I just spent an hour and a half talking Shortcuts with Federico Viticci, which means I walked away with about six new projects and zero free time. Federico runs MacStories and knows more about Shortcuts than just about anyone, so he was the person…
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Mac Power Users 853: WWDC Reactions
Stephen Robles spent the week of WWDC 2026 at Apple Park, and I spent it running betas on a slightly scratched iPhone Air I grabbed off eBay. He sat two rows behind Tim Cook during Craig Federighi’s post-keynote tech talk. I sat at my…
Continue reading →My New Podcast: Intentional AI with Chris Bailey
I’m proud to announce I just released a new podcast, and I’ve been wanting to tell you about it for months. It’s called Intentional AI, and it’s a show about using AI to actually get your work done. Not the doom. Not the hype. The…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 851: Feedback
It’s a feedback episode, which means Stephen and I finally crack open the mailbag that’s been piling up. I went hard at Apple Home since we last talked. I nuked my twelve-year-old setup, ran Ethernet cable around the house for Aqara cameras, and put…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 850: Overcast Transcripts and 48 Mac minis with Marco Arment
On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I sit down with Marco Arment to talk about what happens when a podcast app developer accidentally builds a data center. Overcast now transcribes podcasts on demand, and the hardware behind that feature is 48…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 849: Managing Photos
On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I dig into the wide and messy world of Apple photo management. We talk about pruning enormous libraries, what’s worth keeping, and the cleanup apps we trust to help. We also get into iCloud Shared…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 848: Jason Snell on E-Readers
On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I welcome back Jason Snell to talk about e-readers in 2026. Jason’s our resident e-reader guy at Six Colors, and he reads about a book a week, so he’s earned the chair. We get into…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 847: Actually Useful A.I.
This week, Stephen and I made an episode about AI. I know. We tried to just talk about what’s working for each of us right now. We get into dictation, AI browsers, MCP, what Apple Intelligence might become, and the smaller weirder projects we…
Continue reading →Q2 2026 Quarter Planning Meetup
Every quarter I get together with Pathfinder members to work through the quarterly review and planning process. This is the Q2 2026 session.
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Mac Power Users 846: Apple Watch
On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I go deep on the Apple Watch. We cover watch faces and share our current favorites, talk bands, dig into the best apps for getting things done from your wrist, and explore how the health…
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