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…
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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…
Continue reading →MailMaven Adds AppleScript and AI
MailMaven (an occasional sponsor around here) continues to evolve since their big launch last year. Version 1.2 brings in automation with a full AppleScript dictionary for finding, examining, manipulating, and composing messages. If you’re a robot builder, you can tie that to the MCP,…
Continue reading →Daylite Is Getting a Local MCP Server
Daylite is wiring the app up to Claude through a local MCP server. Daylite has always been about connecting data and this feels like one more evolution for them. It’s currently a private preview but you can sign up at this link. I’m already…
Continue reading →MacWhisper 14 Adds a New Editor View
Jordi Bruin’s MacWhisper shipped version 14, and it’s already up to 14.1. The big addition is a new Editor View. You can edit a transcript right in the main transcript screen now, add paragraphs more easily, reassign speakers faster, and favorite the parts you…
Continue reading →Apple Should Just Do One Big Thing a Year
I’ve been running Apple’s beta software this year and I keep forgetting it’s there. And that got me thinking. This is the smoothest beta cycle in years. Apple shipped one genuinely big new thing, Siri AI, the one we’ve all been waiting on, and…
Continue reading →Claude Cowork Made My Quarterly Review Better
My friend Jim Eagar wrote up how he uses Claude Cowork for his quarterly review, and it’s a great read. Jim’s been doing serious work on the intersection of reviews and AI, and he’s making real progress. The part I want to underline is…
Continue reading →Talking AI Agents With Michael Whalen
I recently guested on composer Michael Whalen’s Podcast, the Artist Expansion Podcast, where he coaches musicians and composers through the business side of a creative life. Michael’s own credentials are no joke. He’s a two-time Emmy-winning composer with something like 900 TV and film…
Listen & read notes →Omni Group Building Toward MCP Support
Ken Case posted the Omni Group’s Post-WWDC Roadmap Update a few weeks ago, and one line jumped out at me. The Omni Group is now planning “first-class MCP support,” likely built through Omni Automation or App Intents. Case explained the team had been watching…
Continue reading →A Golden Age for Fraudsters
Apple is building scam detection into the operating system. With iOS 27, a new framework called Trust Insights watches for the behavioral fingerprints of a scam in progress, the odd timing and out-of-character payments that signal someone is being coached. It runs on-device, and…
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