoughts after a few weeks As my previous posts indicated I’ve been looking in to different HomeKit Secure Video …

2020-07-20: HomeKit Secure Video Cameras (HKSV) Since getting the Eufy camera mentioned in my previous post I also took a look at other …

2020-07-20: Eufy Indoor 2K Recenlty Eufy introdcuded two new (very cheap) indoor camera’s that support HomeKit. The …

2020-06-22: WWDC 2020 keynote first thoughts A lot of new information today with nearly every platform getting …

2020-06-22: Let's go!

2020-06-21: Like magic This morning I went to the supermarket quite early. I decided to walk as it was nice …

2020-06-20: The Art of the Possible -> Apple’s App Store rules need to change not (just) because developers …

2020-06-19: Bye Speaking about third party developers. In the week leading up to WWDC. It seems Apple …

2020-06-19: Apple Developer App goes Catalyst Another finally! Although looking at it; they did the bare …

2020-06-19: Apple launches new Developer forums Finally! I just hope they stick around with some activity from …

2020-06-19: Apple announces the schedule for WWDC The Keynote and the State of the Union will go ahead as usual. …

2020-05-24: My HomeKit Adventures Home automation is all the rage these days. But it’s also something I …

2020-05-21: Chris Carella · When I switched to iPad So one Saturday I picked up the iPad Pro, downloaded …

2020-05-17: Productivity 101! Humans love to read about working efficiently and ‘Getting Things Done’. …

2020-05-17: Spotify’s Failed #SquadGoals Without a single engineering manager responsible for the engineers on …

2020-05-03: Speaking of Contact Tracing Apps Crunchy Bagel started an open source project showing how a tracing …

2020-04-18: Apps playing a vital role in ‘exit’ strategy The Dutch government -together with many …

2020-04-18: The new iPhone SE When the iPhone SE initially was introduced it felt like the base line model just …

2020-04-01: If Omni can’t make it? When I was young (last week! Hah), there were a few companies that I …

2020-03-29: On the brighter side I could talk about how COVID-19 is being a PITA all over the world and forcing …

2020-03-08: NetNewsWire for iOS has been approved NetNewsWire for iOS will ship tomorrow. If you’ve been …

2020-03-08: Working from Home? With the recent covid-19 outbreak companies are urging people to work from home. …

2020-02-24: App-like apps in the App Store Next week marks the start of March. The 3rd of March also marks the …

2020-02-16: Push notifications on the iOS Simulator (Finally!) If you’ve ever had to develop an …

2020-02-16: Untitled Goose Game I was looking forward to this game for a while, but then never got around to …

2020-02-09: Subscription Apps and Apple Arcade Last week Flexbits released a new version of their calendar app …

2020-02-09: Mac Open Web, by Brian Warren A collection of open and indie Mac, iOS, and web apps that help …

2020-02-02: Losing the creative flame One thing that has kept me busy the last few months is when do you stop …

2020-01-31: Nintendo won’t release a new Switch in 2020 I’ve heard of quite a few people that are …

2020-01-25: NetNewsWire for iOS RSS feeds are one of the best things about the open web. Although I never was a …

2020-01-19: [Low Power Mode for Mac laptops: making the case again] …

2020-01-13: WWDC ‘19 So even though we’re in 2020 now I would still like to tell a bit about one of …

2020-01-12: 418teapot? I’ve been active on Twitter for years (13 years coming up in March), and before …