Jason Snell and Myke Hurley just put a new podcast on Kickstarter, and the pitch grabbed me right away. It’s called Designed in California, and it tells the story of Apple across all fifty years of the company. Jason did the research and writing.…
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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 →Focused 257: Stephen Robles
On this episode of Focused, I’m joined by Mike and our guest Stephen Robles, the new co-host of Mac Power Users who went fully independent last October. Stephen makes the case for the generalist, the person who’s good at a lot of things instead…
Continue reading →Record Any Audio on Your Mac, with Audio Hijack from Rogue Amoeba
This post is sponsored by Rogue Amoeba. This week, my friends at Rogue Amoeba are back to sponsor MacSparky, and I want to spotlight their flagship recording tool for the Mac: Audio Hijack. Audio Hijack is the tool the pros reach for. Use it…
Continue reading →Marked 3 Is Officially Out
Brett Terpstra just shipped Marked 3. It’s the biggest update in the app’s history. After more than a decade of Marked, that’s impressive. If you’ve never used it, Marked does one job. You write Markdown in whatever editor you like, and Marked shows you…
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 →The Escape-Valve System
At the top of my daily note, there are five little checkboxes. Shop. Bonsai. Exercise. Reading. Meditation. They aren’t on the calendar. They have no time blocks assigned. They just sit there. For a while, I thought of them as “non-negotiables”. Every box had…
Continue reading →May in the MacSparky Labs
MacSparky Labs members get to participate in member events and receive a number of exclusive videos and podcasts each month. Here’s a summary of offerings this past month: May 2026 2026-05-29 – May in the MacSparky Labs (M,I,P) (Post) 2026-05-29 – May Deep Dive…
Continue reading →DEVONthink 4.3 and a Privacy-First MCP
DEVONthink 4.3 shipped last week, and the headline for me is a single feature. DEVONthink now has its own MCP server. If you’ve been following along with the Robot Assistant work, you know why that matters. MCP is the connector standard that lets an…
Continue reading →Cotypist Brings Smart Autocomplete to Every Mac App
Daniel Gräfe launched Cotypist to the public yesterday, and it’s worth checking out. Cotypist is smart autocomplete for the Mac. Not autocomplete in one editor. Autocomplete everywhere you write. Mail, notes, documents, messages, the prompt box of whatever AI tool you’re using. You start…
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