We got news that Apple has settled the App Store fee dispute with the European Union, which is good. If Apple can get out of this mess with a negotiated deal instead of years of litigation and penalties, they should consider themselves ahead of…
Continue reading →Intentional AI 7: We’re All Developers Now
On this episode of Intentional AI, Chris and I talk about building your own iPhone app now that the robot writes the code. Chris built a productivity super app for himself and his assistant, starting with a feature list he wrote on paper. I…
Listen & read notes →Focused 263: Removing the Roadblocks, with Cat Mulvihill
On this episode of Focused, Mike and I are joined by Cat Mulvihill to look at a frustrating productivity problem: having a good system and still not doing the work. Cat separates the reasons we get stuck into three categories, logical, biological, and psychological,…
Listen & read notes →The Vision Pro’s Uncertain Future
For some time now, I’ve believed that while the Vision Pro is on a slow burn at Apple, its future was certain. The incoming CEO, John Ternus, has said several times that he believes this is part of Apple’s future. We’ve heard lots of…
Continue reading →New M5 Mac Studio and M6 Mac mini
We got a nice surprise from Apple this morning with some new Macs. Those of you waiting for that M5 Ultra Mac Studio are finally going to get your wish. You can get the M5 Ultra with up to 36 CPU cores and up…
Continue reading →Bitrig, An AI Development Assistant from SwiftUl Team Members
Four members of the SwiftUI team at Apple left the company, and now they’ve started a company that writes SwiftUI for you. The product is Bitrig. You describe an app in plain English, and it generates real Swift and SwiftUI code. What comes out…
Continue reading →Daylite Puts the Whole Client Relationship in One Place
This week MacSparky is sponsored by Daylite. For years I ran a law practice, and the hardest part of client work was never the work. It was keeping track of it. Where that email went, what we agreed to on a phone call, which…
Continue reading →Chris Bailey’s New TEDx Talk
Chris Bailey has a new TEDx talk out, “12 Things That Motivate Everything You Do.” It’s another TEDxManchester appearance for him, and it’s the condensed version of the argument at the center of his book Intentional, which I recommended to the Labs book club…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 863: 20 Years of Things with Werner Jainek
This week on Mac Power Users, Werner Jainek, co-founder and CEO of Cultured Code, joins us to talk about nearly 20 years of Things. He gets into what Siri AI is and what it takes for a developer to implement. He also explains how…
Listen & read notes →The Case for a Personal Apple Developer Tier
Something interesting is happening in the app world. With the arrival of more powerful AI, everyone is building their own. We do weekly meetups in the Robot Assistant Field Guide, called the Robot Builders Club. We cover all sorts of angles for the intentional use…
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