My friend Jim Eagar wrote up how he uses Claude Cowork for his quarterly review, and it’s a great read. Jim’s been doing serious work on the intersection of reviews and AI, and he’s making real progress. The part I want to underline is…
Continue reading →A New Home for the Field Guides
The MacSparky Field Guides have moved. They used to live on Teachable, and now they live inside the MacSparky community on Circle. First, why I did it. For years the Field Guides sat on Teachable, off on their own little island. They worked fine,…
Continue reading →Aerial Photographer of the Year 2026
Jason Kottke pointed to the 2026 Aerial Photographer of the Year winners, and I’ve been staring at them ever since. I don’t think we give aerial photography enough credit as an art form. When people talk about serious photography, they reach for portraits and…
Continue reading →Turn Any iPhone Into a Dumb Phone
There’s a trend of people buying intentionally dumb phones. Sometimes it’s for a kid who needs a way to call home but not a portal to the whole internet. Sometimes it’s an adult trying to claw back their own attention. I understand the impulse.…
Continue reading →Talking AI Agents With Michael Whalen
I recently guested on composer Michael Whalen’s Podcast, the Artist Expansion Podcast, where he coaches musicians and composers through the business side of a creative life. Michael’s own credentials are no joke. He’s a two-time Emmy-winning composer with something like 900 TV and film…
Listen & read notes →Omni Group Building Toward MCP Support
Ken Case posted the Omni Group’s Post-WWDC Roadmap Update a few weeks ago, and one line jumped out at me. The Omni Group is now planning “first-class MCP support,” likely built through Omni Automation or App Intents. Case explained the team had been watching…
Continue reading →The Old Site Didn’t Look Like Me Anymore
Over the last month, I moved the MacSparky Labs and Field Guides over to a new home in Circle. I’ve spent a lot of time on that space. Colors, tone, the little details that make a place feel like somewhere instead of just software. Then I’d click back…
Continue reading →This Week in the Labs — July 17, 2026
It was a fun week in the Labs with a lot of meetups. We started with the Saturday meetup, which was wide-ranging, and then we had a deep dive with the Pathfinders on Thursday that dug into the new beta software. On top of…
Continue reading →Apple History Calendar Update
Stephen Hackett has an update to his Apple History Calendar. He’s combined the dates from his three Kickstarter calendars into a single subscribable calendar that he’ll keep updating each month, so Apple anniversaries and milestones flow right into your calendar app. It’s a one-time…
Continue reading →Drafts Adds Encryption and a Command Line
This post is sponsored by Drafts for iPhone and iPad. Drafts is where text starts for me, and has been for years. Any time I have a thought, a task, a phone number, or the first messy paragraph of a blog post, it lands…
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