Jeff Richardson, at iPhone J.D., explores the thorny issue of data privacy and border crossing. I find it kind of shocking that a border agent can ask you to just hand over your phone and your password on a whim. Maybe it’s legal now.…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 861: Stephen’s Kanban App
In this week’s episode of the Mac Power Users, Stephen and I share the state of our task manager software stacks. To take it further, Stephen built himself a Kanban app, Kan Do. He shares the story of how he built it and why…
Listen & read notes →Why I Killed My Daybook
As we all experiment with AI and how it can help, I went down a rabbit hole over the last month that I wanted to share. I called it “The Daybook”. It was an automated daily note. It ran every night, pulling in my…
Continue reading →Daylite Is Getting a Local MCP Server
Daylite is wiring the app up to Claude through a local MCP server. Daylite has always been about connecting data and this feels like one more evolution for them. It’s currently a private preview but you can sign up at this link. I’m already…
Continue reading →Stop Optimizing, Start Choosing
Back when I was practicing law, I created an automation that used the terminal, AppleScript, and chewing gum to make a weekly status report for the staff. It was formatted beautifully. It went out like clockwork, and I spent too much time building it.…
Continue reading →This Week in the Labs — July 31, 2026
There was a lot of activity this week in the MacSparky Labs. A highlight for me was our quarterly book club meetup. Below you’ll find the week’s new videos and podcasts, a few of the conversations happening in the member community, and what’s coming…
Continue reading →Focused 261: Metrics of Success
On this episode of Focused, Mike and I take apart our complicated relationship with measurement. We start with Goodhart’s Law, the idea that a number stops measuring the thing you cared about the moment it becomes the target, and follow that through law school…
Listen & read notes →MacWhisper 14 Adds a New Editor View
Jordi Bruin’s MacWhisper shipped version 14, and it’s already up to 14.1. The big addition is a new Editor View. You can edit a transcript right in the main transcript screen now, add paragraphs more easily, reassign speakers faster, and favorite the parts you…
Continue reading →Intentional AI 5: Dragons in Execution
If you haven’t checked out my new AI podcast with Chris Bailey, you should. On this episode of Intentional AI, Chris and I map the dragons waiting at the edge of the AI map: false confidence, scope creep, becoming the donkey, and surrender. Chris…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 859: Tangential Gadgets
Lock your wallet for this one. Stephen and I spent the whole episode showing off the tangential gadgets we normally only mention in passing: bags, desk chargers, MagSafe batteries, travel routers, and enough Find My trackers to start our own shipping company. I walked…
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