On this episode of Intentional AI, John Voorhees of MacStories joins me to talk about handing administrative work to robots and making more time for writing and recording. John walks through the custom Mac app he built to handle the many steps around producing his podcasts.
We compare notes on using Claude and Codex, spreading work across multiple Macs, and the limits of local models. John’s app handles production chores, while he still makes the edits himself. We also get into what it takes to turn a personal app into something other people can rely on.
Episode Links
- Focused Podcast YouTube Channel
- John Voorhees at MacStories
- MacStories
- Hazel
- Jump Desktop
- Tailscale
- GL.iNet Comet X
- Screens
- T3 Code
- Nerd Snipe
- Moshi — Remote Terminal
- cmux
- macOS 27: The MacStories Review
- Desert Ant Labs Audio Models
- LM Studio Bionic
- DeepSeek
- John’s Article on Meta’s Muse Spark Open Model
- Obsidian
- Apple Private Cloud Compute
- Her
- Intentional AI 8: Whisper to Write
- FFmpeg
- AppStories
- MacStories Podcasts — Including Next Portable Console
Written by David Sparks
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