Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and John complete their tour of holiday projects with a look at the tools both of them built with the help of Claude Code, Codex, and other tools. On AppSt…
Lees meerOllie’s Arcade was launched in 2023 by The Iconfactory with three mini-games reminiscent of beloved classic videogames. Today, the company launched a Kickstarter campaign with the goal of raising $20,000. If reached, The Iconfactory will make Ollie’…
Lees meerUsing Clawdbot via Telegram. For the past week or so, I’ve been working with a digital assistant that knows my name, my preferences for my morning routine, how I like to use Notion and Todoist, but which also knows how to control Spotify and my Sono…
Lees meerI came across this incredible tip by Matt Birchler a few weeks ago and forgot to link it on MacStories: Today I learned something amazing: Safari supports higher than 60Hz refresh. It’s the only mainstream web browser that doesn’t, and I have never …
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and John are back from their holiday break, which included so many hardware and automation projects that this is part one of a two-part episode regarding F…
Lees meerI enjoyed this thought-provoking piece by (award-winning developer) Matt Birchler, writing for Birchtree on how he’s been making so-called “micro apps” with AI coding agents: I was out for a run today and I had an idea for an app. I busted out my ow…
Lees meerSource: Apple. Today, Apple announced Apple Creator Studio, a suite of creativity apps for the Mac and iPad combined with premium content and features for productivity apps across the company’s platforms. This collection of apps, which includes the …
Lees meerStep 1: Transcribe with parakeet-mlx. When I started transcribing AppStories and MacStories Unwind three years ago, I had wanted to do so for years, but the tools at the time were either too inaccurate or too expensive. That turned a corner with Ope…
Lees meerLast Friday, basketball fans in the Los Angeles Lakers market got their first glimpse of an immersive live game when the Lakers faced the Milwaukee Bucks on Spectrum Front Row on Apple Vision Pro. While that experience was limited geographically and…
Lees meerApple has confirmed to CNBC that it has entered into a multi-year partnership with Google to use the search giant’s models and cloud technology for its own AI efforts. According to an unnamed Apple spokesperson: After careful evaluation, we determin…
Lees meerCopilot Money, the only personal finance app to win an Apple Editor’s Choice award, now gives you a seamless, cross-device way to manage your money across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Web. With Copilot’s beautifully designed interface and powerful financi…
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: Comfort Zone Last week was the annual predictions episode! The gang reflected on their predictions from 2025 and then made their Guaranteed To Be Correct Predictions for 2026. No boring …
Lees meerIt’s CES time again, which means another edition of our annual roundup of the most eye-catching gadgets seasoned with a helping of weird and wonderful tech. I’m sure it will come as no surprise that robots, AI, and TVs are some of the most prominent…
Lees meerTo ring in the new year, Apple has a great lineup of returning Apple TV shows and brand-new Apple Arcade games on the way, with everything kicking off later this week. Here are the highlights. Apple Arcade Games (January 8) On January 8th, Apple wil…
Lees meerNikita Prokopov writing on tonsky.me about macOS Tahoe’s menu icons: In my opinion, Apple took on an impossible task: to add an icon to every menu item. There are just not enough good metaphors to do something like that. But even if there were, the …
Lees meerSource: Apple. Last year, Apple announced a partnership with cable company Spectrum and the Los Angeles Lakers to stream select games in Apple Immersive Video on Vision Pro. Today, the company announced the schedule and availability of the games, wh…
Lees meerMy iPad has been gathering dust. I bought it last May – an 11” M4 iPad Pro with 512GB of storage and a Magic Keyboard – mostly for writing, photo and video editing, and experimenting with Apple’s seemingly renewed focus on gaming. On paper, it excel…
Lees meerBlink from 2017 (left) and 2026 (right). Every holiday season, Federico and I spend our downtime on nerd projects. This year, both of us spent a lot of that time building tools for ourselves with Claude Code in what developed into a bit of a competi…
Lees meerEarlier this year, Paul Hudson asked me to answer a few questions about app marketing for a book he was writing called Everything But the Code. The book is finished now, and it’s full of great advice from Paul and a long list of indie developers who…
Lees meerWinterFest 2025: The Festival of Artisanal Software is back with a fantastic new collection of carefully crafted software for writing, research, and thinking. Innovative software often comes from small teams, crafted with imagination and a vision of…
Lees meerEnjoy the latest episodes from MacStories’ family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico and John look ahead to 2026 and what it will mean for apps, smarter Siri, and more. On AppStories+, Federico and John update listeners on their latest app …
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