Get a few nerds of a certain age talking about the early days of personal computing, and the same machines always come up. The Apple II gets its flowers. So does the Commodore 64. Somebody gets misty about the TRS-80. Nobody mentions the Atari…
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100 New Reasons BBEdit Doesn’t Suck
Bare Bones has shipped BBEdit 16, a major update to the text editor that has outlived nearly everything else on my Mac. The release notes count more than 100 new features and refinements.The headline feature is text search inside images. BBEdit can now run…
Continue reading →Intentional AI 2: The Useful Architecture
On this episode of Intentional AI, Chris Bailey and I get into the part most people skip. Everybody knows you can chat with AI. Far fewer people know how to turn that chat into a system that actually does the work. So we lay…
Listen & read notes →The Virtual OS Museum Is a Time Machine for Mac Nerds
If you ever owned a Mac that booted on a chime, the Virtual OS Museum is the rabbit hole for you. Andrew Warkentin has assembled a single emulation project covering more than 1,700 pre-installed operating systems and apps across 250 platforms. Classic Mac OS.…
Continue reading →Focused 258: Defaults
On this episode of Focused, Mike and I dig into defaults, chronotype, and capacity. Three things that quietly shape how you work whether you pay attention to them or not. I talk about my practice of writing down my own belief systems, and what…
Listen & read notes →Paste Meets MCP
Paste, the Mac clipboard manager, just added MCP support. Your clipboard history can now talk to Claude, Codex, Cursor, or any other AI tool that speaks the protocol, through a local MCP server running on your Mac. Think about what passes through your clipboard…
Continue reading →Ethan Mollick’s Next Book
Ethan Mollick is writing a follow-up to Co-Intelligence. The new book is called Co-Existence, and he announced it this week on his One Useful Thing newsletter. It arrives October 20, and you can pre-order it now. I really enjoyed Co-Intelligence. That book was written…
Continue reading →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…
Listen & read notes →The New Siri Doesn’t Suck
I got beta access to the new Siri AI and the first thing I asked was, “Can you check the weather for where I’ll be this weekend?”. I’m going on vacation. I never told Siri that. It read my calendar, figured out I’d be…
Continue reading →Apple’s Hardware Is Waiting on Siri
It used to mean something specific when an Apple product went out of stock. The old machine sold out right before the new one showed up. Now things go out of stock because Apple can’t get the chips, or because they’re holding back for…
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